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[BullChick]

If it's as warm over there as it is here, that's not hard to understand. I went out to add fresh water in the run; haven't been out since.

It's only 85° with 50% humidity.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Quote: Good morning Abi, your Avatar drive me crazy! I cant read your posts!

I love her avatar!!!!!

Okay. Since you guys asked sooooo nicely!

This is so calm and peaceful looking!!!

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Auroradream26 Duckies Girls DwayneNLiz MotorcycleChick Sally Sunshine SilverHair kwhites634

Morning all!!

Gonna be a hot one again!

Whatcha all got planned today?

I need to clean the bedroom, re-arrange the play room, clean both sun rooms, degrass the garden, build a coop and a holding pen, clean a coop, refresh nest boxes...
Your to do lists sound like mine... Except you are getting more done than me.

Quote: Gorilla Tape!!!!! (Though Joey is right I think - wire to the top is best, raccoons would pull tape off...)

Quote: Thanks so much.



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[Jessimom]

I think it is great. I don't have the eye for it or drawing like Banti, but if I have time in the winter, I like to quilt. I also carry a knitting or crocheting project around with me. It is good when I have to wait anywhere, have a class, or even church. If I am doing something with my hands I can focus. Otherwise, I am planning, making lists, etc., while trying to focus. I had one teacher it bithered years ago. I wish I had shown him my notes or explained. You could see the doodles,lists, etc., on the pages that correlated with me not having it, and neat notes when I did bring something.

I make paracord bracelets in my idle time, and donate them to "For the Troops". I buy the paracord in bulk, cut it in to various lengths, put on the buckles and make the first couple of ties. I have bags of those started bracelets that I can just pick one up and start weaving. I try to make at least 100 every 3 months, which is about how often I go to the box stuffing events. If I can't get to one of their events, I mail them in.

You know what I found to be the most difficult part was getting the eyes symmetrical.

What I find the most difficult in any type of art, is making stick people look like stick people....

Popping in here for an update. I drove to Gonzales this morning to the Texas A&M Poultry Diagnostic Lab (it took about 1.5 hours to get there). The director/vet, Dr. Ficken, came out to get the info and history from me while the person behind the desk was getting my other info. He was great - we talked through what I had seen in Paula's necropsy, and then (since I had told him I was a human pathologist) he told me what findings he would look for that would indicate Avian Leukosis vs. Marek's. He started on it right when I left, and he called me on my phone with results before I even made it back to San Antonio! (That's quick service!).

Preliminary findings indicate it was Avian Leukosis (NOT Mareks). From his description, she looked very similar to Paula - he's sending me some photos. I asked him to go ahead and do histopathology just to be thorough.

I need to digest this and its implications for my flock, and do some more reading. This is the classic time (14-16 weeks or so) for congenitally infected chicks to manifest and die, and babies reared with congenitally infected chicks apparently also have a high likelihood of developing tumors - I may lose all the CL girls in that pen, not sure about the two Aloha Naked Neck girls in there, as they were not put together until 4 weeks old, and they could be more resistant anyhow. Again, I have more reading to do, not sure I will go straight to culling (yet). But I am not going to put any of those girls with other birds. The mercy here is that I had never desired or planned to sell hatching eggs or chicks.

What a drag - but I'm very glad to have gotten the necropsy and to know that I was wrong and it's not Mareks.

- Ant Farm

I'm glad you got answers so fast, but sorry it turned out the way it did. Sounds like you had a game plan for Mareks, but not the same plan for this diagnosis. Is there a way to test the chicks, or do you just wait for symptoms?




For my chicks, I have an Ayem Cemani that hatched about 3 hours ago and it still has not stood up. It's just laying there crying. I have about 8 pips and 3 zipping, I don't want to open the 'bator. What's the longest anyone has seen a chick lay there and not succeed in getting up. It doesn't have a ton of room, but it should have enough room to get up.

Thanks!!

 

[daxigait]

How'd you do with the new coop? Or should I not ask?  

Mine or MC?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:

Quote: Good morning Abi, your Avatar drive me crazy! I cant read your posts!

I love her avatar!!!!!

Okay. Since you guys asked sooooo nicely!

This is so calm and peaceful looking!!!

Quote:

Auroradream26 Duckies Girls DwayneNLiz MotorcycleChick Sally Sunshine SilverHair kwhites634

Morning all!!

Gonna be a hot one again!

Whatcha all got planned today?

I need to clean the bedroom, re-arrange the play room, clean both sun rooms, degrass the garden, build a coop and a holding pen, clean a coop, refresh nest boxes...
Your to do lists sound like mine... Except you are getting more done than me.

Quote: Gorilla Tape!!!!! (Though Joey is right I think - wire to the top is best, raccoons would pull tape off...)

Quote: Thanks so much.


Edited by Staff

 

[daxigait]

cant you put it on the opposite side same way? or like paddler said make a frame for it? This is how some deal with windows, but I put it on the outside permanent lol

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/robbys-roost

The inside of that door is where you slide up and down the hidden glass for the screen section so no.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: MC's...sorry 'bout that

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The inside of that door is where you slide up and down the hidden glass for the screen section so no.

Time to think out of the box. I wish I was there to help you but 6 hours is too far of a drive.

 

[daxigait]

I think I will just put more all the way up like Joey suggested.

 

[Jessimom]

Our temp outside right now, 2 pm is 109, but my phone is saying the feels like temp is 116. I know that I have no desire to go outside! Neither do the chicks. They are all hanging out inside their coops, where it's quite a bit cooler. We gave the chickens some veggie/soup/water cubes that we froze. Took them SECONDS to devour them.

Should we give them extra frozen treats in this heat, or less treats?