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[Duckies Girls]

Lockdown today. Honas, backyard blend, and the double yolker. I need to clean the hatcher and candle.

for the double!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@casportpony @Gloryjasmine

Kat any ideas for Glory? found these on my profile page, remember in opposite order, Thank you so much!


Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:41 pm

Btw,the five others are separate from the sick one. And all six are separate from the entire flock. I'm looking forward to any advice. Lovage doll!
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Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:40 pm

Write something to Sally Sunshine...oh also,she is quite lathargic. I'm wondering if she's too far gone and if I should cull her or is treatment worth a try. Again,I'm naive to this particular issue so please bare with me!
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Gloryjasmine wrote - Yesterday at 1:34 pm

Hey honey,Glory here. My new chicken came home with green yucky smelly crap on her rear. I immediately separated her and the five others who were sold with her. How do I help? Should I continue to isolate the five others who seem fine? I've never dealt with this so I'm very clueless! Thank you for any advice. God bless.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hope everyone is having wonderful Monday.........

I wish I was. I'm just reeling from a terrible Sunday that I didn't feel like talking about.
Before I left for the wedding reception Saturday night, I waited till dusk so I could lock all the coops. I counted all the birds, locked up and left.
Sunday morning I opened the buildings. One group didn't come charging out like they often do but on occasion they've been malingerers so I wasn't too concerned.
When I went back later, there was only one hen in the pen. I went to the man door to look inside. There was one hen still on the roost and 6 dead birds strewn around on the floor. I couldn't find any possible point of entry so was at a loss but figured it was a mink since they can squeeze into such small openings. This was my most secure building and the only one not suffering losses with the mink attacks of 2 years ago.
Yesterday evening, I turned the light on in the coop to encourage the 2 remaining hens to go to bed and I was planning on picking them off the roost once it got dark and move them to a building with a rooster and only 3 hens. As soon as they roosted, I locked the pop door and waited till it was fully dark to go pluck them off the roost. They were sitting side by side on the highest roost which is about 8 or 9 feet high in this building.
I went out 30 minutes later, turned the light off, opened the man door and both hens were dead on the floor and no predator in sight.
I'm really devastated. Just 6 weeks ago raccoons chewed a hole in a pop door and killed 8 hens and a rooster.
This drives me nuts because after the mink attacks 2 years ago, I closed off any opening in all buildings over 1/2 inch.
It's like I have ghost predators.
I set 2 traps for raccoons last night and didn't catch anything.
I'm going to completely clean out this building and go over it with a fine tooth comb to see if I can find a gap anywhere. I'll probably put an automatic door on it and rig it for automatic water before I put any more chickens in it. This was the one building I was confident was safe because it was the only one that survived unscathed from the mink onslaught of 2014.
I just got done burning the last of the carcasses. I've been wiped out so many times, I'm freaked out to open coop doors in the morning.

I've had as many as 100 birds. I'm down to 12 hens, 3 roosters and 13 baby chicks.



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I witnessed the big ants dragging bee larvae out of the hive.

I'm only busier because I'm retired...and i honestly have no idea how i got anything done before...

I'm in the same boat. I sometimes worked 7/12s and still got stuff done. When I only worked 50 hours a week I got a lot done. Seems like more than I do now.

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This is a logistics nightmare though....as it involves us leaving town a few days.....so i will have to purchase a cradle for my brinsea....

I bet you're good with logistics nightmares.

On a serious note.....my wife just came back from the store....her good friend killed herself last night.
She had serious drug and alcohol problems.....depression....etc
I know there are others out there like myself who deal with this stuff every day....there is help.....

That's terrible.
My friend that had the hip surgery is back home and seems to be avoiding alcohol for the time being.

yeah it sucks but i cannot let it beat me up....it's just sad she never got help....she was very intelligent and knew what she needed to do. I guess the pain was too much.
I will add this.....treat your kids good....it makes a lifetime of differences.....different choices.....different outcomes

My wife is s recovering severe alcoholic....hopely this doesn't hurt that effort....she has been doing fantastic

I hope it doesn't beat her up too bad.

I have update on the four eggs that I had left the power outage had killed them I started to get a smell coming from incubator so I pulled the plug after opening them to see how far they were they had made it to day 19 when I had power failure but that was it I cleaned up incubator and got 12 new ones in it now

Good luck with your new ones.

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I have well water though


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Well then you don't have to be concerned about the chemical properties of chloramine.

 

[Chaos18]

I witnessed the big ants dragging bee larvae out of the hive.

I'm in the same boat. I sometimes worked 7/12s and still got stuff done. When I only worked 50 hours a week I got a lot done. Seems like more than I do now.

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I bet you're good with logistics nightmares.

That's terrible.
My friend that had the hip surgery is back home and seems to be avoiding alcohol for the time being.

I hope it doesn't beat her up too bad.

Good luck with your new ones.

Well then you don't have to be concerned about the chemical properties of chloramine.

Sorry to hear about losing the group of birds.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I am so sorry paddler, that sucks big time. I have been extremely lucky here. Do you have a cam to set up? or even a baby monitor you could watch at dusk? Are they all the same breed at this point? not sure what breeds you had.

 

[horselover1999]

I started with 24 eggs. I culled clears on day 7 and had 15 eggs left. They are on day 19 and I am so excited! The eggs are Cochin x Red sex-link and Cochin x Silkie. The only chick that I have hatched so far died from a bacterial imbalance from my dad not believing me when I said that we needed to slowly transition to another feed. I am so excited!

 

[daxigait]

did you try a tarp?

I think it is great for my red coop, but I used the wheel barrel for the big coop since it was three and a half full loads to haul off. Now I have to clean up the covered area of the run where they wasted so much food and pooped, but I did not get to that this weekend.

 

[BullChick]

I need a good friend local that can bake me fresh sourdough bread, that would solve the sourdough bread issues   or find someone to bake it with me   I may need hand held. I build them a goat pen they make me bread

I will be there in a few hours!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Kids made flock blocks today, this is only a bit of them, they mixed 2.5 gallons of it. The flocks devoured their first taste of them too.

we added equal amounts of

crack corn
BOSS
scratch
Layer Pellets
Oatmeal
Wild Bird Seed

and added about 2 dozen crushed eggshells
8 eggs and shells crushed
and hot water until it made a thick mix

and then baked it 300 in oven until hard and starting to brown.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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