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[DwayneNLiz]

everything that I try to do it will cost me a pretty penny

not true, working will earn you money to help your chicks
ask around, if you really want to help your chicks you will see if there is someone you can help

Working costs you money?

thank you!

 

[runt325]

No it anit that I can going to my neighbors and ask but why would I buy that stuff then if it don't work

 

[DwayneNLiz]

No it anit that I can going to my neighbors and ask but why would I buy that stuff then if it don't work

BECAUSE IT WILL WORK<

MANY PEOPLE HAVE TOLD YOU WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CHICKS

please listen to all of us, earn the money, buy the medicine

then you will SAVE YOUR CHICKS

 

[Chaos18]

No it anit that I can going to my neighbors and ask but why would I buy that stuff then if it don't work

They wouldn't say to treat cocci with corrid if it didn't work.

 

[runt325]

...

BECAUSE IT WILL WORK< 

MANY  PEOPLE HAVE TOLD YOU WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CHICKS

please listen to all of us, earn the money, buy the medicine 

then you will SAVE YOUR CHICKS where can I get a sample of it at then

 

[ChickenCanoe]

So my darned phone lost it all. Okay take two..

It's been crazy busy around here and super stressful sorry it's been so long everyone.

The fox showed up again night before last night. (This is now last Thursday night) While DH2B went for the gun(which for the first time in three weeks wasn't ready-we have a gun shy dog and trying to get her out the door with the gun in the porch is insane.) I took off outside in my bare feet and chased it around the barnyard and lot trying to separate it from the birds. To my amazement my presence and screaming didn't phase it at all. First I saw one of my oegb scared stiff in the driveway, as the fox ran towards us chasing a SLW hen. I moved quick and ran I'm front of her and then straight towards the fox half expecting it to run away then, still chasing the wyandotte and snapping at her tail feathers. Seeing me the slw hen ran for me and around my right side running behind me and out into the open yard where most of the flock was by then. Eyes still on the now frustrated fox I turned and scooped up the oegb and tossed her in the coop on my way by, while the fox turned and ran to the the lot in front of the coop. As we entered the lot my eyes quickly scanned for birds and I saw none. DH2B came out of the house and we were yelling back and forth. The fox was so fast and almost the size of a coyote I would say- yes I'm sure it was a fox, all I could do was continue my chase and yell to DH2B as it was so fast he never even got a look at it. The fox ran through the lot and back into the barnyard. (Which in our case is actually a big area where a barn used to stand that is overgrown with plant life and has piles of old now degraded compost in it that the flock love to dig through-clean up of the barn is still going on.) Zig zagging back and forth as it ran the fox got further in front of me and I had to slow as I got close to the barnyard duw to nails and possible broken glass in my path. Still yelling to DH2B it's location I ran out and back around as it was headed towards where I first saw it. Thinking all the birds were out of the barnyard I thought it was probably after the ones in the yard and I meant to cut it off. Hoping that DH2B would get a shot at but he couldn't see it. As I rounded the coop I heard a bird freak out and one of my buff orps flew out of the barnyard as the fox snapped at it in flight. Again I yelled and took off into the barnyard after it, this way in being safer than the other. It turned and headed back and I told DH2B it was headed for the lot. As I continued in hot pursuit it stopped and I saw it grab something though I couldn't see what bird it was at the time it looked fluffy. Yelling and redoubling my efforts to chase it I took off but it ran much faster than I and was our of the lot by the time I reached it.

We split up and got the very spooked flock in after a bit of work and looked for the fox. Amazingly we couldn't find any signs and couldn't see it even through a scope.

A head count revealed 5 missing birds! Now it may have had its mate or kits with it it all happened so fast and my eyes were locked on the big one but I could absolutely not imagine losing five! The missing birds inclided an oegb pullet- one of my favorite birds and a sq pet, golden laced sebright, EE, slw chick(10 weeks), and our silkie roo, Kramer. We searched for over two hours. We found the sebright on some machinery in another building. We were about to give up and I was devastated when out of the dark walked the EE, Olive, very terrified, she had all of her feathers on the back of her neck clipped very close to the skin. I believe she had been grabbed and I've no idea how she escaped.

We went to bed still missing three birds, but I woke up and found the slw chick and my oegb pullet, Minnie, outside the coop wanting in.

Of course the fluffy bird we lost was Kramer and it truly is a big loss he was very kind gentle and handsome roo. I believe he may have been protecting that buff hen but then couldn't get away BC of his flightlessness.

He will be sorely missed and our little silkie flock has been devastated. Losing 2 of four to predators.

We believe that this fox may not have been phased out of sheer hunger and the risk of starvation. It had been nearly two weeks since we had seen it after our great dane chased it one night but lost it. It has been three weeks since it last took one of our birds, my favorite silkie, Ginger. We have ample rabbit, chipmunks and ground squirrels around here with many field mice as well. There is no shortage of prey. We know that it will be back soon as Kramer was quite a small bird with lots of feathers and a very small amount of meat. This is almost a dozen birds we've lost during/since May.


Yesterday we lost a chick from last Sunday's hatch that was never normal and I believe it also had an egg yolk infection. Poor little thing also seems like it may have had a spine deformity as it never did straighten out of its egg. I am also treating a wry necked chick that hatched on Sunday or Monday and I'm just really hoping it pulls through. Last weekend's hatch was awful. Which was the first in a while. I believe it is BC they were the first eggs that we ever put in the coolerbator and some of you might remember that we had humidity problems in it at first. The 6 silkie eggs all from the styrobator did awesome and all hatched beautifully only three or four of the large fowl eggs hatched and they needed assisting except for one of them. We had several malposotioned and two pipped into a major blood vessel and bled out. Most were a mystery to me.

Anyway I went out to let the flock out and open the door for the littles (3-6 week old chicks) and discovered that several of them have come down with cocci. Treatment of course began immediately. Most have perked up but there are a few I'm really worried about. The littles just started coming out to play on last Thursday. We have raised many chicks this year in that side of the coop and not one before now has had cocci. We have only ever dealt with it once last year.

Thankfully the chicks from last weekend and the weekend before's chicks are still in the house some only being four days old. But now how early can I treat them? Should I treat them all and put them out there anyway?

Interesting and well written story. I felt like I was watching a movie.
What time of day was the fox fiasco?

Good afternoon all!! I logged on about 50 pages behind. I slowly got through 30 of them, but I was still 50 pages behind. So, I jumped ahead quite a bit and read this....

This happens way too often. The worst I have done is I had my daughter in the car - I turn right to take her to school, turn left to go to work. I have turned left and made it about 2 blocks remembering I should have turned right. How can ANYBODY actually get to where they are going and not NOTICE children in the back seat? How sad to lose 2 kids....

...

Someone just got charged for their 6 month old daughter's death being left in the car.

My wood duck egg should be hatching any day now

Congratulations. I can't believe it. You should document everything you did.

Since you mentioned it...
I have a broody.

I knew it would happen when I was done with chicks for the year!
So, now I have to make a decision. Let her keep whatever she has, and just deal with what hatches because chickens are cleaner (dryer) than ducks. OR...
If I see her up, I can swap out (and abort which bugs me) the chicken eggs for Pekin eggs.

both

no thanks I'm married

@ChickenCanoe So how do you diagnose a heat related death?
Sorry you lost one.

When it is 100+ and no injuries or symptoms of disease.
I'm about to pull her out of the freezer. The maggots should be dead by now. 4 hours till trash pickup. I plan on cutting her open about 5 AM.

I won't.how do they up humidity in the wild.

I'm with you on that. They don't. However, your egg isn't under a hen, it is on a heat pad.

yes and it's naturally humid here

It's usually humid here too but ambient humidity can actually drop into the 30s. That's not humid enough for a bird to hatch successfully. Under a hen, the humidity is held in.

My sweet grandma came to visit my farm! She said "Well it's not much of a farm, is it?" She grew up helping her brothers in hay and cotton fields, so she knows.

I didn't have much luck explaining the concept of a "hobby farm."

Broody and babies!

Other broody and babies!

My good farm dog.

You can't satisfy old people. I know, I'm old.
Even long time farmers don't get the concept of non-traditional crops.

No, I've been a good girl.

-Kathy

Except that you ride a crotch rocket.

I am down to a bottle of wine, and two cans of beer.
Oh! And I found a bottle of Summer Shandy "someone" left behind. Unfortunately, I just drank it when I remembered that I had it.

That should get you through the night.

We used to get a old guy that owned a small cab company to bring us 30 packs or boxes of wine, cigarettes, pizza, only charged $5 for the trouble, and a ten mile round trip. Buddy gave them lots of business though, didn't have a licence cause of dwi's...

When I lived in Germany we got deliveries from the bakery, the soft drink manufacturer and best of all - the brewery.
This is no joke. The brewery made weekly deliveries. The driver knew how much beer you drank each week and would drop off that many cases. No one locked their doors. They knew where you kept your beer. They would walk right in the house, drop off the full cases and pick up the empties. You could leave money in the empty case or if you didn't and you weren't home, they'd still drop off the beer and just pick up the money at next week's delivery.
The world's best bread was delivered the same way.
I guess there was never a reason to leave home.

For safety's sake, I would at least research it before doing what the vet says.

X2
Avian vets with poultry experience are as rare as hen's teeth.

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Yes but I got a chick that is having trouble sauwing and when I pick her up she don't have trouble but it was really hot today and she is very weak

What is sauwing?

well no but that medicated is doing the same job

Same drug but not the same dose.

just one well a 100 degrees and cold water

that only answered 2 questions

I still need help

She/we are trying to help, however you aren't helping us help you.

 

[BusyBearMama]

good morning everyone! We have 7 new chicks!!

Looks like they're all from my silver penciled rock rooster and the black ones are from a dom hen, the brown ones from Sussex and the gray one I think has my white rock for a mum. The one still has stuff stuck to it's head but they were climbing out when I let some humidity out so I had to collect them up. I think the black ones are all male, also of the 5 babies from the Dom we now have one with a straight comb rather than a rose comb. Looks like boys though because they have head spots so I'm guessing they'll be barred... And with this I think barred for boys.

 

[daxigait]

I like roller coaster, but the one I just heard about is not a roller coaster in my opinion. It is just insane, and would scare me to death. 1670' high drops 1600' at 220mph followed by a series of loops that exert 10 g's on the rider.

 

[DuckGirl77]

good morning everyone!!

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Hey you!

we tried other stuff before going that rout

Runt, if you are given advice, please follow it. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but it's very important. You need corid.
I don't know how you're going to get the money to buy corid, maybe ask your parents if you can do some jobs for them? I hope the rest of the chicks make it.

Why would you try other things and waste money when you were told what it was?
Oh

Morning

Hey, Chaos!

I had to enlarge it to see a good view, but I do see blood.

x2

 

[Chaos18]

I like roller coaster, but the one I just heard about is not a roller coaster in my opinion. It is just insane, and would scare me to death. 11760' high drops 1600' at over 200mph followed by a series of loops that exert 10 g's on the rider.

Where's that one at?