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Ugh fell asleep at the computer again!

Anyone raise honeybees? I have a nest in my office trailers outside walls.
Hate to kill them off, what a valuable resource. Did I mention I am terrified of bees?

Bees spiders and roaches make my skin crawl! ewww! Give me a snake or mouse any day.
If someone wants the hive please feel free to take them. Will post to craigslist next week in hopes to save them from certain death.
I know they are not as aggressive as other bees.. still, ugh! gotta go, my Dad is allergic to the sting.
Please PM me with thoughts or ideas to rehome them.

My partner has bees. He gave me this link to send to you. It is a county by county list you can use to contact beekeepers to remove a swarm:

http://www.in.gov/dnr/entomolo/5755.htm

 

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Count me as the oddball out, but I don't think it's that weird! It's definitely a lost art, which doesn't mean you have to be interested in it. Art can be very subjective. I've always found taxidermy interesting, but could never get a family pet mounted, but a chicken? I totally would! Lol!
This is something she lives everyday of her life, so for her to ask you if you were interested, was not strange to herself.
There's a lot of other things I could compare it too, but yes if it is not your norm, than I totally get it. You were not expecting it and are uncomfortable with it.
I on the other hand, would have jumped on the offer. (Free? Well yes!)

These chicken are also my pets. I do show them but I still consider them my pets. Now was I as attached to this one as the others, no, but still. She didnt say if it was free or not and I wasnt about to ask.

hahaha oh man. I just woke up and read this and I'm laughing all over again. Proudly mounting my bird.... You handled it very well!

Today when I woke up it dosent seem AS weird as yesterday. i had to laugh, but I still find out of the ordinary. Thank you!

Barb, mrtattoo,Julie- great pics-all!!

CCcc- I'm a contractor and I have a client that has a "chicken themed" living room. She had an old chicken crate for her coffee table and chicken border on the walls, chicken curtains and.........stuffed roo and hen!! Yes taxidermied!! They were very pretty and she was very proud of them!! Someone on CL had some for sale a while back all song with other fowl!! And have you seen the movie Hope Floats!!

Jchny- hope someone wants your bees. I bought my DH a hive and all the tools but he's been gone too much to ever get it going..... Maybe next yr!!

I have heard of chicken themed kitchens but they never had stuffed chickens in it! no I havent ever seen that movie. Whats it about?

Ugh fell asleep at the computer again!

Anyone raise honeybees? I have a nest in my office trailers outside walls.
Hate to kill them off, what a valuable resource. Did I mention I am terrified of bees?

Bees spiders and roaches make my skin crawl! ewww! Give me a snake or mouse any day.
If someone wants the hive please feel free to take them. Will post to craigslist next week in hopes to save them from certain death.
I know they are not as aggressive as other bees.. still, ugh! gotta go, my Dad is allergic to the sting.
Please PM me with thoughts or ideas to rehome them.

I am scared to death of bees, becuase I am highly allergic of them. But how nice you to try and find a home for them rather than kill them. I hate roaches and beetles. I love spider, snakes, mice, and so on. One day I was out in the garden and their are a lot of those weeds that have the white flowers. My dad was out there with me and he said be quite for a minutes and listen. He was like you hear all those flies buzzing. Umm dad those are bees. All the flower covered in honey bees! I ran away lol.

They are still food hogs

Tank the roo is the worst! LilX the hen isn't much better but is smaller.
I make them forage, take them to the apple tree and show them all the yummy bugs.
All the other birds make a mad dash to it every day!
Tank, forget it, lazy thing! I carry him over there... make him walk back

No bees this year either we usually have yellow jackets all over those downed apples, love it

I am trimming it back this year, several branches broke with the weight of the apples.
Seems like several people in this area had the same problem.
There's a place by us that sells cider and they have supports all over the on the trees.
Saw one tree in a yard on HWY 36 that looked like a tornado hit it.

Ha. SOunds like he gets his excerise in for the day. I had some very droppy branches this year but now broke. It was loaded with apples! I give the fallen appls to my goats and the little butts wont eat them!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

yes, sounds like a very helpful (med or antibotic I dont rmemeber what I read). I am glad I have never had to deal with it. And am sorry for the people who have. I watched a very descriptive videoon youtube. It was no pleasant it showed how the chickens acted as it got increasingly worse. They chicken had died by day 6.

aww.sorry you lost some. I would imagiene any flock infected with it would lose at least a few before they realized what it was. So after it is treated do then carry a form of it for the rest of their life? If someone were to buy a check that previously had cocci but was cured would it pass something on to their existing flock? so many questions

well, cocci is in the soil and all chickens are exposed to it and carry it but their immune systems keep it in check. When chicks are exposed to large amounts of it before they've built an immunity they get an infection. Grown chickens rarely get it but can, especially if a new strain is brought in by equipment, a new bird in the flock, etc. I've read chicks brought up by a broody hen rarely get it as they are exposed to it gradually starting day one. If you are raising chicks inside medicated feed until AFTER they are outside a couple of weeks does a pretty good job preventing it. It allows just enough cocci in to build a resistance. If a bird does get it and gets over it they usually have built immunity and won't get it again. Or so I read. I spent many of nights googling this when I had sick chicks now I just keep corid on hand just in case

The quote function did something weird, but I think I got what I wanted to reply to here. Anyway...

Amprolium (brand name Corid) is not an antibiotic, but a thiamine blocker, which is why it doesn't do anything to treat, well, pretty much anything beyond Coccidiosis. It works well and is a more gentle alternative to Sulmet, which is harsh and can cause a continued bleed in the gut even after Coccidiosis has been cured. It is reccomended that Sulmet be used only if Corid has failed to cure coccidiosis. My first aid kit article (linked in my signature) has doses for both Corid and Sulmet if anyone needs them.


Most of the questions on Coccidiosis have been answered above, but I wanted to add something to consider in regards to medicated feed.

Using medicated feed is a big controversy and everyone has their reasons for and against it. I have never used medicated feed and I always recommend against using it, myself. The reason is that I have now heard from more than one source (one a general statement about it, the other a person that had actually gone through treating after it happened) that the cocci in an area can become immune to amprolium if given in low doses, which is exactly what medicated feed is. The best route if you want to prevent an outbreak of coccidiosis is to plan ahead for your chicks' first exposure to the outside world.

Cocci are most active in wet soil. In dry, dusty soil, they become inactive. This is the optimal time to expose chicks to the soil, either by taking the chicks outside or by bringing the soil to them. What I do is I dig up a chunk of sod or some dirt for the chicks to play in from a dry area on the property, within the area that my hens roam. This not only exposes them to anything else they might encounter after being introduced to the flock, but it also exposes them to the inactive cocci in the soil and allows them to build up an immunity naturally, without risk of the native cocci becoming immune to amprolium. Of course, if you have chicks at wetter times of the year, you can always just dig up some mud and leave it somewhere to dry before exposing them to it.

 

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Just checked the bantams coop. My broody hens have at least two new chicks poking out from under their wings.

I'm going to wait till after the colts game and try to figure out just how many there are.

Congrats

I had a Bob call me yesterday asking to buy 2 BO roosters. I did not have any. I will send you his info.
So sorry, glad it was not your favorite.

I see it as strange for a residential collection but if it is like a museum room or something maybe not so strange. After all there are tons of wax museums and The wax people makers had to start off somehow. Think of strange others felt when they walked into a house that had a wax statue.

Thank you.ANd no it was not for a museum. it was for her own personal collection.

Yes I have friends that do taxidermy. Just asking for a persons dead chicken struck me as funny at 1am. I used to always joke that I was going to have my favorite dog stuffed when she passed so I could always have her around

. That was before it actually happened. She ended up under my tree. Anyway, I didn't mean any offense. To each their own. Every one is different that's what makes life interesting.

I didnt mean any offense either, I just have never heard of someoone doing that to anything but like a deer or a racoon, not their pet.

As an avid bird watcher there are a few birds that have remained rather elusive to me. The rather stunning Wood Duck being one of those that I have never seen.
A friend of mine from Texas sent me a package one day, open it up and about freaked.
He had sent me his first ever duck kill which happened to be a Wood Duck. It is beautifully stuffed and mounted. It was a phenomal gesture, but I defiantly put it on my 'who sends someone someing like that' list.

I can see why people do it, recording memorable times/pets. But wanting someone else dead animal for their own collection is odd. Specially if it is something they too can find for themselves.

Still chucking at the phrase 'proudly mounting my birds since 1971'.

But the duck was wild right? Still something I would never expect to get in the mail. I dont own any taxidermey and never will. My brother in law had a stuffed dear head mounted on the wall in the living room until my sister made him take it down. When My dog dies I will bury here and maybe make a little paw print stone that says here name on it, but I am not having my dog stuffed. I didnt respond after that line.

 

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The quote function did something weird, but I think I got what I wanted to reply to here. Anyway...

Amprolium (brand name Corid) is not an antibiotic, but a thiamine blocker, which is why it doesn't do anything to treat, well, pretty much anything beyond Coccidiosis. It works well and is a more gentle alternative to Sulmet, which is harsh and can cause a continued bleed in the gut even after Coccidiosis has been cured. It is reccomended that Sulmet be used only if Corid has failed to cure coccidiosis. My first aid kit article (linked in my signature) has doses for both Corid and Sulmet if anyone needs them.

Most of the questions on Coccidiosis have been answered above, but I wanted to add something to consider in regards to medicated feed.

Using medicated feed is a big controversy and everyone has their reasons for and against it. I have never used medicated feed and I always recommend against using it, myself. The reason is that I have now heard from more than one source (one a general statement about it, the other a person that had actually gone through treating after it happened) that the cocci in an area can become immune to amprolium if given in low doses, which is exactly what medicated feed is. The best route if you want to prevent an outbreak of coccidiosis is to plan ahead for your chicks' first exposure to the outside world.

Cocci are most active in wet soil. In dry, dusty soil, they become inactive. This is the optimal time to expose chicks to the soil, either by taking the chicks outside or by bringing the soil to them. What I do is I dig up a chunk of sod or some dirt for the chicks to play in from a dry area on the property, within the area that my hens roam. This not only exposes them to anything else they might encounter after being introduced to the flock, but it also exposes them to the inactive cocci in the soil and allows them to build up an immunity naturally, without risk of the native cocci becoming immune to amprolium. Of course, if you have chicks at wetter times of the year, you can always just dig up some mud and leave it somewhere to dry before exposing them to it.

thanks for the info pipd! I will have to check out you first aid kit!

 

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Ccccc- hope floats- with Sandra Bullock and Gena Rowland's plays her mother. Gena makes her living off of stuffed animals and the movie shows multiple stuffed house cats. Creepy but kinda funny!! It's a cute movie though!

 

[danand]

We've had over 4 inches last night and today. I should've emptied my rain gauge when it stopped for a while! Our creek is out of the banks and roaring like a ...... And the chickens are all hiding!

I got my baby girl dog back yesterday. She's doing better. She didnot have an intestinal blockage but her small intestine was looped thru a section of torn membrane . I can't give you the names for all of that. But so far she is keeping food down!!! First time in 2.5 weeks!!

 

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We've had over 4 inches last night and today. I should've emptied my rain gauge when it stopped for a while! Our creek is out of the banks and roaring like a ...... And the chickens are all hiding!

I got my baby girl dog back yesterday. She's doing better. She didnot have an intestinal blockage but her small intestine was looped thru a section of torn membrane . I can't give you the names for all of that. But so far she is keeping food down!!! First time in 2.5 weeks!!

I dont know if that is more serious or not, but It at least sounds like she is doing better!

Ccccc- hope floats- with Sandra Bullock and Gena Rowland's plays her mother. Gena makes her living off of stuffed animals and the movie shows multiple stuffed house cats. Creepy but kinda funny!! It's a cute movie though!

o, I have never heard of it. I fi can find a place to rent it I will watch it.

 

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Pipd- I skimmed through your first aid kit. You packed it full of information! I am going to back through it later tonight and read all of it. I definaltey need to go to the store as I dont have half of that stuff. And after reading what you said about medicated chick starter, I am not going to use it. I think I bought one bag in the past on accident.

 

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someone on facebook on farm animal page is trying to sell 2 barred rock hens for $10, They are clearly roosters. I wonder if they lay double yokers! lol