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[SallyinIndiana]

Trey22250 on ebay typically has lemon cuckoo eggs and lives in corydon. Once we are south if Indy, I'm not too familiar with city locations. So not sure how close that is to you, I just know its in southern Indiana lol.

Terra Haute close to IL. Trey22250 close to KY on the Eastern half of IN. I used to have family in Terra Haute. I might still have some 3rd cousins out there.

Maybe a chicken / egg train is needed again

 

[ChickCrazed]

I'm starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. But this time it's legit. For reals.

I have a wheezy raspy chicken with a very slightly runny nose and it's keeping its right eye closed a lot.
The eye thing was the first sign I noticed, day before yesterday, I thought maybe she got too close to Queen Penny's food dish and got a warning shot to the eye or something. But now she's definitely got rumbly breath.
I dont really have anywhere to isolate her. I think I have enough plywood and chicken wire to whip something up. Do you think it's still necessary, or is it already to late to prevent this spreading to the others? I don't know how fast chicken germs travel.

That is bad, really bad. I would separate and isolate immediately even though it may be too late.

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

This is the little chick that is iffy to make it!

It had some shell stuck to it so I have it a warm bath and tried to wipe and loosen it witch worked but I decided to put it back into the bator for a little while!
Ah, it's a cute little thing - hope it thrives!

 

[ChickCrazed]

I put my wild bird door plastic on the babies pop door this week and have gradually been putting more and more of the plastic strips down. Today all went down and I had to go help the poor confused babies in. I was able to take advantage of that and take a picture of this pretty young thing! 10 week old Bielefelder pullet. I just love them

. I need to try to take the time to get pictures this week. It has been non-stop around here lately!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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I wanted to add that should the chicken pass, there is a way to get some testing done by purdue extension. Unfortunately I don't have the exact details. But should it happen, someone on here does have them.

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

I have had an interesting few days. I took Monday and Tuesday off of work to plant my vegetable garden. I have about 200 square feet to plant so it takes a while to do. I also decided to utilize companion planting so I planted a redic amount this year! It is a pretty cool concept! Of course we had gale force winds and rain for most of my time off so I ended up working REALLY hard to get everything done before the bad weather hit. I ended up planting on Sunday in 30 mph winds and had seeds blowing everywhere. It will be pretty interesting to see what it ends up looking like! I may have some unplanned "companions" lol.

My parents suffered a tragedy, their great dane (rescued a year ago) attacked one of their dachshunds and he ended up dying after 3 hours of surgery to try to repair broken ribs, a punctured lung and kidney and liver damage. He was my dad's dachshund and it is so hard to hear your dad sobbing on the phone because his best friend is now gone in such a horribly violent and unexpected way. The great dane had previously attacked two other small dogs and they had been working with a behaviorist to try to fix the behavior, which the behaviorist thought was fixable. They are now blaming themselves for not sending her back to rescue after the other incidents. If they had this dog would still be alive. It is human nature to blame yourself when this stuff happens and there isn't much you can say to comfort them. We have all been a crying mess over the whole thing. The great dane went back to the rescue within 12 hours of the latest incident, so in a way they are mourning the loss of two dogs. Such a horrible situation.

I woke up last night to "no no bad dog" laying on my select comfort mattress control. My bottom half was sagging! My sleep befuddled brain thought I was under attack at first from the whirring of the mattress box and my body being moved...kind of funny. Then since I was awake I heard coyotes CLOSE, they were carrying on and sounded like they were right outside my window, which would probably mean the chicken coop or horse barn. So I spent the rest of the night awake stressing about the chickens and my old skinny horse. So now I feel like a zombie from lack of sleep. BTW everyone was fine but this is the first time I have known of coyotes getting this close to the house and I don't like it. There isn't any woods near me so they usually stay on the other side of the ravine/creek in the fields to the back of my property. Not sure what I am going to do if they decide to start lurking. They are becoming such an issue EVERYWHERE and I haven't heard of a good way to stay safe from them. If they decide your property is a buffet they will come back until they get what they want. I guess in Carmel a lady left her house to run an errand and came back to a destroyed house. A coyote had busted through her door and killed her dog IN HER HOUSE. It really is terrifying.

Your parents should not blame themselves - they should blame the behaviorist who told them something that just flat out isn't true. That kind of behavior is. not. fixable. I am so sorry for their traumatic loss. Very sorry.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

That is bad, really bad.  I would separate and isolate immediately even though it may be too late.  

Yep. I'm on it. This is the upside to hoarding scrap lumber. I can build a pen in under an hour with no cutting required. ;-)

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

Is #4 a girl? If so I would like to give it a home. I can give you some mixed eggs for it.

Let me know if you'd like a boy to go with it. We have four male kittens that need a home. Born from a barn cat mouser extraordinaire!

 

[BackyardBitten]

Planted some herbs today in these containers. 5 lavender,2 basil,1 lemon balm,2 mint,1 catnip, 1 dill and 1 parsely plus some marigolds that i had in seed packets. Besides using some for cooking, I plan on mostly using them for adding to the nest boxes to keep pests out.

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

Planted some herbs today in these containers. 5 lavender,2 basil,1 lemon balm,2 mint,1 catnip, 1 dill and 1 parsely plus some marigolds that i had in seed packets. Besides using some for cooking, I plan on mostly using them for adding to the nest boxes to keep pests out.

Wait. Herbs around a coop can help keep pests out? Which herbs and which pests? I am so interested in this! We are getting ready to build an enclosed chicken run that will surround our bird shed. We are using galvanized steel poles for the structure and I have plans to hang guttering from the middle horizontal pole, into which I'll be planting various herbs. I was going to do this just for practical, sustainability purposes (and I think it will look nice, too). But I had no idea that certain herbs could help keep pests away from chickens! Would be grateful if you could share more details!