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[Chaneys Ranch]

Good news is that Puff the Magic (tom) is finally strutting, puffing up, gobbling and walking around like he might actually mean to do his manly duties in the near future. Girls aren't sure what to make of it.

Eggs under the broody Australorp are still doing fine. They won't hatch by my youngest's birthday (the 29th) but should in a few weeks.


*Edited to add: I think I might rename her "Black Betty" because "Black Betty had a child! Bam-ba-lam!"

Originally, I had another Australorp named "Black Betty" but rehoming her left me with "Bam-ba-lam" and "Cleopatra Schwartz", who was supposed to be a Jersey Giant but isn't much bigger as yet than the Australorps. I'd rather not rename Cleopatra, so I guess I'll wait and name Black Betty's children "Bam-ba-lam" and other assorted colorful names.

I get so lost on your names, lol! I know the song tho

Love your names, though they are always unique!
I am with out a tom in my Midgets, Gonzo found the stupid burning bush and my assumption is he dined on berries on that nasty bush. He went from vibrant and healthy in the morning to shivering, sweating and died in the middle of the night. I was just devastated. Its the only explaination I can find for the sudden illness and death. He was a very sweet tom, and my favorite heritage tom by far. After my hysterics and loss of my beautiful tom, they are removed.. too late. I am on a rampage again about poisonous plants and bushes on our land, and taking it on myself, hoping I don't tear up the tractor removing them! DH saw me ramming the bushes and used the box blade to take them out. Too late for my Gonzo. I have got so cautious about plants here if I can't identify it, it goes, period. Several stumps I have hand sawed the japanese yew off! They are all getting replaced with safe berry bushes. RIP my Gonzo, you were awesome my buddy.

 

[chick rookie]

I get so lost on your names, lol! I know the song tho

Love your names, though they are always unique!
I am with out a tom in my Midgets, Gonzo found the stupid burning bush and my assumption is he dined on berries on that nasty bush. He went from vibrant and healthy in the morning to shivering, sweating and died in the middle of the night. I was just devastated. Its the only explaination I can find for the sudden illness and death. He was a very sweet tom, and my favorite heritage tom by far. After my hysterics and loss of my beautiful tom, they are removed.. too late. I am on a rampage again about poisonous plants and bushes on our land, and taking it on myself, hoping I don't tear up the tractor removing them! DH saw me ramming the bushes and used the box blade to take them out. Too late for my Gonzo. I have got so cautious about plants here if I can't identify it, it goes, period. Several stumps I have hand sawed the japanese yew off! They are all getting replaced with safe berry bushes. RIP my Gonzo, you were awesome my buddy.

I am so sorry for your loss, he was a beautiful boy.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Its been really hard identifying some. We have snowball bushes, and I haven't found that they are poisonous. But am so worried with what we have seen the last 4 years..have removed a lot of the original landscape bushes and plants. The Japanese yew killed our cow 2 years ago and I sawed every bush off by hand! Horrible plant. He reached over the fence and nabbed some from my trailer when I went in to eat lunch, and check on mom. I parked too close to the fence

 

[Indyshent]

I get so lost on your names, lol! I know the song tho

Love your names, though they are always unique!
I am with out a tom in my Midgets, Gonzo found the stupid burning bush and my assumption is he dined on berries on that nasty bush. He went from vibrant and healthy in the morning to shivering, sweating and died in the middle of the night. I was just devastated. Its the only explaination I can find for the sudden illness and death. He was a very sweet tom, and my favorite heritage tom by far. After my hysterics and loss of my beautiful tom, they are removed.. too late. I am on a rampage again about poisonous plants and bushes on our land, and taking it on myself, hoping I don't tear up the tractor removing them! DH saw me ramming the bushes and used the box blade to take them out. Too late for my Gonzo. I have got so cautious about plants here if I can't identify it, it goes, period. Several stumps I have hand sawed the japanese yew off! They are all getting replaced with safe berry bushes. RIP my Gonzo, you were awesome my buddy.

I'm so sorry for your loss. He was a vibrant, little guy and never failed to strut for us. He will be missed.

 

[Leahs Mom]

@jchny2000

 

[Leahs Mom]

Hey...my "Hedgehog Broody" made it into a Grit Blog post!

http://www.grit.com/animals/chickens/when-chickens-become-hedgehogs.aspx


She's famous!
Last year she had the worst molt I've ever seen...and looked like this just when it hit the 20's (F) She had to come in so I figured I'd put her to work brooding while she was waiting for the feathers to grow in.

 

[kittydoc]

First, my sincere and heartfelt condolences to @jchny2000 on your loss of Gonzo. What a beautiful tom!

In other news, I have been away a while because non-chicken things have taken priority. Plus, all my chickens are molting and even though we lit them up a couple of weeks ago (after production dropped to TWO eggs from a peak of 23 in mid-summer). Now we're up to 7-8. I have some younger girls that ought to get cracking by New Year's Day, thank goodness. My beautiful Cogburn now has a tail, though it's small. He just dumped his neck and tail. Weird. Looked like an aracauna (a REALLY big one) for weeks.

You who are local to Indy may have heard about the distemper "outbreak" at Animal Care and Control. They waived adoption fees, and DH and I had whispered about a D-O-G off and on for a few months. I think it's because we are really and truoly empty-nesters. Our daughter is a senior at U of Kentucky this year and left the nest for the last time over a year ago, so I'm a little lonely despite the cats and chickens. So here's our new rescue dog, Beavis (yes, as in Butthead), who has a history of running off. He was first adopted by a family who clearly spent a lot of time training him back in May, but he wound up in dog jail again in August. Now he's ours. He's a nut, but he makes me laugh every day. I adore my cats, but they aren't "funny." Beavis is entertaining. Photos below:






Beavis is a purebred (English) pointer, but his tail was docked (either somebody odd, or perhaps it was kinked during development) and he has one blue eye and one brown eye. I think he's just perfect the way he is. He knows a ton of commands. Heel is the only thing he does not do well. We're working on down-stay. He sits, speaks, shakes, and sit-stays well. He is an exuberant, friendly dog. He does not bother the cats, and he does not have access to the chickens. The first say, he charged the fence and tried to flush them, which they did not appreciate. We don't have a fenced yard, so he has a 30 foot diameter area ro roam and a 60 foot straightaway run for fetch (which he also does well). When I need him to be quiet, he's great. He also knew "kennel up." I feel sorry for the people who lost him, but they did not update their microchip information, so now he's ours. Not the golden retriever I expected to get eventually, but we love him.

The other thing keeping me busy is that my bipolar but untreated neighbor finally wnet into treatment for the first time (she's in her 50's). She had, at one time, 6 cats, 6 chickens, and 1 dog all living inside and crapping and peeing inside. Her house is completely ruined inside. 50 very large black bags of stuff plus a lot of furniture have been thrown away. The cats look better than expected and are indoor/outdoor right now. I am helping the owner's sister get them all neutered and spayed (they aren't, except one), vaccinated, de-flea'd, etc. We adopted one, a black and white cutie that we named Pepe le Pew because he has a white stripe down his neck. Through FB, a friend of a friend was found locally who is an experienced rescuer and she is taking the rest next week after their surgeries (ours was the only one neutered). It's really a tragedy. Her last two chickens died of ammonia poisoning inside the house. We found the dehydrated body of her barred rock hen, which I begged her to let me care for, at the bottom of a crate with half a foot of food and feces. Because I am a veterinarian (even though I'm disabled and retired), I can't let my anger get in the way of helping. It is also in my personal best interest to help because unless that house is sanitized and fixed up (and SOLD), it is going to destroy our own property value. The woman paid CASH for a house that cost over $200K. Who does that? It's not smart. But she was manic then. She has no money (liquid) left. She was estranged by her choice from her sister, who lives 2 miles away. That rift is being healed and the neighbor had a week of inpatient treatment to jump-start her recovery. The sister and I are cooperating to take care of the cats, and I will help in other ways as my crappy back permits. I just threw away a tote full of empty cardboard boxes (all ruined by rain) to get them off the porch. It is very easy to get angry at animal hoarders, especially when deaths result. It is harder to rise up and try to help. I know a number of you have stepped up to help in similar situations. BLESS YOU ALL! I believe in the power of karma.

I'll post some photos of the new kitty later, and maybe even take some chicken photos, LOL!

 

[chick rookie]

Its been really hard identifying some. We have snowball bushes, and I haven't found that they are poisonous. But am so worried with what we have seen the last 4 years..have removed a lot of the original landscape bushes and plants. The Japanese yew killed our cow 2 years ago and I sawed every bush off by hand! Horrible plant. He reached over the fence and nabbed some from my trailer when I went in to eat lunch, and check on mom. I parked too close to the fence

I don't know if I have any poisonous plants here or not, maybe I need too look into that as I have had a number of unexplained deaths here all year.

Hey...my "Hedgehog Broody" made it into a Grit Blog post!

http://www.grit.com/animals/chickens/when-chickens-become-hedgehogs.aspx


She's famous!
Last year she had the worst molt I've ever seen...and looked like this just when it hit the 20's (F) She had to come in so I figured I'd put her to work brooding while she was waiting for the feathers to grow in.

O my that is a bad molt, poor girl.

First, my sincere and heartfelt condolences to @jchny2000 on your loss of Gonzo. What a beautiful tom!

In other news, I have been away a while because non-chicken things have taken priority. Plus, all my chickens are molting and even though we lit them up a couple of weeks ago (after production dropped to TWO eggs from a peak of 23 in mid-summer). Now we're up to 7-8. I have some younger girls that ought to get cracking by New Year's Day, thank goodness. My beautiful Cogburn now has a tail, though it's small. He just dumped his neck and tail. Weird. Looked like an aracauna (a REALLY big one) for weeks.

You who are local to Indy may have heard about the distemper "outbreak" at Animal Care and Control. They waived adoption fees, and DH and I had whispered about a D-O-G off and on for a few months. I think it's because we are really and truoly empty-nesters. Our daughter is a senior at U of Kentucky this year and left the nest for the last time over a year ago, so I'm a little lonely despite the cats and chickens. So here's our new rescue dog, Beavis (yes, as in Butthead), who has a history of running off. He was first adopted by a family who clearly spent a lot of time training him back in May, but he wound up in dog jail again in August. Now he's ours. He's a nut, but he makes me laugh every day. I adore my cats, but they aren't "funny." Beavis is entertaining. Photos below:






Beavis is a purebred (English) pointer, but his tail was docked (either somebody odd, or perhaps it was kinked during development) and he has one blue eye and one brown eye. I think he's just perfect the way he is. He knows a ton of commands. Heel is the only thing he does not do well. We're working on down-stay. He sits, speaks, shakes, and sit-stays well. He is an exuberant, friendly dog. He does not bother the cats, and he does not have access to the chickens. The first say, he charged the fence and tried to flush them, which they did not appreciate. We don't have a fenced yard, so he has a 30 foot diameter area ro roam and a 60 foot straightaway run for fetch (which he also does well). When I need him to be quiet, he's great. He also knew "kennel up." I feel sorry for the people who lost him, but they did not update their microchip information, so now he's ours. Not the golden retriever I expected to get eventually, but we love him.

The other thing keeping me busy is that my bipolar but untreated neighbor finally wnet into treatment for the first time (she's in her 50's). She had, at one time, 6 cats, 6 chickens, and 1 dog all living inside and crapping and peeing inside. Her house is completely ruined inside. 50 very large black bags of stuff plus a lot of furniture have been thrown away. The cats look better than expected and are indoor/outdoor right now. I am helping the owner's sister get them all neutered and spayed (they aren't, except one), vaccinated, de-flea'd, etc. We adopted one, a black and white cutie that we named Pepe le Pew because he has a white stripe down his neck. Through FB, a friend of a friend was found locally who is an experienced rescuer and she is taking the rest next week after their surgeries (ours was the only one neutered). It's really a tragedy. Her last two chickens died of ammonia poisoning inside the house. We found the dehydrated body of her barred rock hen, which I begged her to let me care for, at the bottom of a crate with half a foot of food and feces. Because I am a veterinarian (even though I'm disabled and retired), I can't let my anger get in the way of helping. It is also in my personal best interest to help because unless that house is sanitized and fixed up (and SOLD), it is going to destroy our own property value. The woman paid CASH for a house that cost over $200K. Who does that? It's not smart. But she was manic then. She has no money (liquid) left. She was estranged by her choice from her sister, who lives 2 miles away. That rift is being healed and the neighbor had a week of inpatient treatment to jump-start her recovery. The sister and I are cooperating to take care of the cats, and I will help in other ways as my crappy back permits. I just threw away a tote full of empty cardboard boxes (all ruined by rain) to get them off the porch. It is very easy to get angry at animal hoarders, especially when deaths result. It is harder to rise up and try to help. I know a number of you have stepped up to help in similar situations. BLESS YOU ALL! I believe in the power of karma.

I'll post some photos of the new kitty later, and maybe even take some chicken photos, LOL!

Congratulations on you new family member, I have 7 furry family members, 4 of which are rescues. Thank you for going to the shelter instead of a breeder or a pet store, I wish more people would.
Love Pepe Le Pew, he was 1 of my favorite cartoon characters.


Now I have a concern I need advice about, I know allot of you have barn cats, house cats what ever cats, I'm not a real big fan of cats. I think they are pretty and all but when I was a kid I couldn't have 1 due to Allergies. So we have a cat that turned up some time ago, and DH likes her/him, he says she wont hurt nothing. Well I haven't found that to be false, but in the last week I have been finding eggs Eaten eggs, here there and yonder. Would a cat do that? And if so should I feed it to get it to stop, or just get rid of it? DH will be so upset.

 

[Hholly]

@jchny2000 Sorry about your tom. He was a beauty.

 

[ellymayRans]

So sorry @jchnny2000. Gonzo was a beautiful boy!