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[hogster160]

This morning my lil guy had taken a turn for the worse. He was completely covered in maggots this morning. I thought I was going to die. He was in my walk out basement but apparently a fly made it in. I bathed him in warm water and wrapped him in a towel. Since he was wet I could get a better look at him. He had a laceration on his under belly near his vent that I could not see before because of all his fluffiness. It wasnt deep, but it was there and I missed it. My vet was awesome. I went to Hillview in Franklin. She has her own flock and I think that helps. She took a full flock history and then a history on my individual little guy that was down. After all was said and done and after looking at X-rays it did appear he had trauma to his spinal cord, probably from my other silkie roo. I had him put down. I feel horrible for it but I think I did the right thing. My vet made a call to purdue and they will do a necropsy free of charge (its normally $125 now, I don't know how she got this deal for me) to rule out other causes. I have a friend that wants one of my birds but I'm not bringing any birds in or letting them leave until tests are back. Better safe than sorry. I'm pretty sad. I never get used to losing a bird.

You are so lucky to have a vet that has chickens of her own. That seems like its rare to me. She takes chickens personal then. I am very sorry to hear he had to be put down. Its sounds like it was better for him.

Awesome on the necropsy deal!


Deb

 

[julie0477]

OMG John, this is almost as good as tinfoil for our head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

 

[kabhyper1]

the hen looks broody. I think 13 eggs should be a max and if you can candle some on night 7 to remove duds it might be a good idea since she is young. It has to be less work to hatch 7-9 eggs instead of 13.

The face book page sounds interesting, we could have a few more documents and photos could be organized if chosen to. The docs could be great info sorted by various topics including broody hen info, how to brood chicks, how to raise meat chicks, All kinds of great info sorted out. The the photos could be put into albums too. There could be a coop album, a run / yard album, a ff album, a chick / chicken album, and even chickens by breeds too for more organization.
The downfall is that it means more work for the admins and I'm thinking we could not link to it on this thread which might die out. BYC has rules about linking to other chicken pages if it takes people off of this site to a similar site. People get banned over linking. One of these banned people has her own forum site now.

I'm thinking it would be just as easy to ask her if we could have a state section and each state could have its own subsection with multiple threads on her forum. Sometimes threads get buried on FB and the FB search feature is not as good as a forums (no searching by date or username) Again though I'm not sure how we could quickly link others there since there are rules against linking to other chicken forums. For good reasons too BYC wants posters to stay here and support their advertisers.
Although maybe BYC would be willing to start a Indiana subsection under their where are you section. Then we could get organized on here and nobody would need links. We lose the FB docs and instead have to link to google docs but no members are lost and no BYC rules are broken or bent.

I will follow the crowd on this one though, so if a FB group is started I plan to join.

I figure I will definitely be tossing some. So I'm sure it will be easier for her. I'm still torn about moving her to the barn into her own area, or leave her into the coop to hatch and brood the chicks.

 

[Too Fast]

135 posts in 22 hours 16 minutes.

They were coming so fast, I wasn't sure I could catch you.

Like the 1957 Buick stopping for gas. The attendant says "Hey, buddy, could you shut off the engine? You're gaining on me".

John

PS. It occurs to me that the above joke is dated. Back then, you didn't pump your own gas, the attendant did. The 1957 Buick was a notorious gas hog, about 7 mpg. Fortunately, gas was about 20 cents per gallon.

You can still get gas for 20 cents per gallon, if you pay with silver dimes which are worth about $2.00 each. Things don't cost more. The money is worth less.

John

The updated version of this joke is to ask the large SUV owner at the gas station, if they don't shut off the truck will the tank ever get full? I actually did this once, the owner didn't think it was too funny as the pump rolled over $100. I left in a cloud of tire smoke in my 28 MPG highway, 17 MPG city 350 horsepower Trans Am!

Also, remember when gas cost 20 cents/gallon? People were happy with 50 cents/hour for pay back then. So, if you now make $15/hour, $4/gallon is cheaper compared to the 20 cents/gallon back in the day.

And yes, this thread has really exploded the last 6 days. I am trying to keep up.....

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John

I've seen this set of pictures before, and LOL then and did again today!

How are the rest of you doing around the state with rainfall? I think I read in the paper that up here in Elkhart county we are in drought conditions again. Sunday evening there were a few raindrops -- enough to make the pavement wet. This past week there were systems that moved through just to the north of us and then just to the south. We seem to be in a band that keeps getting missed -- just like last summer. I'm needing to water my garden again -- it could use it every day right now. Just checked out our 16 day forecast and there's not a drop anywhere predicted....Anyone want to join me in a raindance??!!

Here in Indy, there has been a rainfall debit the last 6 weeks, but I suspect it is all being diverted elsewhere due to John's rather large, state-wide tinfoil hat. We get enough dribbles thru it to keep it green enough, unlike last year where we there was a huge loss of pine trees in the county.

 

[BackyardBitten]

I am gonna vote broody....

beautiful girl kabhyper!! she looks like she'll be a great momma...too sweet!

 

[Kiniska]

I figure I will definitely be tossing some. So I'm sure it will be easier for her. I'm still torn about moving her to the barn into her own area, or leave her into the coop to hatch and brood the chicks. 

Can't wait to see her babies! Your video of her was super cute.

 

[Too Fast]

John had a good idea, but I will say it again guys. Shoe covers often do more harm than good if you are trying to control disease. They give a false sense of security.

Your best bet is to keep some cheap clogs and a foot bath pan with a 10% bleach solution for visitors. Please believe me on this.

But won't these work if you put them on, then dispose of them on-site? And then on the next chicken site, put on another set of the cool blue things? Thrown them away at the place where you put them on.

 

[hogster160]

We actually had a little bit of frost that needed to be scraped off the windshield this past Saturday morning. Way too early for that in my opinion -- I still want to get a late crop of lettuce & spinach planted yet & I'm running out of time!

I just got mine planted two weeks ago. Yay I have plants, they are not very big, but they have broke though! Hopefully they will thrive. I think you may still have some time, worth a shot anyway.

I figure I will definitely be tossing some. So I'm sure it will be easier for her. I'm still torn about moving her to the barn into her own area, or leave her into the coop to hatch and brood the chicks.

I would mark all that are in there, then candle as suggested, and pull the duds. Yes, I say that now. LOL I didn't mark my eggs at all, then I didn't close up her pen area, so there were more eggs than what I set. I only candled once, saw at least 8 were growing. Too dark on some of the shells though. So she kept them all. Then I marked the eggs, and started closing her penned area in the coop when she went outside. And finally pulled the eggs that didn't hatch. She ended up with 6 that hatched. I did make a small enclosure with 2x2's and hardware cloth. They are still in the coop with the rest of the layers. All is going well. Tomorrow I am making a separate pen outside in the yard so mama and babies will still be with the flock, but separated at the same time. When mamas ready to join the flock, I'll take down the pen. Hears hoping it works out like I want it to lol.

 

[julie0477]

You are so lucky to have a vet that has chickens of her own.  That seems like its rare to me.  She takes chickens personal then.  I am very sorry to hear he had to be put down.  Its sounds like it was better for him. 

Awesome on the necropsy deal!


Deb

I really liked her- I'm glad I took him
there. She's actually a breeder. I was going to ask her what kind she bred but I was too upset I forgot. She did tell me a story about one of her polish..... I don't know how this free necropsy thing came about. She did say they like to keep on top of what is going on in backyard flocks.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

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John

Awesome. That's hilarious.

But won't these work if you put them on, then dispose of them on-site? And then on the next chicken site, put on another set of the cool blue things? Thrown them away at the place where you put them on.

I'm pretty sure Kiniska is serious about bleaching your feet and wearing croc's. I wear the croc's all the time. I can wash them with dish soap and let them air dry. Very comfortable. Never have bleached my feet though.