Is She Broody?

[Megan Amber]

Ya me too! It is weird. Trying to figure out what's wrong with my duck. He's got a HUGE bump on the bottom of his foot!

 

[Megan Amber]

See what I mean about quail being Raptors?

Curios little boogers aren't they!?

 

[Kaybug137]

That kind a sounds like bumblefoot!

 

[Kaybug137]

Aweeee cuuute!!!!!

 

[valeriekasnick]

Does anyone have a good solution to stop broodiness after it is full-blown? I have a black hen who has been on the nest for about a week and now a 2nd black hen started staying on today. I think these are "New Hampshire somethings." I'm about to give up and take them to the farm center and rehome them. If they don't lay for me, I can't afford to keep them!

 

[Jharper]

Does anyone have a good solution to stop broodiness after it is full-blown?  I have a black hen who has been on the nest for about a week and now a 2nd black hen started staying on today.  I think these are "New Hampshire somethings."  I'm about to give up and take them to the farm center and rehome them.  If they don't lay for me, I can't afford to keep them!

Close them up in a wired cage off the grown. Usually works but give them a day or two. There is no bottom to have eggs so the air circulates through and she says ohh cant hatch eggs here and should quit.

 

[Megan Amber]

Yup I second what the last guy said!

And yeah Kay, turns out it was Bumblefoot. Got directions on how to treat it from a friend of mine and completed the surgery yesterday! Talk about YUCK! Although I must say for my very first surgery I was awful proud of myself! So the Easter countdown continues! 8 more days!!! Yipee!

 

[Kaybug137]

That's good, happy duck is happy my White Leghorne Angel had bumblefoot, had to get mom to get it out for me, the stuff did NOT want to come out!.
I idiotically forgot to dump the bag of feed in the Tote I put the feed in. and left it out. and it so happened it had to rain, is there any possible way to save the feed..?

 

[Megan Amber]

Yike! It raining here to! Is it still raining because you might be able to lay it out on garbage bags in the sun to let it dry? I do that more often than I prefer to admit! I guess it just depends on how much feed actually got wet and what kind it is. Usually I try to feed all the wet stuff that day...but I have a LOT of chickens!

 

[Kaybug137]

No its sunny, it was lastnight, and it poured rain. and the chickens are out so they'd sworm over the feed. Unless I take the bag of feed inside pour it on a tarp and let it dry. I feel like an idiot for forgetting.