"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

Update on Emily: I'm almost certain that the problem is her hip. She had a fairly normal, extremely smelly poop while I was watching her eat. I cleaned her up and compared her legs. The left is just limp and dangles. It feels loosey goosey. I found a bruise on her right side, same place, so I think it was the coyote. I think it grabbed her and she slipped, it gripped her tail, and she made it to the brush. Maybe it went for her, missed, and grabbed the second one? That part I'm still not sure about.

Could be a bad bruise or pulled muscle etc. one of mine had flesh missing on her chest you could see into her chest cavity. It grew back she is still here and lays eggs. Pam

 

[campingshaws]

Could be a bad bruise or pulled muscle etc. one of mine had flesh missing on her chest you could see into her chest cavity. It grew back she is still here and lays eggs. Pam

Thanks Pam. I've gathered up the names of a few vets who see chickens. If she's not doing better with her leg by Wednesday, then I'll try to bring her somewhere. That's just not something I can fix on my own.

 

[lakones]

Camping, i'm sorry to hear about all of this. I really hope she recovers quickly.

 

[lakones]

My day went to the chickens, literally! I spent the day moving fences and working in and around the coop. I did take a little time to repurpose a coop I started and never finished. It is now a compost bin of sorts.

The idea is kind of a bin and an open pile combined into one. Place compost items inside the bin and stir occasionally. The finished compost should fall through the wire bottom and onto the ground below. We'll see how well it works.

 

[FlockOfHens]

Right now we don't have members in the Baton Rouge area. You can post them on Facebook for sale in la. Groups. You have to join the group then you can list them ask for 5 to ten dollars that keeps trolls away. Pam

Im in the Baton Rouge area.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Im in the Baton Rouge area.

I know I know no one posts I make a post base on who is posting then y'all come out of the woodwork. Lol! Pam

 

[Cody A]

Camping, you've been having a heck of a time with preds lately

I wish you the best of luck with healing your hen.

 

[campingshaws]

Camping, you've been having a heck of a time with preds lately  I wish you the best of luck with healing your hen.

Thanks Cody. When the snakes and hornets go to sleep I'm going to work on pushing the woods back from my house. Our azaleas are super thick and over grown and full of sucker trees. It's long over due.

We've got pigs and cows on our "five year plan" so reclaiming the pasture will help too. 15 years ago the directors had horses, but after they left everything was left to grow.

I'm pushing for a hotwire around the bottom of our privacy fence, and one on the coop. My farm friend up the road lost 30-40 chickens to a coyote in the spring. She set up a camera and said if their gate is closed, the coyote walks to the gate but doesn't go through. If the gate is open, he takes chickens. So I'd imagine he'd gotten popped by a hotwire before.

 

[topdog24]

Do any of you know where i can get a mature White Rock Roo? I have a hen that just started laying, i was supposed to have a trio 2 pullets and a roo, but when grown, one turned into a white legorn roo and the other one is a roo and has gold/brown bleeding through on his wings and not nearly the appropriate size, not a White Rock either, but boy is this hen beautiful, Donna named her Snow White. She lays a large rown egg, i would so love to hatch out a few of her eggs, but pure, she is 2 times the size of the other pullets her age. I may end up crossing her with Ruddie, the RIR roo i got from Camping, She has always had the roaming gene and came and went as she pleased, i was so worried a dog would get ahold of her, i penned her in a fence she cant fly over, she done got too big to make the 6 ft. The 14 white layers i got when home last time are up to about 7 eggs a day, not too shabby for only being 10 days in the new home, they are some that came from LSU AG center, x large white eggs. I have a roo with them and plan to hatch a few of those also.

Campingshaws, I really hate to hear all the trouble you are having with the preds, i think moving the woods back should help, you may need to put up a 10 ft perimature fence with razor wire to keep them yotes out. Good luck with your injured hen.

Cody, you must be real busy lately, i hope everything is going good for you.

Pam, The pair of CCLs are doing well, can not wait to see some eggs from her, Hazzel is still with my DOM. she chose him so i don't want to make her stop laying again, i am planning on hatching some of this X soon. they should retain their sexxing at hatch characteristics from what i understand.

lakones, when you get some grub dirt in your composter, put you some worms in there and see if they will stay, they do a terrific job of breaking compost down

I have more but will add later

 

[topdog24]

Does anybody have any hatching eggs avilable

I do but you are 4 hours away from me, unless you want to meet me in New Iberia when i come back to work at the end of the month, EEs/ OEs, FBCMs, WLs, i can not verify hatch rate yet as i haven't hatched any since April, i plan to start this month, will know by the middle of Oct.