"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[bugglesmommy]

I was at TSC today to get egg cartons and found a long line of people needing replacement chicks. The store has had major die offs inside the store with the same set up that they did good with last year. They are still selling chicks but said that after the chicks are in the store for two days they are just dropping dead. The customers that have bought chicks from there are also having the same problem. Everyone suspects it is a hatchery problem. Has anyone else had this problem at their TSC? Trying to figure out if it is just this store or all of them.

I only had one chick die on me and it was the one in my profile pic. I have 11 still doing just fine.

 

[forgetful]

Here's some pictures for ya'll:


The foal, who's been named Breeze.
















Our new pup, Blue Bell.




Spring is in the air!


Was cleaning out the freezer and decided to give some of the good stuff to the flock.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

He can die at home if someone can be their. Does he have hospice set up yet? Sometimes if no one can stay with him they may want to move him to a hospice house . I think they go peacefully if there able to stay at home. Pam

He has a hospice nurse that comes, checks him, gives him Rx, and brings boost for him to drink. No one can live with him that I know of. But we could set up a team to spend time with him everyday, I think.

 

[forgetful]

I was just sitting in the room adjacent to our outdoor brooder watching a movie. I heard a low meowing that increased in frequency and volume, and instantly thought about the chicks. I turned on the outdoor light and looked outside to see two neighborhood cats fighting each other, yowling, hissing, scratching, in a heap together. The light startled them and they both fell into my pool. I bursted out laughing. They scrambled around for a few seconds causing a ruckus before finding the steps and hightailing it out of there in separate directions. That's what the little cretins get for milling about my yard. I guarantee they were both eyeing the chicks and got into a fight over it. I'm glad my brooder has small hardware cloth and is well protected.

 

[Ron Skekel]

He has a hospice nurse that comes, checks him, gives him Rx, and brings boost for him to drink. No one can live with him that I know of. But we could set up a team to spend time with him everyday, I think.

I think the hospice nurse can tell within a day of two when he will pass. If you and the other friend could be there then he could stay home. Or maybe hospice has volenters that are sitters that could help. Pam

 

[Angelicisi]

If no mites are there...DE in the dust bath works well as a preventative. Wood ash does a great job for us so far too and we always have ash.

I save the big guns (sevin) for bugs that got thru a preventive treatment.

Just put the Sevin or DE where they dust bathe?? Which is better. We don't have any mites that I know of, but they have made their favorite dusting area (under the bunny hutch, ugh) and I could just throw in the treatment, right?

 

[Angelicisi]

awww

I think I accidentally made a Sizzle......??? And this one is a Frizzled Blue with Silkie type feathers, 5 toes. These are so tame and like to snuggle because they hatched out in the 5th grade class of my girls elementary school. The kids loved on them every day of last week They really enjoyed watching them hatch and grow.

 

[Angelicisi]

That's so sweet. Music soothes the soul.

I was fun and popular before I got sick. Then, after you're sick you realize plenty of people like you but few show love. Flowers, cards and hugs, aren't love. Helping one walk, feel normal, see things outside a hospital bed, talk dirty (not that kinda dirty but life, the nitty gritty without filters) - that's showing love for another human at their most humbling of times I'm proud of you.

The pain killers hurt too but morphine puts him in a different place mentally, many avoid it as long as possible.

Just catching up. My friend doesn't get better, but we expected that. I try to keep him laughing and think of things he can still do before he is bedridden. I'm taking him to hear music next Wednesday. It's a place with rows of sofas instead of chairs, so I can help him in and when he needs to go we will. He is on very strong pain killers (oxycodone) and the pain gets really bad if he forgets to take them. I'm sure he will have morphine later. I try to make sure he has food that appeals to him. There's no one to stay with him at night. Taking it one day at a time. It's good that he has lots of friends but just a couple that will assure he is okay daily. Thanks for your prayers.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Just catching up. My friend doesn't get better, but we expected that. I try to keep him laughing and think of things he can still do before he is bedridden. I'm taking him to hear music next Wednesday. It's a place with rows of sofas instead of chairs, so I can help him in and when he needs to go we will. He is on very strong pain killers (oxycodone) and the pain gets really bad if he forgets to take them. I'm sure he will have morphine later. I try to make sure he has food that appeals to him. There's no one to stay with him at night. Taking it one day at a time. It's good that he has lots of friends but just a couple that will assure he is okay daily. Thanks for your prayers.

Praying that he has comfort from his pain and praying that you and his friends and family have comfort for the pain that you all are growing through. He is so lucky to have you as a friend.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Today I saw a pile of fence pickets, a ladder and boards by the road. I made three trips to get some.

On one trip I got a gate to hid an ugly view in my chicken yard. Here's before and after.

I got a huge heavy ladder that I am going to cut into three pieces and cement in the ground to make perches around the chicken yard.

I went back and got extra pickets to make a screen of another ugly view

GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you ever want to post your pics of your findings on another thread that we have going on, please do so here. Just a bunch of dumpster divers, craigslist stalkers, garage sale lovers and thrift store shoppers who love to share our findings.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...e-sale-goodwill-thrift-store-craigslist-finds