Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Hi Shane, welcome to BYC and the Michigan thread

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[jlynnet]

I have many young cockerels! I have a few Swedish flower hens in that age range.

 

[SpidersHuman]

So today my heart broke for the poor little birds at a family farm and home near me. I went in for some feed and came out with 2 lethargic, hot, hungry, thirsty ducks and 1 hot lethargic supposedly rooster. Had to leave behind 10 others ducklings due to lack of room and funds. But most of there ducks were panting like beaks open panting with no liquid no feed and a heat lamp on them, the chicks were the same. I stopped a gas station and got water for them that they readily drank as soon as offered and on top of their shitty bird care (the ducks were gross pens and ducks) but the lady was rude as all heck when i asked how old they were she replied with an eye roll "Well, how should I know" when she said several times she managed the birds there. Most of my other birds came from a diff Family Farm and Home and have never seen them neglect there birds like that.

 

[Folly's place]

I would talk to the store manager, and the home office, and Animal Control. Good for you for helping the poor birds, but I would complain big time. These stores won't want bad PR, and there's no excuse for such poor care. Mary

 

[Trefoil]

I would also call animal control, the store manager, and Corp offices. There is no excuse for their lack of care or for her attitude. Also if we don't police ourselves, there will be no where for many people to buy chicks or ducklings.

 

[snowflake]

I'm new to this! Anyone from the Grand Rapids area? Also how do you put a profile pic up?

Hi, shane6, Welcome to BYC there are a #of members from the GR area, I am in Belding about 30min. NE of GR

Welcome Erickson family

 

[shane6]

Hi, shane6, Welcome to BYC there are a #of members from the GR area, I am in Belding about 30min. NE of GR

Thank you! This is a fantastic site!

Welcome Erickson family  

 

[SillyChicken]

I just posted this in the disease thread. Any thoughts?

We have had two ISA browns die in four days. First on Saturday. She was looking a little lethargic on Friday, but nothing we could really pinpoint, just not enthusiastic. On Saturday, we caught her to check to see if she was egg bound. While I have no experience detecting this, I didn't find anything that would lead me to think that was the problem. a little while later DS was holding her, she expelled a large white poop all over him, convulsed and died. Today, one of the hens was sitting with the broody guinea hens (two are co-brooding). I thought maybe she was going broody as well, but when the kids went to check, she was also dead. These were healthy hens, 1yo, good layers who were fine until Friday and today respectively. No wheezing, discharge, bloody poop. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary yet within 24 hours they are dead. Any suggestions of where to start? They don't match they symptoms of anything I am finding. I had thought perhaps bad feed, but we just bought new feed on Saturday morning which wouldn't explain the Sat afternoon death. We are just baffled at this point. No new birds introduced, etc.

I would do an inventory of the plants they have access to, maybe they ate something poisonous? I would still double check the food. New doesn't mean it hadn't gotten wet in shipment or storage etc. If you're not squeamish.. do a necropsy on one to see if you can rule out worm load or something else.

Sorry you lost your birds.

 

[SillyChicken]

So today my heart broke for the poor little birds at a family farm and home near me. I went in for some feed and came out with 2 lethargic, hot, hungry, thirsty ducks and 1 hot lethargic supposedly rooster. Had to leave behind 10 others ducklings due to lack of room and funds. But most of there ducks were panting like beaks open panting with no liquid no feed and a heat lamp on them, the chicks were the same. I stopped a gas station and got water for them that they readily drank as soon as offered and on top of their shitty bird care (the ducks were gross pens and ducks) but the lady was rude as all heck when i asked how old they were she replied with an eye roll "Well, how should I know" when she said several times she managed the birds there. Most of my other birds came from a diff Family Farm and Home and have never seen them neglect there birds like that.

if you ever see something like that again, take a photo and send that in with your complaint. This way they can't hide or lie about it to management. Go to the store first and make them correct their behavior. Calling animal control may get them to stop carrying the animals.

 

[shane6]

4 weeks ago I got two baby call ducks. This morning I found one that had passed away.. very bizarre to me b/c they both were very healthy. So now the other one is heart broken and I feel terrible just having it alone. So if anyone who has other ducks would like it just let me know.