Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[BobBry]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I am going take pictures of all of it but haven't decided what I am going to do next. I have to go to town for more Vetricyn. I may stop and file a report at the sheriffs office. And I am going up the road to the place with the German Shepherd. To show them what their dog did. Maybe they'll get a stronger chain or put up a kennel or something. But I doubt it. For now the remaing hens will be cooped up until all panels of the run are in place and they are well. I know dogs are doing what comes naturally but if you have a big powerful dog it should be controlled. What if my grandkids were outside. Would they have gone for them? Just scary.

Sorry about your chickens. Hurts to lose them or have them injured.

A dog does not have to be big and powerful to cause damage
A Beagle, owned by a neighbor attacked Bry when he was about 3 or 4. All dogs should be under control at all times. If a critter has teeth it could bite.

We discovered the 6 mil. plastic we used as protection from the wind last winter does not last more than one year. Also does not heal itself when torn. Man, it's cold out.

 

[BobBry]

I believe I'm getting it. I think I managed to post the picts, taken at chicken stock last June. They are in my Profile. I hope......

 

[BobBry]

I believe I'm getting it. I think I managed to post the picts, taken at chicken stock last June. They are in my Profile. I hope......

Hooray, they are there. Click on my name in a post to get to the profile access. Feel free to copy any or all. It's a good sign. Don't know that "everything's goin my way" but some more is.

 

[BobBry]

Pictures mentioned above are in Sponsors Album. I can't seem to place photos anywhere else. Help?

 

[taprock]

I am at work but just got in a new children's picture book I had to share. It is a Jan Brett book called "Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella". It has wonderful illustrations and you can pick out all the breeds. My favorite is the Silkie fairy god mother and the prince appears to be a Phoenix.

 

[Totalcolour]

Side picture of Pearl-

She is nice looking - wish I had the space for one!

 

[ladyrsanti]

I jinxed myself by coming back here today. I went out to the coop to gather eggs and found Scrambles, a barred rock hen, stumbling sideways for the scratch I threw them. A couple of days ago I found a huge pile of her feathers in the coop. Fearing the rooster attacked her or the rest had started picking on her, I picked her up to look for signs of injuries. As I did so she lost probably half the feathers on her body. Turns out she's molting, fresh pinfeathers coming in but not fast enough. So now she's half-naked and I think probably too cold with this weather. It's 11° out there. That's my best guess right now. She's alert, feels too skinny, looks terrible and her crop was totally empty which was troubling. I brought her inside and made her some scrambled eggs. She gobbled them down. So that's good. Why she wasn't eating the feed out there I don't know, except maybe she was too lethargic to get to it or perhaps that mingled with the other's picking on her. She's been roosting up high each night and coming down in the morning though and like I said, she was trying to get at the scratch. But most of the last few days she's been pretty sluggish.


Anything else I should be doing for her? Unfortunately, I don't have any save-a-chick type electrolytes and with the snow-covered roads, I'm not about to drive anywhere to get it. I forgot to restock after my last sick chicken.

 

[chickflick]

Molting chickens seem to get so skittish. Did you ever notice? They run and hide and scream when another hen comes near. She may have been to freaked out to fight for the food dish. I bought some Feather Fix pellets for the girls when they were molting. Seems to help speed things along. Oh, I put in separate bowl in a corner of the coop, sometimes even putting the dish in a nest, just to make it easier for them to get to the food. Give her extra protein, whatever you have. She'll calm down when she's separated and in a dark place. I'm lucky that I have a heated garage to put late molters in. Good luck

 

[Peep-Chicken]

We are taking our rooster to a new home soon. About a 15 minute drive. When he is In the warm car and then put back out into the cold, it won't shock him to much will it?

 

[Opa]

We are taking our rooster to a new home soon. About a 15 minute drive. When he is In the warm car and then put back out into the cold, it won't shock him to much will it?

Nope