Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[snowflake]

Wow. Babies ar 1 week old today. Ha

babies are so cute, love the log home too!

took me quite a time to catch up,had the grand kids this weekend,

sorry for the losses,
bees are cool ,love the house,

Thanks for the posts Opa,
thanks also Raz, for all the info.

good luck with the hoop house, love the puppy

and WELCOME to the new members. hope to meet some of you at CS

 

[JackieandChicks]

This one's outside toes are curled in. I can straighten them with my fingers but they go back. It hatched on Saturday and is the only chick. Should I try to split the feet or wait a day or two to see with therapy) if they will go back out again on their own?

 

[gladahmae]

This one's outside toes are curled in. I can straighten them with my fingers but they go back. It hatched on Saturday and is the only chick. Should I try to split the feet or wait a day or two to see with therapy) if they will go back out again on their own?

Not for sure on it, but I'm thinking this is an instance where you need to splint/boot it and give poly vi sol?

 

[1muttsfan]

You can make tape "shoes" for her, do a search for curled toes and you should find the directions.

Snowflake, that reminds me of when Nova used to do the recap

 

[Spitzboyz]

Should have been home letting my chickens free range. I stopped to look for morels on my way home from working the Caring Place donations intake unpacking and putting stuff away this morning, got home just long enough ago to feed chicks, chickens in coop, turn incubator eggs... all that time and just three the size of my baby finger tips!!! Then to get a bowl of cereal, come on here and see THAT! Congrats to you guys but now I am depressed and downhearted...

I must pray now for forgiveness for the sin of envy and covetousness!

He should GIVE you the split of Bantams for helping him get started.... labor you know!

Oh I shouldn't say that!.... I would owe (and do but they would take anything) Gammi and her family for the roof on my coop! All they let me do was feed a meal.

A little truth in advice never hurts! Thanks! That gave me an idea.....

 

[JackieandChicks]

Thanks - it's definitely tendon related as I can straighten the toes and the joints work fine. I'll do the search and put her boots on. One more thing for my husband to laugh at me for with the chickens . His comment the other night...

There was as old lady who lived in a shoe
Had so many chickens she didn't know what to do.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Pearl''s picture- taken a few weeks ago-

Pearl finally went in labor today. I saw her by the woods when I got home from work, but even at 400 ft away, I knew something was wrong. I only saw the nose sticking out, not the hooves. Its supposed to be both. I pushed back the head and found both hooves, but the head somehow got flipped back, I tried to get the head righted, but could not, so I called the vet. They came and got the head straightened out, and used the chain to pull out a very beautiful and pure Jersey heifer out, but she was dead. *sob* Pearl is doing very well despite what she had gone through. Milked her out. Got about a gallon. Saved the colostrum for any future babies that would need it. Farming sure does stinks at times, but there is a lot of good and rewarding times in there too. I have to count my many blessings that God had blessed me.

 

[preciouskitty]

@Farmerboy16
So sorry for you & Pearl

I love baby cows (I can't have any, but I get to enjoy watching them in the field next door...5 this year)....

These stories of all the different babies not making it this spring just break my heart; I know it's part of the whole farm thing...but as a city girl pretty sheltered from it until I joined this forum...

 

[Opa]

Can you imagine how shocked you would be if you read that the entire population of Ann Arbor had died? And if the number was four times higher than that can you imagine all the heart ache and sorrow that it caused? If so. you would have an understanding of how many men have died or suffered for our country in Just the last 100 years.

Equally sad is that at over 200,000 additional souls perished in service of our country, but were not considered to be combat deaths. Factor in that during that same 100 years almost 1,175,000 have been wounded, then you start to get some idea of expensive the freedoms we enjoy have been.

 

[lbrykowski2011]

OH NO HE DID'NT!!! My brother in-law just agreed to have me help him build his coop and SPLIT an order of Bantams with him!! Chicken fever is contagious!

Sure is