Oh, and Chicken Grandma... I have caught Miss Veena and put her in the cat carrier. I can not get her to eat the oiled bread... And I can not pull her wattle down and get oil in her that way, cuz she's a fighter.... She is really ticked off at me right now. AND everyone here is chicken of the chicken, so no one will hold her. Carl and Earlene weren't home, or I would have asked one of them to help me hold while I lubed. Oh well. SO, I have her in the carrier, in the garage, with a dish of oil and yogurt. HEEHEE. I have massaged her crop, it feels much looser now in comparrison to this morning. YAY! I will massage it again tonight when I shut off the garage light. I am pretty sure she laid an egg today after all. Least ways, I got one in the color that she lays. She laid a medium tan egg, and the other 2 dottes lay a light tan color. So, poor girl, cropped up and laid an egg. LOL. She's having a day.
I have already decided to call Dr. Bader in the morning if she is still knotted up. I am comforted that I have a vet that deals with chickens and can do this surgery if I need. I hope I do not need to. I wonder why she got impacted... Oh well... maybe she ate some straw... Never know with chickens. LOL.
Also, I opened the chuckles coop up this afternoon so they could view the world outside. I was surprised at how warm that heat light is keeping the coop. They have discovered the roosts. They are huddling together at night even with the lamp, so I think with the exposure during the day to the outside temps, they should be able to move to the 150 watt bulb in the next few weeks... then the 100 watt. Gonna ween them off of it so they don't get the shock of not having it all the sudden in the middle of winter. Nothing like going from a 66 degree basement to 36 degree outside and upper 20's at night... But they seem happy enough in their new home.
I am going to get picks of the chickies tomorrow. Skeeter is getting better about me picking her up off the babies and setting her to the side so I can get them. She doesn' attack my hand anymore, but she does grumble still. I almost caught a pick of all 5 in the food dish today, but the light wasn't good enough, and I don't want to use the flash. Supposed to be sunnier tomorrow.
I have already decided to call Dr. Bader in the morning if she is still knotted up. I am comforted that I have a vet that deals with chickens and can do this surgery if I need. I hope I do not need to. I wonder why she got impacted... Oh well... maybe she ate some straw... Never know with chickens. LOL.
Also, I opened the chuckles coop up this afternoon so they could view the world outside. I was surprised at how warm that heat light is keeping the coop. They have discovered the roosts. They are huddling together at night even with the lamp, so I think with the exposure during the day to the outside temps, they should be able to move to the 150 watt bulb in the next few weeks... then the 100 watt. Gonna ween them off of it so they don't get the shock of not having it all the sudden in the middle of winter. Nothing like going from a 66 degree basement to 36 degree outside and upper 20's at night... But they seem happy enough in their new home.
I am going to get picks of the chickies tomorrow. Skeeter is getting better about me picking her up off the babies and setting her to the side so I can get them. She doesn' attack my hand anymore, but she does grumble still. I almost caught a pick of all 5 in the food dish today, but the light wasn't good enough, and I don't want to use the flash. Supposed to be sunnier tomorrow.
very McGuyver-ish!
