Michigan

[Mzkynd]

Dropping on by to share a few pictures from today, it was so nice to finally have some decent weather. The girls with the maypole:

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And the May baskets they made:

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Hope everyone had a wonderful day! We had a picnic today and aside from the maypole and May baskets, the girls painted a planter I swiped from my FIL's scrap pile and planted their herb garden, and we made some yummy pocket strawberry pies.





Looks like your girls had a wonderful Beltane the pictures are too adorable!!

Finally gave my girls their first treats, was too funny watching them do the chase around!! woke up to buckets of rain, ugh, much needed I know, but my soul could sure use some sunshine. Oh well at least it got me to do a mini spring clean on the motor home, fingers crossed that this is the season we actually get to move on to our land AND get out stuff out of storage!
Hope everyone is having a lovely day

 

[Opa]

A well trained stock dog is a wondrous thing to watch. Sheep dogs are always enjoyable and I have been amazed to see three black mouth curs actually load cattle in a trailer without human assistance.

 

[teeville5]

Dogs.... Love ALL dogs.... Except those pocket dogs... Those freak me out.

LOL. That reminds of yesterday when my daughter and I were coming home. We were stopped at a sign and she did a double look and was 'what the?' There was a really small chihuahua in someone's yard with the biggest head ever.

Sorry you had to put Veena down.

 

[taprock]

I am taking her a little 4 week old polish egger hatched out of Taprocks eggs, she is blue and very sweet with a little topknot.

One day a Polish egger may be the "in" thing!

Here is my

situation. I'll take any advice. I have 16 - six week old chicks. Half were hatched here and half were day olds I bought. They are all on pine shavings and being fed medicated feed. They have been inside the whole time. Today I found bloody poop not a lot but enough to make me nervous. I talked to the MSU vet and was told I don't need to give them medicine because the medicated feed is the same thing. He also thought it was doubtful it was Cocci. However, he didn't offer any suggestions of what else causes bloody poop. I'm a worrier so I put Corid in their water as it directed. Can they get Cocci on medicated feed? What else could it be? Only two act a little sleepy, but with the chicks it seems there is always someone who looks sleepy at any given time.

 

[NovaAman]

Thanks Tee... I really should have done it a lot sooner... BUT, for me the girls are pets with benifits, so, I tried.

Poor chihuahua... Why do people do that? I understand breeding for certain traits, but why would you purposely breed for defects that affect the quality of life for the dog? Like those teacup dogs... Those poor things shake constantly, have a hard time maintaining body heat... Maybe I just don't want to have a dog attached to me so literally its like an umbilical...

 

[Opa]

The best advise I can offer is to relax. Finding what appears to be bloody droppings could actually be cecal rather than fecal. Even the occasional blood is no cause to enter in to panic mode. However, you do want to watch to see if it continues or worsens.

 

[NovaAman]

I'd like to know, Tap, just in case I ever have that too...


When I was talking to Carl yesterday, he has said that he'd never seen or heard anything like what happened to Veena. He also said, though, that maybe he had had something like that happen but just didn't know. I replied that it seems I have had a whole gambit of things happen already. Missing chick, quit eggs, wry neck, crop impation, EYP, gizzard inflamation, hawks, dogs.... AND right now, I noticed that one of the chuckles is missing. I am only counting 11... AND as would have it, it is a pullet. OH, and the chicks stuck to Mama... I have had that now too.

 

[babigyrl22]

I PM'd you Nova

 

[teeville5]

Taprock, perhaps I'm wrong with this and maybe someone else can say if I am or not, but I remember reading something in a poultry magazine about medicated chick feed that if I remember correctly stated that the formula for the feed didn't prevent Cocci. What it does is allow for cocci to be just present enough to expose the chicks and thereby over time gives them a built up resistance to it.

Again, I could be wrong and wholly welcome anyone's rebuttal.

eta-this was just a response to your question about medicated chick feed preventing the cocci. Please don't let my response cause you any panic. Like Opa said, just take a breath and keep an eye on them.

 

[RBahmer]

A well trained stock dog is a wondrous thing to watch.  Sheep dogs are always enjoyable and I have been amazed to see three black mouth curs actually load cattle in a trailer without human assistance. 

X 2 on that. When Jessie works sheep it is a wonderous sight to see. I love it.