Just now caught up on the forum. My new computer is meesed up so it needs to go to Geek Squad for some magic. Reverted back to the old laptop, which is steam-powered and very slow. A full minute to load each page of the forum (I timed it).
I hope they can fix my computer, ALL of my homework is on that machine.
some times I hate computers, hope they can save your homework, and hope your week improves.
Oh em gee! My eggs are just about due to hatch! I have three olive eggers and twelve duck eggs (OE eggs set a week after the ducks so they'd hatch at the same time) that are going to start hatching this Friday! Lockdown time here! The first hatch of the year is so exciting!
I will be keeping a few female ducks for eggs, while all the drakes will for sure become duck a l'orange. My father wants a few ducks for eggs (even though he doesn't live near me, he does visit often) and nearly threw a fit when I said all ducks were being raised to go to freezer camp! He loves duck eggs for scrambling and baking, hah. At least that means I can make friends with a few of the ducklings
I was in the feed store one day and the guy in front of me was saying he had a customer that was allergic to eggs but could eat duck eggs with no problem.
Snowflake, You didn't do ANYTHING besides stick them into the ground??? I tried rooting some other ones this fall, but no luck. they made leaves, but no roots.......? Was it cold when you did this? maybe mine were too warm...
Nova, Maybe you caught it in time. Sounds like she's still spunky, so that is a good sign. They will eat grit instead of food, but that is usually something that is from a hen being low on the pecking order and not getting enough food. I had one do it. As far as vent gleet goes, i've never heard of it, but are you absolutely sure that that hen don't just have diarrhea? I had one who had it for a couple weeks after i wormed her, and i fed her mostly the manna pro show bird/game bird supplement for a few days until it cleared up. the supplement has stuff to help firm them, plus probiotics. Sometimes using meds will wipe out the natural digestive bacteria in the stomach. If nothing else you could try yogurt?
nope,just water well for the first week or so. I have clay soil so I often add some extra black dirt. Usually plant in the spring, If I plant in summer I try to give a little shad to the plant till it has had time to root out. I owe most of my success to Alice's stuff. She has given me lots of house plants and they multiply,
I also have the hen with the problem. I have trimmed the feathers (cut out poo) around her vent. I have been giving them garlic water, ACD water, and lots of probiotic. I use kefir, witch has more probiotics then yogurt. Her come is pinking up some and I think she is finally gaining some wait. I feed her extra egg in the corner of the coop in the AM when I open the poop door,...
As far as those kids go, i can not imagine what they were thinking. Alcohol is no excuse. Sounds like they did it to make a point to the farmer, who one of them was mad at. What if they would have just went straight to the farmer's family? They were sending a very clear message to him and his family. If these kids are not potential killers, i don't know who is! I am proud of that judge for making a stand against the softer punishment that she was being advised to hand out.
just reading about this made me sick. Can't understand how any one could do that to any animal. Too bad the bull wasn't a little mean, he might have been able to mess the kids up a bit.
Oliv, I did get a random fecal but I am pretty sure I got some of hers in the bag both times.... when I looked at the pics of gleet they keep talking about rash and sores on the vent so maybe that isn't it?? her skin looks clean. She may be just taking a long time to come back. she sat for 2mo. on eggs this summer before she got one to hatch. she mothered that baby for 3 mo. then we had parasites, it was a lot for a 4yr old hen but she is a tough old bird. she does look a little pinker around the face &comb.Maybe I will giver her a little longer. I really can't afford to take another hen to the vet, cost me almost $200 so far .I have learned a lot about what to look for with things I hadn't heard of before.
feel like I should go back & read the days posts again, I know I am forgetting something
Fenton congrats.
maybe some day I will be as wise as
