Michigan

[Olive Hill]

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Now that is VERY odd. WE have a neighbour who does a very similar thing. If we don't take the bin in AS SOON as the trash truck goes, he comes out and sticks it right in the middle or our driveway. In the winter, it's a bit of a hazard if I forget to bring it in, because it gets dark and hubby almost mashes it when he turns into the driveway. Weird thing is, this neighbour lives over 1/4 mile away on another street, although his back yard backs up to our road.

Okay, that takes the cake for crazy neighbor behavior.

Managed to push and shove the "new" coop into place beside the original coop. Still need to replace that one board, replace the roof and floor, replace the wall and put in windows...build a run...make doors so chickens can access the runs...reattach the door...oh man...

the original coop needs a paint job and a once over...((sigh)) they are getting back into shape a little at a time.

I find, in times like these, it's best to just straight up avoid making a list. Too much to write. LOL!

 

[chicken grandma]

Anybody here have heart issues? Like palpatations and stuff? I get them randomly but regularly, but tonight they are happening a lot and it is freaking me out. I hope its just stress and lack of sleep.

I have a lot of those Sarah and for me it is hormone related.

 

[chicken grandma]

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Thanks for the info, I wish I had the funds to add driving to GR and back to the bill, but, alas, I do not.

I wish money could have nothing to do with these decisions! I am going to call our regular vet in the morning, I know they "don't do chickens" but they do take birds, so maybe asking if they can do a swab wouldn't be out of the question. May as well check, anyway. Failing that, I think I am going to try doing the swab myself and sending it in, followed by treating everyone with antibiotics while I wait for the results. Ugh.

That sounds like a good plan Juise. Perhaps you could swab a couple of your adult chickens first and then swab the two chicks with symptoms. Please let us know if you find a pharmacy with the swabs and growth media. I have a submittal form that Dr. Fulton from M.S.U. emailed to me. If you can p.m. me your home email, I will forward the form to you so that you can send it in with the samples. Also he asked that the samples be sent by overnight mail.

 

[teeville5]

We are going to get the goat supplies tomorrow for the new goats. They will be here on Thursday! Hopefully, I can figure out the new camera I bought and get some pictures up.
And somewhere in the next few days, I need to put up a bigger brooder for the baby chicks. They are getting a bit crowded now as they have grown so much. The jersey giants are almost twice the height of the others and can reach their beaks through the fencing at the top without jumping like the others. It's funny to watch and I just happened to be looking through a book today and saw a photo of a full grown hen next to a RIR hen and she was double the size. DH's jaw dropped literally to the floor. LOL.

Hello to everyone new.

Sorry for all the losses.

 

[Totalcolour]

So, is a crossed beak hereditary? One of my chicks (3 weeks now) has a very slightly crossed beak, that didn't show up at hatch. I'm wondering if I should cull or not. It doesn't seem to have any problems eating - but will it get worse? Other than that she is really gorgeous - the perfect blue.

(She is a project cross, and is one of only two blues that have hatched, although I have 13 more eggs going into lock-down in 3 days)

 

[chicken grandma]

Teeville,

How is Neil?

 

[chicken grandma]

Totalcolour - Give that little chick a shot at life! Who can say if it will get worse!

 

[RaZ]

I understand. No college assignment is going to be perfect, my issue is that you have consistently and repeatedly insinuated that you're actually demonstrating something important here when we both know full well the project is full of holes -- or shoot, maybe you don't, but you present yourself as a man of science so I assume you probably do. You've studied two variables, you haven't controlled anything. Variables you would need to control to have a valid research project would be breed, age, diet, environment, intensity of light, spectrum of light, actual daylight hours vs those the hens were exposed to, etc. There's a reason the research has been conducted in confinement operations -- even aside from the fact that industry equals money -- in confinement variables can be isolated. No one is saying a hen needs 16 hours of daylight in order to lay, what they're saying is that free from other variables that impact reproductive productivity 14-16 hours of daylight maximizes production.

I'm not trying to be mean, and I know I probably should have bit my tongue like I have all the other times you've talked about how your research is showing that day length isn't significant, but it is what it is, I guess. It's a neat project and I'm sure it'll earn you a decent grade, but given the design, it doesn't have the capacity to tell us anything about egg production -- even in backyard flocks. Like I said, I'm not trying to be mean though I know I'm probably coming across harshly despite my best efforts not to. I'm just off put by misinformation and I guess my quick fingers got the best of my self control this time. And with that I'll go back to my corner and re-insert my gag because I can hear RB putting me there in my head.

The title of the class is "Statistics for Biologists", the un-written sub-title should mention that we are dealing with inferential statistical analysis of the available data. From the very first day, we were drilled with the idea that good research is un-biased and impersonal. As the prof says, "data are what data are".

It could very well be that my project is full of holes as you say, but as a student of science, I am likely to make mistakes. My objective is to present a case, support or reject my hypothesis and hopefully be thought provoking enough that other "real" scientists will take the idea to the next level. The only thing that I have ever insinuated is that commercial operations do not necessarily reflect the backyard chicken keeper hobbyist. Perhaps they do, but I don't have enough data to support that.

I realize that you are not being "mean" and I haven't taken it that way at all. This project also does not try to explain egg production for several of the reasons that you state. IF there is an underlying theme, it would be that controlled egg production facilities are not necessarily representative of what one might expect from a backyard flock.

So don't bite your tongue on my account. The fact that you question my project merely means that I need to make sure that I had a robust experiment to begin with. And if I didn't, what would I do next to make it better? I have a few weeks to pull this all together and make an argument based on data collected. Perhaps it will be thought provoking, or perhaps it will be total BS. In either case, the data are what the data are. I still have 15 flocks' data to crunch.

 

[sarah92480]

That could be a problem, Sarah. You might draw the wrath of my loony neighbor.

Oh she doesn't scare me, I'll take her down.

She's probably just jealous of me.

Sarah....if you are having heart palpitations and noticing them more frequently please get it checked out. I'm no Dr. but heart issues run in my family on my father's side. The more a heart goes into irregular rhythms the harder it is for it go back to a normal one. The heart becomes conditioned to it and with each episode the irregularity will last longer....some cases resulting in having the heart shocked back into normal rhythm. I'm mot trying to scare you, just inform you....Do not play around with the heart.

I know, Im trying to get an appointment. I ate a banana earlier thinking maybe my potassium was messed up and it actually seemed to work. That and the 10 min stroll I took I think. Gonna go to sleep earlier than I usually tonight also.

BOY I can not wait for spring break my brain to be over! My house is beyond trashed. Its a mess that is not normal for me. I am going to have to spend my day tomorrow trying to make it look like people who clean live here.

I know the feeling! I dont think clean people currently live at my house either. I haven't had much time to!!

I had ordered water nipples last fall for my automatic waterer pipe line, but when I was making a nipple waterer out out of a Milk jug last week, I found that I had ordered a wrong kind of nipple!

I had gotten a push in type, not a screw in type! How in the world am I suppose to install a push in nipple in a 1/2 inch pipe running 140 feet! So, instead of a milk jug waterer, I used an ice cream bucket waterer for my CX. But, I do not need 20 plus push in nipples. What I can do is make 5 gallon nipple waterers, and sell them. I am willing to make some, and take them to Chickenstock to sell. I love how dry the bedding stays, and the chicks always get clean water 100 percent of the time. No more cleaning out the bedding out of the chick's water!

Please pm me if intrerested.

There is a whole lot of nipples in this paragraph.

So, is a crossed beak hereditary? One of my chicks (3 weeks now) has a very slightly crossed beak, that didn't show up at hatch. I'm wondering if I should cull or not. It doesn't seem to have any problems eating - but will it get worse? Other than that she is really gorgeous - the perfect blue.

(She is a project cross, and is one of only two blues that have hatched, although I have 13 more eggs going into lock-down in 3 days)

Check this thread out: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/592732/crossed-beak

 

[sarah92480]

The title of the class is "Statistics for Biologists", the un-written sub-title should mention that we are dealing with inferential statistical analysis of the available data.

OMG what?? I dont think I could wrap my mind around that one. I tried taking statistics in college the first time many years ago and just couldnt do it. That and organic chemistry.