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Minniechickmama said:
Tine to start sewing some hen saddles, Kyle. Even good and gentle roosters will tear out some of those back feathers. I think it isn't just that they are rough or they have favorites, I believe it is also a result of some hens feathers are looser than others. I know when I am getting 100% fertility from a pen that the rooster in there is breeding everyone, yet some have bare backs by Spring and others look perfectly fine. When I use saddles, I don't have the problems with so many bare backs. Which reminds me, I need to make about 60 or 70 of them soon.
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I think I may need to. There are 4 or 5 girls that all have the same little patch of feathers missing. It's right where the tail meets the saddle but only on their left side. It must have to do with his uh... Technique... Or something haha

I am happy to see some of my other bare backed girls (came to me bare backed) are growing in pins. I have been trying to check each hen over at least once right now to make sure they are healthy so it is good to see that. One hen seemed to have an ingrown feather pin. It was like a zit. I popped it and cleaned it the last 2 nights and it seems to have healed up now just fine. Ever seen anything like that?
 
Coffee 1st said:
Wow,,, I don't even know what to say,, I really cant believe some people.. I'm outside with my dogs yesterday because of the hawk situation. And the guy in the house behind me walks over to my fence and says ' did you know a hawk got one of your chickens?.. yea i know.. THEN the guy says he was out side and seen the hawk fly down and grab it and it was so cool he got out his camera on his phone and started taking pictures of it. It was so cool it was only about 5 feet away from me. and then it dropped the chicken and the chicken tried running and the hawk jumped on it and started pulling the feathers and finally the chicken gave up and then it just sat right there and was eating it, then after a little while the hawk took off with the rest of the body I HAVE THE PICS IF YOU WANT TO SEE THEM......... OMFG I CANT believe people.... why would you not try and chase the hawk away after it dropped the chicken????? instead of taking pictures.... I understand the kids interest but REALLY the parent.... i could have hit him.... this is the same family that called the inspector on my coop, the same family that would watch me everyday out there by myself trying to build the coop and never offered to even hold a board, the same family that was the 1st to ask if i have any eggs left over if they can have them... the same family that spread it around the neighbor hood that I'm the house that needs to be watched because they think i might have a drug house because i have people over here all the time. WOW that was fun to learn about..i have people over because i have always had allot of friends and they like to check up on me.. this is the same guy who actually had the nerve to ask me if i have one of those OPEN RELATIONSHIPS??? just straight out and asked me one day... I told him if i did it would be none of his business BUT NO I'm not the 2 guys he was referring to were my 2 brothers that were here almost everyday helping my cut down trees and do other things. how dare anyone be so rude...
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This guy is exactly what is destroying the world. Absolutely no empathy or common sense. Stay away from him. you never know what a freak of nature like that will do. I would have had some words with him by now. Maybe more. But I have a little more size wise on my side.
 
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Coffee, I am speechless. I am so sorry the guy is your neighbor. I am betting he has no idea what your chickens mean to you, despite everything he has seen from your work.

Minniechickmama, I know you can grown them but that means letting some get to beetle stage. I have found mealworms in the coop when I have moved bales of hay....would happily grown them out there, but then it would be only a summer thing.

that many chicken saddles? whee! thats a lot!!

Feeling a little guilty because Goldie didn't get any mealworms today. I'm thinking I will kick the girls out Wed from that section of the coop and let her loose in it so she can get some exercise and so I can judge her stability when she is walking. The kennel is only 36 inches long, so she can't really move that much, which hasn't been an issue of course. Yet!

still haven't tried the pumpkin.
 
KlopKlop said:
I think I may need to. There are 4 or 5 girls that all have the same little patch of feathers missing. It's right where the tail meets the saddle but only on their left side. It must have to do with his uh... Technique... Or something haha

I am happy to see some of my other bare backed girls (came to me bare backed) are growing in pins. I have been trying to check each hen over at least once right now to make sure they are healthy so it is good to see that. One hen seemed to have an ingrown feather pin. It was like a zit. I popped it and cleaned it the last 2 nights and it seems to have healed up now just fine. Ever seen anything like that?
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I had a pullet I found an ingrown feather on the other day and had to clear it up. I may lose her though, it is a bantam Faverolle who got her vent pecked at by some other pullets when I combined some pens. She was also egg bound with her first egg and after soaking and trying to do what I could without, I broke the and took what I could out of her vent. I don't think she is going to make it. I will see what she has going on tomorrow, I may just put her down. I think she is too scarred to pass an egg without ripping herself up.
 
Minniechickmama said:
I had a pullet I found an ingrown feather on the other day and had to clear it up. I may lose her though, it is a bantam Faverolle who got her vent pecked at by some other pullets when I combined some pens. She was also egg bound with her first egg and after soaking and trying to do what I could without, I broke the and took what I could out of her vent. I don't think she is going to make it. I will see what she has going on tomorrow, I may just put her down. I think she is too scarred to pass an egg without ripping herself up.
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dang, Minnie, your luck hasn't been going in the right direction lately! poor girl

I was reading about injuries and that it can cause a hen to go eggbound. Maybe that is what happened to your little bantam.

keeping my fingers crossed!
 
Morning, everyone.

I can't believe I"m going to complain about the weather, but it is going below freezing (barely) and I'm not happy about it because of Goldie. For one, with the wind I will need to keep the coop people door closed, and that makes it pretty dim in there. I don't want to run a light but probably should rig something up. For rwo, even with the panel heater I think she would do a little better with more warmth.

This is day 15!!! so perhaps she will start to eat better.

Wed is the next day I will be home during daylight and can test her out in the coop. And the day I can bathe one of the new girls, who seems to have sat on a broken egg or something and has a belly plastered with mud.

Also, about silkies: that poor girl has mud slippers. Do they clean their feet feathers themselves, or do you need to keep bathing them? And why is her head looking kind of grimy, muddy? She lays nearly every day, acts healthy...
 

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