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[Bogtown Chick]

@The BlanchRanch Those symptoms I've never had in my chickens. You can search out some threads here on BYC and prepare to dig in follow a couple six threads to get a single line of common factors, symptoms, and common treatments. I'm thinking maybe some Duramycin for a respiratory? Or Tylan? IDK without researching it myself. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. It's helpless feeling sometimes. But search, search search on here. You may just find it. The eggs without shells maybe a seperate issue all together. Or just a part of the infection itself...if that's what it is.

Good luck.

 

[scandiafowl]

@Bogtown Chick

What's wrong with learning to drive at 13?

 

[duluthralphie]

Now that's better!


Pictures. I love em.


That homemade soap looks good enough to eat. I am going to try that someday.

I think I made an enemy at TSC today. I went in looking for traps all they had were live traps and sticky traps. I told them I wanted "dead" traps and preferably something that would torture the critter before it died...

I guess she misunderstood my humor or anger at losing another bird...

Runnings here I come!

 

[aussiegal318]

It's so sad to hear about all the dog problems. I really wish people would be responsible for their kids & pets. My dogs go down with me all the time, ok they are just with me all the time, no chasing chickens. Bandit & 1 alpaca have issues, but the alpaca did kicked first & Bandit has never forgiven him. My daughter's dog is more of problem, I don't want to have to do the training (not my dog) & that mutt has no motivating factors; he is stupid. I guess I'm spoiled with Aussies. If anyone needs a herder, I know people.

I'm surprised that the barn cats across the street haven't come down, but they would have to get passed the alpacas first. What they don't know is the alpacas will stand in a group & 'scream', they are big cowards. Once a mole sent them into a tizzy.

Welcome back Bogtown! I love your garden. Summer there are always so many chores. I need to get the chainsaw doing to take down some volunteer trees & open up the pennisula a bit for our son's wedding this fall, gardens to weed & grand kids to play with. Oh the life....,

 

[Bogtown Chick]

@scandiafowl I love the selfie with your teenager there! LOL.

Maybe one day here on the Minnesota Thread we should do some selfies...so we know the faces. Who's game? Who's scared?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

@aussiegal318 You got a busy summer!

 

[lalaland]

There is also a book called Wheat Belly -- in a nutshell it explains how in an effort to feed the world we've bastardized all of our seeds and screwed our ownselves coming and going.

I'm with you there! I try to follow the rule "don't eat it if it has ingredients that aren't in the grocery store", which leaves out pretty much all mixes, convenience food, junk food, frozen food, beverages, cookies, ....but I don't bake my own bread and if I can't get to the co-op I eat the nasty stuff.

Sorry to post twice in a row, but I lost a 6 week old poult last night from inside the brooder.

I do not think I have a weasel problem. I am thinking possum, now.

This brooder is the first one I made. It is made out of 1 inch chicken netting which a weasel would go through. I had 20 chicks in the brooder a weasel would have went in and had a heyday. This bird was up tight against the wire netting with its head removed and a wing gnawed on and partially missing. It appears whatever it was could not get into the tractor/brooder. The birds think they are too big to sleep inside the brooder part, so they sleep next to the wire.


It explains a lot to me. The first Cochin that was attacked was in the creamettes run, which is about 60'x10' of 1 inch chicken netting. I am guessing now she was next to the netting and something attacked her taking the top of her head and could not get in to finish her off. Which explains why she did not die in that attack.

The second cochin was in a different run that a possum could have gotten into. I am guessing she refused to roost and sat next to Bert on the ground when she was attacked. Why Bert was not killed is beyond me.

I will be setting traps tonight Live traps and jaw traps. I will still set a weasel trap in my new box with a mouse for bait, just in case.

If not a Possum I suppose a mink, or skunk could be it, I doubt a fox could reach through 1 inch netting. I have no fishers here I am too far south, same as martin. Any other Ideas?

I'm wondering if it was a coon! they will pull the chicken to the wire and tear it up. So sorry!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ricky RAccoon, Ralphie, most likely to dexteriously remove a chicken piece by piece through chicken wire. Kind of reminds me Cyrus's Snake shooter. Parts is parts. Although I've heard we have possum around now. I've never seen one up here.

 

[holm25]

Now that's better!


Pictures. I love em.


That homemade soap looks good enough to eat. I am going to try that someday.

I think I made an enemy at TSC today. I went in looking for traps all they had were live traps and sticky traps. I told them I wanted "dead" traps and preferably something that would torture the critter before it died...

I guess she misunderstood my humor or anger at losing another bird...

Runnings here I come!

LOLOL

 

[holm25]

Does anyone go to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion or easier and quicker to say Rollag??