my very own micro farm

[attimus]

Really having a rough go of it this week. Just hitting the bend on the weekend and it just keeps coming.
Crazy storms. One of the busiest weekends at work this year.
And one of the older chicks is dying right now. Started while I was at work when I got the text from the Misses. Last bit of life is leaving it now, I've been home for a few minutes and am just dumbfounded by this turn of events. We let the other two chicks back out in general population the other day and the buff seems to have recovered fully while the black one looking better briefly has slunked back into the same posture as before.they both wanted to integrate back into their miniature flock but the black one couldn't keep up. Not long after, maybe a day and a half or so ago was when I saw the second buff hanging with the black. I and should have known better. Now it's dying. And I still won't be able to do anything to treat the rest of what i can easily speculate the problem to be until tomorrow afternoon because I'm getting up in just a few short hours to serve one of our busiest brunches to date, 150 on the books for the morning. Nothing available for over a 3 hour period. I've done what I can do with the time I have available and will be making steps to help ensure this type of thing doesn't happen again.
I need to keep a level head and understand that in the scheme of time, something will always be bound to happen and as my numbers increase I need to expect some bumps and be ready to roll through them.

Attimus

 

[attimus]

Update on the sick chicks. One didn't make it and the other isn't far behind. I have what I need to treat the rest that still look healthy but have very obviously been exposed to the same levels. Ill also be changing out all the bedding in the small pens that they've been in.
On a positive note,I have ten eggs under a broody hen. Two are bantam so maybe some more minis soon.
The ducks are also working on multiplying again. Got a mallard on a nest, the same nest in fact that the previous clutch of ducklings came out of.
Always more but I need to get moving

Onwards and upwards
Attimus

 

[lindalouly]

Good luck with your hens attimus. Do we know what is wrong? I missed it reading through.

 

[attimus]

Good luck with your hens attimus. Do we know what is wrong? I missed it reading through.

looks to be cocci from everything I've found. Only the older chicks have been affected by it. Two are now dead and buried out past the compost. I picked up some liquid corid yesterday and have been getting dosing information from casportpony. The smaller pen is cleaned out and waiting to be sprayed. The black holding cage is waiting to be sprayed. And I've pulled the cage side of the other brooder up and raked that out. Main waterers have been cleaned and scrubbed. This afternoon I'll move the broody hen and her eggs out of the big pen and into a clean brooder. The hona hatch have been on medicated feed from the start so hopefully no issues there.
The rescued ee from that hatch has the start of scissor beak and the wing that I thought might have an issue is growing in poorly. Other than that it's doing fine. I'll be putting regular bedding in their brooder today as well.

Gotta keep pushing forward.

Hope you and yours are doing well.

Onwards and upwards
Attimus

 

[attimus]

So the only other sick looking chick has been treated. I'll refill the waterers in a few and add some portioned corid to them.
The red ee hen and her eggs have been successfully moved.
I tried to get the older chicks to stay in the big coop last night. After treating the sickish chick as everyone was turning in I put her on one of the lower roosts in the coop and walked behind the little stragglers until they got the idea. It helped that she was chirping for them too. Acted like a beacon.
Been working on my compost pit alot. Mainly emptying it out. After moving the boxes around there's been quite a bit of soil loss so having that massive compost pit was a great help. Still wasn't enough tho. Lol. It's empty, well as empty as a hole in the dirt full of dirt can be. Time to start moving the lower pit up and really adding to it this year. I'm gonna try and get my free waste from weedeating raked up for it. And I have the 3 big coops to change out before summer so quite a bit of shavings poo and old food scrap. Then there's a busy summers worth of restrauant waste, just need to stay on top of collecting it as I'm not the only one. Gonna be a good summer for my dirt.
Weeded around the rosemarys' and in the herb boxes while I was leaning and watering yesterday. They look alot nicer with a little clear border around them. Will help when I weedeating again too. I accidentally took the top off one that was buried in the grasses, won't be making that mistake again.
Getting everything ready to fire up the incubator again. A few new vent holes as well as a couple to run tubes to my water wells, that are already placed this time. Think I just need one more tall one. Still need a higher rated acdc adapter but can just separate them to 2 cords if need be although not ideal. I also have some hatching trays in mind I can cut out of a sheet of plywood and I need to think about how to streamline those and the cages during hatch, unless that is I just build a hatcher too

Ive rambled on long enough for the morning.

Onwards ad upwards
Attimus

 

[attimus]

Neighbor stopped by and asked for 3 ducklings, I offered her the juveniles. looks like I just made 30 bucks. Told her if she ended up with all males I'd trade her out since I was planning culling the males for meat anyways.
Bit of good fortune.

 

[lindalouly]

Neighbor stopped by and asked for 3 ducklings, I offered her the juveniles. looks like I just made 30 bucks. Told her if she ended up with all males I'd trade her out since I was planning culling the males for meat anyways.
Bit of good fortune.

Great deal and now you will have room for more. I miss my birds so badly. I think I might drive a bit tomorrow to go watch some wild life on the sound. I still think I hear my rooster crow ever so often. Lol don't know what that's about.

 

[attimus]

Rains and pours. Now I'm fighting the fever that both the Misses and the kid had.
One of my kelsos in the pen ripped a spur and back claw, presumably kicking the fencing.
Chick got its second dose of corid.
Moved another broody into its own enclosure with some eggs. This time it's two bantam, two blue, and a kelso egg.
Lady came for her ducklings this morning, asked if I had any bantam hens.
Black chicks are doing great. One of the ee jumped out of the brooder last night. Thats a 2' jump up and they are just two weeks old.
Speaking of spurs one of my austrolorp hens has a single one. Can't remember if I mentioned that a bit ago when I first saw it.

Attimus

 

[limited25]

So byc and Android are apparently at wit's end with each other. For the last few days myself and quite a few other byc members have been having problems with loading pictures to the site. Yes we know that you can switch to desk top, this does not work for some, and I don't really care for the browser side of things as I've been using my mobile for over a year straight with very little use of a computer or the browser option and am very accustomed to things. This is a huge hindrance as I have plenty of pictures I wish to upload and not enough time to go back and forth between both sides of the byc app.
Guess I'm just complaining over spilt milk.
Off to be more productive.

Onwards and upwards

Attimus

Think we should flag this and see if the administrators can fix your phone problem? I've seen several other threads where people had this same problem and the admin fixed it but the only way I would know to get their attention would be to flag it ... and I have never done that before so .... but, do miss your wonderful pictures you have always posted. And yes, I know that right now you are not feeling well and have a lot on your plate. What do you think? (Not spilt milk IMHO).

 

[attimus]

Think we should flag this and see if the administrators can fix your phone problem?  I've seen several other threads where people had this same problem and the admin fixed it but the only way I would know to get their attention would be to flag it ... and I have never done that before so .... but, do miss your wonderful pictures you have always posted.  And yes, I know that right now you are not feeling well and have a lot on your plate.  What do you think?  (Not spilt milk IMHO).

I tagged nifty chicken not to long ago on another thread about not being able to post pictures, he was prompt to respond that they were looking into the issue. If it takes much longer I'll tag him here to see if there's progress.
I also miss my pictures.