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[SunnyDawn]

Oh Dear! That is a terrible thought that the sickness that ravaged your chicks could have come from the feed store! That thought never crossed my mind, although I did notice that store was awfully dirty. Looked like they hadn't cleaned thoroughly in years.

And I am not at all a picky housekeeper so if I noticed it must be bad.

 

[chicharomirinda]

Pam, I hope you're feeling better and not overdoing it going into the store! I have no advice for you on the broodies and chicks, though.

Uggh, an egg eater isn't something I'm looking forward to. A few days ago I though I had one, since I found an uncracked egg with goo on the outside. I looked close and found a bit of shell from another egg. I'm guessing one just broke and got eaten, since I haven't found any other evidence in any of the nests.

Today I stopped by Sierra Feed for some Flock Raiser, and my daughter pointed out the baby chicks. After a brief look, I said, "Don't touch them. Step back." Two of the five chicks had eyes swollen shut, and one lay listless in a corner. After paying, we asked for hand sanitizer. I didn't say, in front of the other customers, "Your chicks are extremely sick." They probably thought we were using sanitizer because Sahara had held a customer's micro-pig. I mean, how could you NOT look at those chicks and see they were sick???

Sorry I haven't been very active on the site. These past two weeks, I've been dealing with extreme exhaustion. Just got back from the doctor, and he's been trying to figure it out. I have to go take a nap right now, so I can go get my kids from school. After 8 hours of sleep I'm still so exhausted that I'm dizzy and nauseated, needing 2 naps a day. The garden isn't getting planted, and is barely getting watered. Which isn't so bad, considering the cold snap this weekend, but still... I don't have time for this kind of stuff!

I hope they can figure out what's going on with you so you can get to feeling better!

that is a feed store to stay away from, I guess. I know what you mean on convenience, though. I often go to green's because it's on my way to and from work. 1 Stop is cheaper but it's out of the way so I don't get there as often.

And her water broke so anywhere iny where in the next 24 hours

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I haven't been to 1 Stop. I checked prices at Feed World when we were there for the swap, and it was a few dollars more per bag. Green's was pretty comparable for feed... not enough difference to even sneeze at. Plus, their cheap laying feed is in the bags I like to grow potatoes in! How much does 1 Stop charge for a bag of the cheapest laying crumble... does anyone know? I pay $13.something at Green's or Sierra.

I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow to get Joe seen, and to get blood panels done on us both. I just downed an energy drink so I could take care of my only client for the day, and I feel good enough to make dinner. Which is great, because the kids insisted on bickering and whining during the massage, and now have to write sentences for each dollar that the massage was worth if I had lost the client. Good thing she has kids!!! So far, every client that they've "endangered" with their behavior has been a parent or grandparent, and I've not lost any. So far.

 

[wolftracks]

How big of a bag is a $13 crumble? I haven't found anything that cheap in about 3 years.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Missy I have been really really against sierra feed for years and have tried my very best to warn people about them for a long time. They are rude, messy, and really dont give a **** about their customers. They lied to me on many occasions about chicks and broke my heart about two years ago when they told me EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK when i called them looking for chicks that they had some coming in on the weekend, but EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK failed to tell me that i had to get my name on a list. So i show up at opening time on saturday morning only to be told i cant have any of the chicks because they were all spoken for according to a stupid list that they made some few days prior. They are AWFUL. awful awful awful. Plus they have a bunch of high school kids running the joint who couldnt give two squirts about the customers OR the shop. Hate them, and i dont see them cleaning that place up or taking precautions in preventing illness. I used to work a block from them and started driving all the way to greens feed instead. A few times i even drove to carson to avoid going there! I was in there once a week and they always acted like they had never seen me before, and always made me wait at the register while they tried to work on their homework together or whatever.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

How big of a bag is a $13 crumble? I haven't found anything that cheap in about 3 years.

It's 50lbs of the cheapest brand. Then prices go all the way up to $30-something for the organic stuff.

I don't know if it was Sierra Feed that made my chickens get sick. That would explain a lot, though, since I've had chickens on this property for a year, with no problems. Except for some bags I got a few weeks ago, all of my food has been from Sierra. I really did wonder how one little group of chicks, that had only traveled between the house and the mini-coop in our arms, had gotten so ill... but you know, the feed had been stored in a plastic tub, in the room that they spent most of their time. And after seeing those chicks today, which were so young that they were just barely getting their wing feathers, I know there must be something in that place to make them get so sick, so soon.

 

[wolftracks]

WOW! My cheap stuff is $22 for #50 and $28 for #80. I can't touch the expensive stuff. This is hard enough.
I'm sorry about your birds. Sure seems like a lot of people are having problems this year. A ,member on the CA thread is having problems and she lives not to far from me. Well, a town or two anyway.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Missy, you had weeks of unending tasking to try to save your chicks. I'm sure your body is just finally reacting now that it can. I always get sick the week after Christmas because for months before I'm going night and day getting my store ready for Christmas and then the busy days. It's predictable after all these years in retail. I hope that its just post traumatic.....or your pregnant......

Uggh, an egg eater isn't something I'm looking forward to. A few days ago I though I had one, since I found an uncracked egg with goo on the outside. I looked close and found a bit of shell from another egg. I'm guessing one just broke and got eaten, since I haven't found any other evidence in any of the nests.

Today I stopped by Sierra Feed for some Flock Raiser, and my daughter pointed out the baby chicks. After a brief look, I said, "Don't touch them. Step back." Two of the five chicks had eyes swollen shut, and one lay listless in a corner. After paying, we asked for hand sanitizer. I didn't say, in front of the other customers, "Your chicks are extremely sick." They probably thought we were using sanitizer because Sahara had held a customer's micro-pig. I mean, how could you NOT look at those chicks and see they were sick???

Sorry I haven't been very active on the site. These past two weeks, I've been dealing with extreme exhaustion. Just got back from the doctor, and he's been trying to figure it out. I have to go take a nap right now, so I can go get my kids from school. After 8 hours of sleep I'm still so exhausted that I'm dizzy and nauseated, needing 2 naps a day. The garden isn't getting planted, and is barely getting watered. Which isn't so bad, considering the cold snap this weekend, but still... I don't have time for this kind of stuff!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Sunny, sorry to hear about the egg eaters. I have had some problems on and off until I caught the blue jay with the egg in his mouth, trying to escape with it. I had caught chickens eating them and thought it was the chickens but the blue jay was opening them. The blue jay pecks a round hole in the egg.....but it sounds like you've seen the two culprits. Hopefully the move will throw things off and they'll quit. My daughter had egg eaters and they got those things you put in the laying box where the egg rolls out of the box into a holder below. The chickens would lay and egg and search all over trying to find their prize.

Thankfully I did well at the store today. Worked 6 hours and came home and did my chores and, knocking on wood, I'm doing OK. Would be wonderful if I could go back for at least a day. I was feeling scary depressed...it's just not me.

When I went up to check on the chickens the broodie that I let out was in the hen house back where the chicks were hatched and scratching up a storm. She came running out when she saw me and I opened up the pen with the other broodie and chicks and she ran in and started cluckling. 3 of the chicks she hatched came running....isn't it funny they knew her? Then she went over the other broodie and pushed her way under her! It was SO funny, the other hen was completely on top of her and then one of the chicks jumped up on top of the other one! They were stacked 3 high!

I got a picture but with the two hens being black you can't really tell what's going on, but the cutest thing. I was glad the broodie let her back in.

 

[2seth2]

well dixie is in for the night for one last bought of recovery

no babies yet hopefully in the mornin