North Carolina

[scottcaddy]

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But it is what happened!!
Scott

 

[Citygrl1766]

Thank you scottcaddy & Bhep for the warm welcomes!. I apologize I jumped into the weather discussion. We did get some rain last night but it didn't feel like much. I need the temps down so my husband will begin building my new coops for all my feathered friends. I think I'll try a few more rain dances to see if it helps. after all, it couldn't hurt could it?

 

[LukesCityHens]

I've been really busy lately and had my gf taking care of my birds....I come home yesterday and look at my lavs.....and they all 3 look like roos

What do you think?

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning Everyone!

Welcome to all the new folks! This is the best forum on the internet, and the best group in the forum! Glad you found it, too!

With it being overcast I ended up sleeping in, to the disgust of the livestock who were waiting on breakfast. Everyone is now fed and watered, except the Boys, and their breakfast is cooked and cooling. (Yes, I cook breakfast for my dogs every morning. I occasionally even cook breakfast for my husband!) Reilly will come tell me when it's had enough time to have cooled properly.

The foxes have been quiet during this heat wave. Since we're coming down in temps, I'm wondering if they are n't going to have more energy, too. And be hungry. Keep an eye out for hungry foxes!

Didn't quite finish my cardigan last night, but I'll finish it up this morning. Yay! Then to finish what's on the loom. I'm trying to get all the in-progress stuff done this summer! Only five weeks until I have to go back to work. It's closing in fast.

Hope everyone has a lovely cool day. Scott, aren't you glad the tree waited until the temps got down to 80's-low 90's instead of coming down at 105? Small things, eh?

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

I've been really busy lately and had my gf taking care of my birds....I come home yesterday and look at my lavs.....and they all 3 look like roos

What do you think?

Since I just got finished feeding my own lavs, I'll have to concur. They look like my cockerels, not my pullets. The pullets have barely any comb to see at all.

Guess this helps with your need to cut down your flock, eh?

I can't take any cockerels, but you can come get a lav pullet from me if you want one.

 

[LukesCityHens]

Since I just got finished feeding my own lavs, I'll have to concur. They look like my cockerels, not my pullets. The pullets have barely any comb to see at all.

Guess this helps with your need to cut down your flock, eh?

I can't take any cockerels, but you can come get a lav pullet from me if you want one.

I might have to take you up on that offer, now the question is what to do with them? I don't think they're big enough to eat so if anyone is looking for a lav roo pm me...
funny thing is when I went in the run and grabbed on of them my old girls charged me and started attacking him very angrily! I've never seen it before and I was in shock.....went and told my brother and he didn't believe me, so back to the run we went. and 2 of my 3 oldest girls went at him again. I put him down and picked up a SLW hen and they didn't even care. STRANGE?!?!

 

[TarheelBirdy]

HELP! I don't know what to do for my year-old rooster. On Friday, he started showing signs of listlessness - walking really slow, etc - along with the typical panting, drooping wings, etc that all the chickens were showing in the heat. Then on Saturday, I found him just laying in the barn, alone. I stood him up and he was wobbly and didn't try to walk - or tried to walk and couldn't. He allowed me to pick him up and fussed a little but no fighting me, etc (he is gentle but I have never picked him up). I put him in a cage and since then have been feeding him egg yolks every morning and he is eating and drinking normally. I have electrolytes in his water.

Also, his comb is all drooped over to one side.

I let him out every morning and he walks a few steps, then just lies down where he is.

I know it sounds like Marek's, but it's not likely, since I haven't added any new birds to the flock from somewhere else, and he is a year old. Is this heat stroke? He is a big boy with lots of plumage.

Any suggestions?

 

[ramirezframing]

Sounds like its heat related. Keep him in the cool areas, I've lost birds after a heat storke the next time they got hot. (Not even in the 100's when I lost them) Good luck.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

My storm cellar has been cleaned and scrubbed and every extra kennel and cage have been moved down there, along with a cabinet full of meds, needles, vitimans, and wound treatments and dressings. The sink was hooked back up, and we moved an old table down there. I now have a mash unit for my animals and my cellar is usually 20-25 degrees cooler than outside.

 

[BHep]

Sounds like its heat related. Keep him in the cool areas, I've lost birds after a heat storke the next time they got hot. (Not even in the 100's when I lost them) Good luck.

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lost another young bird here yesterday.... so lost a total 7 birds in a weeks time.

Just too dang hot.

Frozen water bottles without caps (the birds will sip the cold water) ...piles of ice cubes, frozen fruits and/or veges. Fans if possible. My birds will lay in mud puddles. My peacocks stand in their water dish. It is not just the heat, it is the humidity too.