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[Tikkijane]

How about getting a hobby? Like chickens or horses or some such?   

Just a thought ya-know.

Scott

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

How about getting a hobby? Like chickens or horses or some such?

Just a thought ya-know.

Scott

You know.....since you come up with the idea I think I
will get a hobby or how about playing a new game......
"Whack-a-hubby" comes to mind and I'm sure it will be loads
of fun........and if nothing else it will cure any problems with
errant ideas

 

[dutchbunny83]

Lovely black rat snake, yes. There are a few who will try to take on a big bird. And fail, but the bird is dead before they figure that part out. Most will stick to something they can swallow, though. I'm glad you relocated. They more than pay for the losses they cause in what they save us patrolling for rodents.

Okay, thanks
I don't like to kill anything unless we need it to eat, DH was making me second guess myself that it would be a danger.
I think (knock on wood) we have the birds pretty well protected as she never made it in.
The kids all got a kick out of seeing her. My husband held the head back and they were all petting her at the bus stop on the way to relocate.
She's lucky she didn't freeze, I think she was stuck up there awhile. She was very lethargic this morning and ice cold.
Hopefully she finds lots of pesky rodents in the woods and avoids making the trip back up here.
We live right in town, first time I've seen a snake out here.
She was pretty!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Been spending the weekend processing part of a six-point hubby got yesterday. The hind quarters are chilling until next weekend, but the front end was going mostly to stew and ground meat, so we've got that mostly taken care of. (He got a clean heart shot...which messes up the front end meat somewhat.) Short on the spices I need to finish sausage, but will pick it up in a bit, then we'll have nearly six pounds of maple sausage to freeze, too. The "Suck-and-Seal" vacuum sealer has certainly been worth it's cost over the last ten years or so. We bought a new meat grinder yesterday, and I think it'll be worth it's cost, too. I'll try some rabbit sausage next weekend when we process the six rabbits that must go. That'll be yummy! Might be what some family get for xmas this year...homemade sausage!


Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

 

[Regin]

My two silkie pullets laid their first eggs today. BOTH girls laid the first egg on the same day! How weird is that?

 

[Acable14]

Asheboro Here anybody near me

 

[ramirezframing]

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Welcome new flocker.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Welcome to the new folks and good morning folks

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I need a few mornings
so I can have the pleasure of sleeping in and not the ones on
the weekend........not that I really do. I find myself waking at or
close to what I do for work. I try to roll over and snooze some more.
Sometimes I can when I'm "really" tired and I seem to be tired
a lot these days.

hope everyone has a good day

 

[dutchbunny83]

Sad morning here, my peacock Maurice I got for Mother's Day died over night

No signs of illness whatsoever just seemed slightly less active yesterday. No injuries or trauma, anything like that. Eating the same food he's always had. He's been losing some of his tail feathers but that's normal this time of year. He stays with my chickens, but has since he came out of quarantine when we got him 6 months ago. I know turkeys can get blackhead worm from chickens, though my turkey is fine. Besides him and my turkey (which have both been here a long time and quarantined before entering the flock), all of my other birds I hatched, I don't add any from anywhere else.

Any ideas of what it could be?


Edit: The more I look online, it seems most likely to be from a worm. I am going to attempt a necropsy. Apparently peafowl need to be de-wormed much more frequently than chickens and in my research before getting one and talking to other peafowl owners this fact never came up

It absolutely wasn't anything respiratory, so something else internal had to be going on. And whatever it was all my other birds (chickens, turkeys, ducks, quail, etc. are perfectly healthy)

 

[BHep]

Sad morning here, my peacock Maurice I got for Mother's Day died over night

No signs of illness whatsoever just seemed slightly less active yesterday. No injuries or trauma, anything like that. Eating the same food he's always had. He's been losing some of his tail feathers but that's normal this time of year. He stays with my chickens, but has since he came out of quarantine when we got him 6 months ago. I know turkeys can get blackhead worm from chickens, though my turkey is fine. Besides him and my turkey (which have both been here a long time and quarantined before entering the flock), all of my other birds I hatched, I don't add any from anywhere else.

Any ideas of what it could be?


Edit: The more I look online, it seems most likely to be from a worm. I am going to attempt a necropsy. Apparently peafowl need to be de-wormed much more frequently than chickens and in my research before getting one and talking to other peafowl owners this fact never came up

It absolutely wasn't anything respiratory, so something else internal had to be going on. And whatever it was all my other birds (chickens, turkeys, ducks, quail, etc. are perfectly healthy)

Sorry for your loss.....
I would lean towards worms, especially if they are hanging with chickens. Peas are not good at showing signs like chickens are...they will just drop dead. They need to be wormed 2-3 times a year.