NY chicken lover!!!!

[littlecritters]

Ugh! The couple of chicks I gave away the other day are giving the new owner problems - they were under a broody before they left here and look like they now have cocci! Yuk! None of the other birds here have any signs of illness and the chicks that are left under the broody are fine. They were only rehomed because princess can't cover that many..

I can only guess that with all the wet weather and not having the broody immunity going for them it hits the little ones hard in a new environment. What's weird is I checked the two remaining chicks over and there's no problems - eating, drinking, no bloody poo, etc. 

 I feel horrible!!! I got Peter Brown's chicken emergency kit so everyone's getting amprol tomorrow. bleck. Watch out for the cocci with all this wet weather!

Thank you for the heads up. Sorry this happened...

 

[Cass]

I'm sorry but things wear out and most places I've rented do not have the best in fixtures. Right now we have three tiles that pulled away from the wall in the bathroom. We've replaced three windows last summer. Wood rots and paint peels. I can't tell you the number of times I had to fix a leaky faucet and more than once. Landlords sometimes expect more from tenents than they should. Having owned and rented I know that things break.

If something is working when the tenet moves in, it should be working when they move out. If it fails while they live there they need to let the landlord know before they move out.

Broken windows are all the tenent (unless the window malfunctioned)....One of our tenets broke the catches that keep the window in the sash. Another cracked a window the entire width of it, in a bathroom window. Window still works fine, crack isn't from window malfunction.

Like you have I fixed things in rental units. (until 4 years ago I rented all my life) Not that the landlord wouldn't do it, but because they wouldn't do it in the timeframe that worked for me. Leaking faucets being tops on that list, cuz I couldn't stand the dripping sound and they didn't see it as a major problem. But my landlords always fixed things when I asked. We fix things (or arrange to have them fixed) within 72 hours of being notified it is a problem. Less time when a fridge quit working. Slightly more when it was a toilet that ran occationally and we decided to replace the entire toilet, not just fix the leaking part.

Tiles coming off bathroom wall, normal wear and tear, or wearing out. Tiles coming up on a kitchen floor, normal. Door frames cracked and door latches pryed up, damage. Rug being torn to shreads by animal prohibited by lease, damage. Wouldn't be if the lease allowed pets. (that's the reason for a pet deposit)

I met your wife Rancher. There is no way she would have left the place in the shape these tenets left it in. Actually there is no way she would have lived in the filth that they lived in. I have never had to wash a wall to get enough dust off it to paint it before in my life. I did in this place. The number of doors that had holes in it was in excess of 5 and they managed to break the toilet. Not the seat (but that has to go due to filth), actually crack the toilet base itself. (how can you even DO THAT?)

I have always gotten 100% of my security deposit back, everywhere I rented, regardless of how many kids I was raising at the time. I know that people *can* take care of rental property. I am still learning that most just don't do it. And the security deposit NEVER covers the amount of damage they leave behind. (once it cost us $75 bucks for actual garbage removal from inside the house. Gross. And $200 in chemicals to kill the fleas they left behind...another pet in a "no pets allowed" duplex)

 

[vmdanielsen]

I was able to purchase organic flocklayer from my local Agway. I can't recall if it was $28 or $35 per 40 lb bag. It was just too expensive for me to continue buying.

sheesh! things have gotten way too expensive. Thanks for the info though!

 

[cheeka]

my fiance cracked the base of my toilet and 5 of the floor tiles surrounding when he kinda lost balance and plopped down on the seat... it can happen innocently... but i picture raucous people doing wild things all over rental units... I had one tenant who punched beer caps into the walls. there were thousands of them. every single wall in the entire apt needed new sheetrock, and paint.

so, when my handyman came to fix the bathroom, he took my extra tiles and put them in random directions. they are marbled and identical, and it drives me crazy that it isn't symmetrical anymore

 

[Gramma Chick]

my fiance cracked the base of my toilet and 5 of the floor tiles surrounding when he kinda lost balance and plopped down on the seat... it can happen innocently... but i picture raucous people doing wild things all over rental units... I had one tenant who punched beer caps into the walls. there were thousands of them. every single wall in the entire apt needed new sheetrock, and paint.

so, when my handyman came to fix the bathroom, he took my extra tiles and put them in random directions. they are marbled and identical, and it drives me crazy that it isn't symmetrical anymore

AAHH that would drive me crazy too

Sometimes guys dont notice small differences ..that we notice ..that are plain as day to us ..Deborah

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Do they have light in the coop ( windows ?) this weather has been horrible ...I would think twice about laying a egg too ! Do they range all day or have a run ..that they can be let out longer during the day ? This is sure a Mystery ..
Could something be stealing the eggs ? Squirrels ?
This will probably gross you out ..A OT - Old timer said if she was really wanted to know if a hen was laying ..she would stick her finger in the vent ..& feel ..She was a nurse so she has seen a few behinds... I am sure Deborah

 

[Gramma Chick]

J and J sells their own brand, called J and J, but the mill itself is in some other place, I don't know where. I wanted a pelletized higher protein feed that they could all eat, so I went. With the flock raiser, or have bought game bird feed.

Have to apologize for the strange sentence structure and capitalization, the iPad made me do it. Repeatedly.

No problem...It sounds like a nice place to visit ..Maybe I will have time on Friday ..

 

[featherz]

There's a feed mill in Amsterdam but I didn't really care for the feed. Very powdery and dusty. Still, the price was right and I'd consider buying pellets there if I had a truck to deliver gigantic quantities of it to make it worth the trip! I don't believe they have organic feed tho.


New job is going well but is HECTIC.


As for my poor little chicks, I think I have tracked down the source of the cocci as none of the other chicks still outside are ill at all - I had a few hatchery chicks a while back (still do, they are all fine) that were vaccinated against it, which consists of actually giving them a form of cocci - and those chicks were in the same brooder prior to these. Of course I wiped it down and sprayed with oxine, but in my haste I am thinking either the crate or the ecoglow wasn't cleaned well enough. I've offered to send some hatchery chicks to the poor person with the ill chickies, so hopefully that will help. I've never had broody raised chicks get cocci before so that was a stumper.

Hi ho hi ho.. off to work I go.

 

[stonykill]

There's a feed mill in Amsterdam but I didn't really care for the feed. Very powdery and dusty. Still, the price was right and I'd consider buying pellets there if I had a truck to deliver gigantic quantities of it to make it worth the trip! I don't believe they have organic feed tho.


New job is going well but is HECTIC.


As for my poor little chicks, I think I have tracked down the source of the cocci as none of the other chicks still outside are ill at all - I had a few hatchery chicks a while back (still do, they are all fine) that were vaccinated against it, which consists of actually giving them a form of cocci - and those chicks were in the same brooder prior to these. Of course I wiped it down and sprayed with oxine, but in my haste I am thinking either the crate or the ecoglow wasn't cleaned well enough. I've offered to send some hatchery chicks to the poor person with the ill chickies, so hopefully that will help. I've never had broody raised chicks get cocci before so that was a stumper.

Hi ho hi ho.. off to work I go.

my guess is the persons flock made your former chicks sick. And giving them new ones will result in the same. Different flocks, different immune systems.

 

[featherz]

my guess is the persons flock made your former chicks sick. And giving them new ones will result in the same. Different flocks, different immune systems.

That's why I'd have them shipped from the hatchery, not from me. At least if the chicks get sick, it won't be from me. I just went outside and the chicks in the same hatch are skittering around normally, as are the 'bad' ages for cocci, 6-8 weekers. Even flashlighted all the poo. LOL. They attacked me this morning for treats and no one is standing around puffed up or acting odd.

I still feel horrible! Of course, *any* sort of chicken exchange can result in cocci problems based on what you said - there's different strains of cocci in the soil and switching around baby chicks can be even more dangerous in that respect. But I still feel like a heel - her kids are upset, etc. So it's the only thing I could think of to do.