NY chicken lover!!!!

[Breella]

Is there some kind of cone I can buy for a self mutilating chicken? Frenchie has started to pick at her chest and around the healing back. I ordered a saddle for er back but unsure what to do about her chest.

 

[ChickPrincess]

Is there some kind of cone I can buy for a self mutilating chicken? Frenchie has started to pick at her chest and around the healing back. I ordered a saddle for er back but unsure what to do about her chest.

You could probably use a foam sheet, like they sell in craft stores. I know someone who rescues birds (macaws, cockatoos, etc) and I've seen pics of that. Cut a large circle, then cut out a circle from the center large enough for her head, but not too restrictive on her neck. It may only last a day, but it would be cheap to replace daily... they're only like 25 cents a sheet.
I'd be more worried about what the other would do to her.

 

[miquwid]

 

[ke5hde]

Those cookies look mighty tasty.

Chris

 

[Lynzi777]

Love coming home from the grocery store to find the ladies making a mess of the storage bench on our porch! I don't even know what's up there that they could possibly be interested in!

 

[rancher hicks]

I just don't know what to say to either of you. lol If it's above 80, it's too warm for me. We never got the storm but saw the dark clouds that appeared to be heading North-ish and it is much cooler out. Guess what I saw this morning? A few days ago I put 6 eggs under her. (From under the twisted sisters nest) 2 hatched so far. I can hear pecking. I'm a grandmother again! It's my first time for a chicken to hatch babies and NOT eat them. So my Sizzle hatched 2 BCM. The 2 twisted sisters that ate theirs the last time still have 8 - 10 eggs still under them. I should have put more under the Sizzle. After I candled the eggs, I only put the one's almost ready to hatch under Cecilia.



This first creek pic was today. The 2nd one was a couple of months ago. If we don't start getting productive rain soon, the creek will be dry by the end of Aug. I've only seen it happen once in 10 years. I pump water out of here to water all the chickens.

On the sizzle front. I've taken eggs from one hen and given them to others, so if you're concerned about, Marilyn and Susanna (murdering mothers) you could take their eggs and move them to the Sizzle or another. Just take the Sizzles current chicks for a bit and then give them back when she's hatched all she's going to.

Poor Buckwheat is still brooding but has 8 chicks under her at night. I had two that I took to keep each other company but put them back with her and she's doing okay.

 

[rancher hicks]

grapes grow on grape vines and are currently green in this part of the country. They will turn purple by September and are sweetest after the first light frost.

edited to add: I just went out and looked at the grape vine growing up in the middle of the bush out back. The leaves are as large as my hand spread out with no consistent number of points to them. They are a vine and grow up a trees and through bushes. Grapes form on second year growth, so if you cut down the vines every year you will never have grapes. They look like grapes at the supermarket only much much smaller.

I have a number of vines. One hangning down into the yard. Another way up high, that I tried to pull down and broke a a bunch of fruit. They grow up high into the trees.

DW and I did go and pick raspberries and red currants today. I've got quite a few recipes to make up. Did I mention yesterdays jam came our really well. Blueberry/ rasp.

 

[rancher hicks]

Bought and tried a cookie at the Farmers market. It had potato chips in it. YUK! I ate half and gave the other half to my SIL.

 

[Pyxis]

Well, plans of working on the hoop coop today went out the window. Instead I got some nice food poisoning from some bologna that we bought not even two days ago, so it was either sold to us bad or the place we got it from stores it improperly. Not a fun day. At least I have my silkie chicks to cheer me up.

 

[ke5hde]

We love it when they do a fly by.

Chris