NY chicken lover!!!!

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I have to go to work today. I have begun to hate work. Not what I do, just the company I work for. I need a good rant. No time for that, I have to go feed my animals. Every body have a great day!!

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Ginny--do we work for the same company??? I feel the same way. They keep cutting our hours and adding more work and then want to know why some things arent getting done. Really??? Have to go in today myself.

This is the ongoing trend. Companies don't give a fig about their employees, just the bottom line. My job is like this too.

 

[queenchick16]

I agree with everything . Keep it clean

I would not seal a puncture wound in case there are still bad bugs still in the wound. I would keep it clean, maybe cover it with a chicken apron depending on where it is. I may flush it again with betadine and water, again depending on how pussey/inflamed it was. If it looks like it is healing well and the bird is eating and drinking, I may do nothing. I would keep it smeared with an antibiotic ointment.

 

[Henicillin]

Cherry trees produce cyanide in the cherry stones, the leaves, and, depending on the species, in the bark. There was an incident back in 2001 where thoroughbred broodmares were aborting their foals. It turned out to be mass cyanide poisoning.

http://espn.go.com/horse/news/2001/0524/1203816.html

*needs a shiny star-and-rainbow "The More You Know" smiley*

Oh, and I'm a member of the "my employers are not exactly my favorite people" club.

 

[java girl 2]

OK I have the hatching BUG NOW !!! so I have a Q. does anyone here want to do a mother's day hatch-a-long with me?? you know to honor all the mother's everywhere!!!!! if so, let me know and I will set up a thread for it! the set eggs date will be APRIL 22, 2012 also known as Earth Day! or the 21st if you guys want that date instead and you can have any kind of eggs!

 

[Lynzi777]

Aww I wish I had eggs to hatch to join the mothers day hatch along, but then again I don't even have an incubator. LOL I do want to try the whole egg hatching thing eventually. I have to get my hands on a good incubator first. I started a thread to ask people which they recommended. Off to feed my horse friend! Talk to you all later!

 

[Sachasmom]

I've been *trying* to get these coons for like a year now? They will NOT go in the freaking box trap (Unless someone has a bait coons can't resist?) The Silkie pen it pried up the wire run fencing and got in their pen. This was the center section that I thought was safe, I think it may have climbed up the door? (There is a gap at the top) I have the box trap set with bait, but the coons appear to prefer LIVE bait, I'd set up some leg traps but I'm afaid of catching my dog!

I'll have to run and get some antibiotic ointment, I don't seem to have any on hand. She also appears to be slightly dragging one leg when she walks, I don't see any injury to the leg, but its possible it got messed up when it tried to carry it off.

We replaced the pen fencing on the Ameraucana pen with a heavier gauge wire and laid a skirting around that, that pen is also roofed. We just have not done the back coop yet, plus there are a lot of weak spots (IMO) too, I'd rather rip the thing down and just go buy a new one with electric netting around it, but yeah, no moola here either! I feel it is pretty secure against Fox/Coons, but I doubt it would have kept out those GP that killed a bunch of stuff earlier this year. (We shot at those, missed. They have not been back yet)

Last years plan was to put up electric fencing and get a LGD, but I had a baby instead. That really put a financial crimp in most of my plans, plus my husband is super resistant to spending any sort of money on the livestock stuff, so I have to pay for it all myself out of sales (Kinda hard when stuff gets eaten to make any money!) I can shore up the coop with stuff I have on hand, and hopefully will be able to scrape up enough for the poultry netting to go around the chicken coops for now, until I can pay for the main electric and LGD. Sacha was out last night and she def knew there had been a coon in the coop, I really don't want to add a vet bill to my troubles though!

And in hindsight, running into an enclosed coop to take on a 20 pound coon armed with only a dull rusty pitchfork, probably not one of the better ideas I've had lately! :O

 

[happycountryhens]

Hey all,

Henicillin is correct. Cherry trees produce cyanide in the leaves and ingestion of a limited amount can lead to animal death. Especially if wilted leaves are consumed.

So I will just be carefull about where I put them.

Vmdanielson, thanks for the info on your fencing. Maybe a horse fence charger will work, but I really wanted to be able to move it around away from the electrical outlet without a cord to contend with. I thought maybe I could do 100 feet of fencing, but seeing the chickens in 100 feet of poultry fencing right now, it would be better to go the extra and have the 200 feet so I didn't have to move it every other day. 26 girls eat a lot of grass and we have chicks on the way too. You have a point to look at alternatives and I will continue research.

Of course the tractor knew we had some money we were thinking about spending, so now it needs some TLC ($Repairs$). It must have felt left out. Poor thing.

Now out to mow the front road lawn. (Our house is way back from the road and behind a row of trees. Essentially, we have two front lawns.) Too close to the road to put chickens way out there without electric. Can't moniter for escapees and loose dogs. Maybe putting the cherry bushes out there would be nice. Might make a pretty eatable roadside hedge and there are no cars nearby for the birds to poop on after they eat all my cherries. (Channeling Rancher Hicks)

 

[vmdanielsen]

Ginny--do we work for the same company??? I feel the same way. They keep cutting our hours and adding more work and then want to know why some things arent getting done. Really??? Have to go in today myself.

Havent had any racoon attacks here but I am a big fan of lead poisoning for anything that may kill my chickens. Your racoon will be back as its already had a free meal. Killing it is the only way to stop it from eating all your chickens.

My tiny new silkies are doing well but I dont think the last 4 eggs are going to hatch. I will check this evening and if nothing happens I will turn off the bator and clean it up for the next batch of my own eggs. The terrorists in the other brooder box are growing like weeds and are looking to fly out. time for a top to keep the delinquents in.

Everyone enjoy the nice weather. More coop building after work today.

I work for commission. Previously, we got an hourly rate between appointments but management has taken that away and is angry that the spa is a pigsty. I will clean up after myself but that is it. If we do not book early, we have to call every hour to see if we are booked. AAAUUUUGGGHHH!!

 

[vmdanielsen]

Wow-- we broke 1,000 pages today!!

I saw that!!! go us!!!

 

[featherz]

We just did about half the new run today - pretty hinky, but it's getting there. Could not get 6 foot fencing in 50 feet anywhere around so just had to get 5 foot and will use crappy wire for the last foot. You guys will really laugh - it's stable, but it looks like something out of tim burton because the ground is so tilted.

I am thinking of adding a hot wire too, but we shall see.