Office Work.......

[wegotchickens]

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Now Now stay calm...I think the goofball banged her eye on the crate...probably trying to avoid a scarey duck or something. There were some sneezes when I put them in the crate but that was due to them trying to snorkel in the water right off the bat.

I cleaned little one's eye last night and will check her again in a bit...I think she will be fine Lori...no panicking.

They are in quarantine with the ducks whom cannot catch anything from the little girl anyway if it turns out to be something. I will watch her...and all will be well.

Yeah, I knew they'd be thirsty after seeing the way they snarfed food as we were waiting for them. They had full crops when Jim loaded them at 3pm, and yet they ate likd they were STARVING at 7:30. It doesn't surprised me that they dove into the water dish.

Yes, the big scary ducks might've caused a little upset. And then too, sometimes when they have nothing to roost on I've seen them trying to roost on one another. So she's liable to have gotten her eye scratched by her sister.

Like I said, my head knows they were healthy and perky when I hauled them up there.

But my own birds are taunting me with weirdness and I'm overreacting to every little thing.

But also, I know you have sooooo much of your own to worry about, you don't need any other issues going on.

 

[Orchid]

It's definitely Monday. Wow. My youngest son earned himself a one-way ticket to a 7:30 bedtime by 7:15 this morning. I somehow wrenched my knee going out to the garage last night and it's killing me, plus I have a nasty sinus headache. And those peevish office gnomes did NOT clean my desk like I requested when I left on Friday.

On the bright side, I have a fabulous new haircut/color that makes me feel like I'm anime for some reason. If only my eyeballs were about 6 times bigger...

Lori, glad you had fun at the Nationals. I really like that picture of you and the girls.

Buffy, that ocean sunfish is super cool. I have always been fascinated with those things for some reason - I think it's their cool shape. I hope someday I get to see one in person. Maybe even before it's dead.

dacs, hope you guys have a great breakfast!

We winterized our coop yesterday, installed a light and wrapped the run in plastic (left ventilation, not to worry). The chickens are pretty suspicious of the plastic. I'm hoping that with more light I'll get more than one egg a day soon. I taught DH how to make the "Look I found treats" rooster noise on Saturday - he took some leftover pizza crusts to the bottom of the porch stairs, made the noise and they all came running. He was quite tickled and didn't even moan too much when I told him about my chicken coop expansion plans.

 

[wegotchickens]

Orchy-pants, we need pics of your new anime hair!


My oh my, if you're inclined to worry about your birds, start reading up on illness and disease symptoms. Sneezing is in almost every one.
I'm now convinced my flock will die unless I buy 3 types of antibiotics.
I need to quit browsing before I have a full-blown panic attack!

Why do they always say you can treat with antibiotics, if later they say that you're better off killing infected birds???

And why must all the symptoms be alike for every disease?

Am I now generating my feeling of doom? Or is it really stalking me?

I suspect I'm being stalked by doom. The 'historic' database has no inbound shipments. Therefor, I will have to manually rebuild all November inbounds that aren't showing up on the current database. I figure 90% are missing.
The pump failed on the heating system for the heavy oil tanker. They're fixing it now, and the temp is okay on the car, so maybe we'll be able to pump the stupid stuff in time for the pick-up this afternoon.
I'm now going to reconcile the manual count from the electronic inventory in order to keep myself from reading more about avian illnesses.

 

[Orchid]

I am inclined to worry about everything. I won't be reading up on avian illnesses any more than I already have.

If I can catch hold of DH as he runs through here today, I'll get him to snap a pic of me. Then you can see my hair AND my frightful office. The horror.

I am puppysitting my sister's dog at the office this morning. She's a 6 month old golden retriever and cute as a bug. I put a rug next to my chair for her and she's sleeping on the tile instead - what a goofball! Although, it's probably really warm since we have radiant floor heat in here.

 

[NellaBean]

LOL, I looked at that same thread yesterday. That chick needs culled asap......

Girl, I feel your pain about the sneezing. I am about at the point of closing my own flock. I'm getting paranoid in my old age. I sold some birds to someone recently and I kid you not, find out later that since then half their birds have gotten sick and died. However my own birds are okay? They also got birds from other people around the same time frame, so it is entirely possibly a different bird caused the whole thing.........but it made me paranoid. I absolutely don't want to be responsible for introducing illness into someone's flock.

I'm very hands off on my own flock.........I only even see them during daylight on the weekends now. No coddling or anything. Live and let live, yo. If there were sick birds, I would imagine I would have birds dying left and right.....but other than the 2 hens I lost recently that were killed by the drake or roosters (obvious broken necks), I haven't lost any.

Welcome to the paranoid club. It's nice here. Let's make t-shirts.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Yup. Anyone who doesn't cull a babe like that is cruel.

I already decided my flock was closed at the end of this year. I'm so paranoid that my new millies brought in something they were immune to, and are shedding it to my existing flock. I put them into quarrantine for 3 weeks, but they'd be healthy even if they were carriers. It's enough to make you insane.

And then there's the vaccine debate. The silkie breeder I talked to was telling me that Marek's is EVERYWHERE, it's unavoidable because it's spread by wild birds and lives in the soil. He doesn't vaccinate at all. If he sees a sign of Mareks, he culls that bird and leaves the rest be. Any bird that's Marek's free is naturally immune, and so NOT vaccinating is building immunity for the whole flock. He sees vaccines as promoting weak birds. I can see his point.
He also said that he does the same thing over mites / lice. That a weak bird will get them constantly, no matter what prevention you use, so he culls the birds that get them (but follows preventative things, like dusting the coops).

I've been very hands off, using nothing but ACV for the longest, and DE. I added the Sevin after battling lice for the first time ever, this summer. Then I added a natural spray that's heavily clove oil scented. After that I had sneezy girl. So now I'm wondering if I made her sneezy. We'll see.

Yes, we could make t-shirts. But we can't form a club. If we meet, we might cross-contaminate one another.

 

[wegotchickens]

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I'm doing popcorn and Mtn Dew for lunch, with a Hershey bar chaser.

Be sure to eat some Oreas. Make the dentist EARN that new sports car!!

 

[NellaBean]

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I'm doing popcorn and Mtn Dew for lunch, with a Hershey bar chaser.

Be sure to eat some Oreas. Make the dentist EARN that new sports car!!

No oreos, but I did have BROCCOLI. He'll be picking green trees out of my teeth for an hour.

(I kid, I kid)

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Well, all you get to see is their top fin flapping slowly from side to side as they swim by. Each summer, we see them at least four or five times. They are huge and slow. Why they let themselves get in shallow water is beyond reason...

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Just BOLTED downstairs to get my address book so I could call Michelle's cell phone right now, and I don't have her freakin' number??????!!!!! How can that be? Ticked big time.