Variety is the spice of life
I would think a few drops should do it. Try that a few days then add more if she's still all moody.
View attachment 1457239 Good morning everyone hope y'all have a fun filled day
I gave Steve away by listing him in the paper for free. No one wanted Odin b/c he's a jerkface, except one old guy, but I didn't want to give him to the guy b/c he's a jerkface and would feel bad if the guy or his wife got hurt by him.Hehe! Human flesh...sounds so ominous.
If it's a good rooster, then yeah... a good home. If someone wanted to eat Odin, just don't tell me about it. Seriously.. just lie to me & if I contact you about him tell me he died & spare me the details (or tell me you found him dead one morning).
Same.. You've described Willie exactly. He's just a jerk lately and I have no idea what's gotten into him. Either the heat, the chicks, or he's just becoming more himself and this is what we have now. Let me know if you find a solution. I think I'm going to try meat bird feed next time I buy. I've stopped buying layer feed b/c of the chicks so maybe the layer feed was keeping them calmer w/ the calcium (probably slowly killing them).@apryl29 I agree with bark lice. I looked up more pictures and they sure do fit the bill.
As for the taterhead rooster—I have one and I can’t kill him.He so beautiful. He goes through spells of being ok to being a tater. I haven’t figured it out.
I have a pair like that. They're in the separate run that Odin was in during the summer. They will not stop picking at anyone who's molting. After I stuck Odin in the outside pen when it got nice I had put Olive in Odin's space, until the 2 started going after the Survivors too. So I swapped Olive for the 2 cannibals. It's been better now that they're separated, though I know they don't like it. They can't roost up high b/c the space is only 2' tall, but at this point they should be grateful they have an inside at all.
Yeah... I've locked up Odin and I don't let him out when my kids are there. It's actually been a while since I've let him out. Willie I do let out, but he's more annoying than a threat. I couldn't imagine allowing a rooster to attack my kids. Like would you let your dog maul your kid? It's about the same thing.You're fine, you're a chick with a slightly imperfect rooster you don't have a bunch of kids. The people i'm dealing with are "hobby farmers" with butt tons of kids that they're trying to teach about "country livin" not my words I SWEAR! Letting little Billy get spurred because mom got too attached to Extra Crispy is not cool. Again not me, poor bird is named Extra Crispy it has to be an omen.
Wow. I hope you find the missing bird. Maybe she's just hiding from the storm. I think I'm in OH so I think the storms we got last night are the ones you had earlier in the day. I wonder if that means we'll get more here throughout the day. I'm ok w/ it... I awoke to a beautiful 65* non humid morning. It is amazing. I feels a bit like fall right now.yesterday We had storms all afternoon so I wasn't out with the birds as much...
I went out between storms and about 6:30 pm one of the june 3rd poults was missing. Couldn't hear it calling and didn't find it anywhere in the yard. walked the fence, looked at the fence. until the lighting forced me inside.. it didn't show up this morning either. Not sure what happened, weather wasn't to the hawks liking, amd they do find inventive was to commit suicide...The one that had been sick for weeks , same hatch, was dead this morning.So I lost 2 from this hatch
Went out at 8 ish and it was raining and dark from the storms so the bird had gone to roost early.. locked up 3 of the coops and the last coop should have had 2 chickens and five 8wk poults.. NO POULTS.. sure enough they were in the rain sitting on the fence between pens.I got 3 in and 2 ran off in the pen. Came back with a flashlight and couldn't find a white one and couldn't catch the brown one.
about 2 hour ago got an alert that storm was coming ... so I ran out and a poult, from the same hatch as the missing one, was on the wrong side of the electric fence... I turned off the fence and caught him.. I wonder if thats what happened to the missing poult? The fence was on and on the inside is netting so they can't touch the fence.. but if it got shocked it may have run off and gotten lost..
storms started again.
so I am glad I hatched so many. I have lost 2 to illness and 1 is a mystery. 15 left and I probably will lose a few more... Have to expect losses when they aren't confined.
Awww. I'll bring my 4 over. They've been abandoned by Loki... I think it's my fault actually... since we weren't home and I didn't get the run finished before we left she didn't get a chance to chicken around w/ them so she got tired of being confined & barely acknowledges them now.
This is a thing?! I'm going to try it w/ Odin. Maybe it'll calm his butt down.. if nothing else it'll make him more compliant when I have my co-worker's husband take care of him.No idea, last year when Marlene was set on scalping everybody I spiked her water with beer like 75% water 25% beer. Made her much nicer, I do the beer thing to hormonal roos but I was at a loss with her so I just tried it. Might be miller time for Rosie.
I'm so sorry. Unplug the internet?God help me, my hubby is looking at ads for puppies.
