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apryl29 said:
That's about what Odin and Willie's combs look like. Damn this freeze. I know it happens and people are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I don't see where frostbite is ok or acceptable in any creature. I'm not sure what to do about it either. I've been bag balming mine too. I saw a post where someone made a hat! Cute idea, but IDK if mine would accept it and if others wouldn't go after it. Plus it wouldn't help for Odin's waddles.. it'd end up looking like a bra or a cup depending on if you keep the waddles together or separate. AND he'd still get it in his water.

Question: Does anyone know what kind of straw/ grass is used to make this?
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I bought some of these pads online and they seem to like them, but I'd rather just get the straw than buy the who pad since they seem to think they can just peel the straw off the paper backing anyway.
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It looks like shredded aspen. Very similar to swamp cooler pads. Swamp cooler pads have a plastic mesh on them to keep things together.

http://www.coolingmedia.com/aspenpad/
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Good idea, kind of... coconut oil solidifies at 75°F or below...... so extra wax *shouldn't* be needed. Wax would make for a stiffer comb though (you have no idea how hard it was not to type something else there... no PUN intended)...

I need to go before I type something that I shouldn't :gig :gig :gig I'm losin it!!!
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You a bad girl :thumbsup
 
apryl29 said:
That's about what Odin and Willie's combs look like. Damn this freeze. I know it happens and people are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I don't see where frostbite is ok or acceptable in any creature. I'm not sure what to do about it either. I've been bag balming mine too. I saw a post where someone made a hat! Cute idea, but IDK if mine would accept it and if others wouldn't go after it. Plus it wouldn't help for Odin's waddles.. it'd end up looking like a bra or a cup depending on if you keep the waddles together or separate. AND he'd still get it in his water.

Question: Does anyone know what kind of straw/ grass is used to make this?
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I bought some of these pads online and they seem to like them, but I'd rather just get the straw than buy the who pad since they seem to think they can just peel the straw off the paper backing anyway.
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My Cuckoo Bluebar has frostbite on the front tips of her comb. have been Bag Balming every night but this deep feeze is just brutal. I feel terrible but what else can I do. Plenty of ventilation but just so tater cold
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Good idea, kind of... coconut oil solidifies at 75°F or below...... so extra wax *shouldn't* be needed. Wax would make for a stiffer comb though (you have no idea how hard it was not to type something else there... no PUN intended)...

I need to go before I type something that I shouldn't :gig :gig :gig I'm losin it!!!
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;);)
 
CSAchook said:
Ruby is back!!!! :celebrateSorry to hear about your chicken's comb but I know you will take amazing care of her. She is lucky to have you.

And yes Ruby I have squatchs (feral chickens that live in my yard). They have been around for a couple years but this year they hatched a ton of babies (mostly boys). Tooooo many little teenage squatches running around. So I am rounding everybody up to go to new homes.

About that squatch catching....guys.... I had to climb into the tree :oops:. No really, I had to! There was no other way. That stupid evergreen tree might as well be fort knox it is so wide and bushy and dense ugh. So I climbed the tree and started grabbing squatches. It was kind like picking apples.... angry, shrieking, flapping apples. Pretty sure the neighbors hate me now. But I plucked them off their branches one at a time and passed em down to hubby to put in the run or dog crates. Got scraped up, pooped on, and covered in twigs (hence the glorious selfie) but it was worth it! 11 squatches caught! :celebrateThe last three (1 pullet 2 hens) were too high up for me to get. Pick up by their new owners is tomorrow so for now the quest continues.

For those interested in the tech we discussed:

Net: didn't even try it. Way too big for the size of spaces I was working in.

Homemade wire chicken hook: Magical awesomeness. Everyone go make one of these. Seriously. Used it this morning to move some of the female squatches from one run to another. Used it again to catch squatch number 12 (the last pullet) when she wandered into my run to get a drink. Best. Invention. Ever.

T-pole: I think this would work well in a lot of other situations. I did make one and was able to get a sleeping rooster to step off his branch and onto the cross piece. The problem was when I tried to lower him down, the tree branches were all so close together, he kinda got hit by the smaller branches. That plus super bright moonlight mean he spooked and was able to fly up higher into the tree. But I bet it would be great for getting a bird off a building or out of a different type of tree.
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....Living a wild chicken-thug life through you today, wow that would make a good story!
 
Suzi18 said:
My Cuckoo Bluebar has frostbite on the front tips of her comb. have been Bag Balming every night but this deep feeze is just brutal. I feel terrible but what else can I do. Plenty of ventilation but just so tater cold
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Put one heat lamp in their coop just enough to bring it around 30 is this a option?
 
TexasSam said:
Put one heat lamp in their coop just enough to bring it around 30 is this a option?
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I have a space heater in there set to 65 (lowest setting) and on low and it's only around 30 degrees in the coop even w/ the pop doors all closed up. It's ridiculous... even though there's no drafts it's just bitter cold. I'm actually glad that it's only heating things to about 30 b/c I was worried 65 would be too warm, but it's crazy how it barely takes the edge off.
 

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