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[pitbullmomma]

It is 5 minutes til 5 here. The temperature just dropped 15° easy. The wind is picking up and the sky is making a constant thunder sound........

Hubby will be coming home very soon.......
He is on the motorcycle.....


To open the garage door or not.

...so?

did you?

 

[staceyj]

GOOD
MORNING
SQUATCHY FRIENDS!

I’M BACK!
And I have power, a/c, internet... everything!!!!

 

[21hens-incharge]

...so?

did you?

I did open it...... It was pointless since he ended up bringing the tow truck home.
The other driver is my son and he was headed on a looooong tow so hubby had to be on call.

GOOD
MORNING
SQUATCHY FRIENDS!

I’M BACK!
And I have power, a/c, internet... everything!!!!

Very glad you are back up and running with everything restored!!!

 

[staceyj]

I did open it...... It was pointless since he ended up bringing the tow truck home.
The other driver is my son and he was headed on a looooong tow so hubby had to be on call.




Very glad you are back up and running with everything restored!!!

Thanks Henny and all you squatchers for hanging in there with me. A million hugs to all of you!

 

[rjohns39]

Morning all

Stacey so glad you're up and running again...

OK, one of my hens just did something that was kind of gross, and I need one of you more experienced chicken people to tell me what it was. (I've only been at this craziness not quite a year and a half, which is very hard to believe!)

I had all my chooks running around in the yard today. My (usually standoffish) EE, Maya, squatted down so I could scratch her back and pet her. And when I did, she stuck her butt high up in the air, opened her vent up WIDE (it was scary looking), and squirted some goopy liquid out. She did this twice in a row. It was nasty! Was it some kind of mating thing? Was she getting rid of old rooster sperm (I think I heard they can do this)? I'm really curious.

Can't believe you've had chickens for a year and a half and this is the first time you've experienced the joy of a cecal poo... Some foods are harder for a chicken to digest... they go into the caecal gland (or what ever it is) and ferment until the chicken is able to absorb its nutrients. every so often they expel what's in the gland. It is the nastiest possible poo and smells horrible.

I was going to ask covering between the eves with hardware cloth.

So its 8' from under the roof rafters down. Then it's a space maybe 4" tall between each rafter before the roof hits.

I thought "ventilation!" But put the HW cloth on the outside or inside?

As a general rule of thumb, inside to keep birds in/outside to keep things out. And don't use staples, use screws with washers. Coons can exert enough force to pull the staples.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Morning all


As a general rule of thumb, inside to keep birds in/outside to keep things out. And don't use staples, use screws with washers. Coons can exert enough force to pull the staples.

My thinking with going inside with the wire is the coons cannot get near enough to shove the staples out.
Thinking if wire was outside they could go to town pulling on it.

 

[CSAchook]

GOOD
MORNING
SQUATCHY FRIENDS!

I’M BACK!
And I have power, a/c, internet... everything!!!!

Stacey is back!!!

 

[Redhead Rae]

GOOD
MORNING
SQUATCHY FRIENDS!

I’M BACK!
And I have power, a/c, internet... everything!!!!

Yay!


We missed you! Glad you're safe and well!

 

[CSAchook]

Update on my hen with horrifying egg. (Good news).
DH took her to the vet while I was at work on Tuesday. He took the nasty blob with him to show the vet plus some pictures of the egg. Annnnddddd the vet said she had never seen anything quite like it before
The whole staff wanted to see it after they put the blob under the microscope.
Good news though they gave Buttercup a very thorough exam. Checked every inch of her from comb to toes, even down her throat and up the hoo-haa. They also had her walk around the room to check her movement, checked her poop, took her temp and heart rate. She seems perfectly healthy! They think the egg was basically a glitch. They had a longer way of explaining it that DH did his best to relay to me....but basically, as long as she doesn’t develop additional symptoms, they think it will be just a one time thing).

She has laid 2 eggs since the incident. It is the first time in a month or two that she laid two days in a row, and I think maybe the increased laying is a good sign? And the eggs themselves look alright. The first one had a small meat spot and some shell issues, but yesterday’s looked pretty good!


Thank you squatchers for the love and support!

 

[Anansi]

Hi Stacey