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[Elwood Lightfoot]

PrettyChicks-thanks My Cochins are my favorites.
SDSKnifeworks-zip ties are the greatest invention. Whether it's for dogs, cats, fish or chickens, they're a must!
Bill, I have some pics for you, buddy And anyone else is more than welcome to chime in. These are all pictures of the same Buff Orpington chick (I have 2), they're 9 1/2 wks old now and both look identical except this one is slightly bigger. I've thought it was a cockerel all along because he's always been so big but now I'm starting to hope against hope that maybe I have 2 girls, except the waddles throw me. Do Orp pullets have tiny waddles? Does this look male or female to you all? Nice big pictures. I'll go ask on the Orp board also.

I'm thinking pullet myself

We have been six hours without electricity and have trees down and limbs and debris everywhere after a violent storm this evening at about 4:50 pm. The aftermath is loss of two good shade trees, three cochins and one car and it only took about 10 minutes to accomplish all this damage! I have my work cut out for me tomorrow with the chain saw and stacking as well as repairing pens that were damaged and gathering up all the tin that blew off of the tops of pens. The good news is that we got some much needed rain and the house was not damaged nor were we.

Bo

Glad you and the family are safe, we had some rain but not much the small storms came out of the northeast kinda backwards from how they usually blow through here

 

[Oakieridge]

Bo sorry about the storm damage. Hope you can get things put back together soon. We lost one yard. It is a 10x10 pen and had a tarp for shade. The tarp couldn't drain fast enough and it colapsed the sides. I think I still have 2 BCM youngsters running loose but couldn't catch them.

Hubby got home from the feed store with all the feed for the next 2 months and when Kurt poured it into the barrels they noticed the Pellets (that are marked pellets) are crumbles. Now I have to decide to I keep the other 10 bags of "pellets" or take them back up to the feed store and open them to see if they are pellets or crumbles. I told dh just keep them it is a 40 mile trip to the feed store and plus have to load all that feed back on the trailer and take it back up there. Not worth the hassle to me.

Well off for another long day at work. Yesterday was a 12 hour day, today looks just as busy.

 

[mamapoppybee]

Bo sorry about the storm damage. Hope you can get things put back together soon. We lost one yard. It is a 10x10 pen and had a tarp for shade. The tarp couldn't drain fast enough and it colapsed the sides. I think I still have 2 BCM youngsters running loose but couldn't catch them.

Hubby got home from the feed store with all the feed for the next 2 months and when Kurt poured it into the barrels they noticed the Pellets (that are marked pellets) are crumbles. Now I have to decide to I keep the other 10 bags of "pellets" or take them back up to the feed store and open them to see if they are pellets or crumbles. I told dh just keep them it is a 40 mile trip to the feed store and plus have to load all that feed back on the trailer and take it back up there. Not worth the hassle to me.

Well off for another long day at work. Yesterday was a 12 hour day, today looks just as busy.

i would call them and let them know so they can fix the problem. If you dont it will just keep happening. If not to you to others.

 

[Kassaundra]

The first question they ask here is not what is wrong but how are you going to pay for this. And even in the middle of the day there may be a wait of up to an hour to get a doctor in to see you and at night the wait can be up to two hours.

As you all know I had a tumor on my spine but was diagnosed with kidney stones and handed off to another doctor. Two months later I couldn't walk or move my legs. When I had a CT scan in the ER the tumor was mentioned in the summary and clearly showed up on the CT scan so why was it thought that a tumor wrapping around my spinal cord would not cause pain? After the surgery to remove it at OU I got my motor skills back, well pretty much, but I still have numbness. If I could have gotten surgery sooner then I believe that the outcome would have been much different.

If the doctor just would have told me that night that he believed that the stones were causing me pain but that I had a big tumor that really needed to be looked at then I would have all of the respect in the world for him but he chose to ignore it and not say a word about it.

I have a similar situation w/ my MIL. When she got sick she had been vomitting for over a month before going to the ERs, and lost 10 lbs (doesn't seem like much but she started around 100 lbs) had a cough that wouldn't stop and chest pain. She started w/ the local ers they did chest xray and blood work and said she had "stomach virus" gave her iv fluids and said to go home and rest. She wouldn't get better so she started going to the ers in Tulsa, same thing there they did the xrays and blood work and sent her home w/ "gastritis" fancy word for stomach bug. Her last er to visit was St Francis, they did the same xray and blood work and KNEW immediately what her problem was, but wanted to do further tests and stabilization, admitted her to ICU put her on emergency renal dialysis. Turns out every x ray over the past month and every blood work result showed the same thing that not one Dr. mentioned ................................................ she was in serious renal failure and missing a rib!!!!!! Now who thought that was not worth mentioning, not even curious enough about the missing rib to ask ............"Mam may I ask what happened to your rib???" Anyway it was CA. Earlier diagnosis wouldn't have changed the outcome, that CA is absolutely terminal w/o exception, but she would have kept her kindeys longer, she never went off dialysis.



This all happened about 6 yrs ago.

 

[Kassaundra]

Bo - Sorry to hear about the storm damage. I hope you have friends close by who can come help with the cleanup.

Doodle - Nice deer pictures : ) We see deer all the time, but they are about a quarter mile north of our place. We don't have enough trees to attract them closer to the house.

Kass - I hear babies in the hatcher. It doesn't sound too crowded in there yet, so maybe it will be tonight or tomorrow morning before I open the door and move the dry babies to the brooder.

 

[artsyrobin]

morning guys- what are the chances of mareks in my silkie chicks? i have 3 1-month olds, 1 can't walk, one is twitching and losing ability to walk- i was thinking nutrition but now i am not sure - brainstorming time...

 

[Kassaundra]

morning guys- what are the chances of mareks in my silkie chicks? i have 3 1-month olds, 1 can't walk, one is twitching and losing ability to walk- i was thinking nutrition but now i am not sure - brainstorming time...

Are the eyes clear or grey, the one unable to walk is she in splits position, are there any irritaiton at the feather bases especially on the legs??? Those are halmark mareks sx, not in every chicken every time, but more likely then not.

Mareks would be very contageous.

 

[artsyrobin]

no, the eyes are clear, not wanting it to be mereks, really hoping its nutrition... am reading alot this morning, thinking i didn't have them on chick starter so that might be the problem?

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[Kassaundra]

What were you feeding them then???

 

[Kassaundra]

If they have NONE of the halmark mareks symptoms I would seriouly doubt it's that.