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[TheBarnSwallow]

Hey everyone

Thanks for the kind sentiments in regards to our recent move post... I am in Colorado at the moment dropping my kids off to my moms for their much anticipated Disneyland trip tomorrow .. Got here last night and already getting ready to head back to Oklahoma... wanted to pop on here and say hello and to also mention we are going to sell our Coop too... its decent size and would need a flat bed trailor to be moved with... if anyone might be interested.

This month our goal is to get the Poultry sold so we can focus on the Horses and Goat next month.

We have Polish,Naked Necks, Cuckoo Marans,Barred Rock,Rhode Island Reds, Mutt Chickens, Bantams ect, few feathered footed chickens. ages vary in our flock


We have the following Duck Breeds

Mallards & Runners



I also have a Male Chinese Goose ... whom I love very much and would like to see go to a person who understands the breed and will welcome it to their property... he is a talker and very protective of his lady master(he thinks I am his woman)

Turkeys:

We have Naragensett Tom and 2 Hens

and numerous 3 month turkey babies. (pure Naragensett they come from our Former Tom and our Original Hen)



We wanted to give our friends here the opportunity for picking first before we go the auction route...

If interested for pictures of any particular breed please PM... I will check my box daily...


JEANNIE

 

[old*cowboy]

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I raised nubians for several years back when I was younger. Loved them. The oberhali would be cool also.

 

[artsyrobin]

afternoon everyone- ok, one of the cochin girls foot reached a point with bumblefoot where i had to do it- i did discover the sugar/iodine poultice seemed to bring it to the front so it was a matter of scrape and pull, weird stuff.... more like rubber- here is a pic of it...- i packed it with neosporin, left quite a hole, didn't see any other left in there- so from now on its the sugar and iodine for a few days until its solidified enough to pop it out of there- and i soaked it in epsom salts before, and sprayed with bactine periodically as i was working on it

now off to water the wilting chickens

 

[poultryand bees]

Robin,
Thanks for sharing your treatment for bumblefoot.
The pictures are weird, sort of gross, and unlike anything I would have expected in bumblefoot.
I wonder if your previous treatments sort of solidified the interior infection?

 

[artsyrobin]

well, the site i read about the iodine says the iodine goes in and kills the infection, the sugar draws it to the surface- so i am thinking thats the route to take, less chance of doing damage in the long run? i tried lots of things- teatree oil worked on some of the other spots- so i guess it depends on the severity of it?

 

[NanaKat]

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Hmmmm Might try using a little honey now that that gunk is out. Honey is a natural antibiotic.

Buster52...hate to hear that about your pond. Definitely we need rain.

P&B we also sold 27 first time heifers in 2005 when our biggest ponds were reduced to 1/2 their depth. One even went into a fish kill and there were huge catfish and bass belly up. The varmits had a feast. Took three years for that pond to recover. I thought 2005 was bad, but this is a far worse drought.

 

[Ksane]

old*cowboy :

Do you think Guineas are sorta like cats. If you want the cat to hunt mice more hold back a little feed. Recon if you cut the guineas back they would work harder on the hoppers.

I don't think that works with cats. I've got 4 fat lazy house cats that get all the food they want but when they see a mouse they turn into fat Mouse Killing Machines lol They do it because of instinct, not hunger. Now if a cat's hungry they'll actually *eat the mouse. But they'll *kill it hungry or not.​

 

[artsyrobin]

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Hmmmm Might try using a little honey now that that gunk is out. Honey is a natural antibiotic.

Buster52...hate to hear that about your pond. Definitely we need rain.

P&B we also sold 27 first time heifers in 2005 when our biggest ponds were reduced to 1/2 their depth. One even went into a fish kill and there were huge catfish and bass belly up. The varmits had a feast. Took three years for that pond to recover. I thought 2005 was bad, but this is a far worse drought.

does it need to be raw honey? i put neosporin on it, but prefer natural anti biotics

 

[Buster52]

Sad day in our neighborhood today.

I looked out my bedroom window this morning and saw one of my neighbor's horses lying funny, and very still. I walked over to the fence line to his pasture and sure enough it was dead. Went up to the house and there was no answer. I started to go back home but then realized I should check on his other animals. In a stable I found another dead horse, and around back two big dead steers, with one slim one still alive. There was no water or feed for the cattle, and the horses only had about 4 inches of water in a small tub. Tried to check on their chickens but the barn door was padlocked.

My wife said they were on vacation in Texas, so my assumption was they had asked someone to care for the animals and they had failed to do so, or doing so were not doing a very good job. So, I took it upon myself to drive their lone remaining steer over to my place to care for until they returned home. As I was doing so his wife came out to check to see what I was doing. I was surprised to see her, considering the state of the animals, but told her I wanted to take her calf over to my place to care for it anyway, let it use the pond to cool off if it needed it. She said that was fine. Maybe she was just covering up her emotions, but she didn't seem like she was all that upset about the whole thing. I think the husband is in Iraq or Afghanistan doing civilian work. Maybe they were his projects and she was glad to see them go. Or maybe it was just the heat and she felt there was nothing she could do about it.

I don't know anything about horses, but do know a little about cattle having worked on a dairy or two in my youth and raised a couple. Never seen any die due to the heat before. I was very sad for the critters. What a way to die.

Still pondering on what to do about it.

 

[Kassaundra]

I took these pics in the ice storm of 2010 maybe they'll help cool us down just looking at them.

Everyone feel cooler now?