***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[TRUE5]

Jack's Ameraucana with the frost bit feet is looking a little better.

If the Vetracyn works I will truely be impressed. Last Summer Jack had a Cockoo Marans cockerel get pecked down to the bone on his head. About 1" square area was degloved. I sprayed Vetracyn on it, soaked it good with the gel formula just one time, and it healed. He has a funny-looking comp and skin around his eye but is fine.

- I was interrupted in sending this post - A guy knocked on our door and said the ditch in the woods across the road was on fire! By the time we got out there our yard was on fire too and so was Jack's. It got to within 8' of his house and shop and a good bit of the woods burned too.
- Fire Dept. put it out. It was started by a neighbor South West of us who was cooking something in his smoker.

That is more excitement than I like.

No kidding! I don't think I would smoke anything while it's so dry! I'm glad they got it out for you all.

it could be worse! will have to watch and see who is doing it to her- she is a sweet girl

Neighbor kid gave my daughter a frizzle with major fuzz loss on her head. She looks pitiful and I feel so bad because she is the picked on one in our flock as well. Poor dear. I really hope the poor little kid of yours stops getting pecked on. Such a sad part of chicken nature.

 

[erinszoo]

So here is one of my experiances. We were raising both Turkey poults and chicks, since there was only three poults we had then in a wire cage in the house. An early fall front came through and we moved the chicks inside in the same room as the poults. They were probably about ten feet apart. Next morning when we got up the poults all had swollen heads, so bad that you could not even tell that they had eyes. That is when I got started using LS-50 and it took three days to get the swelling down. Lesson learned.

What was wrong with them? Sorry if that's a dumb question but we raise turkeys and have chickens too and have never had that kind of problem so I'm curious.

We spent yesterday cleaning out pens and the chicken house. Ugh is all I have to say. After all these weeks of snow and cold, the warm weather is very welcome. We got a set of meat birds the end of October thinking we would process them while our son was home over Christmas break, but then my hubby started working a second job and every time we turned around we had more snow and ice ... so the meat birds are now pretty hefty creatures still pooping their way through bales and bales of straw. Sigh.

And all the bitter cold has made us have to coop up the birds indoors ... which leads to a wet floor, wet straw, wet muck on wet muck on wet muck.

But on the positive side, at least my compost pile is cooking well. The steam is rising from it.

The goats ... anyone have any tips on stopping aggression in a male goat? He's not real bad but if he takes a notion to butt someone, there is nothing we can do to deter him. He usually comes to us for treats and will run around the yard without bothering anyone, but as soon as we try to get him to do something or go somewhere we want him to go, he starts in butting and rearing. When he was smaller we would just grab his horns and drop his head to the ground and hold him for a minute or so than let him go and he would leave us alone. But that no longer works. He is too strong for my daughter and I to hold any more. Our girl is wonderful and sweet and passive. She lets me do anything I want with her and touch her all over. She's okay with my daughter too but she won't let my husband feed her. Weird.

 

[CayuseRanch]

Jack's Ameraucana with the frost bit feet is looking a little better.

If the Vetracyn works I will truely be impressed. Last Summer Jack had a Cockoo Marans cockerel get pecked down to the bone on his head. About 1" square area was degloved. I sprayed Vetracyn on it, soaked it good with the gel formula just one time, and it healed. He has a funny-looking comp and skin around his eye but is fine.

- I was interrupted in sending this post - A guy knocked on our door and said the ditch in the woods across the road was on fire! By the time we got out there our yard was on fire too and so was Jack's. It got to within 8' of his house and shop and a good bit of the woods burned too.
- Fire Dept. put it out. It was started by a neighbor South West of us who was cooking something in his smoker.

That is more excitement than I like.

Scary MJ! I keep seeing news scrolling across the TV of fires today....So beautiful out I guess people think it is safe to burn?

 

[Kassaundra]

~~Had a very successful cooking experiment. I love the really crunchy potato skins on baked potatoes, but to get them I have to eat my potato then put the skins back in the oven to crunch up. I had an idea, I smeared a THIN coat of butter on the outside skin of the potato before cooking it. After it was baked it was perfect, the inside was cooked perfectly and the whole skin was hard and crunchy. Next time I think I will pre-season w/ some garlic powder and butter.

 

[nnbreeder]

We think it was Infectous Synovitis. Here is some info on it


M synoviae was first recognized as an acute to chronic infection of chickens and turkeys that produced an exudative tendinitis and synovitis (infectious synovitis); it now occurs most commonly as a subclinical infection of the upper respiratory tract, especially in multi-age layer flocks. M synoviae infection is also a complication of airsacculitis in association with Newcastle disease or infectious bronchitis. It is distributed worldwide and is seen primarily in chickens and turkeys, but ducks, geese, guinea fowl, parrots, pheasants, and quail may also be susceptible. Serum (preferably swine) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) are required for growth in mycoplasma media.

M synoviae isolates vary widely in virulence, and suspected virulence factors include adhesins, sialidase, nitric oxide, cell invasion, and antigenic variation and immune evasion.

Without having extensive testing done there were anout three or four things that it could have been. Thank goodness for good broad spectrim anti-biotics.

As far as the buck goes I would either send him to auction or a BBQ pit. If he would catch you or the kids off guard the results could be disasterous.

 

[mjgigax]

Scary MJ! I keep seeing news scrolling across the TV of fires today....So beautiful out I guess people think it is safe to burn?

News crew was out here as the Fire Dept. was just finishing up.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

I had a chicken feather on me when I arrived at the pizza party I'd been invited to today.

People were very amused.

I was a very successful people watcher at the pizza party tonight. My two friends got wrapped up in conversations and I felt like third wheel, and besides that I was in someone's seat. (I got great friends, I know.

They're not all that bad, I was just not a top candidate for conversation, I guess.)

So I went back to my seat which was a tad secluded. And I people-watched until a group of elders I know and think fondly of called me to come sit with them.

And that was basically how that went for me.

I liked it, after I got to finally sit with someone and actually talk! I could have gone over long time ago, I just really debated it.

Aside from that, there were presentations, speeches, and introductions over slices of pizza for a few hours. Adults are far more interesting and fun to talk with, anyways!

Anyways, sorry if that sounds like a rude post. Just had to share about chicken feathers, and kinda went from there!

 

[nnbreeder]

Well you know that you can always come here for some rousing conversation if there is anyone on. At times there have been a dozen or so folks on here haveing many seperate conversations all at the same time!

 

[artsyrobin]

Well you know that you can always come here for some rousing conversation if there is anyone on. At times there have been a dozen or so folks on here haveing many seperate conversations all at the same time!

so right!!! it can get confusing if you are gone for a day and try to sort it out

am loving this weather- worked on some of the runs, to clear up the muck from the storms. Shasta seems fine, sure had me stressed with her bleeding beak! next time its either a file or dremmel

like old time having you post Les!

 

[Grace'sDad]

I hope someone in the BYC gets it because I sure hate to see it just setting there empty!
We have some really neat hatching memories. Grace was always so precise in making sure everything was running just right and she hatched a lot of birds but that was another lifetime ago.

( I haven't been on here in a long time and forgot that I should have quoted instead of reply) That is why this doesn't make much sense. I was talking about Grace selling her Sportsman incubator. (;0)