***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[subhanalah]

fyi

Baby silkies and showgirls on craigslist from Yukon.

http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/grd/4458271151.html

don't do it.

 

[brandy00]

I took some pictures of the chicks today. They are all growing so fast!


This is my runt. One of the Polish/Spitzhauben crosses.


This is my favorite of the production red/Spitzhauben babies. He/she reminds me of a little quail with the one little tuft of black on the head

Another of the Polish/Spitz


This is my little EE pullet, Dusti. Her all-time favorite past time is dust bathing.


Nap time.


And my rooster, Kramer. He never passes up a photo op.

 

[Kassaundra]

Yikes, Hannah! Very glad you lived to tell the tale.

I did impacted crop surgery on my Silkie/Araucana mix girl this morning. Felt like it took hours but it was only like 10 minutes, she did awesome!
I will NEVER use straw again. This is the 2nd time I've had a straw impaction, the 1st girl ended up passing it 2 yrs ago after the OSU vet flushed her crop. All total for meds and everything it was $200 back then. So this time I opted to do it myself since I feel more comfortable with surgery thanks to @PocoPollo & @Kass teaching us to caponize. She had a huge wad of balled up straw the size of a softball in her crop that obviously was never going to pass so it had to come out. I sutured the muscle layer and used tissue adhesive on the skin layer. I'm not sure if I'll have to go in and remove the sutures in a week? Coral? Thoughts on that? If I do it'll be a simple matter of just making tiny skin incision and removing the sutures.
My daughter, Shana, filmed the whole thing for me so you all could see it. I'm trying to convert the video to a smaller file right now and can post it later. It was really pretty straight forward although she's one of my favorites from my own birds here so I was really scared of losing her. I scrambled her an egg and mashed it up with water and she ate it all, I'm sure she was starved. I turned the light off and she's resting in the bathroom right now. I hope she'll be ok. Here's the straw I pulled out. I initially wrapped a stretch bandage around her chest but took that off right away as it was bothering her.

Awesome job, it had to be done, no way massage would have helped that.

 

[Kassaundra]

WOW this is incredible and why I love these forums. I hope I never need this info but its great that its so readily available. And not just the surgery aspect but also to avoid straw bedding. And I hope she bounces back quickly!

I keep meaning to ask folks about how they managed with their chickens during the summer of 2011. I did not have chickens at the time and so I'm curious as to how everyone kept their chickens cool and if some were lost. Also are some breeds heartier than others as far as heat tolerance? Im currently reading a how to book on raising chickens and read that chickens can die in temperatures over 95. So then I got a little freaked out because this is Oklahoma! And a repeat of that summer sounds deadly. (Honestly it sounds like even a summer like last year could be deadly) Ive got lost of ventilation going on in the coops and my chickens have lots or area they run and have access to it and shade all day. Also I have poultry electrolyte mix I give about every other day (which I may do everyday when its super hot) but I do not have electricity at either coop so Im hoping to not need a barn fan. My husband was thinking a mister at each run but can silkies or sizzles get wet? (1 of our coops/runs is strictly sizzle/silkie)

Heat kill much faster then cold in chickens. Shade, plenty of water, water to stand in, in the shade, I also put fans in the coop. Still summers kill chickens, especially the old. One of the many reasons I have Naked necks.

 

[Kassaundra]

I took some pictures of the chicks today. They are all growing so fast!


This is my runt. One of the Polish/Spitzhauben crosses.


This is my favorite of the production red/Spitzhauben babies. He/she reminds me of a little quail with the one little tuft of black on the head

Another of the Polish/Spitz


This is my little EE pullet, Dusti. Her all-time favorite past time is dust bathing.


Nap time.


And my rooster, Kramer. He never passes up a photo op.

 

[cathiesue]

I'm pretty good, now. Still have a swollen hip and gashes everywhere on me, but otherwise good. On crutches.

What happened?

Long story.

It was a simple biking trip at the walking park. I took a sharp angled left turn on the path and my bike drove into the grass, off the patch. I was going at a high speed, and the path stood about 3 inches above ground. When I tried to get back on the trail, without slowing down at all, the bike tire jammed and I flew into the concrete.

I gashed my right thigh and hip, tore open my left knee, dug several inch-long cuts into the end of my right elbow and bashed my head pretty good.

But the worst was the artery--I had severed an artery in my thigh, and it was bleeding, causing the muscles and tissue under the skin to swell slightly. I had a grapefruit sized mass in my hip when I got to the emergency room, and that quickly escalated to a football sized lump.

I was anemic and dehydrated, so they put me on an IV with a liter saline solution and morphine for the pain. Meanwhile they drew blood to find out if I'd damaged any internal organs, which I hadn't, and gave me a Tetnus shot.

The xrays revealed no broken bones but the swelling was definitely not a bruised bone, so I went in for a cat scan, next. And that was how they found out that the artery was bruised and losing blood. (Silkies, I was wrong, apparently it was a slightly cut artery, not broken xD)

Anyways, because I had already lost blood from external wounds, I was sent by ambulance to the out of town hospital to be put on observation.

I went in the hospital at 10:30 at night on Monday and was discharged at 4pm on Tuesday, and had only had 3 hours' sleep in all. Ughhhh, still tired and sore.

The swelling in my leg has gone down a bit, now. FINALLY!

Oh, sweetie, we are so glad that you are ok. What a horrible experience!

 

[BetsyOK]

So glad you weren't hurt worse--that was bad enough--and are healing.

 

[erinszoo]

Gee, another month gone by ... I keep thinking I'm going to start posting again every couple of days and somehow the time just slips away.

Our baby goat was born finally on the 19 April. A little boy we named Georgie. Let's see if I still remember how to post a pic. Lol - that wasn't the order I wanted to display them in but oh well ...


This was the first week of milking a meat goat. I thought I did pretty well.

Here's mama and baby a week ago today.

And here he is ... little Georgie O'Keefe. Sweet and honery all at the same time!

I've decided I want to get a milk goat though. While she's given us enough to play around with making cheese (we drink almond milk), she's not an easy milker and she really doesn't give enough to meet our needs alone. I'd like to get a Saanen that way she'd have company and I'd have a real milk goat. Anyone know anyone with one for sale?

On the bird front our new bantam hen turned out to be a frizzled cochin. She's beautiful and ugly and full of spunk ... which is good because the bantam cochin we already have is full of himself. She'll have to be brave to hold her own with him.

And I have something called a "red cap" chicken ordered. My daughter wanted them to show. Anyone ever seen them or raised them before?

 

[Chickenfan4life]

The pain meds I am on, the only way I can describe what they do to me is to say they make me drowsy, irritable, and very, very dopey. I was putting on a shirt and was getting frustrated because I had wrung it into a cord and it wouldn't go on.

 

[mjgigax]

I know that story last year I had 16 ee's and 26 buff orps free range I now have 8 of the ee's and 3 buffs then a stray Sheppard mix showed up we took her in and now she took on the job of protecting the place and every thing else if anyone comes to the door and were not home they will still be here when we get home.
we haven't lost a bird since she grew up and took on her new job you can't get her in the house when chickens are out.

What a great dog. She is grateful. A good deal all around!