Okies in the BYC The Original

[nnbreeder]

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I will be building a Pheasant pen and mowing. I take a slightly different approach to mowing. I let the goats out of their pen and stake out the horses.

 

[FunChick]

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i wonder if polish get vitamin deficiencies like silkies? might try putting a couple drops of polyvisol (without iron)infant liquid vitamins on her beak a couple times a day and see if that perks her up

Well funny that you should mention that! I just happened to pick some up when I was at Target after my physical therapy appointment in Yukon! I am so tickled that I had heard about it on here and was able to get it tonight! I will begin the vitamins first thing in the morning...

 

[FunChick]

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I will be building a Pheasant pen and mowing. I take a slightly different approach to mowing. I let the goats out of their pen and stake out the horses.

I would do that too if my goat wasn't a fainting goat and my old mare didn't have Cushing's disease!

Someday I will buy a horse drawn mower and have Moni my Percheron mare pull it around! One horse power rocks! LOL!

 

[okcarla]

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I dunno Carla--they said "hundreds of carcasses" I doubt you would ever let things get that bad! No really--I can't imagine living that way--and if they were my neighbors I wouldn't be too pleased with the smell issue...

I guess my point is that not having been there & given all the facts, we don't know for sure. Did you read all the comments, especially from the family friend explaining everything? It sounds to me like many of the chickens could have died from the severe weather ... we've sure had a lot lately. And apparently the dead goat had been sick for some time and when it died it had been burried but the dog dug it up? As for the animal skull they showed, it supposedly was a decoration ... some people do have cow skulls for decorations. It sounds like they needed some friends or family to help take care of things, while the man was recovering from back surgery. If the birds died from the weather or illnesses due to weather like some of our members are having trouble with lately, the dead should have been disposed of immediately and properly. I guess they were just overwhelmed ... and had a neighbor complain to authorities. I would hope a neighbor would be nice enough to ask us if something is wrong ... not dial 911 and report us.

On Monday, we had a pen of over 100 turkey poults and about of third of them got wet & chilled since they didn't get out of the rain ... and 20 or so of them died. I guess if the authorities had shown up at my house & seen dead & dying poults, I'd have been arrested for animal cruelty? I have animal poop around my barn ... and my pens all get really smelly with the rain and the birds love to make a smelly mess in their water pans, so yeah, it stinks sometimes. I even had a German Shepherd get a brain tumor & he was ill for sometime before I had him put to sleep and they disposed of his body. Would that be animal cruelty if I hadn't had him put to sleep and let him die at home & then burried him there? Sorry for the rant ... I just wonder if these people were unfairly targeted.

I admit I have too many animals, and I really am seriously downsizing! We will be taking a truck load of chickens to the next auction we can attend if I can ever get a chance to have a weekend off. This is now the 3rd weekend in a row that I've had to work.

 

[Buster52]

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I dunno Carla--they said "hundreds of carcasses"

Apparently a gross exaggeration based on the report by one of the folks who helped clean up.

 

[Jer-man]

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Hang in there Al! You know we're here for you. But lets wait until after the MRI to get too worried.

 

[FunChick]

Carla I sincerely doubt that you would ever get in trouble as I am sure that as your animals have died, that you have properly disposed of them (so sad that your poults died!) and you wouldn't leave them in the yard untill they became a health hazard. It is a shame that a friend or a neighbor didn't step in to help them, you are so right! I guess it boils down to making sure that you keep your neighbors happy with eggs and such to smooth the wrinkles out.

I have had to bury beloved pets myself--one of my fainting goats is burried here on our place...and when my old mare finally either needs to be put down or dies on her own of natural causes--she will be burried here. As a matter of fact, she is a little on the thin side--a condition brought on by having Cushing's disease and the medication to treat it has left her ribby--a lot thinner than I would like to see her but what is a healthy weight for her and for the disease she has...I am waiting for the day that someone complains to the authorities about her but my vet will back me 100%--it is at his urging that we keep her thin so that she won't develop laminitis again...which would kill her in the long run--but I am acutely aware that someone that doesn't know us would potentially call us in...but I am not afraid...

And yep, our place gets stinky when it is wet--but it passes--and we live in the country for a reason! But honestly, be glad that you don't live in California..you have a LOT less freedom in regards to animals and what you can/can't do on your own property there. This is part of the reason that we left CA...I am an OKIE and proud to be one!

 

[FunChick]

Well all, I am just about out of fuel! Gotta go hit the sack to recharge! Everyone stay safe this weekend and be careful in our "wonderful" heat...

And Happy Father's Day to all of our BYC Daddies out there...you know who you are!

 

[Chicks&Chihuahuas]

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you are my kind of people! wish i needed another one, sounds like a sweetheart! post a pic, betcha someone won't be able to resist!

Thanks Robin. I will take a current pic in the morning, as the big kids are all snug sound asleep in the coop. He is getting some lovely green tail feathers, but no spurs yet. I would so let him stay and even breed the girls, but I live smack in the middle of town and frankly have more birds than I'm supposed to. Figure I'll spare the flock any grief a roo may cause with my blessedly tolerant neighbors. I actually have another cockerel that will have to go at some point. An EE that I adore. Beautiful gray colors. He is younger though and I have an Australorp Pullet that was raised with him. She still isn't quite big enough to fit in with the rest f the flock, and they are inseparable. I don't want to let him go until I know she will be okay without him as company. WCS they'll just have to go together.

Hope everyone is having a great Friday night!
-A

 

[okcarla]

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Yeah, I know I have too many birds right now, and we are definitely going to take care of that by selling many of them. I don't want any animal to suffer in any way. Our poultry aren't considered pets, but I want them to be well fed, content, and free from disease and pests. We do enjoy the dogs cats & goats as pets, and their other beneficial qualities. I sure don't want to be considered an animal hoarder, but it sure appears that way with as many birds as we have at the moment, since we haven't sold as many as we had hoped after hatching them. I just don't have adequate time to do anything other than make sure they're fed & watered every day before work. I sure don't have time to advertise them or even take them to the auction, but I will be making time for that soon.

That news article just got me wondering .... are we animal hoarders? and if we lived next to that person that called the authorities ... would they be reporting us too? I can just imagine how devastating that would be for anyone to go through.