Thought I would mention something about the aftermath of my recent dog attack. That little mut killed 12 hens, 8 of them were my really dark RIR's that I hatched from Taterschicken's eggs, the other 4 were out of the Atwoods chicks I bought back in September. The owner of the dog is my next door neighbor & he felt pretty bad about it. He paid for all of them and said he would keep the dog penned up from now on. I told him he didn't have to pay for them but he wanted to, there was no hiding how mad I was about it, we've been pretty good friends since Maria and I bought this place and really good neighbors. I told him that if she came back to do it again I'd have to put an end to it & I could tell that those words stung him a bit but he understood. Two other hens were chewed up pretty bad but still alive, I eventually had to shoot them, so I lost a total of 14, still have 26.
Got in touch with Imogene (Taterschickens here on BYC) and she sold me a dozen hatching eggs to replace my loses for $25 including shipping from Alabama. When they arrived there was 24 eggs in the box, Imogene ROCKS! After the attack all of my hens stopped laying for 3 days, that seemed kinda odd. They are all back to laying now.
You guys might recall that I recently had a few OEGB that were acting kinda funny. They were sticking their necks way out and making a sqwaking sound. Well, Wormed them both with wazine & I shot them both with penacillian and that seemed to help some but yesterday I heard them still making that noise and the rooster seemed to be draggin his tail a bit and sneezing. So I went to Atwoods and picked up some Tylan 50, going to try 1/2 cc of that in each of them and see if that helps, unless someone here tells me not to??
