Oregon Fall Poultry Swap - October 22 - Corvallis @ the Fairgrounds!!!

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My offer stands Laura....
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Thank you Jeanine
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When I bring you chicks, eggs and crates later this month I might bring her too if she is still around.

Ok.
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Speaking of eggs and chicks....32 Serama babies growing strong! And after next Monday, I will be able to start collecting eggs for anyone who might be interested in hatching some. I have two orders to fill first (my first ones!
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) then I can collect for a couple weeks till I'm ready to set another batch July 1st.

If you are interested in eggs or babies (yep, counting them before they hatch, lol) let me know and I'll put you on my list
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It probably got knocked on it's back and couldn't get up. Help...Iv'e fallen and I can't get up! LOL

Did I tell you that all 4 of the MFC girls are broody? They are on 30 eggs total! te he The first one just hatched 7 babies! They are all different colors! I will try to get some pics today! So cute!
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Dontcha just love broody cochins?! All 4 of my LF cochins have gone broody. Not yet for my MFCs. 30 eggs!!!!? I love variety of the baby colors. Somehow the end up all looking like MF's even with the variety of chick down.
 
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I was thinking peritonitis too but I thought they died fairly quickly from this? She's doing great other than the walking. Lol you know me, I can't stick a needle into anything let alone let her "go". Sigh.

Y'all know I have a chicken with a hernia, right? She has a big distended abdomen. The vet says she's fine until it strangulates. She can last for years. She waddles because of it but doesn't 'penguin' walk. Feels fine and lays eggs. Could that be it? She says it's actually fairly common with heavy layers.
 
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That's amazing!!! Congrats for getting this them far along!

Well, they are from my line so they didn't have to travel far
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I have two people so far that are being guinea pigs for shipped eggs. One lives in WA the other in NM. They are getting them for free, just paying shipping in return for lots of information and pictures. I'll be doing test hatches like this up until September 1st when I figure I will be good to go for selling them on here and Ebay.
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Thank-you silkiechicken for sharing about Brown Hen. I have a red hen who started showing symptoms a week ago. I have been trying to sort out her quality of life day by day. Know what I need to do now. She has been a great layer and I do not want her to suffer. Thank-you for your words of wisdom.
 
2 things...

As for the mercy killings of our beloved poultry, I think I am doing my critters a favor when I relieve thier suffering and I hope someone loves and respects me enough to do the same for me if I was in that condition. I will nurse anything back to health, but it has to be able to get better and have desire to do so. If they are suffering, I make the call. I am sorry to hear of your loss. It is a deeply personal thing to be the caretaker of critters, I adore mine too.

And I should have been more clear about the weasle and the head thing. Just about everything will eat the head first, that's not what I'm talking about. Other predators will kill the chicken in some other way, you will find other trauma to the body. A weasle will only kill a chicken by popping the head off.

If you think about it this way: a weasle is too small to kill an adult chicken by any other way. Comically small, I think! hehe. But, a weasle has really sharp teeth and is wily enough to get to the sweet spot (neck). There, you have the popped head! All they do is nibble the neck and drink some blood and come back tomorrow for more (sometimes they will chew on the body a bit).

Everything else will kill the chicken in some other way. You will find a bruised body, eviscerated bowls and organs, gnawed legs, missing head, or some other sign. A weasle can not do any of those things.

An owl can walk into your coop at night, if the door is open, and will pop off heads too. However, you will find evidence of other trauma to the body. The beak and tallons of an owl are very sharp and will leave marks. A raccoon will pop the heads off several birds for fun in one night and only snack on the bodies or eviscerate them. But they leave more trauma to the body than a graceful, and tiny weasle. Raccoons are not small and not graceful when butchering chickens!

Your dogs should deter the raccoons at night if they are allowed out. Weasles will not be bothered by the dogs unless they have a particular skill for hunting weasles (and the weasles know that).
 
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That's amazing!!! Congrats for getting this them far along!

Well, they are from my line so they didn't have to travel far
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I have two people so far that are being guinea pigs for shipped eggs. One lives in WA the other in NM. They are getting them for free, just paying shipping in return for lots of information and pictures. I'll be doing test hatches like this up until September 1st when I figure I will be good to go for selling them on here and Ebay.
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Just so you know, I'm a little scared I'll bring home a couple of your cuties and then find I'm desperate for more seramas and then calling for eggs
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speaking of chicken hospitals...

We were gone all day yesterday after I did my morning chores.. Brunch at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson..

when we got home I went to feed and do a head count on sheep and chickens. In my large grow out pen I have about 30 young chickens. They were from hatching. All have been doing really well. Funny thing was I noticed a BLRW sitting funny and when I got to looking it was sitting on another chick. these are over two months old so they are not tiny. I went inside to check and shoo away the squatter. It was sitting on a Fayoumi that was all sideways like pressed duck in a Chinese restaurant. They had had a time of it pecking her foot while she was immobile and a few toes were bloody but not too bad. When I tried to get her to sit up she fell over again. Then she did try to get away but fell. I picked her up and she was so quite. No fight at all. took he to the garage an setup a small box with fluffy shavings and water/food very close by and set her in thinking time will tell.

This morning she was closer to the food but not really sitting up but trying to eat then dozing off by the time I went to work. Well when I got home the box was empty.. Ugh oh I thought... found my hubby and asked him why the box was empty and he said he found the hen running around the garage so he scooped her up and put her back in the pen. I checked and she was getting around but there was another BLRW stalking her and when she went under the ramp to the big coop (doors closed for now) the hen grabbed her by the wing and was pulling her out so she could peck that foot some more. I explained to my DH I needed to DR it since she was going to appear to pull through. Took her back to the garage. Set up a real cage and settled her in. She tried sitting on the roost for a bit but seemed quiet so I put two chicks from the brooder in with her. She started chirping and talking to them and I keep checking and they are doing fine.

Here's the invalid and her two roommates

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