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[Blarneyeggs]

So it looks as if the 'wintery mix' is going to hit us around 11am. My goal is to get tarps up, roofs fixed and goat pens cleaned out. Wish me luck!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

So it looks as if the 'wintery mix' is going to hit us around 11am. My goal is to get tarps up, roofs fixed and goat pens cleaned out. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

 

[troyer]

My little Wynter is hurt!



I have no idea what happened to him. I just happened to notice that something didn't look right when he turned his head. I caught him, cleaned it up (there was almost no blood), blue coated it and have him back to his mother. He seems to be acting almost normal. Maybe a little sore. Nobody else seems to have any injuries. This little guy is 6 1/2 weeks old and he's the one that I've seen stand up to the older flock members. I'm wondering if maybe he threatened the won't bird or something

what do you guys think. Is there anything else I should so for him? Or just keep a close eye on it. I feel so bad for the poor little boy

In our experience it has worked the best to keep the tissue in the area soft, so it can keep healing up. We made the mistake last spring of only spraying with Bluecote, it dried up the and kept it from healing. The youngsters eventually ended up dying although they didn't act sick at any time. It seems it would have been better to do nothing than to use only Bluecote. We learned a hard lesson because we really wanted to keep them. I believe that spraying Bluecote and then adding triple Antibiotic is a good thing. Don't bandage it, just keep the healing tissue soft. The Super Glue idea sounds like a good option, I have just never done it, but I probably will if possible. Our problem had been that there was not enough skin left to bring 2 points together. We had this happen to 5 youngster in 2014, 3 are still with us and I believe the other 2 would be if we had not been ignorant and had kept the skin tissue soft and moist. All 3 are healed and looking great. If he has a mother to help look out for him that would help, we seperated the 2 pullets as their siblings were harrassing them. The cockerel was free ranging and close to the top of the pecking order so we left him out, but just made sure he didn't roost overnight with the same rooster that inflicted him with the partial scalping.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Find the chick!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

So it looks as if the 'wintery mix' is going to hit us around 11am. My goal is to get tarps up, roofs fixed and goat pens cleaned out. Wish me luck!

good luck! We have a glaze of ice over everything already here.

 

[dheltzel]

good luck! We have a glaze of ice over everything already here.

Just started snowing like crazy a little while ago.

I was feeding this morning in the barn when I heard the tell tale sounds of a broody with newly hatched chicks. She really didn't think the timing through, did she? I put her into a safe pen and gave them wet food. To thank me, she attacked me like I was the enemy (I guess I did take her chicks away, but I put them back with her later). I found 3 at first, but heard another one peeping later and rescued it too.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Just started snowing like crazy a little while ago.

I was feeding this morning in the barn when I heard the tell tale sounds of a broody with newly hatched chicks. She really didn't think the timing through, did she?  I put her into a safe pen and gave them wet food. To thank me, she attacked me like I was the enemy (I guess I did take her chicks away, but I put them back with her later). I found 3 at first, but heard another one peeping later and rescued it too.

Congrats!

 

[wingstone]

Since you all know how scatter brained I can be, I need to put those thoughts in writing since they go all over the place..
Really thinking it will be a bad spring and summer for bugs, hence the reason I want a few guinea, thinking they can live in the barn like the cats do, how much space do they need to go in, it is just a small opening right now that the cats use.
Still figuring out the planting of field peas, finally have hubby thinking about it, problem being the seed salesman telling him he was nuts didn't help. And also finding someone for harvest, we do not own a combine.
How do others go about planning their garden, is it drawn on paper or just in your head.
If we pay premium prices for higher protein chicken feed, why not just add our own protein..this is why I want the breeding mice. Added protein and I can control what the mice eat, therefore controlling what the chicken eats....just another one of my experiments, and strangely I like mice, rats not so much...

Since my random thought are being interrupted by lunch, I will wait for others to add random thought.....really, my mind is all over the place.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Are you thinking of feeding the mice to the chickens ? more protein ?

 

[wingstone]

If we pay premium prices for higher protein chicken feed, why not just add our own protein..this is why I want the breeding mice. Added protein and I can control what the mice eat, therefore controlling what the chicken eats....just another one of my experiments, and strangely I like mice, rats not so much...

 

Are you thinking of feeding the mice to the chickens ? more protein ?

Not sure where my random thoughts would take that....
I would definitely be feeding the mice to the cat's , even being a farm we do not have an overabundance of mice, we do a good job at keeping easy food sources covered...
I know the chicken eat the mice like a treat..I can see the reason for not feeding the wild mice to them, but one's that you raise are more controlled..

And I just like rodents, grew up with hamsters and ferrets..

I mix most of my own feed, bought feed is used as a top dressing, so adding protein is always a plus..