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[Cetawin]

Cyn that poor girl. My gosh how she was able to move around at all much less scratch around this past week is amazing.

That is incredible and hard to believe but it is proof that laying an egg is not just something a hen does "poof" everyday.

I am sorry she is gone but also glad her suffering is over.

Bye Bye Maxie RIP

 

[speckledhen]

I'll miss my "Mouth of the South", though. She was my only bellowing hen.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I must have one of her bellowing daughters here, carrying on her tradition!

So sorry she is gone. Thanks for your educational thread, too!

 

[Serrin]

Cyn,

I'm so sorry she has gone. But you absolutely did the right thing in ending her suffering. She's with her sisters who have passed before her now. Her time of pain is over and she is now free to spend her days in happy pursuit of bugs and grubs and choice pieces of grass, somewhere on the other side of the bridge.

How can giving a little hurting chicken a gift such as that ever be a bad thing? Never! That's when.

You did everything you could for Maxie and then some. Certainly more than I could have handled doing. Thank you for doing the post mortem as well dear. In your quest to learn what went wrong for Maxie, you help to enlighten all of us with girls with laying issues. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!

 

[X2Farm]

Very sorry to hear about Maxie, Cynthia

 

[NellaBean]

Sorry Cyn. Here's hoping this is the last loss for a long while.


FYI, brooder builders.....if you leave your brooder standing and gale force winds arrive and send it flinging across the carport taking everything out in its path....it will still be in one piece. Sturdier than expected. I dragged it over next to the house so it won't catch so much wind and have it laying on the "back" so it isnt so tall. Bet that made a racket when it fell/flew/flung.

 

[kathyinmo]

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You have this wind there, too??? OMG .... the wind is awful today.

Expecting this tomorrow:

 

[speckledhen]

It's pretty gusty out there today, but very warm.

I'm making an apple cake today. Bought a huge bag of apples from the feed store, maybe 25# worth, so have to do something besides freeze them, right? Yummo!

I wrote this on another thread but wanted to share here:

Emily and my DH are "co-parenting", LOL. He opens the door to her little coop and pets her. She never fluffs or screeches at us. He asks if she's ready to come out and do her business. He lifts her out of the door. She eats, she poops, she does the wing-flapping, broody war cry, runs a few feet, then she comes back to my DH, who is squatted down waiting for her. She taps his leg with her beak and looks up at him. He asks if she's ready to go back to her babies. She allows him to pick her up and place her back inside the Firetower. She goes back to her eggs and squirms her big bum down on top of them. The only hen who has ever been like that was my Olivia. Sweetest broodies on the planet, those two!

 

[NellaBean]

the wind is RIDICULOUS. 3 trees down on the road leading up to my place already. 3! There will probably be 3 bulls loose by the time I get home as I think 1 of them took out part of that cow pasture's fence. Forgot to mention that last night my neighbor across the road hopped into his big truck, chased the bull down the road and back to the field last night. Stupid bull. Thankfully it was a "small one". My other neighbor used to have a pair of HUUUUUUGE brown cows. Er. 1 cow, 1 bull. Every year they had 1 baby. So cute. Except the bull was the size of a volkswagon. Any time any dog or anything was loose in the neighborhood, that bull would just stand there and watch. I pity the fool who would think about jumping into that field for a shortcut. Actually, I think thats why he finally sold them....the bull had gotten a bit...."aggressive". Yikes.

Cyn, you are lucky to have such nice broodies. My little partridge cochin was a sweet broody and my half blind white leghorn/giant was a very tolerant broody. All the others have been varying degrees of angry. That big cochin/RIR mix is a very bitey broody. I take my life in my hands checking on her eggs. My silkie is very nice. LH's little bantam cochin girl is all talk but no real action. My white leghorn/giant hen (the youngest one) is a very screeching poofy broody, but doesn't do a lot to back it up so far. When my blue cochin hen went broody a while back she would SCREAAAAAAAAAM anytime I got near her. Ridiculous.

 

[NellaBean]

Oh, I forgot to mention.

GUESS WHO currently has an empty 4x8 coop, attached to an empty 16x24 pen?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............