LadyHawkeAvry
Songster
Building like a madwoman.... New pens, an indoor aviary, half a shed up...
Missy is in the pen of shame today after sneaking into the hatchery and killing quail cots. She is surprisingly cool about it...
Pale girl's leg improved wonderfully. She was walking with only a slight limp but still had swelling. She even started to lay again!!! Then I walked out one morning to find her with a huge cloacal prolapse. There was no reducing something that bad, and I made the hard choice to put her down. Her flock protected her until the end - it was very hard to even get to her because the rest of the group ran interference. It was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever had to do - and I felt awful catching her and carrying her off. She was one of the last of my hatchery birds, and it showed with the constant health issues. She was bred to be eaten at 8 weeks and not to be raised to roam free and live a long life...
In the meantime I have buckets full of young imprints (which makes Missy super jealous), all demanding attention 24/7.
Missy will be so happy when the hatching season ends I'm sure! She also bullies my 85 year old mother when she wants her food, and has gotten into the habit of biting her until she gets what she wants...
There is a duckling yelling for me - I can hear it from outside... But I had to take the geese out to graze... Still have to set up another brooder bucket (#5 I believe), then quality time with Missy so she is less inclined to kill the other birds in the house....
Missy is in the pen of shame today after sneaking into the hatchery and killing quail cots. She is surprisingly cool about it...
Pale girl's leg improved wonderfully. She was walking with only a slight limp but still had swelling. She even started to lay again!!! Then I walked out one morning to find her with a huge cloacal prolapse. There was no reducing something that bad, and I made the hard choice to put her down. Her flock protected her until the end - it was very hard to even get to her because the rest of the group ran interference. It was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever had to do - and I felt awful catching her and carrying her off. She was one of the last of my hatchery birds, and it showed with the constant health issues. She was bred to be eaten at 8 weeks and not to be raised to roam free and live a long life...
In the meantime I have buckets full of young imprints (which makes Missy super jealous), all demanding attention 24/7.
Missy will be so happy when the hatching season ends I'm sure! She also bullies my 85 year old mother when she wants her food, and has gotten into the habit of biting her until she gets what she wants...
There is a duckling yelling for me - I can hear it from outside... But I had to take the geese out to graze... Still have to set up another brooder bucket (#5 I believe), then quality time with Missy so she is less inclined to kill the other birds in the house....