Silence Is Not Golden Here

[jwyles]

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Despite having a million raccoons down here, I could not find a single picture in my phone. Found just about every other animal though.
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Plenty of opossums but I’ve never had a single one bother the chickens, so I release them. Raccoons I trap and kill. Only one chicken survived being wounded in a particularly brutal string of attacks. Yes, I sutured her with dental floss.
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The remains of the killer (back skull)
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I won't even hate on your rat babies. I've heard they make great pets and my daughter wanted one so bad I really considered it but we went with a hamster instead. And I hate to say if a wild one is anywhere near my yard poison or traps are set. But I guess the clean contained ones are ok.

 

[Kiki]

I have not. It's another of those things, like Blue-Kote and Sav-A-Chick, that aren't available here. There's a powdered vitamin-electrolyte-plus that I buy that works well, so far. I did give the smallest one that by hand when it was first hatched, and couldn't seem to get the idea of drinking - it would attack a q-tip soaked in it, but couldn't quite understand bending down to drink from a waterer. So I put a saki cup in the brooder, which it could lean on and drink without bending down, and it caught on to that almost immediately. It's getting plenty of food and water - and now the vitamins again.

You too...I wonder if it would be cheaper for me to ship it to you?

 

[Tesumph]

What is this meow kitty thing?

Bobcat. Husband found it on the side of the road. Brought it home so I could salvage its skull for my small collection.

 

[RosieR]

Let me check tomorrow.
It can't possible be that much for me to mail some to you ...can it?
I've never shipped something to the frozen north before.

Pm me if you need shipping deets. I’d gladly get my hands on some.

 

[Kiki]

I hadn't seen that post specifically, but I'm familiar with the concept. I get the chicks eating right away, on chick starter mixed with plain live-culture yogurt and boiled egg yolk. They're generally drinking immediately, with water that has ACV and vitamins in it - particularly, riboflavin. The powdered mix that I use is essentially a dry version of nutri-drench, just not the brand name.

Of the eight chicks that hatched, six were strong, robust, perfectly healthy chicks. Two were not. Both of those had leg trouble, came from visually similar eggs, and are distinct from the other six in their coloration and markings, leading me to think they came from the same hen. After a couple days of getting vitamins into them, they both recovered completely as far as their ability to walk goes. However, when I moved the chicks outside at three days old, I switched them to plain water. I shoudn't have done that - my fault. The one chick is doing great and growing fast. The other simply isn't, but it's still active, eating and drinking with good appetite. I'll be giving them a yogurt-egg treat tomorrow, as well.

Are you keeping an eye out for signs of coccidiosis, particularly in this one chick.

 

[Kiki]

Bobcat. Husband found it on the side of the road. Brought it home so I could salvage its skull for my small collection.
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I have a horse skull.
It's been sitting outside for years.
Do you want it?

 

[Conan]

Let me check tomorrow.
It can't possible be that much for me to mail some to you ...can it?
I've never shipped something to the frozen north before.

It actually is insanely expensive to ship to Canada. It is not expensive for Canada to ship to us. It's ridiculous how much it costs for even standard shipping.
The only lame and boring reason I know this is because I work for an online company and we ship all over the world. I am blown away by the shipping costs to our friends up north.

 

[Zinjifrah]

Are you keeping an eye out for signs of coccidiosis, particularly in this one chick.

Yep, I am. Heh! I sat there for literally half an hour today, waiting for the little bugger to poop where I could see what it did. Healthy poop, just a little watery because of the heat. I found reddish poop on top of the container of ice I put in for them to snuggle up against during the day, today, and was about to pull everyone out and take them back in the house, until I got looking at it and realized it's just healthy cecal poop that had dried out on top - making the brown color look dark red.

 

[Cyprus]

Where did you go?

Narnia

 

[Tesumph]

I won't even hate on your rat babies. I've heard they make great pets and my daughter wanted one so bad I really considered it but we went with a hamster instead. And I hate to say if a wild one is anywhere near my yard poison or traps are set. But I guess the clean contained ones are ok.

Oh don’t worry, I trap wild rodents when they become a problem too. I’m not that crazy.
Pets:

Pests: (they’re dead)

It’s like comparing a coyote to a dog.