Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[ronott1]

I love your avitar ronott1

Thanks!

It celebrates Broody season. I just broke one this week and expect more any day now....

 

[vehve]

But the chickenses want to hatch their own babies, Ron... how can you be so cruel?

 

[ronott1]

But the chickenses want to hatch their own babies, Ron... how can you be so cruel?

I do give in sometimes--she was not interested in the chicks though. She ran from them so I had to take them back to the brooder.

I did have one that was good with chicks last year. If she goes broody again I will likely let her raise some.

 

[TeaChick]

No I didn't.

I was a good girl and came home with empty cages and cash n my pocket.

That explains it. I don't have that set because I often quote others who are already quoted but I only get the last one. Thanks!

They sure look like silver dorkings to me. If so, they have 3 boys and 2 girls there I'd say.

Thanks. I'll tell her. =)

that is a fascinating egg, I would love to know what laid it.

And yeah, no idea on the bantams... a silver something with a single comb

I am not sure what breeds are bantam that come in silver

Yeah, sure wish I knew too, but I can't find the thing online anywhere!!! I even checked the state wild life commission. No luck. DD said it's a "rare" breed. lol She's such a jokester. lol

haha, you're so funny! Yeah, we're just waiting for them to get old enough to tell.

DD knows; she's been looking all that stuff up online trying to find out. I'm just trying to keep her from starting to have fits over it (she's soooooo mad at me).

(Don't tell her where I'm hiding, k?)

I hope that works out... They are just so cute!

Thanks! Yeah...

I will confess that your descriptions of assorted folks have hit close to home and led to pondering about certain folk that I have chosen to avoid. Well, maybe it's mutual.....

DD said she thought your avi was a pie of some kind. When she tried to figure it out, she saw it's a bowl of chicks.

Let's play Devil's advocate. Flip it around, deb. Why would you want to continue to be friends with someone as shallow as a bottlecap? Sounds like you had the better deal in the death of that friendship.

That is an instant classic!!!!! LOVE IT!

x2

 

[TeaChick]

You have us now and we have... something as deep a a wading pool at least!
Might have dog hair and duck poo in it.. but we are deeper than a bottle cap!

Have a great Easter everyone. I am off to make casseroles.

I like the first image (for obvious reasons).

I like the second one for both obvious and not-so-obvious reasons. DH thinks he's The Man of Steel.

New flavored beans... Milk Chocolate Almond!!!

Yum.
DH ordered beans from a new place last time (Klatch?) but this week he ordered from Red Bird.
Talking about coffee brands is kind of like talking about computers for me. I know what the words are and I know the right ways to use them (using nouns as verbs is just part of my own personal grammatical system, and misspellings don't count whether I know what I'm talking about or not)....anyway... I know what the words are and how to use them, but I have no idea what I'm saying.

Chocolate - good. Coffee - GREAT! Chocolate/coffee -

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I found a type-o in this post I thought should be corrected:
Coffee - good. Chocolate - GREAT! Coffee + Chocolate =

 

[TeaChick]

Okay. I posted this in the disease and injury forum, but I haven't gotten any answers and I NEED answers, so I'm going to post this here (and in my flock thread) and hope that someone can tell me what to do about this, b/c it's a "really big problem"....(I'm probably the only one on here that watches "Peg + Cat", huh? Oh, well)
Here's what I need help with:

Copied and pasted this from a sticky thread:

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) chicken; 7 weeks; normal weight
2) What is the behavior, exactly. They were acting scared and alone (making the "homing" call) in their coop.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Since this morning (not when the coop was opened about an hour after sunrise, but a little while after that).
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? No, just the two chicks.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. no bleeding, yes injuries, no broken bones: each chick has had the skin at the back of her neck pecked open, one has a very small break in the skin and the feathers/fluff of her neck cover up the opening, the other has exposed muscle about the size of a nickle and there is a small peck mark where the muscle tissue looks broken smaller than a pea.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. Saw a cockerel (17 weeks old) pecking at something in the corner of the coop where the chicks have been living with some adult birds, but not his own coop; thought it was feed, but apparently it was these two young pullets.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. They seem to be eating and drinking normally. They have been allowed to free range and forage, they have access to medicated chick crumbles and fresh clean water in several locations around the yard.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. N/A
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Currently, I have them in a brooder in the living room; they have medicated chick crumbles and tetracyclene (sp) water.
ETA: Also, I wanted to add that right when I found them, I put clean water on the wounds to clean them a little (again, I didn't want to cause more damage) and I applied a coconut ointment w/ lavender, lilac, burgamot, and ylang ylang in it (the lavender and burgamot have cleansing properties and the coconut oil is soothing and healing to the skin, and I thought it would help moisturize the muscle while the skin is healing up.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? My intention is to do what I can to save these girls. I have tried butterfly bandages (not enough bare skin to stick them to) and VetWrap (the one with the worse wound tried to back out of it, so I took that off). I was going to try to use super glue, but the tube I have is dried out and I can't get a new tube until next week.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help. I'll upload pics ASAP, but I needed to get this posted in the meantime.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use They're in a plastic tote brooder in the house with pine shavings with a little DE mixed in and I have a heat lamp set up so they aren't stressed from being too cool. I'll post pics of my setup too.

Any and all help, advice, etc. would be greatly appreciated. =)


ETA: Pics as promised.
This is my setup. Lamp in the top left, water in the top right, feeder to the bottom, pine shavings with DE, and the two chicks.

Here's the first one. The dark spot in the middle there is dried blood. Tried to clean that off some, but didn't want to cause more damage.

This is the second one; the rest of the pics are of her, b/c she has much worse damage to her skin.
You can see the skin at the front of her neck is a little slack b/c of the gaping hole in it at the back of her neck.
Also, sorry about the ultra-bright lines, those are the wire of the top of the brooder.

This is a good picture of the one small peck mark in her neck muscle. It's not deep, the tissue was just torn a little and a little bit of blood came ot the surface. It doesn't look like that bled badly at all.

This is a good pic of the size of the hole compared to the rest of her; it's about the size of a nickel. You can see the feather/fluff matted with dried blood all around it.

Also, I wanted to add that right when I found them, I put clean water on the wounds to clean them a little (again, I didn't want to cause more damage) and I applied a coconut ointment w/ lavender, lilac, burgamot, and ylang ylang in it (the lavender and burgamot have cleansing properties and the coconut oil is soothing and healing to the skin, and I thought it would help moisturize the muscle while the skin is healing up.
I'll add this into the Q&A section above as well.


And now you see why I NEED help!!!

 

[Alaskan]

@TeaChick

I had a chick with something like that last year... looked HORRID... in my chick's case, I thought it looked like I could see some bone in some spots... it was BAD


I washed it off as much as I could, then kept the chick in a cage where it could see (but no touching) my quail... just for company.

I did NO OTHER medical treatment.

After a month everything was healed, and the chick was reintroduced to the flock with NO problems.

This is now almost a full year later, you can't tell where the spot was (SHOCKING, but true) and she is a lovely laying hen.

 

[Alaskan]

@TeaChick

I looked over your photos again, I am SURE they will make a full recovery.

The only problem is that you will need to keep them by themselves until they look perfect, which might be a full month or even more....

I don't think they need any anti-biotics and such...

the ointment you put on them is I am sure enough.

 

[ronott1]

Okay. I posted this in the disease and injury forum, but I haven't gotten any answers and I NEED answers, so I'm going to post this here (and in my flock thread) and hope that someone can tell me what to do about this, b/c it's a "really big problem"....(I'm probably the only one on here that watches "Peg + Cat", huh? Oh, well)
Here's what I need help with:

Copied and pasted this from a sticky thread:

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) chicken; 7 weeks; normal weight
2) What is the behavior, exactly. They were acting scared and alone (making the "homing" call) in their coop.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Since this morning (not when the coop was opened about an hour after sunrise, but a little while after that).
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? No, just the two chicks.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. no bleeding, yes injuries, no broken bones: each chick has had the skin at the back of her neck pecked open, one has a very small break in the skin and the feathers/fluff of her neck cover up the opening, the other has exposed muscle about the size of a nickle and there is a small peck mark where the muscle tissue looks broken smaller than a pea.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. Saw a cockerel (17 weeks old) pecking at something in the corner of the coop where the chicks have been living with some adult birds, but not his own coop; thought it was feed, but apparently it was these two young pullets.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. They seem to be eating and drinking normally. They have been allowed to free range and forage, they have access to medicated chick crumbles and fresh clean water in several locations around the yard.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. N/A
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Currently, I have them in a brooder in the living room; they have medicated chick crumbles and tetracyclene (sp) water.
ETA: Also, I wanted to add that right when I found them, I put clean water on the wounds to clean them a little (again, I didn't want to cause more damage) and I applied a coconut ointment w/ lavender, lilac, burgamot, and ylang ylang in it (the lavender and burgamot have cleansing properties and the coconut oil is soothing and healing to the skin, and I thought it would help moisturize the muscle while the skin is healing up.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? My intention is to do what I can to save these girls. I have tried butterfly bandages (not enough bare skin to stick them to) and VetWrap (the one with the worse wound tried to back out of it, so I took that off). I was going to try to use super glue, but the tube I have is dried out and I can't get a new tube until next week.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help. I'll upload pics ASAP, but I needed to get this posted in the meantime.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use They're in a plastic tote brooder in the house with pine shavings with a little DE mixed in and I have a heat lamp set up so they aren't stressed from being too cool. I'll post pics of my setup too.

Any and all help, advice, etc. would be greatly appreciated. =)


ETA: Pics as promised.
This is my setup. Lamp in the top left, water in the top right, feeder to the bottom, pine shavings with DE, and the two chicks.

Here's the first one. The dark spot in the middle there is dried blood. Tried to clean that off some, but didn't want to cause more damage.

This is the second one; the rest of the pics are of her, b/c she has much worse damage to her skin.
You can see the skin at the front of her neck is a little slack b/c of the gaping hole in it at the back of her neck.
Also, sorry about the ultra-bright lines, those are the wire of the top of the brooder.

This is a good picture of the one small peck mark in her neck muscle. It's not deep, the tissue was just torn a little and a little bit of blood came ot the surface. It doesn't look like that bled badly at all.

This is a good pic of the size of the hole compared to the rest of her; it's about the size of a nickel. You can see the feather/fluff matted with dried blood all around it.

Also, I wanted to add that right when I found them, I put clean water on the wounds to clean them a little (again, I didn't want to cause more damage) and I applied a coconut ointment w/ lavender, lilac, burgamot, and ylang ylang in it (the lavender and burgamot have cleansing properties and the coconut oil is soothing and healing to the skin, and I thought it would help moisturize the muscle while the skin is healing up.
I'll add this into the Q&A section above as well.


And now you see why I NEED help!!!

I have had this happen to several hens. I treated with vertricyn wound spray, once or twice a day. Sometimes the feathers do not grow back and the skin goes red in that spot--but it would not be as big of a spot as you see in the picture.

As long as the chicks get over the shock and start eating and drinking they usually recover.

You can get vetricyn from a pet or feed store. It is more economical to get it from Amazon though. I have both it and blu kote on hand at all times.

 

[TeaChick]

@TeaChick


I had a chick with something like that last year... looked HORRID... in my chick's case, I thought it looked like I could see some bone in some spots... it was BAD


I washed it off as much as I could, then kept the chick in a cage where it could see (but no touching) my quail... just for company.

I did NO OTHER medical treatment.

After a month everything was healed, and the chick was reintroduced to the flock with NO problems.

This is now almost a full year later, you can't tell where the spot was (SHOCKING, but true) and she is a lovely laying hen.

Oh, thanks! That's so encouraging!!!

@TeaChick


I looked over your photos again, I am SURE they will make a full recovery.

The only problem is that you will need to keep them by themselves until they look perfect, which might be a full month or even more....

I don't think they need any anti-biotics and such...

the ointment you put on them is I am sure enough.

Oh, okay. Dh is more into using antibiotics than I am. I'll have to see what a "full course" is. Then I'll take them off of it.
Again, thanks so much!

I have had this happen to several hens. I treated with vertricyn wound spray, once or twice a day. Sometimes the feathers do not grow back and the skin goes red in that spot--but it would not be as big of a spot as you see in the picture.

As long as the chicks get over the shock and start eating and drinking they usually recover.

You can get vetricyn from a pet or feed store. It is more economical to get it from Amazon though. I have both it and blu kote on hand at all times.

Thanks, Ron, I'll have to ask dh to look on Amazon and see about keeping more of these things on hand.