Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

@TeaChick super

That totally bites!!!


That is the one thing that bums me out about poultry...they die SO EASILY!!! There is no way your favorite chicken is going to great you 14 years after she is hatched. Heck, I haven't even managed to get a chicken to reach age four.

Thanks! Yeah, they do. I've just made it to my first 18- month molt. (well, not me, my original flock) lol
How long have you been keeping chickens?

 

[TeaChick]

If they are not better after one day of corid, at the correct dosage of course(It is not that easy to find), then it is not cocci.

Sorry you lost her!


You are treating all of them for worms now?

She did kind of get a tiny, little bit better, but when we switched to the loiter dosage, she steadily went downhill. I even cut the lower dosage by half a day to get her the Wazine before it was too late.
Can't win then all I guess.
Thanks for the sympathy.

 

[TeaChick]

Lower, not loiter.
And them, not then.

 

[chickwhispers]

@TeaChick So Sorry!!!! Always makes me sad to lose one for whatever reason.

 

[Alaskan]

Quote:
I kept chickens with my grandmother when I was a kid. I would order the chicks and take care of them at my house until they were old enough to go to her place. Then, whenever I visited her, I would do all of the chicken chores, the butchering, and the coop cleaning.

Since I got all grown up.....I think I have had chickens 6 years...or maybe 5.

I think I once got a few hens up to about age 2.5 , but I am not sure.

I have only had some disease deaths, but predators!

and

Actually, at my grandmothers, I don't think any chicken made it past 3, lots of predators there too. She had the most lovely chicken coop, total

city. It was concrete floored, a walk in storage room, a big roosting area with this super set of roosting bars, all at the same level, that you could raise up and hook out of the way when cleaning. It had a SEPARATE nesting room, so no one could sleep in the nest boxes, plus one completely separate room on the back with it's own run for geese or baby chicks or whatever. All of the runs were fenced with chain link fence, nice and sturdy, and I think 6 feet. There was one separate run with no coop where you could lock up chickens for a day with no food before you butchered.

I wish I knew the dimensions..... maybe 12x12 for the roosting room, and 6x6 for the nestbox room, 6x6 for the extra room with it's own run, and 4x6 for the storage room.

She also had a water spigot right there in the run for the water. The pen was maybe 20x30, anyway, nice and big, and all of it had been put under oak trees.

She had grown up a 5th generation ranching girl in Texas, and this was her dream chicken coop that she got to have built after her husband retired.

 

[chickwhispers]

@Alaskan Sounds wonderful!
A lot like what I want.

 

[chickisoup]

Morning everyone

 

[3goodeggs]

yep. No woo-Hooing until coffee.

 

[chickisoup]

@TeaChick please don't feel too bad. You did your best
Now you know what to do next time!
Just a suggestion-try to keep some Valbazen around instead of Wazine. much more effective (kills all the different worms, unlike Wazine) and now proven to be as or more gentle than Wazine.

@Alaskan - that sounds like my dream "snow coop" with a bit more of enclosing, of course.

Boy, with our yucky weather today, I don't mind so much being grounded. 1 1/2" of rain overnight. It was a warm 50o when I got up but the temp is dropping fast now and it should be snowing by this afternoon. Poor hubby will be sliding to the coop by dark!

 

[chickwhispers]

Oh no say it isn't so chicki! No Snow! Snow is a 4 letter word! I'm so enjoying the fall I can't imagine snow!
Time for another cup!