Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[artblueggwanter]

chickenmath chickenmath chickenmath

 

[tjo804]

Still keeping up on the Avian Flu?
This link give info on the virus where it is at and who is affected commercial or BYC. yes there have been BYC cases
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wps/porta.../sa_detections_by_states/ct_ai_pacific_flyway

I am thinking if anyone wants Turkey for thanks giving best to get it now before they are all gone! If you buy fresh you may need to freeze one this year or get to growing one up. not much time left for that though.

Cheers to healthy flocks for all!

 

[Chicken Ladies]

Sicilian Buttercup Pullets

Assorted Rare Pullets
I started reading the Breeds on here
There was also lavender Oph........ For $40 each. Daw would have a cow if I did that. ( but then I'd have Milk)

I think good layer, plays well with others.

 

[Rustys Girls]

Still keeping up on the Avian Flu?
This link give info on the virus where it is at and who is affected commercial or BYC. yes there have been BYC cases
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wps/porta.../sa_detections_by_states/ct_ai_pacific_flyway

I am thinking if anyone wants Turkey for thanks giving best to get it now before they are all gone! If you buy fresh you may need to freeze one this year or get to growing one up. not much time left for that though.

Cheers to healthy flocks for all!

I know a lot about the Avian Flu, did not see my house for 4 1/2 months, DOW Chemical wanted none of it and I was on the front line. Can't say a lot about that time, other than it was pretty hard to watch and learn, especially after the Family herd had to be put down after a false Brucelosis report. But I digress, past is the past, look forward. We should never bet AF in the states, if we do, it is totally on the owner for bad watering and bedding conditions that are filthy. You guys would never eat a catfish that you didn't catch or came from some friends in Alabama, if you hear my stories and see my pictures. rg's

 

[bamadude]

Hey now!

 

[Alaskan]

Ignore the horror....stick head in sand




Soooooo @Chicken Ladies the buttercup is one of my favorite colors! Gorgeous birds!

 

[Woodsdweller]

Heck... I wouldn't eat a catfish my son caught in Alabama... mostly cos it'd be awfully smelly by the time it got here by snail mail as son is too cheap thrifty to overnight one.

 

[artblueggwanter]

Chicken Math is the only completely scientifically acceptable way of counting
chickens. Let me explain...

Everyone has heard the "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" expression?
It means that eggs are only eggs, and therefore never to be counted as real chickens.

So hatching eggs do not count.


Roosters never count because they are not really chickens. They are roosters. Simply
a part of the proper equipment one must have to hatch the eggs that don't count either.

A hen not yet old enough to lay an egg isn't worth being counted either. While we may
have many of these, they are basically worthless. It costs the farmer out of pocket to
raise these things. Farmers may never admit to owning money losing animals.

Once your hens become "laying hens", they now count as real bon-afied chickens. They
have a purpose.

They now provide the happy farmer with eggs to sell to the city-folk.

However...if the hen goes brody, or the farmer decides to incubate the eggs of a certain
hen, the said hen is now considered as un-productive in the egg-selling business and no
longer counts.

Once the hen is beyond her best egging days, she again no longer counts. But she has
earned her way, and is now on the farmers retirement plan.

Given all this information, one should then take the total number of eggs-collected-for-sale
during seven days, divide that number by the seven and...there you have the exact number
of chickens in the flock.

Example: If the Farmboy has 1200 eggs this month (March, 31 days) ...1200 divided by 31
equal 38.7 hens. It is not possible to have half a hen, so we round down...38 hens. Farmers
also do not count each chicken as "one"...takes to long. So we round the number again.
38 is just about 36, or three dozen hens give or take.

As someone has already pointed out, there are 16 eggs in a farmer's dozen. Not 12. So help me count the Farm Boys chickens....16, 32, 48...48 is to many. So we round off again to the nearest
whole dozen...or 32.

That's two dozen chickens the Farm Boy now has.

And everybody knows that two dozen is really the same as 24.

So...Farm Boy really only has 24 chickens.

....And THAT'S chicken math...

I likiey the math good person , my avian flue never touch us .

 

[chickisoup]

Hi all

As for the bird flu here, just less than an hour ago our state dept, of Ag. FINALLY, after several conflicting and confusing rulings, they handed down their final rulings in two restrictions. The first being a "total ban on any poultry moving to or participating in any and all swaps, auctions and shows that are not held as part of a state, county or district fair". The second, " requires all fair organizers to have participants certify in writing that there have been no mortalities on their premises for 10 calendar days prior to moving their poultry to the event." Both orders are in effect until December 31, 2015.

Don't know if they have lifted any bans on privately transporting birds across county lines yet.

Looks like I won't be looking for my Blue Aussie ladies any time soon unless I somehow can get pullets shipped in

 

[tjo804]

The Grossest Day I Ever Had!
So this punk showed up a couple of days ago all by it self and has been avoiding me like the plague!
Last night my DH brought in the old ham tray I use for chicken treats with this in it!
I am calling it Ham for now but it is in rough shape which proved even worse as the day progressed. I had to wash it a couple of times cuz it pooed on itself it weighs less than a sheet of paper and so I wanted to hold off on the flea and trauma bath until it at least had a real poop. That has not been the experience so far. After drying it off with a towel from the second leg and bum washing the skin on her hip opened up and miniature maggots started crawling out! This has got to be the grossest thing I have ever seen! I washed them all out with Vinegar and water and gave her a bath in Dawn dish soap to kill fleas and filled all holes on her bottom with antibiotic cream. She survived that but I am not sure she will make it, I will give her the best shot I can cuz ewwww. She is now occupying my Chicken medical crate with food water litter and a heating pad. since all my brooders are full!

I have done pet rescue in the past and bottle fed many different species of animal cleaned nasty wounds and fixed mucked up ears and eyes. But I have never encountered something like this! according to the internet it is not so uncommon. Has anyone ever? any healing suggestions or what to watch for?

I suspect she is 4 - 6 weeks old.