Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

I liked reading it

I haven't been able to coordinate broodies with chicks this year... MADDENING!

My arthritic hand is super inflamed this last week... That just totally gets me down.


And dear @tjo804 how did you loose four chickens to the puppy? Did he get more this morning?

Also, it turns out that ALL of my swallows died while they vacationing down south

And I was totally ignored on a different thread.


Sure is nice to have you on this thread @TeaChick you are so excellent at making sure we all feel listened to.

 

[TeaChick]

I liked reading it

I haven't been able to coordinate broodies with chicks this year... MADDENING!

My arthritic hand is super inflamed this last week... That just totally gets me down.


And dear @tjo804 how did you loose four chickens to the puppy? Did he get more this morning?

Also, it turns out that ALL of my swallows died while they vacationing down south

And I was totally ignored on a different thread.


Sure is nice to have you on this thread @TeaChick you are so excellent at making sure we all feel listened to.

I'm glad you like it. =)

I know how that feels!!!

My DH's hands get inflamed, plus he has carpel tunnel. He wears a brace to work on the computer and to sleep in; that seems to help. (He says that me massaging his hands every night before he goes to bed helps too, but I think it's just something he's gotten used to.)

I'm sorry to hear about your Swallows!!!

Are you going to get more?

I'm sorry they ignored you; we never do that!!!

Aw, how sweet of you @Alaskan . I like listening. (Don't tell my DH or my G-pa I said that; they'll just say that I like talking better.

)

 

[Alaskan]

Not sure how you get more swallows??? Not like chickens, I can't order eggs of if ebay.

And after the giant drop in numbers 6 years back, I have only had maybe 2, at most 3 pairs every year.

Before the drop, I had as many pairs as I had boxes for... And pairs would fight for them... My neighbor too had all of her houses full.

 

[TeaChick]

Not sure how you get more swallows??? Not like chickens, I can't order eggs of if ebay.

And after the giant drop in numbers 6 years back, I have only had maybe 2, at most 3 pairs every year.

Before the drop, I had as many pairs as I had boxes for... And pairs would fight for them... My neighbor too had all of her houses full.

Oh, so they're like House Wrens or Hummingbirds. You don't own them but they migrate like Canada geese; you provide food, nesting, etc and they come and go as they please.

We have a family of Wrens or Cardinals (sometimes we see Wrens, sometimes Cardinals) in the front porch light of our house.
I used to put out Hummingbird feeders; I had one female who got really territorial about the Magnolia tree in our front yard, but IDK where my feeders are now.
The last house I lived in, I had two feeders and about four birdhouses. We had Wrens living on our porch and Hummingbirds visited, even if I was on the phone out there.

Well, I hope they come back to your boxes! =)

 

[Alaskan]

Heavens! Do you not get swallows?


They migrate from south america all the way to North America and all the way up to alaska

 

[TeaChick]

Heavens! Do you not get swallows?


They migrate from south america all the way to North America and all the way up to alaska

IDK. We get a lot of birds. Let me look it up.
I checked the Audubon Society website and it looks like we have Savannah Sparrows here in the winter.
What should I do to attract them so the kids can see them?

 

[TeaChick]

I gotta get going. History and Logic await. =(

 

[Alaskan]

I lOoked it up... And you don't really get swallows... Depending on exactly where you are, right along the coast, the tree swallow will winter over, and at the very northern edge of those southern states a few swallows nest in the summer... But mid state in the southern states, they just migrate through...

Except for the barn swallow, and those are much louder, and messier, and more like city folk and those don't need houses, they make mud nests on the sides of buildings... Like barns!


You do have the Purple Martins... And those are very swallow like... But are also a bit city folk like.... But not as messy as barn swallows.... I see those large communal nests that you can buy for them at lots of places for sale...

I used to get the tree swallows, and I love them the best I think! They make a soft constant chittering, and are clean birds... I have a nest right above my bedroom window, and they have never made a mess for me to clean up.

I would also get the violet-green swallow which is almost as lovely as the tree swallow, but they stay along the rockies and further West... So they don't ever come close to you.

For the first time ever... Two years back? I had some cliff swallows show up, they are very similar to the barn swallows, and they too make mud nests.

Not sure why they only showed up once.... But they showed up very late, and I am not sure if they successfully raised a clutch.

 

[saltandpepper2]

That's good!  Yeah, not needing the meds and getting money back; can't go wrong there.
IDK what MG is.  I hope your Baytril (meds for MG, I'm assuming?) comes soon!
The fewer birds affected, the better!  (and preferably none).

I'm doing alright.  Doing chicken research (while avoiding doing my school work; shhhh, don't tell the kids).
I've been losing chickens.  I've got some young juveniles (bought in Fed as day-olds), and they don't behave and go into the coop when the sun starts going down.  I lost two the other day and yesterday and the day before, I lost one each.  My Cochin cockerel that was supposed to be a pullet turned up dead in the coop this morning; God only knows what happened to him.  Not a big loss for me, I wanted a pullet; but DD has a soft spot for Cochin cockerels, so she wasn't happy about it, but at least I don't have to send him to freezer camp like the last one who decided she was his momma.
Things are a lot better in the rest of my life than they are in my coops right now.
Oh, and I have that broody, so I'm really excited about her eggs starting to hatch some time this weekend.  She's really had enough of sitting on those eggs; she was going around yesterday afternoon picking a fight with anyone (chickens only) she laid eyes on.  I feel for her.

Mg is a mycoplasma that causes respiratory issues, and yes, baytril is the medication need to treat it. It pops up every year... Not really sure why I was suprised.

Oh no! Are you doing research on what type of predator it is, or how to get them in the coop?? I've only lost one bird to a predator, and it was a bear... Not much I could do against something like that.
I have a Cochin cockerel that is my DS favorite, and I honestly don't know what to do... It would be nice if he just disappeared!

Ooooo! Broodies are so much fun! What kind of eggs are under her?

 

[Bunnylady]

Coffee for all! Nursing a new Morgan mare here that got bitten up yesterday by the herd...

Oh, man! Being the new kid on the block can be tough! Do you have a separate place where you can put her, and maybe introduce her to the others one at a time?