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[emptynester]

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Good morning! It looks like a nice day for a drive. I hope you have a safe journey

Checked on the new integrated flock this morning. Seems everyone slept peacefully together. When I opened the coop to let them out, the old group headed out, but the new group decided to hang around the feed dishes and have a late breakfast. Hopefully when I come home from church everyone will be out and about together.

Have a great day All!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I read somewhere not to use the frontline for cats on chickens.

You may want to check on that before you buy it.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Amy, did you find Jolie?

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

BTW... boyfriend picked a fight yesterday when I let him out to wander in the yard. Nicole put him in timeout

I feed him treats in the mornings when I do the other chickens, and he ignores me. He goes to the opposite side of the pen. But if he sees Nicole, he runs over and starts calling her for treats!

He still pouts when he is mad at her too!

 

[phoneman]

well i am back home with a truck load of chickens. took over a pen with speckeld sussex roosters. the hen is on eggs and 1 has hatched. i put my black ameraucanas in that pen. i put the blues and the splash, and 2 black hens in a pen together. and i put my 1 wheaton rooster and blue wheaton rooster and 9 w b/w wheaton hens in andther pen. now to get freash water and feed for them. gosh darn its hot out here

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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[emptynester]

So everything was going good with the integration of the new hens with the old hens and then... went out this afternoon and noticed the silver laced wyandotte had some blood on her back by the tail. I scooped her to up to clean her up and noticed it was a gash 3/4 inch long. Husband thought it looked like she had been spurred by our big daddy rooster.

He does have some massive spurs and I have been trying to figure out the best way to give him a pedicure. I'm thinking tonight he is going to get the hot potato treatment or at least a visit with the dog nail clippers.

So the silver laced got hauled into the house, cleaned up and glued back together with super glue, then a little antibiotic ointment and she has an all expense paid vacation on the top floor of the chicken hilton for the next couple of days so I can keep an eye to make sure she is healing.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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[phoneman]

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if you want to take off the spurs, get a pr of pliers. hold roosters leg firmly then with the pliers grab the spur and a back and forth motion the spur will come off. it will bleed a little bit but thats all you have to do. he will be left with very short spurs gut they will grow back over a period of time

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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post #3827

How did I miss that whole post?