South Carolina

[Moonchild]

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I can't imagine all those baby ducks running around! All mine are sold now. This weekend will be a busy time of everyone picking up Cayuga mixes and Runner babies. I hope more hatch out soon or I will go into duckly withdrawal!
I have left the Muscovy eggs with Penelope in hopes she will gather her nest together and set but she has 6 eggs and doesn't look interested. She has already set once this year before I got her. I guess she is waiting to get 10 or more to make it worth her while.

Hey, Joy! Now is a good time to get that pool fixed up for all the duckies! Little duckie ladders, maybe a diving board and slide.....Your cute little pond can't hold all of those babies! And I am imagining your pool could not hold them all either. Time for a bigger pool!

I bet it is adorable. I love seeing them out with the moms here. Ducks are so different than chickens in raising them and they are just too cute running to keep up with mom. Tripping over the grass and getting in and out of the little pans of water.

I have muscovy ducklings hatching again too!

One nest hatched yesterday and one little duckling got lost and I found him sitting in the middle of the polish crested yard. It was only a few hours old and those chickens were just standing around wondering what to do with him. Not a single one even thought to peck at him. I LOVE my polish, they are great birds. The little duckling was fine and I put him back with his Mom. All the polish watched me to see what I was going to do with him.

JoyCat- I love my little Polish Chick also. She's so sweet and so friendly!!! It's like she's in her own little world of sunshine and rainbows(i think she smokes pot)

But I'm so glad Amy got her and I got her from her!!! And like I've said before...I've turned my non-chicken liking friends/family to just LOVE HER!!!!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

We are having the most crazy storm! Lightning in the sky and then it splits off in about 7 different directions at the same time. Like fireworks. Never saw that before. It's not raining here so I took out a huge batch of scrambled eggs to the chickens and no one would come out of their coops. They were probably looking at me with my skillet thinking "That crazy chicken lady! Doesn't she know it's a lightening storm?" Have you ever saw lightening do that? I haven't. That was in addition to the bolts headed directly to the ground. I'm thinking it's a combination of heat lightening and storm lightening. Freaky!

 

[Lroach711]

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OK a 24hr UPDATE...Well the Chick is doing great!!! She's walking and even running with the others

She is about 70% better so 30% more to go

and I'm so Happy!!! And I found out you can buy capsules of selenium and add it to their food. But the injection works alot faster! SO if she gets 100% better then remember to help the chicks with the Wonky Leg!!!!

That's awesome!

I'm so happy she's doing better! I've heard of selenium deficiencies in other animals but not chickens. Good to know for future reference!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Yeah, Susanne, it looks like it is almost right over your area. I saw it blowing up and enjoyed the cool breeze we got out of it! how wonderful that was but I didn't want to get struck by lightening so I didn't get to move some birds around like I wanted to tonight.
I love to watch that kind of weather but know I should be cautious at the same time. Jolie said NO WAY! She came running to me and almost bowled me down so I grabbed her collar and off we went to Jerry's pen where her dog house is. She dove into that tiny dog house and was happy to be there!

Yancy!!!!

I wish we had thought to try that with the JG girl but hindsight is always 20-20. I am just awful at suggesting things. Can't wait to tell my friend that hates for me to ask about the chickens. Loves the eggs but hates me to ask about chicken stuff.

You know the crazy thing is as I researched it a bit today I realized that when I medicate a lot of my chickens when they are poorly I put it in canned cat food like tuna or salmon flavor. I also put some holistic meds in mushed up hard boiled egg. Both contain selenium! Duh! Maybe that is what helps in my bantams with the inability to walk well. Goofy me. I have never been good with medical ideas even though I spent years in the field. My strengths lay elsewhere.
And yes! We did give selenium to the Guinea Pigs in an experiment on our Satins to see if it would help when they started getting muscle deterioration and bone weakness. It wasn't a major help with them but we always start giving it in their water when they act like it is painful to move. Satins do not absorb calcium well so their bones get porous and often do not live as long as our other Guinea Pigs. Gorgeous but not really a good pet for someone wanting a long time friend. I love to see them on the show table but Leah is making me stop breeding them.

And my big black JG/Langshans pullet that was hurt so bad when ding dong guy was here and went rudely into the pen without permission and I blame for her injury, is doing great today!

Her leg feels the same as it always has to me so I haven't a clue what was hurt on it. But she has been laying every day that she was down on it and hobbled around for the past few weeks but today was there was barely a limp. I had to check and make sure it really was her in that pen and another had not gotten in somehow.

I am so glad that you all love the Polish! Joy's were calm when I was there so the ones I had here for 2 weeks were maybe not the norm? And they were bantams so maybe that was the difference? Or maybe they had just had a hard life before staying here. But Guinea Bird settled right in and says he loves me so I think those Polish were just not well cared for and they couldn't see how wonderful I was. But they weren't mine so it was my only experience.

 

[pinkwindsong]

OMFG that was the worst storm weve had in years. we had rain blowin g sideways. toirrential rain .. my garden is flat and the groovess inbetween rows is flat now too. I realy expected it to blow over so i didnt put my kids up they didnt expect it eaither and were happily bugging inthe garden... an hour later i was finaly able to go to go out with just rain falling. . three little bittys and Little red had taken cover in a dog house. midas my lf cochin that i got from amy, had taken up on the roost with3 of the teenagers. 2 little flockersa were on their roost. and found five more in a tree, including my Lafiat.. who is so high up i cant get to him.. praying hell be ok tonight. I found everone but. one little bitty and my little MeeBeep polish i got from amy... cant find them anywhere but that wind was so strong they could have been blown a long way out of the yard and into my pasture or my neighbors// i hope hell tuck in and stay quiet and safe tonight and well ook again in the am.

even though ive had losses Im not giving up on chickens I realy enjoy them . but i know why people have alot of them.. sad but true..

hope eveyone else came through safely through the storm. loos like wewill have these storms evey day ths week. and the terrible heat too.

blessings to everyone )O(
Pink

 

[grandmasgals]

Here in Greer (Rt 101 and 296) We saw the front move in. Black cloud line covering the blue sky, It was pouring buckets in my back yard and dry in my front yard. Wild lightening show.
Hope you are all ok.
The good side of these storms is not having to drag the hose around to water the garden.
This question may seem wierd because obviously I am here at BYC. But I know how to reply to a thread but not how to start a new one. Can someone help enlighten me to where the start new thread button is?

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Raining here now but that is fine by me. Later today it will be very muggy, I am sure though. Blah!

To start a new topic go to the threads page, like where all the states are listed on the main threads for this section is, and you will see in the upper right hand corner a box that says "Start new topic". Just click on that and fill in the boxes. It is in every section where all threads are so you can do it from any main page of any section.
That probably makes no sense what so ever!

 

[huckleberryfarm]

A friend of mine said it was cloud to cloud lightening. I've never experienced that before. It was scary. Looks like we got about 3/4 inch of rain! Add that to the inch we had the other day and I'm a happy girl. We need rain badly. And it's going to be a little cooler today. Woo hoo! I've just about given up on my tomato plants. They've been blown over so much that I can't get them back up. Maybe the tomatoes will still ripen. I hope so!

 

[gvilledh]

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That is the kind of lightening we had last Wednesday when the sky was green and the small tornado hit the other side of town. Seriously strange looking stuff. We have had some nice rains here, too, but it definitely makes the air muggy.
I can't wait to get the two new chicks tomorrow evening. I am going to be working on their new and improved space some later today.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

AKsmama - I take Relpax. It seems to be the only one that does not leave me feeling like I was hit by a truck the next day.

Susanne - OMG I missed about the dog. Soooo sorry. We had to have our Australian Shepard put down April 2010. It is heartbreaking..

Joy - I bet that is funny though, to see a duckie with a lot of babies following her around that she didn't have to start with.

We put a month old duckling out with some 3 months old and some 4 months old. The baby took up with the oldest ones and the two girls in that bunch act like it is theirs!

Pink - I was chasing one of mine around the yard the other day, to separate him from the others to do a check on him, and when I grabbed him a BUNCH of feathers came out! Otherwise, I see how one could die in the middle of the run - if the hen managed to get away from something that had grabbed her before she died. Seems I can never tell who is missing feathers by looking at them sometimes either. Sounds like something definately has them spooked!

Joy - 105....