Stella's Social Club

[mlm Mike]

My broody hen is missing!

She was there this morning, clucking away, now nothing. No sign of her, chicks, eggs, or egg shells. Alien abduction?

I have had them disappear for 3 weeks and return with chicks, I've never had them sit for about three weeks and then simply disappear.

 

[speckledhen]

Get your DH to do all the work.

You can supervise from the sofa.

OK I am dreaming. There is always too much to do when company comes for DHs to do it all.

I hope you feel better soon!!!!

Thankfully, this is one of those "part of the family" friends who isn't bothered by dust or on-the-fly food and she adores my chickens, so it won't be too terrible if a few things remain undone.

 

[speckledhen]

My broody hen is missing!

She was there this morning, clucking away, now nothing. No sign of her, chicks, eggs, or egg shells. Alien abduction?

I have had them disappear for 3 weeks and return with chicks, I've never had them sit for about three weeks and then simply disappear.

Oh, no! Where was she? In a coop or somewhere else? I'd be so worried!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

You, too! My toe is a lovely shade of black with blue undertones. Looks like storm clouds.

A long time chicken buying customer of mine used to work at the raptor center. They get bumblefoot, too. So, she got me a huge tub of the silver sulfadiazene cream they used on the eagles and hawks for that.

Can you get this over the counter ? May be good to have

 

[speckledhen]

Well, not really, it's usually by prescription, but there may be some med suppliers where you can find it. It's not cheap, that's for sure. I haven't looked in a long while. It's a cream used on burn victims to prevent infection. Treats both bacterial and fungal infections topically.


Here is what I have, this is from the Pet Meds site.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

This was the toe I broke a few years ago......... I had one of those antique Singer sewing machines sitting on the floor in the spare room. I walked in to get something and didn't bother turning on the lights. I think the neighbors down the road heard me scream when I walked into it in the dark. The toe still gives me trouble. You have my utmost sympathies

I sliced my right pointy finger last spring to the bone must of got a tendon as I can not make a complete fist and it always aches in the morning after being stationary all night

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I'm a little worried. She was in the goat barn under a hay feeder. She was there this morning when we did goat chores. She was clucking, but didn't come out for the food I tossed her way. Then in the evening she would always come out to share in the goat grains. When she didn't show up tonight, I looked under the hay feeder and saw nothing. I'm hoping she hatched the chicks and just moved, maybe I'll find the shells down deep. Hopefully she'll be located with chicks tomorrow.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'm a little worried. She was in the goat barn under a hay feeder. She was there this morning when we did goat chores. She was clucking, but didn't come out for the food I tossed her way. Then in the evening she would always come out to share in the goat grains. When she didn't show up tonight, I looked under the hay feeder and saw nothing. I'm hoping she hatched the chicks and just moved, maybe I'll find the shells down deep. Hopefully she'll be located with chicks tomorrow.

Hope you find her

 

[speckledhen]

I'm a little worried. She was in the goat barn under a hay feeder. She was there this morning when we did goat chores. She was clucking, but didn't come out for the food I tossed her way. Then in the evening she would always come out to share in the goat grains. When she didn't show up tonight, I looked under the hay feeder and saw nothing. I'm hoping she hatched the chicks and just moved, maybe I'll find the shells down deep. Hopefully she'll be located with chicks tomorrow.

I sure hope you find her in the morning.

My friend, Ladyhawk, most of you know. Her elderly neighbor has had some of my birds, especially one very lovable Delaware cross rooster named Valentino, but she had to let them go to her BIL's barn this winter because, being in her 80's with little help, the deep snow made it very hard for her. His barn had electric fencing and she felt after winter was over, she'd get Val, the blue rooster who is his second in command, and her hens back. The day before they were to be transported back to her, her BIL's barn caught fire. His wife saw Val and the blue rooster lead 5-6 hens out of the burning barn and run off with them. A Wyandotte rooster got out but fell outside the barn, dead from the smoke inhalation. She lost a lot of her hens and her BIL lost something like 50 rabbits and some goats and other livestock.

We all thought Val would bring the hens back the next day but it's been a couple of weeks and no one has seen the two brave roosters or the hens they managed to get to safety. We are resigned that they have been picked off by predators in the wilds of Kentucky on that farm by now. Mrs. Clemens is heartbroken. He was her baby. The last son of Isaac she raised, named Dexter, fought with raccoons who got into the coop and she got there too late, he died in her arms so that is why I raised up Valentino for her and now, he's gone, too. Poor sweet lady said she didn't think I'd allow her to ever have any of my birds again, can you believe it? That fire was not her fault, of course, (electric service wire to the barn broke loose), bless her heart. She loves those birds and they keep her active and happy.

I say all this to say that the chicks I have now will be going back with LH when she comes to my place next week for Mrs. Clemens to take her pick of whatever of Isaac's grandchildren she wants. Ike isn't producing now, but his son, Rex, is the sire of these chicks, the ones I previously posted photos of recently in this thread.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: That's very touching. The best people to give your animal offspring too always seem to be to someone that lost some before, though no fault of their own, and thought you'd never give them anymore. Then you know they care about them as much as you do. I hope that makes sense, I have something in my eye.