Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

I am just going to say that splash have white feathers in them. Some splash are mostly white such as this Large fowl splash hen that I have. Your son could work on splash.

Quote: Sorry if I have not responded I was on a trip. Why thank you Unfortunately she is one of my breeders, so I not going to sell her. Just showing her as an example of what a mostly white splash sumatra looks like.

 

[championsumatra]

Here is what a mostly white splash sumatra rooster looks like. He was young in this photo only about 6 months old.

The splash hen above is his momma.
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[Lauravonsmurf]

Come home after being gone most of the day to find out that my place had been hit by a young pitt bull and some mixed breed dogs. 2 polish hens dead in their pens, my broody blue project polish and a silver laced. One of my silver laced roosters gone. But the worst was my main sumatra pen ...TOTALLY EMPTY except for the one mixed breed hen who is a grand daughter off of my first sumatra rooster.

Followed the feathers across the road to one dog's house and the people tell me that they got one black hen out of another neighbor's pitt bull's mouth and put her on my back steps. I check everywhere and find the polish rooster coming out of the woods and into the field beside my house. I mange to chase him down through the woods without killing myself. Now that I think about it, it's nice to know that I can still chase down my supper if I ever need to. Not that I want to repeat that anytime soon!

I then found one of my dun sumatra hens in the garden. My son was walking in the side yard looking for birds as a black sumatra hen jumped out of a tree. I found another black sumatra hen in the front bushes.

I had to give up the hunt for birds/ bodies and tend to the wounded birds. Most the polish made it out without injuries. A few silver laced hens have some rips in them and one hen's side is filled with air. One rooster busted off one of his spurs. The sumatras that I caught seem ok for the moment, will have to look closer at them in the morning, as dusk was heavily upon us. All the birds are very stressed. Lost eggs from the broody polish and from my broody dun sumatra, even lost a turkey egg in the silkie pen that is beside the sumatra pen. My guess is the silkies also got to going with all the ruckus going on beside them and managed to break the egg.

Even with all the birds I did manage to find, I was still missing the one bird that I wanted back the most (even over all the hens), my dun sumatra rooster. Being almost dark, I came in the house, hoping to find the rest of my sumatras in the morning, including my dun rooster. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, it was the mute neighbor man. He flapped his arms and pointed across the road towards his trailer. We go over and there is what looks like a hen, as I get closer I can see that it is my dun rooster! My kids and I manage to catch him up, and after a few death screams and biting I give him a quick look over and put him in with his hens (in a cement pen this time so no digging in till their pen is fixed).

Come morning I will see what other hens show up and I'll be fixing pens with a gun close at hand.

Here's hoping I don't lose any to stress from all of this.

Oh my god, I know what this is like... hugs.

Turmeric powder does wonders on wounds, stops bleeding, anti-viral and anti-bacteria properties, I have seen start regrowing skin and promote healing to wounds such as skin completely gone, and you can't stitch that area and no way to keep bandage on it. I know it seems weird but it works.

 

[ramirezframing]

Never heard of turmeric podwer, I'll have to look into it. Thanks.


Birds are all still alive. Most who were in the front area of my chickens, thus seen/ were attacked weren't interested in the greens I past out today and no eggs at all from them. But they are eating and moving around the pens.

 

[Kinmera]

Never heard of turmeric podwer, I'll have to look into it. Thanks.


Birds are all still alive. Most who were in the fornt area of my chickens, thus seen/ were attacked weren't interested in the greens I past out today and no eggs at all from them. But they are eating and moving around the pens.

Turmeric powder can be bought in the store where you buy herbs and such like cinnamon.

 

[championsumatra]

check out Blue Kote. It works wonders too.

 

[scottcaddy]

check out Blue Kote. It works wonders too.

Blue Kote only hides the blood, it does not stop flies or keep the wound from drying out or scaring.
Scott

 

[ramirezframing]

Yeah, I have blue kote but don't like it for stuff like this for the reasons you listed Scottcaddy. I tend to use swat ( the pink version as it sticks better in my opinion) on stuff like this. It hides the wound, keeps the files off, and keeps the skin soft and moist so it doesn't dry out.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Yeah, I have blue kote but don't like it for stuff like this for the reasons you listed Scottcaddy. I tend to use swat ( the pink version as it sticks better in my opinion) on stuff like this. It hides the wound, keeps the files off, and keeps the skin soft and moist so it doesn't dry out.

I will use Blu-Kote on small wounds that bleed a bit so the other
birds will not pick/peck at it but I prefer to use an ointment on
larger wounds to help keep them soft as they heal. I am wondering
if a mix of triple antibiotic ointment with the turmeric powder would
make a good wound salve.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

How I have used turmeric powder:

Clean wound (I use saline solution or hydrogen peroxide).
Put turmeric powder directly on the wound. (It really does help stop bleeding).
For the first days smeared Bag Balm over top of powder to help with protection from flies.
Did the above 2xs a day for the first few days, then went to just powdering the wound and no Bag Balm 2xs a day, and then went to 1x a day until I felt it was no longer needed.

Before I was using all western med supplies on the wound and it had made absolutely no progress in healing, thank goodness someone clued me in on Tumeric Powder as it is used in India and various other countries on people & livestock.

I am way impressed with the advice I got on putting the powder directly on the wound, it really did turn a bloody pulp of a wound around and heal it up nicely.

I bought my Turmeric Powder at Wal-Mart.