Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

Several natural home remedies online to try, that is for sure. I'd start going through them till you find one that works for her. I'm not sure how to tell if they aspirate or not, so I never chanced it myself. I think they get sick like a pneumonia or something if they do, or something like that. so I never did that. Good luck! It is definitely curable.

To keep from getting it in my flock again I check their crops every night and morning. If I feel an impaction (hard at night, hard in the morning or not completely gone) then I massage it for a few seconds to get things moving through again, that way it doesn't sit in there and get sour. I can check them everyday as I only have 5. this would be hard with many chickens. Also, I get up at 4 so they are still on the roost when I get out there at 4:30 or so.

I just brought her yogurt with dog probiotic mixed in it and she is eating it, happier looking already!

I have her in the greenhouse so the others can't eat her yogurt!

 

[duluthralphie]

I just brought her yogurt with dog probiotic mixed in it and she is eating it, happier looking already!

I have her in the greenhouse so the others can't eat her yogurt!

OH NO!!

She is going to start faking it just to get yogurt. Hens can be tricky deceiving little wenches.

 

[Siggie]

They'll probably be having a coop contest again this year, I would definitely enter your coop!

oooh...thanks, I will watch for it!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

OH NO!!

She is going to start faking it just to get yogurt. Hens can be tricky deceiving little wenches.

 

[I Love Layers]

Got to Denver a little while ago.

30 more minutes until we take off

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I will say **knock wood** that I have not had Sour Crop in a bird. It sounds a little nightmarish to me. I've followed threads for it though...trying to learn stuff about it so if it should happen to me...I'd know what to do. Most successfull treatments were the emptying of the crop--or vomiting. Then monistat on the emptied crop, reintroducing feed only in a thin watery slurry. Then also external pressure with a birdie bra or some apparatus that gives the stretched crop some help. The massages definitely can do some wonders as well.

I've heard things about wine blowing out the blockage...but to me that's introducing more yeast...? IDK...

Looks like he rain has stopped a bit...but still an overcast day and the temps are cool. I'll need to get in my coop and clean it tonight.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

I got a call from a woman up near Erli and BC, she was upset because one of her Speckled Sussex crowed... Wanted to trade me for a hen/pullet. I told her I do not even know what mine are and I cannot take back a bird. She claims I sold it as a pullet. I know better, everything is straight run except CLB"s and I even make mistakes on them. Oh well, such is the life of a major hatchery executive like myself.... She is not happy with me. Next year I should start selling sexed Ss at 3-4 times the price straight runs go for in case of errors. When they give me back the rooster, to trade for the hen I can just kill it and dump it in the garbage.....( ok that is snarky)

Some people think that when they buy chicks they're all females. I watched a couple buy 12 chicks the other day because they only want 12 laying hens. These were straight run chicks. Ummmmmm. Okay.

Here is a reason I and others that free range are sometimes low on eggs. This chicken has figured out a great hiding place. I am going to leave them there and hope she goes broody, I cannot think of a safer place for her outdoors to brood.

Very clever girl! Keep us posted on this nest.

IT'S DONE!!!! ....ok well I still need to stain the outside and build the nest boxes - but the chickens will be moving in in a few days!!! Please let me know what you all think!!








a room with a view


the nest boxes will go on the wall on the right

Looks amazing, Siggie! You'll have some very happy ladies.

 

[MNChickMom]

@Siggie Nice Hilton - I mean chicken coop.

Got a lot done around Central MN this weekend. Little cleaning inside, made a new fenced in run near my raspberries, but this run does not have adequate cover for hawks or bald eagles that are around so this is just their fenced run when humans are around. My husband and daughter put the fencing up to include some of the raspberries that rounded the shed corner, after 5 hours I don't have to worry about raspberry shoots, or the wild fern I was trying to kill.

Helped my sister and her husband, they are putting up a big cattle barn. We arrived home after 10 and my husband offered to put the chickens to bed (close the pop door) in exchange I would put the kids to bed. Well he forgot to look under the ramp and one little barred rock pullet spent the night outside. The next morning the 8 week old chick didn't even go back in the coop when we opened the door. She stayed out with the rest to forage.

Question for anyone: Do you use automatic pop door closers on a timer ? and if so what kind?

 

[duluthralphie]

I am the pop door opener, so I cannot help you.


I did not "pop" the door on the Sussex's until about 10 minutes ago. I figured the coop time would do them good.

When I popped the door one of the Gals made a run like she had eaten a plateful of beans after a gallon of prune juice with Elax for dessert. I watched her thinking she was going to the "hidden" nest in the lean too. She bypassed the lean to and went right to the tree and crawled in.. Now that I know who it is I have to rethink if I want that nest to hatch or to steal the eggs. The problem is I do not think I can reach the eggs, they are so far back and around a bend.

I have a lot of SS's so maybe I will let her hatch these on her own. I will have to make sure when she starts to sit, I get a fence around her. I do not want to lose either of them. Do SS go broody?

 

[Siggie]

@Siggie Nice Hilton - I mean chicken coop.

Got a lot done around Central MN this weekend. Little cleaning inside, made a new fenced in run near my raspberries, but this run does not have adequate cover for hawks or bald eagles that are around so this is just their fenced run when humans are around. My husband and daughter put the fencing up to include some of the raspberries that rounded the shed corner, after 5 hours I don't have to worry about raspberry shoots, or the wild fern I was trying to kill.

Helped my sister and her husband, they are putting up a big cattle barn. We arrived home after 10 and my husband offered to put the chickens to bed (close the pop door) in exchange I would put the kids to bed. Well he forgot to look under the ramp and one little barred rock pullet spent the night outside. The next morning the 8 week old chick didn't even go back in the coop when we opened the door. She stayed out with the rest to forage.

Question for anyone: Do you use automatic pop door closers on a timer ? and if so what kind?

Thanks

Hope they like it!! And I thought about the auto door ....but then I thought "what happens if they chickens decide to stay out a little later"??? I am just not convinced that it is fail safe...but then I have never owned one of them OR had chickens until now so disregard anything I say because I KNOW NOTHING!