@duluthralphie
I find most birds like warm water if they are just sitting in it, at least once you get them submerged anway. The CRX don't like it, but there is no washing those until they hit the scalder tomorrow morning. I am glad I could wait another week to take these ones in, they will make more of a meal than those ones last week.
I took a spill yesterday during chores. The CRX pen is the last one I come through coming out of the coop and they were getting wet a mushy by the waterer (can't keep those things clean for beans at this point), and some of that mush stuck on the bottom of my boot. I went to step out of the door and when I stepped on the threshold, my foot went out, I lost balance, landed on my butt, but not before whacking my shoulder on the door and my hip on the casing. I came down hard enough that it rattled my cage a little. I have a couple of scrapes and bruises, but I am otherwise okay. It made me glad those filthy birds are going to be in the freezer by tomorrow night. I am just hoping the shrink bags get here before I have to pick them up. I get the back bagged, but their bags have so much air, I like putting them in shrink ones to keep better. It is extra work, but worth it.
I will be taking 3 fewer birds to Hutch. I thought I would sign up a trio of White Silkies, but after looking at how dirty they were, and the fact I was going to just sell them right after anyway, I went ahead and sold all the pullets and a cockerel to a couple from Iowa today. So, I am out of those foo-foo birds, except the few extra males to sell off now.
I am disgusted with how my Buckeye cockerels are turning out, and yesterday I found one dead without a clue what happened. My rooster that was in the breeding pen last got a really bad infection in one ear and I think I am going to just have to put him down. He can't stay very well and his head is twisting to the side that has the infection. I keep cleaning it and have treated him, but it isn't getting better, it doesn't seem. That is a gross and nasty thing to mess with.
I am selling a few Cornish at the show to a young man, and more are getting shipped to Arkansas as soon as the boxes are here. I won't mind fewer birds to feed. I will miss the Cornish, they are really a different kind of bird, but I need to do this. Who knows, maybe I will get stuck with a trio of WLRs ?
I didn't get the washing of birds done this weekend like I was planning. I better get a move on and get it done though. I have to clean pens and pick the show birds out so I can get rid of the extras around here. And there is that winter prep that needs finishing.
