Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Sorry about your bird, Sleepy. Keeps us humbled and mystified sometimes.

Kloppers I would have celebrated Garage completion with some cocktails too. I hope your headache and parchness are easing away today. Congrats and good luck with inspection tomorrow.

 

[Siggie]

Hello all! I'm back, did anybody miss me? ....... anybody? ... any...one....? *sigh*

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Hello all! I'm back, did anybody miss me? ....... anybody? ... any...one....? *sigh*

SIGGIE~!!!!!!

I have, I have!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Morning all.

I lost a young pullet this morning.

I went out to feed them this morning, and noticed she was looking unhappy... ruffled feathers, didn't want to eat. I picked her up to check for the obvious, eyes didn't look sick, she didn't feel thin, had food in her crop, checked for lice or mites and she looked clean. I set her down and went out for more feed while figuring out what to do with her. I came back in, and she was seizing, (might have just been dying shakes, I don't know.) I walked up to her and watched the life leave her eyes. It was so weird! I'm wondering if she had something stuck in her throat or something, and when I flipped her on her back to check for mites it made it stick? She did seem to be gasping when she was seizing, but she went so quickly I didn't even have time to react. She had a bit of fight left in her when I was checking her out, so she wasn't that close to death if she was just sick. I can't figure out what else it could be? I have never seen a chicken die so quickly before.

I can't bring myself to cut her open to find out, but I did feel her throat and didn't feel anything obvious.

Sorry

and I could never cut one open either.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Carhartt's are for men. Like TV remotes!!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

About chicken-topsies. I think they don't really matter if it's just one bird. If you've got a rash of deaths...then maybe a person should try to see. But you'd need to know what you are looking for too. Which is tricky once you get in there. Unless obvious like a cooked internal egg mass or worms in the intestine. Those are common enough to figure out visually. But in the long run...you have a bird that is gone and nothing to be done about it. But in the moment right after a loss...there's frustration and melancholy if you care for your birds.

 

[lvie]

Ivie: I would powder and dust corners with the nylon Sevin sock after you've vaccuumed, laid down paint, let it dry and then put the shavings back in. Then really go to town on your nooks and crannies. And do your weekly dustings once a week for 2-3 weeks. Neem oil on those roosts. As I type I've got my wheels working for some work and cleaning down at the coop. Even if it's in preventive measure.

Ahhhh. I put on DH's carhartt this morning. It's like your favorite quilt being wrapped around you the. sleeves are soft and frayed. It's flexible and worn perfectly. I will buy a new gstiff one I guess. I should get the bibs too. Those are nice on the -20 or so days. Thanks all for input. Carhartt it is. I see a style I like.

Dark Teal or Classic Carhartt brown? Ladies? ( Ed and Jerry are probably losing their minds right now....LOL.)


http://dungarees.net/product_Carhartt_101405_Newhope_Sandstone_Jacket_Fleece_Lined-7584-1.html My gut is telling me to go with the classic Carhart color...but I love that teal color.

Well, I looked at it - - - - - AND I ORDERED THE TEAL! ! !

Thanks for shopping for me - you could do it professionally. We will never be seen together with that coat on at the same time and if we are - it shows your good taste. Order the Teal Jacket. Its the best of the two colors.

 

[lvie]

Morning all.

I lost a young pullet this morning.

I went out to feed them this morning, and noticed she was looking unhappy... ruffled feathers, didn't want to eat. I picked her up to check for the obvious, eyes didn't look sick, she didn't feel thin, had food in her crop, checked for lice or mites and she looked clean. I set her down and went out for more feed while figuring out what to do with her. I came back in, and she was seizing, (might have just been dying shakes, I don't know.) I walked up to her and watched the life leave her eyes. It was so weird! I'm wondering if she had something stuck in her throat or something, and when I flipped her on her back to check for mites it made it stick? She did seem to be gasping when she was seizing, but she went so quickly I didn't even have time to react. She had a bit of fight left in her when I was checking her out, so she wasn't that close to death if she was just sick. I can't figure out what else it could be? I have never seen a chicken die so quickly before.

I can't bring myself to cut her open to find out, but I did feel her throat and didn't feel anything obvious.

I am so sorry Sleepy. Its difficult to find them dead let alone witness the process.

 

[lvie]

Hello all! I'm back, did anybody miss me? ....... anybody? ... any...one....? *sigh*

Hello all! I'm back, did anybody miss me? ....... anybody? ... any...one....? *sigh*

SIGGIE! Welcome home.

 

[KlopKlop]

Hello all! I'm back, did anybody miss me? ....... anybody?   ... any...one....?   *sigh*

The prodigal siggie returns! lol
Welcome back!