Surviving Minnesota!

[CindyinSD]

Your WW is a saint, as always.

So... WW stands for “wonderful woman,” right?

 

[R2elk]

So... WW stands for “wonderful woman,” right?

 

[duluthralphie]

So... WW stands for “wonderful woman,” right?

Nope...

 

[Cebarmlds]

So don’t leave us in suspense....what happened at work?

Actually it was pretty boring, just crappy.

I gave the princess more vetrx at roost time, her right eye was a little fuzzy looking left was clear. The boy had some signs of frost bite on comb and wattles so I put oil on those.
Stinking weather

 

[Cebarmlds]

Here is what I learned about foamy eyes. My buckeye would get them. I asked Minnie about it as I bought the bird from her. She said actually it is related to weather and swings in barometric pressure. Some birds will foam before or during weather events like storms. It could be that an intricate difference in their ducts combined with high and low pressure systems brings it about. Unless there is some other respiratory symptom I would chalk it up to that. I would use a little vetRx on her too. High on her neck or near her face a bit. Or maybe I put it on her comb. I can’t remember. Minnie said her cornish and buckeyes would get this. I did sort of watch you know around storms and such and sure enough one summer storm I found her on the roost with a bunch of foam in her eyes. I think too she just kind of battled it as a big meatbird and with not so bad storms as well. It's weird. I know.


my German grandparents made it too. Down in the farm basement. Grandma moved the big iron wood stove/oven down there. She’d Render lard down there too. She kept it immaculate. I remember as a little kid being so intrigued by removable ‘burners’

-2 this AM. All the small girls and Sentry got down off the roost and out to the run. Sitting on the roost like two big babies. We’re the Marans. Lol. They are usually first to the feed! I did get them down as they needed water from the fount I just brought.

But science nerd makes me think. Here in northern mn our strain of cardinals are more compact than southern mn. Do smaller birds have a body dynamic that helps with cold better? So I’m thinking these big Marans girls are freeze babies... I think also these temps are their first real cold temps since they’ve been hatched. It was still 5 degrees in the coop for them this AM

Thank you BC, this was interesting and very helpful.

 

[duluthralphie]

Actually it was pretty boring, just crappy.

I gave the princess more vetrx at roost time, her right eye was a little fuzzy looking left was clear. The boy had some signs of frost bite on comb and wattles so I put oil on those.
Stinking weather

The few single comb boys I have are all showing signs of frostbite already..

 

[Cebarmlds]

Nope...

Yes, it's wonderful wife. Or wonderful woman.

 

[R2elk]

Yes, it's wonderful wife. Or wonderful woman.

Or Wonder Woman in disguise.

 

[MNChickMom]

Ww - wise wife

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Working (too much) wife