Surviving Minnesota!

[MNChickMom]

Pita survived his first night in self inflicted quarantine.

 

[Cluckies]

Morning peeps! Ralphie, what an adventure, sorry about the loss of your keet.

Siggie, how is that baby doing? I'm glad she is eating a little. I have found they will usually eat sweet potato and live meal worms, if nothing else. Sometimes all you can do is try and feed them and keep them alive until the get better on their own.

I'm too scared to try fermented feed myself... I've read up on it, but...

Better get my day started!

 

[duluthralphie]

Losses happen. When a bird is stupid, it dies....


Sort of like with people...(sometimes)...



The only fermented feed my birds get is when it rots on the ground or in a dish and I forget to knock it onto the ground. Or if they knock over a Mike's or Corona.....



I went and looked through the port hole into my hatch. Only one bird is out or almost out and it is a white sport!... At the rate they die I will need a dozen or two more of them. I have about 30 eggs to put in the incubator and I cannot decide if I should or not. Maybe I should stop hatching for this year...

The decisions I have to make are so hard on me....

 

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, sorry to hear about the keet. You will need to be cautious with the Polish as relates to free range. They in many cases have such a crest as to make it difficult to see approaching predators especially from above. The Spitzhauben not so much usually.
I am attracted to Spitzhauben, so if you are selling some in your next marketing season put me on the list.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, sorry to hear about the keet. You will need to be cautious with the Polish as relates to free range. They in many cases have such a crest as to make it difficult to see approaching predators especially from above. The Spitzhauben not so much usually.
I am attracted to Spitzhauben, so if you are selling some in your next marketing season put me on the list.

I am thinking the new chicks are all going to be caged chickens for their own safety.

 

[cottonlouie]

Someone picked up all the eggs under my broody. They put them back. They are due to hatch on the 13. Are they ruined?

 

[duluthralphie]

Someone picked up all the eggs under my broody. They put them back. They are due to hatch on the 13. Are they ruined?

Not if she sits back down on them. If she doesn't get them in a incubator that will hatch.

 

[Siggie]

Morning peeps! Ralphie, what an adventure, sorry about the loss of your keet.

Siggie, how is that baby doing? I'm glad she is eating a little. I have found they will usually eat sweet potato and live meal worms, if nothing else. Sometimes all you can do is try and feed them and keep them alive until the get better on their own.

I'm too scared to try fermented feed myself... I've read up on it, but...

Better get my day started!

She ate like she was starving today but I still had to put it in front of her in order for her to eat? She won't go over to the feed dish but will try to follow the others out to free range. I found her about 10 ft from the coop/run tonight when we got back from Virginia. So I dumped more feed in front of her and she ate again! She is connecting better with the feed now. It's crazy because she doesn't look sick except for the way she walks? Her poop is firm and the right color, her eyes are bright, and she even has more color on her face than the other hens??? I am now leaning towards trauma and not disease or poison. She looks like she is gaining weight too. When she lays down, I don't see her breast bone or wing bones sticking out anymore. She is standing up more too but still walks funny. She let me touch her tonight too. Had to because she wouldn't go into the run tonight, so I had to help her. Had issues with the Cochins going in tonight too...they are always the ones who don't want to go in for the night!

So far the fermented seed is great! I use less and they love it! I place dry feed and fermented and they will eat the fermented first. IT gives many benefits such as probiotics, and makes the seed much more digestible so they can absorb more of the vitamins. I just have to make sure I don't throw any corn in there - ha ha!

I tell you...this is a true learning experience!

 

[Cluckies]

It has been a tough facebook day for me. My sister is a raving liberal who is constantly bad mouthing Christians and Conservatives and anybody who doesn't agree with her agenda. All her posts are hate filled and divisive, judgmental and hurtful. She is the most closed minded person except for what she thinks is right. I've been trying to decide if I should delete my facebook account as I get upset many times on there because of her. I hid her years ago, but we have alot of the same people as "friends" (family) as she is my sister of course, so we get into it on other peoples posts, because she will always post the opposite of whatever I say. For instance, the latest thing was about the shooting in falcon heights. It was on somebody elses post who the day of the shooting said she wished cops would quit killing black people. I of course said we should wait before judging on these kinds of things until all the investigation is complete. My sister chimes in about the cop being trigger happy, blah, blah, blah. I said we should settle down and wait for all the investigation to be complete before making judgements. It went on and on for her. Dog with a bone. it got ugly.

The thing is, I like seeing my other family and friends stuff, children's accomplishments, vacations, fun stuff. Plus invitations to stuff, ect... But, I don't think I can stay on there. I asked her to quit with her BS, she won't. she is hard headed, hard hearted, stubborn and always right. My husband had a FB account for about 2 weeks a few years ago but he deleted his account because of her toxic posts.

Any suggestions?

I may just not go on facebook for a few weeks and see if it is a big loss or not, i'm thinking it probably wouldn't be a big loss... I may end up being much happier without all the BS.

It has gotten to the point that today I told her f you in a fb message that got terribly nasty. frankly, I don't even want to go to any family functions if she is there, neither does my husband, she is toxic. We have to always just sit there and not say anything and listen to her spew her nastiness. I don't know why some people just go so far overboard with their BS, to the point where they are breaking up families. Sorry for my rant. I'm just very upset and really can't talk to anybody in my family but my DH about this, and I consider all of you good friends (family)

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[Cebarmlds]

It has been a tough facebook day for me. My sister is a raving liberal who is constantly bad mouthing Christians and Conservatives and anybody who doesn't agree with her agenda. All her posts are hate filled and divisive, judgmental and hurtful. She is the most closed minded person except for what she thinks is right. I've been trying to decide if I should delete my facebook account as I get upset many times on there because of her. I hid her years ago, but we have alot of the same people as "friends" (family) as she is my sister of course, so we get into it on other peoples posts, because she will always post the opposite of whatever I say. For instance, the latest thing was about the shooting in falcon heights. It was on somebody elses post who the day of the shooting said she wished cops would quit killing black people. I of course said we should wait before judging on these kinds of things until all the investigation is complete. My sister chimes in about the cop being trigger happy, blah, blah, blah. I said we should settle down and wait for all the investigation to be complete before making judgements. It went on and on for her. Dog with a bone. it got ugly.

The thing is, I like seeing my other family and friends stuff, children's accomplishments, vacations, fun stuff. Plus invitations to stuff, ect... But, I don't think I can stay on there. I asked her to quit with her BS, she won't. she is hard headed, hard hearted, stubborn and always right. My husband had a FB account for about 2 weeks a few years ago but he deleted his account because of her toxic posts.

Any suggestions?

I may just not go on facebook for a few weeks and see if it is a big loss or not, i'm thinking it probably wouldn't be a big loss... I may end up being much happier without all the BS.

It has gotten to the point that today I told her f you in a fb message that got terribly nasty. frankly, I don't even want to go to any family functions if she is there, neither does my husband, she is toxic. We have to always just sit there and not say anything and listen to her spew her nastiness. I don't know why some people just go so far overboard with their BS, to the point where they are breaking up families. Sorry for my rant. I'm just very upset and really can't talk to anybody in my family but my DH about this, and I consider all of you good friends (family)

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Cluckies, sorry you have a sister like that

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