Swedish Flower Hen Thread

[RedRidge]

hm. or Tennessee for that matter? i'll be going to Sevierville for the day on the 28th of September (as copilot without much control over what the pilot does. LOL)

Well NOW you're in my neck 'o da woods....

Dare I ask... what in the world is in Sevierville?
You'll want to time that trip VERY carefully as UT has a home game that day and 120,000 people descend... it's a weekly tradition here in the fall.
Course the heaviest away traffic will be from the south that weekend and not the east, so that should help.

 

[RedRidge]

Quote: KYTin... Ya know... I was born in a 'burb of Chicago (Aurora)... grew up in Springfield... moved to northern KY... loved it SO much I kept going south until I found heaven on earth - TN.

Ya need to keep going south...

 

[KYTinpusher]

Quote: If it were up to me, I would have moved farther south, possibly AZ. I don't like cold.

But DH would prefer MN or UP of MI if I would let him. We compromised on KY when the opportunity arose and now I have too many chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows (Dexters, BTW) and donkeys to move.

 

[RedRidge]

Quote: If it were up to me, I would have moved farther south, possibly AZ. I don't like cold.

But DH would prefer MN or UP of MI if I would let him. We compromised on KY when the opportunity arose and now I have too many chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows (Dexters, BTW) and donkeys to move.

We moved 60 heavy bred ewes, 8 dexters, oodles of chickens... etc... about 2 years ago.
I swore I would NEVER move again.
Moving a house is one thing... moving a farm is the undertaking of the century.
Just having to have two tractors available to load and unload 24 tons of hay at each end was a miracle... without it raining... without mud... when help was available... ugh.
Looking back on it I can't believe we accomplished it. We moved all that livestock the week before Christmas to a farm with a barn, but NO fencing. Lambs starting coming a week later.
Electronetting and good guardian dogs saved my life... and apparently everyone else's. I didn't loose one lamb that year... a miracle I tell ya!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: http://www.tentec.com/categories/Visit-Our-Hamfest!--2013/
ham radio thing... tentec (one of the few US-based radio companies) is having their annual hamfest (swap). we went last year and found all kinds of good deals. we just go to shop, not to sell.. the hamfest is 8am-2pm so likely we'll miss most of the ut traffic.

contemplating possible swaps... hm.

 

[ki4got]

Hard to answer your question because labs were meant to carry birds. I competed some great retrievers. Telling them to leave birds alone would have gone against everything they were bred to do.

this is my answer... LOL
the dog above is a 3 year old standard poodle. They were bred as water retrievers (in Germany, not France...) on top of that, Sunny has a HUGE prey drive.

but with LOTS of obedience training and socialization, and more training and socialization, by the time he hit a year or so. with weekly training classes (puppy, obedience, CGC, rally and agility) starting at 4 months old and continuing until he was about 2 1/2, I was able to trust him with the chickens unsupervised... he knew 'leave it' meant the chickens and the cats. so now he actively hunts the 'squeaks'. aka rabbits, squirrels, possum, coons, whatever else isn't 'pack'.

he also has a 'game' that some chickens appreciate and others don't... if someone's raising a ruckus (ie baby roo trying to tackle a hen or 2 roos fighting) he'll run full tilt thru the middle of the squabble and knock everyone for a loop. LOL his mouth is not allowed near the birds (tho he's tried bringing me injured ones before, usually dragging them by the tail) but he's allowed to run by or thru the flock. he does occasionally swat one with a paw (more of a 'bop' on the head) but usually when they're trying to come in the house and I want them OUT!

i'd love to have a full time standard poodle lgd, but he's also my service dog, so needs to be accessible when I call.

 

[SunnySkies]

One of my 6 month old roosters dropped dead today. He looked strange this morning, just not right, and had diarrhea. So I isolated him immediately, gave him an injection of antibiotics and offered some food (which he ate well), and left him to it. But he obviously fell over dead while we were out this afternoon. (kids wanted to go to the fair, where I refused to go in the chicken building and insisted we stay away from the livestock) It was too late to drop him at the lab by the time we returned and found him, but I'll take him in tomorrow.

His comb was cyanotic, he looked odd about the face with a little edema, and he had awful diarrhea prior to death. He was fine yesterday. I saw him walking around and eating and stuff.

We don't live far from a pond, and wildfowl carry low path AI. Other differentials include MG, any other respiratory disease (although no signs of any sneezing, rales, or other symptoms), cardiac disease, and toxins. UGH.

Nobody else seems sick. His coop mates are currently normal. Of course, my one laying SFH lives in that coop too (he mated with her the other day). Double UGH.

Considering having the NPIP tester come out just to see if anyone has anything, pending the necropsy results on this bird.

He was my runt from February, the one I didn't think was going to survive. Boo. He had turned into quite a lovely rooster with a kind demeanor. He was polite to the pullets too. I was just waiting to see if he increased in body substance before culling another roo to allow him to be top boss.

 

[KYTinpusher]

One of my 6 month old roosters dropped dead today. He looked strange this morning, just not right, and had diarrhea. So I isolated him immediately, gave him an injection of antibiotics and offered some food (which he ate well), and left him to it. But he obviously fell over dead while we were out this afternoon. (kids wanted to go to the fair, where I refused to go in the chicken building and insisted we stay away from the livestock) It was too late to drop him at the lab by the time we returned and found him, but I'll take him in tomorrow.

His comb was cyanotic, he looked odd about the face with a little edema, and he had awful diarrhea prior to death. He was fine yesterday. I saw him walking around and eating and stuff.

We don't live far from a pond, and wildfowl carry low path AI. Other differentials include MG, any other respiratory disease (although no signs of any sneezing, rales, or other symptoms), cardiac disease, and toxins. UGH.

Nobody else seems sick. His coop mates are currently normal. Of course, my one laying SFH lives in that coop too (he mated with her the other day). Double UGH.

Considering having the NPIP tester come out just to see if anyone has anything, pending the necropsy results on this bird.

He was my runt from February, the one I didn't think was going to survive. Boo. He had turned into quite a lovely rooster with a kind demeanor. He was polite to the pullets too. I was just waiting to see if he increased in body substance before culling another roo to allow him to be top boss.

It's always the ones you want to keep. I hope it turns out to be nothing contagious. Perhaps since he was the runt, his internals were just not as strong as they should have been and finally gave out.

 

[Leahs Mom]

One of my 6 month old roosters dropped dead today. He looked strange this morning, just not right, and had diarrhea. So I isolated him immediately, gave him an injection of antibiotics and offered some food (which he ate well), and left him to it. But he obviously fell over dead while we were out this afternoon. (kids wanted to go to the fair, where I refused to go in the chicken building and insisted we stay away from the livestock) It was too late to drop him at the lab by the time we returned and found him, but I'll take him in tomorrow.

His comb was cyanotic, he looked odd about the face with a little edema, and he had awful diarrhea prior to death. He was fine yesterday. I saw him walking around and eating and stuff.

We don't live far from a pond, and wildfowl carry low path AI. Other differentials include MG, any other respiratory disease (although no signs of any sneezing, rales, or other symptoms), cardiac disease, and toxins. UGH.

Nobody else seems sick. His coop mates are currently normal. Of course, my one laying SFH lives in that coop too (he mated with her the other day). Double UGH.

Considering having the NPIP tester come out just to see if anyone has anything, pending the necropsy results on this bird.

He was my runt from February, the one I didn't think was going to survive. Boo. He had turned into quite a lovely rooster with a kind demeanor. He was polite to the pullets too. I was just waiting to see if he increased in body substance before culling another roo to allow him to be top boss.

Could he have gotten into poison? This reminds me of Bulldogma's Gunnar. It seems that the neighbors had done some kind of exterminating and he was over there that day.

 

[Leahs Mom]

If I don't get a good hatch I still may be interested in some of your dark birds. Chicago is MUCH closer to me than the other alternatives