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[henless]

It's a challenge to teach them how to use the toilet and not to drink that water, isn't it

Here is what hatched 13 days ago




And here is what hatched 3 days ago

Your chicks are cut, but Charlie is to die for!!! He has gotten so big in just 2 weeks!

So I ventured off into other regions of this forum and people are pretending they are fairies and wolves and mutant zombies and then they are actually acting it out and conversing about it....what gives with that?

Those are forums for the people that have front yard chickens...

I'm so glad my chicks are in the back! ROFLMAO!!!!

i am up early this morning waiting on the sun to come up so I am watching TV. Like always nothing on that I have not seen or want to see. They have just about everything on Tv these days so why not a home farm channel showing everything from hatching eggs to raising cows and all things in between. Or even a show on the DIY channel.

I do too! I do watch the horse stuff on RFD TV when I remember its on. I used to watch Horace McQueen for many years.

Okay Harley here is your chance to become famous on your Farm Channel. You need to come to the old-fashion diner A1momof3 is going to open. Ms. Jellybean, henless, and I will be cooking breakfast. Hung is bringing the entertainment along with Slipswife. Everyone else will be sitting around debating, laughing, and discussing ideas.

Coffee anyone? Egg coming right up!

Lisa

That would be so cool!!

Going to call discovery and see if they will back us on this. We can talk about chicken ideals and go to peoples homestead and see how they do their stuff or show them ways to do things better.

Show them how to build chicken coops that are actually big enough for chickens!

The only catch is...you have to do it Naked and Afraid! LOL

OMG! We watch that show. Those people are so dumb it's pathetic, LOL.

T - 4 and counting!!!!

We got a storm last night complete with hail. Of course my car was not in the garage.....thankfully the hail was tiny. Mostly. 0.2" of rain. Not a lot but I will take it. Everything is still dripping wet this morning and it is a bit foggy. I believe that means a trainer ride again today. :/ Hope it dries out later so I can mow the lawn after work.

Hope everyone has a great day!

We didn't get very much rain yesterday. It went mostly south of us. Calling for some severe stuff this afternoon though. In fact, the satellite is messing up now.

You won't believe what I did to my poor hen this morning.

A whole bunch of things cascaded to make her close to death many, many times this winter and spring. (Antibiotics led to crop problems, huge putrid mass in crop, once mass mostly resolved gassy crop caused by acid loving environment--i.e. fermented feed! apsiration of crop contents and on and on.) She's been in a small show cage with the other hen that had the problems since February.

With the last episode--aspirating on crop contents when I picked her up--she has been on injectable Baytril from the vet. Oh, have I learned a lot about chicken care from my poultry-loving vet over these two crop-impacted chickens! The money spent on vet visits was worth it for the knowledge I received.

Two days ago, I set up a small pen for them outside. This morning right after I injected the sick (or hopefully completely better) hen with anibiotics before I put her out in the pen, while still in my arms I heard a little thud and found an egg at my feet. The poor baby laid an egg in my arms after I had injected her with a painful antibiotic shot! Do I feel like a bully! That's what happens when you are in a rush--I ignored the body language that suggested she might be getting ready to lay an egg because I HAD to get the shot given NOW because I am late for an appointment!

Bad chicken mama!

I hope your chickens end up being ok. They have sure put you through the ringer!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

The wife I have now we meet in Jr high school and went to school for years together and never hooked up. We knew each other for a long time while we was in school. We meet again a little over 17 years ago and we both was getting devoured and we have been together all this time

I think this is the best typo on here so far.

Of course a divorce can feel that way....

Your baby is sooo cute!! and the fuzzy ones are too!

The featherless Grandbaby hatches are the best!!

It''s a scewy, scewy world out there...(the word scary is spelled in the voice of a little bitty girl saying scewy)

That looks like the Cadbury eggs!!! I just to love them!

Next thing you know it will be mutant chicken zombies!!!

I'm dying here.... My son is the same way.... even at 18 ... Patient zero.... LOVE IT!!

Super funny!!

Wait I have 4 acres out back...... does that mean I can have MORE!!!

I'm scared.... between zombies and people violating chickens... I shall every venture away from the Home Forum a lone again!!

Yep, don't venture away and if you must then do the buddy system!!

That's a GREAT idea!! I love it!

Oh man, after that I don't know I could think about breakfast. How sad. Good thing you had your coffee! lol

Name.... name for diner ...... Texas BYC Diner (No Zombies allow)

Ok we have all of us staring in the Farming over coffee show at the Texas BYC Diner......ClovisMan will sponsor the ... I'm naked in your backyard, don't be afraid show....
We were afraid we would get hail here too. We don't have a garage so my son put his car in the barn. He drives a 72 Chevelle SS and he would die if it got hit by hail..... my Mustang though had to sit out in the open. LOL


Ok So Farm channel....
Jellybean could do a 80 coops in 80 days kind of show... coming to a city near you.
Oh we must have a Pimp my coop show... with landscaping and such.....

I hope your getting all of this Harley!!

I'm sorry for your chick loss

LOVE that last one!

I bet your chickens just love you...all the rocks they could ever want...

Congrats!!!!

Fatigue started for me before I even found out. Lol. And I was QUICK at finding out.

Lol! When we did my daughter's 20 wk anatomy scan, I was expecting to see a baby. I didn't realize they look kinda like Predator at that stage, when they look right at you. Lol.

I read 3 page of the deer one! hahaha
It was ...interesting...
*sniffs the grass daintily*

Who's the queen of typos now?

"Chickens: Naked and Afraid" I don't know....I like the diner idea..

Wait, is that a legimate show??
I freaked out when I heard the hail. I was about to get in the shower, heard it, and came running out saying "There better not be a tornado right now!"

Yummmm....
Omg I had the best moscato the other day!
Maybe I can bring you a bottle with your pullet! lol

What is moscato? I guess I could go and look it up on Google...

Your chicks are cut, but Charlie is to die for!!! He has gotten so big in just 2 weeks!

I'm so glad my chicks are in the back! ROFLMAO!!!!

I do too! I do watch the horse stuff on RFD TV when I remember its on. I used to watch Horace McQueen for many years.

That would be so cool!!


Show them how to build chicken coops that are actually big enough for chickens!

OMG! We watch that show. Those people are so dumb it's pathetic, LOL.

We didn't get very much rain yesterday. It went mostly south of us. Calling for some severe stuff this afternoon though. In fact, the satellite is messing up now.

I hope your chickens end up being ok. They have sure put you through the ringer!

Amen to that!


Just about died in my trainer. When the house id cool it isn't so bad. I need to get a second fan for the warmer days. What I really need is to ride outside! Hopefully that will happen this weekend.

 

[orumpoultry]

While everyone is doing things with chicken shows, I could do a how to torture your in-laws who visit every weekend and have no need for personal space show. I mean really, they've been out here EVERY WEEKEND since we moved out here. DF doesn't get many weekends off and he had the last two because he was moving to nights. They were here, and we didn't get any time together alone. * sniffs *

Also. I may or may not but more likely did come home with a rooster and a guinea from the feed store just now. I couldn't leave them!!! They were so sad looking. And just five dollars for both??? I may go back for the ducks that were in the same pen. DF may kill me but they need a better home. :/ pictures coming after I unload groceries.

 

[A1momof3]

While everyone is doing things with chicken shows, I could do a how to torture your in-laws who visit every weekend and have no need for personal space show. I mean really, they've been out here EVERY WEEKEND since we moved out here. DF doesn't get many weekends off and he had the last two because he was moving to nights. They were here, and we didn't get any time together alone. * sniffs *

Also. I may or may not but more likely did come home with a rooster and a guinea from the feed store just now. I couldn't leave them!!! They were so sad looking. And just five dollars for both??? I may go back for the ducks that were in the same pen. DF may kill me but they need a better home.

pictures coming after I unload groceries.

If they are staying with you turn their room into your brooder room, like Lisa's bathroom. If that doesn't speak to them.... nothing will!!

 

[henless]

Also. I may or may not but more likely did come home with a rooster and a guinea from the feed store just now. I couldn't leave them!!! They were so sad looking. And just five dollars for both??? I may go back for the ducks that were in the same pen. DF may kill me but they need a better home.

pictures coming after I unload groceries.

I got lucky this morning. Went grocery shopping and had to make a run to the feed store to get some starter. As usual, I made a trip through the brooder room, and all the binswere empty. They sell a lot of chicks. As I was walking out the door, three large boxes of chicks were coming in! I kept on going! LOL


I have a question for the veteran chicken keepers. My chicks are almost ready to be let out into the coop. Will they huddle up and sleep in the corner or will they get up on the roost?

 

[jajeanpierre]

We watch it when my hubby is home. And yes it is to make fun of them.... I mean really. I don't even want to think about how long it takes to get "things" cleaned back up once they leave those places!! LOL

Ok, my nurse side is coming out and I am thinking How do you know a chicken has aspirated?? What are the signs?? Interesting.

It was pretty obvious--she was choking and her trying to clear her airway--it was pretty obvious. She then declined over a few hours as fluid filled her lungs. I took her to the vet (against my "farmer's" better judgement--after all it was my own d@mn fault) thinking she would be dead by the time I made the long drive into the city. He gave me the options--Lasix to clear the fluid out of her lungs and injectable antibiotics (Baytril) to combat any infection that might set up. He said her lungs/airway weren't as bad as they actually sounded--it was the fluid build up that was causing the noise and her terror of suffocating. I thought about it. Let me see, a kazillion dollars I don't have for a chicken worth almost nothing against trying to save my favorite chicken's. Decision made. He beamed when I decided to try to save her and said how much he wanted to treat her.

My vet wanted to be a poultry pathologist when he was in school--he is only 10 hours short of a degree in poultry science--but decided in school he liked chickens too much to only work on dead chickens, so now he is an avian vet in San Antonio. He doesn't work on many chickens, so he is always happy to see mine.

So far, I'm crossing my fingers that she will live. At the moment, she is really good. Once we cleared the fluid from her lungs--I guess her body was setting up the response to drowning--she has never looked back. The crop has finally settled down and is acting normally. That took months to sort out. She is gaining her weight back. She laid an egg today, poor thing, and maybe one a couple of days ago--not sure because the other crop-issue bird was with her in the pen and I don't know what that one's eggs look like.

Just a bit of information: chickens (maybe birds in general) don't have the cells that sweep debris out of the lungs the way humans (and maybe all mammals) have. So, anything that goes into the lungs stays in the lungs until the body seals it off and/or the white blood cells go outside the capillary walls into the lungs, grab the foreign matter and go back into the blood stream and do whatever white blood cells do when they've "eaten" foreign material. Aspiration of a foreign body is a bigger issue with birds than with people.

Here is a picture of her. She's a splash Ameraucana from the same breeder Ms. Jellybean is getting her Ameraucana from. They might even be related.

 

[lovingmyhens]

I think this is the best typo on here so far.

Of course a divorce can feel that way....

What is moscato? I guess I could go and look it up on Google...


Amen to that!


Just about died in my trainer. When the house id cool it isn't so bad. I need to get a second fan for the warmer days. What I really need is to ride outside! Hopefully that will happen this weekend.

Moscato is a deliciously sweet wine. I don't drink much and when I do it has to be sweet like candy. This is the only wine I have found, that is available for less that 10$, that is palpable for me. The D'Asanti is just even sweeter.

 

[lovingmyhens]

It was pretty obvious--she was choking and her trying to clear her airway--it was pretty obvious. She then declined over a few hours as fluid filled her lungs. I took her to the vet (against my "farmer's" better judgement--after all it was my own d@mn fault) thinking she would be dead by the time I made the long drive into the city. He gave me the options--Lasix to clear the fluid out of her lungs and injectable antibiotics (Baytril) to combat any infection that might set up. He said her lungs/airway weren't as bad as they actually sounded--it was the fluid build up that was causing the noise and her terror of suffocating. I thought about it. Let me see, a kazillion dollars I don't have for a chicken worth almost nothing against trying to save my favorite chicken's. Decision made. He beamed when I decided to try to save her and said how much he wanted to treat her.

My vet wanted to be a poultry pathologist when he was in school--he is only 10 hours short of a degree in poultry science--but decided in school he liked chickens too much to only work on dead chickens, so now he is an avian vet in San Antonio. He doesn't work on many chickens, so he is always happy to see mine.

So far, I'm crossing my fingers that she will live. At the moment, she is really good. Once we cleared the fluid from her lungs--I guess her body was setting up the response to drowning--she has never looked back. The crop has finally settled down and is acting normally. That took months to sort out. She is gaining her weight back. She laid an egg today, poor thing, and maybe one a couple of days ago--not sure because the other crop-issue bird was with her in the pen and I don't know what that one's eggs look like.

Just a bit of information: chickens (maybe birds in general) don't have the cells that sweep debris out of the lungs the way humans (and maybe all mammals) have. So, anything that goes into the lungs stays in the lungs until the body seals it off and/or the white blood cells go outside the capillary walls into the lungs, grab the foreign matter and go back into the blood stream and do whatever white blood cells do when they've "eaten" foreign material. Aspiration of a foreign body is a bigger issue with birds than with people.

Here is a picture of her. She's a splash Ameraucana from the same breeder Ms. Jellybean is getting her Ameraucana from. They might even be related.

oh gosh! Gorgeous!!!

 

[RustedOak]

Ok, so I see how to add videos and pictures on the web, but how do you do it from the mobile site? Clueless....

 

[ClovisMan]

Quote: SO, I'm thinking I need some Ameraucana goodness. Could you please share the source of these lovely birds? Are they locals where I can go pick up live birds?