The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[CoopChick719]

Look who came home tonight!!

My daughter says Wow...a two-headed goat!!!

 

[midnightroo]

You can try it of course but I think it will make it fizzy and bubbly. Also some of the better known properties of raw garlic are liable to dissipate with the passing hours. I would think a whole night may be too long.

Ok thanks.

 

[chooks4life]

Quote: Sounds like his legs are paining him.

Rosemary is one of the best heart tonics. Honey is too, though most honey you can buy isn't worth much as it's been heated and isn't from organic hives. The only rosemary I found to do the proper job comes from a little asian shop and is hand-rubbed, slow dried at low temperature, organic and hand picked. I think most of the commercial cultivars aren't worth the money; plenty of ornamentals are sold as medicinals. Heart's Ease and a bunch of other herbs are also important and effective.

I would view this rooster as an investment in your future flock and therefore possibly family health if I were you, not that I'd breed him unless I knew for sure it wasn't genetic. If you learn how to heal his heart, if it is indeed his heart (which it most likely is) the same medicines will apply to you and all your other animals. It's an invaluable thing to know. Lifesaving. I've treated heart disease in a few different species now. No failures yet. I'm hopeful.

 

[midnightroo]

My daughter says Wow...a two-headed goat!!!

Lol too funny

 

[aoxa]

BDM-at what age would the crest become apparent on the chicks? The CLs are crested as well, and I'm wondering when it'll show up.
I didn't get an age on our CL chicks, so I was wondering if someone had a guess...under a week right?
A male

The group

I emailed Jenny at GreenFire, to get a hatch date, but she hasn't responded.

I'm not BDM but Phoenix, Gertrude & Tina have crests the size of Cream Legbars (Whenever you guys say CL all I think is Craig's List)



Anyway.. they started around week 4 or 5. My silkies don't even really start really coming up until week 3-4.

 

[CoopChick719]

Congratulations to CoopChick on your daughter's high school graduation! I was so emotional when each one of my 3 kids graduated. My 1st son already graduated college, my 2nd son graduates college soon and my daughter is in her junior year of college now. When they're little it seems like there is so much to do and keep up with, then they grow up too fast and they're graduating and starting they're lives. My next additions here should be grandkids in a year or two!

Thank you LynnEBC!! We went to the Senior Banquet on Monday night. I didn't expect to cry but they had the one of the kids' favorite teachers, who I also worked with for 5 years, as the speaker. I watched this guy fall in love, go through some serious heartbreak, stop dating altogther for at least a year or more and finally find the love of his life and marry her!! He said it took him a long time to figure out just what he was going to say to this group of kids who he had known for 5 or more years. He spoke of love, family, not freaking out when life doesn't go as you've planned.....He had almost everyone in tears by the time he was finished, including himself.

My son just finished his first year of college and got an RA position for next year. His room & board will be paid for being an RA...such a huge savings!!! I totally agree when they're little there is so much going on you don't realize how fast they're growing up!

 

[Quailsong]

Great pictures, BlueMouse! Thank you for sharing!

And now for some of my new Swedish Flower Hen roosters. (oxymoron much?)

More like Swedish Flower Henry.

 

[Quailsong]

Sounds like his legs are paining him.

Rosemary is one of the best heart tonics. Honey is too, though most honey you can buy isn't worth much as it's been heated and isn't from organic hives. The only rosemary I found to do the proper job comes from a little asian shop and is hand-rubbed, slow dried at low temperature, organic and hand picked. I think most of the commercial cultivars aren't worth the money; plenty of ornamentals are sold as medicinals. Heart's Ease and a bunch of other herbs are also important and effective.

I would view this rooster as an investment in your future flock and therefore possibly family health if I were you, not that I'd breed him unless I knew for sure it wasn't genetic. If you learn how to heal his heart, if it is indeed his heart (which it most likely is) the same medicines will apply to you and all your other animals. It's an invaluable thing to know. Lifesaving. I've treated heart disease in a few different species now. No failures yet. I'm hopeful.

Good post here^

Sally, after reading what the others have said here it may very well be a heart issue. I've never seen what you've described in chickens/roos first-hand so I defaulted to mites in my earlier suggestion. I'm def looking forward to what the pictures show as I'd like to see what exactly you're seeing. And I'd also like to learn along with you as you treat your roo. Best of luck!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote:

Sounds like his legs are paining him.

Rosemary is one of the best heart tonics. Honey is too, though most honey you can buy isn't worth much as it's been heated and isn't from organic hives. The only rosemary I found to do the proper job comes from a little asian shop and is hand-rubbed, slow dried at low temperature, organic and hand picked. I think most of the commercial cultivars aren't worth the money; plenty of ornamentals are sold as medicinals. Heart's Ease and a bunch of other herbs are also important and effective.

I would view this rooster as an investment in your future flock and therefore possibly family health if I were you, not that I'd breed him unless I knew for sure it wasn't genetic. If you learn how to heal his heart, if it is indeed his heart (which it most likely is) the same medicines will apply to you and all your other animals. It's an invaluable thing to know. Lifesaving. I've treated heart disease in a few different species now. No failures yet. I'm hopeful.

I have honey, but I know it has been heated, as I heated it to get it back into liquid. That is what the bottle said to do. Rosemary, I'm not sure where I would get it processed the way you described. Maybe a local gardener would have some. I'll ask around. But to be honest, this rooster is at least 3 yrs old, and a production roo too. If it is his heart, it might just be his time. I'm hoping its not his heart as he is very calm for me. He is on the large side so I can see heath problems coming up for him before my other roos.

 

[Mumsy]

As you can see, the younger boy has a crest. Between the two of them, my current hens and the pullets I have that will soon be of age, I should get a great assortment of colors and crested/uncrested chicks!

What pretty chickens! It's like a party going on with those feathers!