The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[kian]

You guys were busy!

My chickens favoured my honey suckle bush. It was my worst enemy when I needed to get at a chicken for whatever reason, they would hide in it. I could not reach them. Which would be a perfect predator deterrent hiding spot.


Here it is last winter... with a mischievous Harriet hiding from me in it.

Beautiful photo!!

 

[kian]

Well, I am very excited, we got TWO eggs yesterday! So now Georgia, one of my Cuckoo Marans is laying! I was disappointed that her egg was not the dark brown that I was hoping for, but I am sure they are just hatchery girls anyway, though I bought them from a local ranch. However, it's very pretty and it *is* darker than Sunny's egg so....




Of course the flash didn't help matters. Georgia's egg is on the top photo and on the left in the bottom photo. Both girls are laying in different ends of the nest box and both eggs were nice and clean. Georgia's egg has some light speckles, which my little boys thought was just awesome!

Hope everyone has a beautiful day today!

 

[stonykill]

Wow...everyone must be sleeping today.

nah, 4 pages of plants just made my mind numb.

 

[midnightroo]

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Wow...everyone must be sleeping today.

I am on and off between homeschooling and making sure the chickens aren't being taken away in the wind again today. Ugh, never realized it was so windy here.

I love the living fences and I have started some at the end of our property with forsythia, crape myrtle and some lilacs, but it is going slower then I had hoped. I guess I need to get on the ball with it and plant more plants down there.

 

[Leahs Mom]

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Took all those hours to get it back in gear?

 

[aoxa]

Took all those hours to get it back in gear?

Hey Stony was taking part just as everyone else

Then BAM. Nothing. lol

I've got a bantam with bumblefoot. She's coming along nicely. I need some vet wrap.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I've got a bantam with bumblefoot. She's coming along nicely. I need some vet wrap.

Bumblefoot always raises a question. How do you think she got it? I'm wondering if it begins as a puncture wound that gets infected?

 

[stonykill]

Hey Stony was taking part just as everyone else

Then BAM. Nothing. lol

I've got a bantam with bumblefoot. She's coming along nicely. I need some vet wrap.

yup, 6,000 posts and probably 4500 off topic

 

[Leahs Mom]

PS....we DO like to harass that boy (Stony)...don't we?

 

[aoxa]

Bumblefoot always raises a question. How do you think she got it? I'm wondering if it begins as a puncture wound that gets infected?

I believe she may not have bumblefoot, but it is very similar. She jumped in a pail of water, her feet froze solid. Early frost bite? I have her in the basement and have lanced her feet and swelling is finally subsiding, but I need to wrap it to keep any poop/shavings/food/who knows what else out of her open wounds.

She's a trooper. She was trying to get to the water too fast that morning. I was there and got her out, wiped her off, but her feet still froze stiff. It was the oddest thing.


It looked like this. I know it wasn't like that when I wiped the water off of her. It happened after she started to warm up in the house.

So...

This is not my picture. I found it online. It looked just like that. In the swollen part was a whole lot of clear yellow liquid.