The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[mlowen]

I know I don't really know you, Justine, and your family...but this thread feels like friends. I am so very sorry for your loss. You will all be in my prayers.

 

[Pullet Surprise]

I have the most terrible news I can ever imagine typing here...

My barn..

My birds.

My Clementine.

All gone...

The barn caught fire and nothing is left. I don't even know.. I don't know what to say. My heart is broken.

I can not even respond, I just can not even muster any words to describe how sad I am for you. They had become our barn, our Clem and our birds through your photography. All I can say is I REALLY hurt for you.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Aoxa, my heart goes out to you. I can't begin to imagine your heartbreak.

 

[aoxa]

Thank you so much guys. I am still in complete and udder shock. I get waves of devastation...

I still have a few in the basement.

I am not going to let it stop us from our dream farm. We have enough insurance to build a whole new barn, but all the birds? We have no insurance on them.. Not that anything could replace some of them.

Please everyone.. be very safe with your extension cords. Don't run a bunch of different plugs to one outlet. Make sure all your cords are sound.

 

[Leahs Mom]

They had become our barn, our Clem and our birds through your photography. All I can say is I REALLY hurt for you.

Well said.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

BDM I love how you have a drop cloth for the pics. The chics look like they are posing. I to love the difference in coloring btw the HRIR & production reds. But they are all so cute

Leah's mom- can you please take pics again when you work in the hens feet again? I learn much better with visual pics. Thank you

This link might have gotten lost in a post so here it is again..

Bumblefoot surgery: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/236649/bumblefoot-surgery-with-pics-and-how-to

Lots of pics!

 

[stonykill]

I have the most terrible news I can ever imagine typing here...

My barn..

My birds.

My Clementine.

All gone...

The barn caught fire and nothing is left. I don't even know.. I don't know what to say. My heart is broken.

I can't even begin to tell you how sorry I am.

 

[Sally8]

Please everyone.. be very safe with your extension cords. Don't run a bunch of different plugs to one outlet. Make sure all your cords are sound. 
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There are so many electrical fires every year. Our house fire was electrical but not from a cord. We lost a cat and everything we owned. I vowed to never use them again. 8 short years later I do use the heavy weight ones.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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[delisha]

I liked the BYC link for bumble foot much better than that video. I just kept thinking, why are they cutting such a big hole?! Granted, I was quite surprised at how much came out of that foot, but the giant cut seemed unnecessary.
Question about butchering...do you all hang the bird over a bucket? Or just the ground? do you just feed the innards to the flock, or trash em?

No bucket..on thee ground and yes..the birds get what I do not want.