The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks. I'm up past my bedtime. It's not my fault I was left unsupervised.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have that on a coffee cup

 

[Nomadicus]

I have that on a coffee cup

One of my son's has it on a tshirt.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good Morning Old Folks. It's a frigid 32° outside this morning. I think it got about 3° colder than forecast.

 

[Bawkbok]

Good morning all, It is a crisp 38 hear this morning. Pretty sunshine. We actually received a trace amount of rain last night - yay - happy dance. We'll take what we can get this time of year.
Coffee is hot, have a cup.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF. Winter has arrived here.

 

[Nomadicus]

It winter temps here also. Lows in the 30's and highs in the 50's. It will stay this way for some weeks until some one leaves a barn door open in the Midwest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Old Folks cold here 32 outside upper 40's daytime.

 

[microchick]

Afternoon old folks! Been spending the past two days decorating. Well, day and a half I guess. Decided this year to scale back. usually takes me three days as I have a lot of Christmas stuff and half the battle is deciding which to rotate on any given year.

Anyhoo. I've been nursing a rooster who turned up with a head wound. Figured he had been pecked by one of the younger cockerels but then saw a bantam hen pecking at him, which is how I found the head wound and huge scab. This little guy is so much a pet. I brought him in, put him in the brooder cage and started nursing him with antibiotics topical and oral.

Then it looked like he came down with a case of fowl pox. With temps hovering around freezing? Really? He's the only one showing the classic bumps coming up around his comb, on his comb and around one eye. Possible to catch it from a carrier wild bird? In winter? I've been checking the rest of the flock every day but no signs of anything suspicious on them.

Leave it to my birds to do something completely off the wall different and do it up right.

 

[Bawkbok]

oh dear. Hope your rooster is ok and heals quickly. Poor guy.
I saw where middle MO received a dusting of snow today - pretty.