The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Trying to piece all of the wood bits is DIFFICULT!! It is very much like putting together a puzzle where 1/3 of the pieces are either missing or are from different puzzles!!!

Alaskan I like your run and coop and great job on re-purposing materials!

I love to re-purposing stuff we do it all the time.

 

[bamadude]

Chicka u are up early

 

[JW12]

We live right off highway 65 and only twice in 8 years have we had a deer close enough for us to grab off the road. The first one had been hit by a vehicle and it hadn't died. When we called the sheriff, they wanted to know if we hit it. Dummies, yeah, we hit it and then called you to come put it down. Right!

We asked about taking it for the meat but they told us they take it to have it butchered and packed up for the food bank. I guess they don't do that for the deer that they don't know how long it has been dead because the meat lays there and goes to waste. There is a tiger sanctuary in our area and they seem to be getting some of the deer but they don't get it all. We called the conservation people and asked about getting the deer off the road, told them it was for my dogs. We still would have had to get a license, not a hunting license and we were told we couldn't sell the horns, hooves or hide. Now, tell me, what am I going to do with a pile of horns, hooves and a dozen or so hides? So, we haven't done it.

The hide short of making a teepee with it idk what you would do with it but the antlers and hooves you can through them in the woods and little critters eat them to get the minerals. When antlers fall off in late winter that's what happens to them

 

[Peep_Show]

The local pet stores are selling deer/elk horn segments as dog chews.... and they're EXPENSIVE!!

 

[chickadoodles]

Chicka u are up early

Ya, the pain in my hands wakes me up all night. RA is a bummer. Looking for a Dr. to hopefully help make the pain go away or at least get a little better.

 

[chickadoodles]

The local pet stores are selling deer/elk horn segments as dog chews.... and they're EXPENSIVE!!

I guess because they have to pay someone for finding it. If you can get to some woods you might come out better looking for some yourself.

 

[bamadude]

Ya, the pain in my hands wakes me up all night. RA is a bummer. Looking for a Dr. to hopefully help make the pain go away or at least get a little better. 

have u thought about any natural herbal remedies? I hear u can stock up in colorado and washington. (Or in my neighbors yard)

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Arielle said she would help me with a low carb diet she swears it will help. So I told her I am game if she has the time. lol
Thanks for thinking of me though Bama I appreciate it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I am NOT a happy camper tonight. As most of you know, we are house hunting. We went to see a home this evening. There were a couple nice chicken coops outside, and about 25 chickens of various ages running around the yard. The owner of the house was there, and I commented on her chickens, and mentioned I too had chickens. We proceeded to tour the house, and property.

After a bit, she began telling me she had just spent about $400.00 on her chickens, because they had gotten sick, but were ok now. I sympathized, and asked what they had. Infectious Coryza. When she assured me they were fine now, with no more symptoms. I mentioned that I thought I had read that once a flock had gotten infectious coryza, that they were carriers for life, but maybe had it confused with something else. She said her vet had told her the same thing, so she wouldn't be getting anymore chickens. She admitted that she should probably cull them, but they were the family pets, and her kids loved them. So these chickens are carriers, and running around lose in her yard, contaminating everyone, and everything that comes into contact with her yard. That's not a concern if no one with chickens goes there, or they don't go near anyone that has chickens, but that was not the case today, and she was very nonchalant about the whole thing. Oh, she was told that after she moves her birds off the property, and they are gone for 3 days, there is no risk of the property contaminating any other chickens, so just bring my flock.

While I do take biosecurity measures, I have gone the extra mile now. When we got home, shoes were removed outside, one pair machine washed. The other pair was thoroughly misted with a clorox/water solution, we showered, and our clothes laundered. Floors misted where we walked, including carpeting. Car misted, especially floor mats, door handles, window buttons, and arm rests. Keys, and cell phones misted. I think that's everything.

Oh yeah, the house had leaks in the roof, and water had run down inside the walls too, which had gotten into the insulation under the flooring, and rotted the wood underneath some, so there are lots of soft spots in the floor, the air conditioner has to be replaced, out in the garage the windows leak, and the roof leaks. The property is 5 acres, but only 2 cleared because 3 acres are low, swampy and unusable in their present state. No one disclosed that to our realtor. Tomorrow's a new day, right?

Did they advertise it as a potential home for chicken keepers?

Survivors may be carriers but the cause of IC, Haemophilus paragallinarum bacteria does not survive long in the environment and is easily destroyed by disinfectants. The recommendation is that after an outbreak, clean and disinfect housing and leave vacant for a few days.
So if that's all that was wrong with them, once her birds are gone it shouldn't be long before you can move yours in.

Another issue is that it's often in combination with CRD, cholera, pox, IB or IL.

@getaclue wow!

very frustrating.

for you!


Me sooooooooooo tired!!!!




Notice the awesome stealth-ness of it?? The green box is our new trash holder. Notice the tiny bits of coop hiding behind the trash holder and all the brush? Not too bad huh? The spouse noticed....but there was no screaming.

Wish I could be so lucky, on the screaming part.
You really could use a coop fairy.

I had never heard of birds being damaged by Wind turbines.... You see they are very visible and do make noise and best off all they create wind turbulence around them.... Birds do NOT fly blindly. I just wondered how these stories get passed around as truth. So I just looked up an article on it.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm

Bottom line yes they do kill birds but NOt on the levels you might think..... Less than one tenth of a percent of Accidental Bird deaths are attributed to wind turbines. That is .001 percent.

The list started with Cats being the worst offender with hundreds of millions of birds per year.... and ended with wind turbines with a maximum of 40,000. The chart of it is at the bottom of the article i posted.

and Like Felix says a home windmill especially the vertical ones is going to be even less offensive. The one my neighbor has is about four feet in diameter and about twenty feet tall including its mounting tower. I believe he uses its electricity to power his Well pump. Our wells here can be in excess of 500 feet deep much too deep for a standard windmill.

deb

The cat thing doesn't surprise me. I've seen lots of studies on the subject. I was surprised not to see aircraft on the list. I would think as many or more birds get sucked into jet engines as get killed by windmills.

We live right off highway 65 and only twice in 8 years have we had a deer close enough for us to grab off the road. The first one had been hit by a vehicle and it hadn't died. When we called the sheriff, they wanted to know if we hit it. Dummies, yeah, we hit it and then called you to come put it down. Right!

We asked about taking it for the meat but they told us they take it to have it butchered and packed up for the food bank. I guess they don't do that for the deer that they don't know how long it has been dead because the meat lays there and goes to waste. There is a tiger sanctuary in our area and they seem to be getting some of the deer but they don't get it all. We called the conservation people and asked about getting the deer off the road, told them it was for my dogs. We still would have had to get a license, not a hunting license and we were told we couldn't sell the horns, hooves or hide. Now, tell me, what am I going to do with a pile of horns, hooves and a dozen or so hides? So, we haven't done it.

The first one that collapsed next to my house I called the conservation department and they sent me a permit to keep it. Cause of death on the permit was called "Urban Violent Death".
The next one had 3 broken legs. It woke one of the neighbors and I when it got hit. The cop that showed up right away at about 4AM quickly shot it and put it out of its misery. I asked if I could keep it and he just shrugged and drove off. Apparently it happens to him quite often. I got my garden cart and wheeled it back to my house. I wish he had shot it in the head but shot it in the heart, ruining one of my favorite parts of the animal.
The last one tried to jump a fence at the Metro Sewer treatment facility at the bottom of the hill from the house. Its back leg didn't clear the top bar of the iron fence, snapped it and it was hanging there supporting itself with its front feet. We called the police (day shift police were less familiar with the process). They called the dept. of conservation (which wasn't open yet) to see what to do. So this fiasco lasted about 2 hours before the cop reluctantly shot it. It was a big buck and I cleared the spare fridge of all shelving, quartered it and dry aged it for a few months. It was so tender.

The hide short of making a teepee with it idk what you would do with it but the antlers and hooves you can through them in the woods and little critters eat them to get the minerals. When antlers fall off in late winter that's what happens to them

When I was a kid, I had deerskin boots and a deerskin jacket.

 

[hennible]

Hey Drum stick diva
Your mafunda is showing....