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[superchemicalgirl]

@superchemicalgirl and @Cynthia12 congrats on your seven year badges!

Thanks for noticing (since I didn't!)

 

[chickadoodles]

@superchemicalgirl and @Cynthia12 congrats on your seven year badges!

x2 Congrats!

Micro I am so sorry for you loss.

 

[casportpony]

@microchick , sorry for your loss.

 

[casportpony]

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[ronott1]

Our nearest teaching college is at MIZOU down in Columbia. I would have to contact them to see if they do necropsys on chickens. It's a vast wasteland where we live as far as Avian vets being near by. Our local vet will treat Emus and Ostriches but not chickens. I'm sure if I'd been able to get him to at least see my three roosters that I've lost they would have had a chance to be alive today. But he refused. Right now, I have one full blooded Buff O rooster that is 14 months old and so far the picture of health. Then there is the one I am treating for some sort of throat infection. The rest of my roosters are BO Welsummer crosses and are big robust boys and my OEGB cockerels who are just tough little mobsters. My plan is to eventually just have bantams as they seem to be the healthiest of the group next to the Welsummers.

Today J.R. kept loosing his balance and was unable to walk a straight line without staggering all over. Since he was mainly going to the left all the time I was suspecting some sort of brain disorder-stroke, tumor, etc.

I googled everything I could think of and no symptoms matched up with anything solid. Iris color was a good mustard orange like all Buff O's eyes. No paralysis. No eye or nose drainage. Some mucous in his mouth when he was actively dying. Just these bizarre seizures. I was really surprised to see how much he had worn down his flight feathers. He had to have been seizing a lot at night because I was outside in their coop much of the past two days doing work out there and I think I saw him have one only once and then he snapped right out of it.

We can mail them into UC Davis using fedex. It is part of a food safety program and is part of a Federal grant. I have hound it to be very useful.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks Alaskan.

Cynthia I saw a garden tip on fb to keep critters out of your garden as in cats! You poke plastic forks in the garden and the cats won't come back to the danger garden.

Your daughters little dragons and critters are so cute! She's very talented!

I tried the forks!!! I think I've tried everything. One night after placing the forks..I heard a terrible sound! Yes, it was a cat screaming in my flower bed. I felt a bit sad. Just a bit.

Thank you for the compliments. She just stated making those. We tell her that she needs to do something so she can sell them.

 

[Cynthia12]

Cyn maybe you can spread some cayenne pepper or equivalent around your garden where the cats likes to dump. Of course you have to reapply after rain, and when it's real windy etc. I also do that every time the neighbors dog dumps a load. figure once they smell that, it doesn't seem like such a good place anymore.

I tried this too. It worked for a while. I would need a ton of it. :/ Also tried the moth balls..they didn't work.

 

[Cynthia12]

Cynthia, how much is she charging for the bunnies?

I don't know. I do know she charges different prices for different sizes..of course. I think the bunnies that size are 20. I would have to go back and see on fb.

 

[Cynthia12]

micro! So sorry!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Maybe your daughter could open an Etsy store.

I saw a video last night that is a rainbird sprinkler attached to a motion sensor so when a critter comes near it, the sprinkler sprays them. lol It's made by Whites and is being marketed in the UK and AU for 55.00 cool idea.