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[chickisoup]

Oh no...I'm so sorry to hear that.

I agree with Ron. Can you rig it so they'd have enough supplies while you're gone? I've got 4 - 50 lb self feeders now and 3 - 5 gallons waters (not using the one yet) but it has made a world of difference...especially the waterers.

With the 65ish hens and 13 guineas, the water lasts 2-3 days...3 days at the moment. And it's big enough and heavy enough nobody can knock it over (looking at the roosters on that one

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Just a month or so and the chicks are off heat and on their own. If you have an enclosed run...perhaps a non chicken neighbor could just open and close their pop door? For the overnight stays you may have?

Thanks Wicked (and Ron). I can easily set up the adult girls for a day or two but I have no place secure enough for the chicks w/o putting them in with the girls and we all know how that would work. Besides, I would be a basket case worrying about them. THE neighbor I talked about is THE neighbor. We are off the end of a dead end road. Our only other "neighbors" are deadbeats that I would NOT want snooping around our property.

Oh and just to finish off this lovely day? The DH just brought in the chip from his trail cam he put out to check on the deer herd and got a beautiful portrait of the biggest coon I've ever seen and years ago we caught a couple of real whoppers but haven't seen any sign of a coon since. Whoopee.

 

[microchick]

Yes, @Wickedchicken6 We order everything from earrings for me to RC motors for my husband and everything in between. If you can find things in their US warehouse you usually get delivering within 2 weeks. From China, 3-5 weeks. Rarely you can get things faster. DH has received orders from China in 10 days, I'm never that lucky. Their shipping can get a little wonky at times but if you are persistent they will make it right with you. And their fastest mode is via DHL. We laugh because their orders usually go past us via railway to KC and then come back east to Macon Co Missouri. We said we could save about two days on delivery if they would just find them and in the cargo cubes and toss them out to us on the way by. We'd gladly stand by the railroad tracks that are a few miles to the north of us and catch them.

What's worth the time is simply browsing their web and reading their Chinese to English translations. They can be pretty hilarious all by themselves but gotta give them credit, they try. I just don't understand why they can't find one employee who speaks fluent American English.

 

[chickadoodles]

 

[Kusanar]

Yes, @Wickedchicken6
 We order everything from earrings for me to RC motors for my husband and everything in between. If you can find things in their US warehouse you usually get delivering within 2 weeks. From China, 3-5 weeks. Rarely you can get things faster. DH has received orders from China in 10 days, I'm never that lucky. Their shipping can get a little wonky at times but if you are persistent they will make it right with you. And their fastest mode is via DHL. We laugh because their orders usually go past us via railway to KC and then come back east to Macon Co Missouri. We said we could save about two days on delivery if they would just find them and in the cargo cubes and toss them out to us on the way by. We'd gladly stand by the railroad tracks that are a few miles to the north of us and catch them.

What's worth the time is simply browsing their web and reading their Chinese to English translations. They can be pretty hilarious all by themselves but gotta give them credit, they try. I just don't understand why they can't find one employee who speaks fluent American English. 

I work for a Japanese based company but my plant is firmly in America... we have to deal with horrible translations all the time... user manuals that come with half million dollar machines that take half an hour to figure out what a paragraph means....

 

[chickisoup]

chicka!!!!! What did I miss???? What's wrong????

 

[microchick]

@Kusanar I can only imagine.

This is the description of the item:

14x18 Inches 5D Diamond Painting Garden Chicken Coop Cross Stitch Home Decor

The DIY diamond painting can be used to decorate the family room, make life more harmonious.
DIY painting diamond is exquisite to give to friends and loved ones to express good wishes to share.
DIY diamond draw a person of any age can be made since, including children, family members and so the family more warm.

That was enough to make me buy it all by itself. Sometimes I just get so tickled.

I cried on poor Chickisoup's shoulder this afternoon. Thank you dear lady for the use of that shoulder and finally feel ready to write about what happened to me this morning without breaking into tears. I had to put my dear 2 year old Welsummer rooster down this morning. He was perfect yesterday, no problems at all. He's been eating, actively pursuing the hens, doing everything a rooster should be doing. This morning I found him sitting on his favorite perch, comb and wattles completely blue. Breathing labored, mouth hanging open. I knew.

I picked him up in my arms, cuddled him a bit, went back to the house to borrow my husband's farm hand gun and Chester and I took a walk out to the pasture for the last time. This is the second rooster in three weeks and not the first to show these symptoms. I was going to open him expecting to find lung tumors or heart tumors or both. DH talked me out of it. He knew, too.

I don't know where this is going to end or how many birds I will have left when all is said and done. Before this started I had 53 chickens in my flock. I'm at 46 today. In the past 8 months I've lost 7. Until today all the deaths had been in birds between 7 months and 14 months. Chester was 25 months old and the first Welsummer to succumb. He is also to date the oldest. I was hoping the Wellys would be spared but it's not to be.

I feel so bad for them. They are all good birds, each and every one of them. I give them the best care I can, yet it's becoming clearer and clearer even without a necropsy that we have Marek's on our property. Even the original flock's breeder was here one day and said if her chickens saw how well mine were living they'd pack up and move here. I don't know what to do anymore except hang on for dear life and pray the deaths end soon. I can't help but wonder how many birds I'll have left when it's ran its course.

Okay guys, group hug...........

 

[Peep_Show]

Spring is here and the Gambel Quail are pairing off and getting frisky (and rather noisy in the process).

Spring is here and we're gardening with a fury.

Spring is here and I'm incubating/hatching again.

These sentences are related. Several fresh nests (less than 8 eggs each) were found while landscaping in the backyard and in peril of our inquisitive dogs, so bye-bye nests and time to dust off the Brinsea. 17 eggs now rockin' the bator.


(Our local wildlife rescue has given their blessing. Last year I gave them a dozen or so little popcorn-like peep heads. So cute, but -- boy -- are they LOUD.)

 

[drumstick diva]

Poor Chester R.I.P.

so very sorry

 

[Peep_Show]

Sad about your roo.... How devastating. My condolences.

 

[pennyJo1960]

So sorry of the passing of your cockerel