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[perchie.girl]

I am VERY confused!!! How do you connect to the internet through your cable modem if the computer doesn't have ethernet or wifi??

with a cable

 

[ronott1]

with a cable

Did you get a wireless router yet?

 

[bruceha2000]

with a cable

And what does that cable connect to on the computer?? I think we need pictures.

 

[perchie.girl]

Did you get a wireless router yet?

Not yet... Yep you were right this router does have wifi... problem is when my son hooked it up he was so paranoid about Wifi that he didnt write down the password. I just rememberd that today while waiting for mom at the doctors office.

and no the one on the back of the router no longer works.... he changed it.

probably due for a new one anyway....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

And what does that cable connect to on the computer?? I think we need pictures.

No.... you dont... its a ratsnest in there besides I didnt hook it up my son did because I cannot kneel any more....

So... I may have it I may not... Its not hooked up nor is it installable from the desk top... Windows didnt find it... By the time I searched it out I can replace the router....

I may take it to my computer guy for a tune up and have him do it for me...

deb

 

[microchick]

Day 2 for my broody BO hen in the broody buster cage. She's stubbornly tuk tuk tukking away all fluffed up with her wings out. I stuffed her cage in the bottom of my two story condo coop and tossed my gentlest big rooster in with her. I left her screeching at him for looking at her through the bars.

My hen with 5 almost 4 week old chicks has three pullets and 2 little cockerels. Yay! Girls rule! Of course that means 2 more cockerels to drive me nutz but oh well.

DH pointed out to me that having every other bantam cross broody is a good sign that they are healthy. Healthy birds want to reproduce, he pointed out. Good thought!

In the mean time I have a two year old hen-bantam cross- that is driving me crazy,. She has lost more than half her feathers since spring. No parasites but I treated her for mites and internals anyway. Her vision is bad. Her eyes don't look like Ocular Marek's. The Irises are milky blue and her pupils are dilated. She is wanting to stay by herself, huddled in a corner of a nesting box but is finding food and water and eating/drinking well. When I picked her up tonight to check her over I thought she felt really hot but whether or not that is from her laying in the nesting box all day where I have her penned so she isn't bothered by the other hens or roosters or from illness I dunno. Her color is good. She is alert. Like I said, a real puzzlement.

Any ideas? I'd hate to have to put her down. She is a very sweet little hen and I love her dearly. Sometimes I tuck her under my arm and she does evening chores with me. But I'm at a loss as to what could be wrong with her.

 

[ronott1]

Not yet... Yep you were right this router does have wifi... problem is when my son hooked it up he was so paranoid about Wifi that he didnt write down the password. I just rememberd that today while waiting for mom at the doctors office.

and no the one on the back of the router no longer works.... he changed it.

probably due for a new one anyway....

deb

Yes! Older routers stop working well.

Best Buy and Walmart have wireless routers or Amazon two day shipping. Walmart has ship to store if you find it online and the store does not have it

 

[ronott1]

Day 2 for my broody BO hen in the broody buster cage. She's stubbornly tuk tuk tukking away all fluffed up with her wings out. I stuffed her cage in the bottom of my two story condo coop and tossed my gentlest big rooster in with her. I left her screeching at him for looking at her through the bars.

My hen with 5 almost 4 week old chicks has three pullets and 2 little cockerels. Yay! Girls rule! Of course that means 2 more cockerels to drive me nutz but oh well.

DH pointed out to me that having every other bantam cross broody is a good sign that they are healthy. Healthy birds want to reproduce, he pointed out. Good thought!

In the mean time I have a two year old hen-bantam cross- that is driving me crazy,. She has lost more than half her feathers since spring. No parasites but I treated her for mites and internals anyway. Her vision is bad. Her eyes don't look like Ocular Marek's. The Irises are milky blue and her pupils are dilated. She is wanting to stay by herself, huddled in a corner of a nesting box but is finding food and water and eating/drinking well. When I picked her up tonight to check her over I thought she felt really hot but whether or not that is from her laying in the nesting box all day where I have her penned so she isn't bothered by the other hens or roosters or from illness I dunno. Her color is good. She is alert. Like I said, a real puzzlement.

Any ideas? I'd hate to have to put her down. She is a very sweet little hen and I love her dearly. Sometimes I tuck her under my arm and she does evening chores with me. But I'm at a loss as to what could be wrong with her.

What a Broody adventure you are having!

It is so hard to figure out what is wrong with a sick chicken! My guess is that she will recover with rest, vitamins and good food. Then she will go down again in a month.

A necropsy would likely find reproductive tumors. It does not have to be mareks though. Walt, fowlman01 posted about a new non mareks cancer that was killing hens at two years old

 

[microchick]

What a Broody adventure you are having!

It is so hard to figure out what is wrong with a sick chicken! My guess is that she will recover with rest, vitamins and good food. Then she will go down again in a month.

A necropsy would likely find reproductive tumors. It does not have to be mareks though. Walt, fowlman01 posted about a new non mareks cancer that was killing hens at two years old

Thanks Ron. I haven't heard about that happening. But yeah, gee, just what I need to be dealing with. Another form of cancer.

I'm going to give her time to see if she snaps out of this. Another strange thing that I just thought about is that she hasn't laid in I don't know how long. I think she laid a few eggs early in spring but I haven't seen her in one of the nesting boxes doing anything other than trying to evade the roosters.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron. I haven't heard about that happening. But yeah, gee, just what I need to be dealing with. Another form of cancer.

I'm going to give her time to see if she snaps out of this. Another strange thing that I just thought about is that she hasn't laid in I don't know how long. I think she laid a few eggs early in spring but I haven't seen her in one of the nesting boxes doing anything other than trying to evade the roosters.

You never know! Hospital care and vitamins might do the trick.

It does sound like an egg laying tract issue