The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

Did i show you the tortoise i found in our driveway? View attachment 1078521

Oh hes a beauty... I bet someone is missing an exotic...

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

Did i show you the tortoise i found in our driveway? View attachment 1078521

Eastern Box Turtle - we see them here every once in a while.

 

[Beer can]

Three days without internet because it rained. Every time we get a hard rainstorm it goes out, phone still works but no internet, bs, our phone company sucks.....

 

[Beer can]

Hummingbirds are so small they have to hitch a ride south for winter under a gooses wing. Seriously. My grandfather told me so and he wouldn't fib.

 

[Beer can]

Four happy cockerels eating after a 24hr fast that were supposed to be capons. Once again I just couldn't do it. Anybody want to buy some capon tools? Looks like I ain't ever going to actually use them...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I love the nakeds

Just have the borders left to quilt (not today), then bind.

 

[microchick]

I'm totally discouraged at the moment. Little Lucky, the bantam chick that survived a hen attack when she first hatched is dead. She didn't come out of the grow out coop this morning when I opened the door and her two companions, the two little pullets I bought from Orschelns to keep her company were fretting about. Lucky was sitting in a corner, fluffed up and lethargic. I got her out and she just laid in my hand with her eyes closed. No wounds, no sign of illness other than the lethargy and the weakness. Yesterday she was fine. I have the three musketeers as I call them in with four other juvies that are a week or two older than they are. There is a bit of pecking order fussing going on but nothing serious. I put her in a cat carrier with food and water and put her on top of the little coop in the shade so I could keep an eye on her. She seemed more lethargic every time I checked her and 4 hours later when I looked in at her, she seized and died.

I'm sure it's just more of the same Marek's crap that I've been fighting. She was only 8 weeks old. No sign of anything visibly wrong with her. Not overly skinny, no discharges. Just dead. I feel so sorry for Faith and Hope. They kept going into the coop when I first found her and stood over her crying. They really loved their little sister.

Personally, I'm not feeling like such a trooper any more. I'm busting my hump trying to save my flock. I've separated extra roosters into their own pen so the hens aren't stressed, I've got a Juvie pen and a nursery pen. I'm feeding them good feed, all they can hold and this Marek's is just whipping my butt and theirs also.

I figured today that I have lost over 15 birds in the past year. Over 20% of my flock and there are still 6 showing signs of ocular Marek's or wasting from more than likely tumors of some sort.

I'm about ready to turn them all loose together in a common pen and tell them to enjoy life while they can, bury the victims and when all is said and done, see what I have left.

Sorry. I'm just so tired of digging these little graves.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

 

[drumstick diva]

so sorry MIcrochick, I know you are doing your best

 

[ronott1]

I'm totally discouraged at the moment. Little Lucky, the bantam chick that survived a hen attack when she first hatched is dead. She didn't come out of the grow out coop this morning when I opened the door and her two companions, the two little pullets I bought from Orschelns to keep her company were fretting about. Lucky was sitting in a corner, fluffed up and lethargic. I got her out and she just laid in my hand with her eyes closed. No wounds, no sign of illness other than the lethargy and the weakness. Yesterday she was fine. I have the three musketeers as I call them in with four other juvies that are a week or two older than they are. There is a bit of pecking order fussing going on but nothing serious. I put her in a cat carrier with food and water and put her on top of the little coop in the shade so I could keep an eye on her. She seemed more lethargic every time I checked her and 4 hours later when I looked in at her, she seized and died.

I'm sure it's just more of the same Marek's crap that I've been fighting. She was only 8 weeks old. No sign of anything visibly wrong with her. Not overly skinny, no discharges. Just dead. I feel so sorry for Faith and Hope. They kept going into the coop when I first found her and stood over her crying. They really loved their little sister.

Personally, I'm not feeling like such a trooper any more. I'm busting my hump trying to save my flock. I've separated extra roosters into their own pen so the hens aren't stressed, I've got a Juvie pen and a nursery pen. I'm feeding them good feed, all they can hold and this Marek's is just whipping my butt and theirs also.

I figured today that I have lost over 15 birds in the past year. Over 20% of my flock and there are still 6 showing signs of ocular Marek's or wasting from more than likely tumors of some sort.

I'm about ready to turn them all loose together in a common pen and tell them to enjoy life while they can, bury the victims and when all is said and done, see what I have left.

Sorry. I'm just so tired of digging these little graves.

It is tough but is one of those things that happens. It will pass and you will have better health.

"and this too shall pass..."