The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

Unfortunately I think you are probably correct.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[CapricornFarm]

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.

Too bad you can't xray her head. Maybe a tumor? I hope not. Hugs.

 

[Alaskan]

I've poured milk in the 10 lbs of sugar in the canister and put the coffee in the fridge. lol

Coffee in the fridge is fine... but milk in the sugar is not. Oops!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Coffee in the fridge is fine... but milk in the sugar is not. Oops!

Wow, you really needed coffee that day.

 

[drumstick diva]

I put Ovaltine in my diet,caffeine free coke, instead of my glass of milk. I have also poured milk into a half full glass of water. I think the voices in my head or stomach growling are the reason.

 

[007Sean]

I've put salt instead of sugar in my coffee, more than once!

 

[drumstick diva]

I did that once when I was a little girl. I didn't know the difference, thought I was helping. My father was not pleased!

 

[Alaskan]

I once served my dad what I thought was his left over coffee... added cream, heated it up... just like he liked it...

It was left over port from the night before! He couldn't figure out why it tasted so bad until he had drunk a few swallows.....

Then he said... eh.... can't waste it... and finished it off. He said it was pretty bad though. Hot port with cream.

 

[drumstick diva]

Of course the point to remember here Alaskan, is we thought we were doing the right thing. No malice intended. My father wasn't happy - never a good thing for us.