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[Beekissed]

It's helpful to keep a separate calender for your chickens and mark each day's egg count on the day. You can look back at those the following year and see the slow down times, the peak laying times, etc. Also good for recording hatch dates for when you get broodies because, after awhile, they all run together and you have different ages of birds in your flock...hard to keep track at that point without leg bands.

This all becomes important when culling for desirable traits in the flock, laying according to the age of the bird, successful hatches of particular broodies to determine if you will let them be a mama the next time around, etc.

 

[chickachee]

OK...we've waited long enough...how's the chicken's eye this morning???

Well....... when the rest of the group when out to forage today - albeit reluctantly, we had snow last night and this a.m. - she stayed in the coop. I gave her some ff since I figured she wouldn't go out anyway, and she ate that. Did see her out later, but she just stood under a tree kind of fluffed up. Later found her by herself back in the coop.

BUT I just went out (for an up to the minute report - HA!) and fed them a little Calf Manna and she was right in the thick of things, eating. Both of her eyes looked good and she wasn't quite as fluffed out as before - more normal looking. SO... I guess it may be safe to say that she's doing well. Hate to sound too gushy, but I'm really glad that this thread is here - especially you, Bee. I feel like I've got a straight connection to the nurse's hot line. (I know you are a nurse - my Sis is too). That helps a lot!! Thanks again.

Totally off topic, but does WV get snow during winter?

 

[chickachee]

I knew I spoke too soon! Peeked out again and there she is again, standing all alone under the tree by herself, all fluffed up. Wonder what the deal is with her anyway? I guess I'm watching her too much...

 

[aaggjg]

Oh iPad how mad I am at you right now! I just spent 1/2 hr typing up a long post and pouff gone.....
Not easy to type a coherent long post on the iPad. Spend half the time correcting things the iPad "fixed" for me...... I'm going to bang my head against the wall.... I'll try againina little while.

 

[Beekissed]

Well....... when the rest of the group when out to forage today - albeit reluctantly, we had snow last night and this a.m. - she stayed in the coop. I gave her some ff since I figured she wouldn't go out anyway, and she ate that. Did see her out later, but she just stood under a tree kind of fluffed up. Later found her by herself back in the coop.

BUT I just went out (for an up to the minute report - HA!) and fed them a little Calf Manna and she was right in the thick of things, eating. Both of her eyes looked good and she wasn't quite as fluffed out as before - more normal looking. SO... I guess it may be safe to say that she's doing well. Hate to sound too gushy, but I'm really glad that this thread is here - especially you, Bee. I feel like I've got a straight connection to the nurse's hot line. (I know you are a nurse - my Sis is too). That helps a lot!! Thanks again.

Totally off topic, but does WV get snow during winter?

Yes, we get snow! Some parts more than others..... in the late 70s we lived in Tucker Co. and a pic of our house is now in the Tucker Co. history books because it was completely covered with snow and we had to make a hole in the snow to slide down into the porch and climb out of to leave the home. We used to get up to 3 ft. snow on a regular basis, even in the low lying areas, but haven't had more than a few of those types of snows since the 70s, with one such snow a few winters back. In Tucker, Pocahontas and parts of Pendleton, where I have been living, there is deep snow every winter because of the elevations there.


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We don't get the kind of snows that you get, though we have mountains and high elevations that get quite a bit.

About your chicken....don't be surprised if this one doesn't make it. Standing hunched, looking ill, standing alone from the flock...not a good sign. Who knows what is going on and that's the problem with chickens. They are hard to figure out sometimes and are not like the average pet.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Could she be in molt? the reason i'm asking is one of my hens just went through a really bad molt Kept to herself and was all fluffed out, well what was left of her feathers[game] ever seen a game hen without tail feathers, really strange looking. I thought for sure she was sick and wasn't going to make it, but she has finally come out of it and looking normal again, took a long time though. Had my oldest roo do the same thing. 4&3 yrs old these 2. I hope that's all it is with your hen. They can sure keep us guessing though.

 

[aaggjg]

I knew I spoke too soon!  Peeked out again and there she is again, standing all alone under the tree by herself, all fluffed up.  Wonder what the deal is with her anyway?  I guess I'm watching her too much...

I'll agree standing alone fluffed up not a good sign.... And the eye is worrying. A closed eye is often one of the first symptoms of a respitorary infection. How does she sound??

 

[normanack]

Oh iPad how mad I am at you right now! I just spent 1/2 hr typing up a long post and pouff gone.....
Not easy to type a coherent long post on the iPad. Spend half the time correcting things the iPad "fixed" for me...... I'm going to bang my head against the wall.... I'll try againina little while.

re iPad:

You can turn off auto-correct, if that's what's driving you nutty --

I've had my writing disappear too, but only on the byc message boards, not other sites. Not sure where the blip is . . .

And uploading pictures works for me on byc but only intermittently. I wonder if byc's code is not perfectly translatable to tablets?

 

[galanie]

I was thinking the same thing and so went and cruised every aisle at Lowe's yesterday in an attempt to visualize the appropriate shape and size, but still be sturdy enough to attach to a tree and be yanked upon.  Didn't find anything but will eventually find something right here on hand, I have no doubt.  Some odd thing that is in the "junk" pile or in the spare odds and ends of fasteners and other things saved here. 

I've seen some fold-away towel racks for inside your kitchen cabinet door that look almost exactly like what you originally posted, Bee, but I am guessing they wouldn't be sturdy enough.

 

[galanie]

My wall calendar is the only way I can keep up with anything, It stays in one place, everything else I move around so much I forget where I put it. 

We must be related!