Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

I love Gorgonzola, Blue Cheese etc. However I can't stand the mold on Brie. When my friends have a party I always cut out the Brie from the center and leave the moldy rind. Everyone gets so mad at me! Yuck, it tastes like ammonia. Nasty stuff.

I just ate a big slice of Brie on my GF bread for lunch !!!

 

[Chickielady]

Just joined BYC this morning after scouring this site for weeks on end before building our first coop last Spring, so to see this thread right off is a welcome treat.......we're in Eastern Washington, Blue Mountains. Two coops......41 chickens......7 breeds.....loving it......and counting. Can't wait to meet you all.

Welcome to the thread !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[naillikwj82]

Is anyone from the Sequim/ Port Angeles area going to the show? Car pooling may make it doable. PM
jeff

 

[Chickielady]

She died after I posted this morning.

 

[Chickielady]

Jess. Many times I go to the channel station on our cable and it's like are you kidding me?
The dumbing down of America is in full speed ahead with what's on TV.
Being a baseball freak I need my cable but if not for that very few shows I watch.

I am thinking of scaling down our comcast to basic network stuff, OUR news, weather & channels 2-38 I think it is.
We do not watch all the other crap...Latino stations, Saigon TV...you name it, who needs it?
That and exactly 50% of the channels on Comcast are the same channels only in HD...so you really only have 50%, and of that %0%, half is other languages....and nonsense shows.........Poo.

 

[Chickielady]

Can anyone tell me what I should do for a bird who was perfectly happy and flying/scratching around the yard an hour ago, but is now huddled on the back porch with her eyes closed? I picked her up and brought her inside; she lay lifeless on a towel at first, breathing and making some noises; then I roller her onto her feet and she's standing but her head is drooping, eyes closed, tail down. She just sat/lay down (like roosting) on the towel and hasn't walked anywhere. What could have happened to her? There's no blood, vent is clean and looks normal, nothing feels hard in her abdomen, crop is normal.

Didn't this sort of thing happen to one of your other birds a few weeks ago & we thought she had been poisoned ???????????? Rat Candy or something ???????

 

[Chickielady]

Well, 4 little Blue Copper Marans are in the world now.
2 Black, 1 Blue, and one copper-headed blue.
Which I am very excited about.

It was a miracle any hatched the way all air cells were detached & rolled from end to end...as it were, 2 failed to pip as their heads were in the samll end, rumps in the air cells............

BUT, the 4 that hatched are doing excellent, and here's wishin' I have a black copper boy, a blue copper boy, and hopefully a copper-headed blue hen !!!!!!!!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

She died after I posted this morning.

Sorry

I put Louise back in the coop and she went out to the run for some scratch, then lay down in a corner. What is wrong with her? She *can* open her eyes, they aren't swollen, but appears that she just wants to rest with them closed.

Sounds like poisoning, are they getting into something moldy or mushrooms?

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote:

She died after I posted this morning.

Sorry

I put Louise back in the coop and she went out to the run for some scratch, then lay down in a corner. What is wrong with her? She *can* open her eyes, they aren't swollen, but appears that she just wants to rest with them closed.

Sounds like poisoning, are they getting into something moldy or mushrooms?

Are mushrooms that grow in the grass poisonous for chickens? If so, we have a terrible problem. There are hundreds of mushrooms all over our yard that cropped up in the last couple weeks with the start of the rain. Help! Do I need to go scour the yard for them and get rid of them?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote:

She died after I posted this morning.

Sorry

I put Louise back in the coop and she went out to the run for some scratch, then lay down in a corner. What is wrong with her? She *can* open her eyes, they aren't swollen, but appears that she just wants to rest with them closed.

Sounds like poisoning, are they getting into something moldy or mushrooms?

Are mushrooms that grow in the grass poisonous for chickens? If so, we have a terrible problem. There are hundreds of mushrooms all over our yard that cropped up in the last couple weeks with the start of the rain. Help! Do I need to go scour the yard for them and get rid of them?

I think all mushrooms(could be wrong) are toxic to fowl. I don't have a lot but I do have some. My kids seem to not be eating them, they have 20,000sf to roam around and if you took all the mushrooms i have maybe 1-2sf of them. If you have a lot then they may just be eating them. I don't know what your ratio is. I would glove up the little kids and have them help ya pick them out of the yard. Maybe you could give your sick hen a little honey to help flush out her digestive system(I read that honey does that to birds).