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[cheryl98117]

Anyone need any stall mats? Most are 1/2" thick, and aprox. 4'x6' they have been in stalls for 6 months, most are un-used, layed down in place but never had a critter on them.

I will be posting them on Craigslist tomorrow, and thought I would offer them here first. CL price is $50 a piece, but I would knock it down to $40 if anyone here needs some. Mats cost alot of $, especially the thicker heavier ones... I'm even willing to barter.

 

[Tailfeathers]

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Please keep in mind that the $500K reporting requirement will only be valid IF the Textor Ammendment is attached. And, as far as donating surplus farm goods to food banks, churches, or anything else - that will all be illegal as well.

God Bless,

 

[CIgal]

I am posting this on behalf of my sister who has yet to join this wonderful forum. She received a shipment of 15 day old chicks from a hatchery this past Thursday and now has a sick EE. The chick is lethargic, will only stand from the knee up, has runny creamy-yellow poops, and wont open it's eyes except when startled. She has the chick seperated from the rest. I told her to give the chick ACV water and scrambled eggs, but the chick wont eat. She lives in the sticks of Monroe and her dialup internet isn't working right now, so she can't email me a picture.
Any ideas??

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey--I just wanted to let everyone know I've decided to part with my Lemon Blue cochin project...

It breaks my heart but I've decided that I need to concentrate on more preservation and a little less new color development. I am still working on my mille Cochin as well as my BLR Cochin projects but having all three going at once is a little too much and I just don't have the room anymore now that hubby has refused to build me any more coops.

I do think the true lemon blues will be there someday but it will take a lot longer than I had originally anticipated.

I would love for them to go to someone who is willing to continue my work on the color and give them an excellent (safe) home.

I cannot ship and I did email someone who had expressed interest in the past in my birds but I haven't heard back from her...so if she's not interested, I'll be posting them for sale in the auction section.

Thank you!

~Heather

 

[Tailfeathers]

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There was an excellent article in one of the previous issues of Poultry Press that may be helpful. The short of it is that it's good to understand how the digestive system of a chicken works. I'm pressed for time so let me just say you want to liquify the food so it gets to the intestines as far as possible. You may try feeding it with an eye dropper or even tube feeding it if possible. I would add a higher protein food such as Gamebird Startena (30% Protein), some sugar, applesauce, and Rooster Booster.

Or, and please don't take this the wrong way, you may just want to put her down. Weak and sickly chicks more often than not will turn out to be weak and sickley adults. And, despite ones best efforts, the chicks get to a point where they just starve and dehydrate themselves to death.

God Bless,

 

[Chickielady]

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Don't even compare to 3 years ago when we had a 120 mile and hour hurricane here....and it went on for 3 or 4 days, and the entire Chehalis river valley both flooded and tore out all the bridges, and the Interstae I-5 was flooded over in several places up to 20 feet deep...It was alot like today, where you have torrential rain, hail and winds, and then a PLUS high tide (at 2 PM today) of 9.2 and that holds the river water IN and then you also have storm surge....we are ruled by the tides.
My river here, the Willapa, crested at 2 with the high plus tide at 2:30 PM and ran over , filled the entire salt marsh up to the very edge of my road.

It is so beautiful,,,for miles, the entire valley is flooded, there are no homes there, it is a wetland saved for this very reason...and it will never be built upon, and so I have secured some isolation and privacy (from the overbreeding masses and torrents of immigrants) that will soon take up every square inch of space there is, and the wild will be no more...if you do not believe me, go spend a few days in Daly City or Los Angeles in California, or San Jose....

Washington State, and Oregon and Alaska, are the only states left that are clean and WILD.
Mostly free from the presence and rape, of man.
Some parts of Montana and North Dakota and of course Minnesota, I believe the severe cold keeps the freaks away !
Thank God for that !!!
So, Pongoid, what brings you two here, and how do you like our beautiful state ??

 

[Illia]

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Hilarious stuff!

 

[Chickielady]

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It is not the lactose most are allergic or sensitive to, but the casein, or milk protien.
Lactose intolerant just means your body cannot manufacture enough lactase enzyme to digest the amount of milk you are consuming,,and as adults we slow in this production and consequently get gasey as the milk sugars ferment in the gut instead of being digested...so we get gasey, and we are all different.
DH here can drink milk for breakfast, have cheese for lunch, and ice cream for dessert, and has no issue, but I cannot.
My gut does not manufacture hardly any enzymes to break down and digest lactose or the milk protein casein, so I BLOAT the a whale and get so gasey I cannot believe it.
Children usually have little problem digesting milk, they are children and are meant to drink milk...it is as we age that our gut slows or stops manufacturing lactase, or otherwise known as the enzymes needed to digest lactose, which is milk sugar.
As we age, we were not meant to drink milk, we are meant to be weaned as all other mammals are...so our gut production of the enzymes necessary to digest lactose slows or stops, and if we drink over the amount of lactose, we get gasey...and can bloat.
From what Poultry Digest and several other poultry breeders have said, chickens have little enzymes to break down this same protein.
They were not designed to drink milk, they are not mammals.
And so they believe these birds will get diareah if fed dairy products.
I have not seen this article, so do not know if that is true or not.
I give my birds cottage cheese once a week or so...they love it and I have not seen any digestive upset from it.

 

[Chickielady]

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Yogurt is a conspiracy ???

 

[Chickielady]

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