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[Chickielady]

OK it was sure easy to get caught up this morning with absolutely no night crew.
I still have babies hatching out & there is not much going on.
I am gonna take the day off & just lay around & veg out.
Maybe make a cake...I am locking the gate so no one comes in looking to buy chicks...not gonna be available all hours anymore.
We usually have 1 or 2 drive in at odd hours, like dusk, 6 or 7 PM even.
Just when you are ready to shower & get ready for dessert & the news.
No more, the days are way too long.
Later guys, I am talking to myself here~~

Just gotta keep up the postings or Broody will catch up to me!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Can't this be reported? This is disgusting and awful. I would think that "pissing" toward/ON you could classify as assault. OMG!!!!!

I have so many things I want to say, regardding how Ogress was treated...but can't think straight right now....just got through bashing my head on a low 2x4, whilst trying to get my chicken carriers out. It hurts.

Ogress, be careful. People who have this low of IQ and and act this way, especially when they run in packs, their behavior only gets worse. I hope you do not have to go past them often.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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It ended there, but the gang could have been chasing her all over, who knows where the fight started ?

I was out there working. The silkie was out side when the others suddenly attacked !!

 

[Chickielady]

Then I have no idea, it must be something only the chickens know, and they are not talking.
Hope she is OK, is she pecked up badly ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Can't this be reported? This is disgusting and awful. I would think that "pissing" toward/ON you could classify as assault. OMG!!!!!

I have so many things I want to say, regardding how Ogress was treated...but can't think straight right now....just got through bashing my head on a low 2x4, whilst trying to get my chicken carriers out. It hurts.

Ogress, be careful. People who have this low of IQ and and act this way, especially when they run in packs, their behavior only gets worse. I hope you do not have to go past them often.

Too bad she did not have a camera & could have spun around & snapped off a shot...what awful applesaucers!!!!!
Good think her DH or son were not there!!!!!
Hopefully her DD did not see 'IT'
Too bad those punks' mothers did not see the act their son's are doing to passersby, especially women with chicldren present!!!

 

[Peppermint]

I can't find the posts from a few weeks ago where the details about the state agency that does necropsy on birds.

I have had 3 birds (age 6-8 weeks) get wobbly back legs and eventually not able to walk at all...and I need a definitive diagnosis of whether or not it is Mareks. If it is, I will have to have all new chicks vaccinated at hatch. I have a closed flock, practice good biosecurity...the only thing I can think of is migratory birds hanging out in the woods near our house and bringing with them diseases my birds have no immunity to.

Can anyone point me in the direction of who to call to have the bird tested? I'm waiting to cull until I hear how they want it preserved (freezer or fridge).

Thank you

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Nope not what I would call "bad". The back of her head is bald and has a little bloody but it's a long way from her heart so she will survive.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Sorry I can't be much help but I would suggest calling your local extension office or check with WSU.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Pictures! Coop and birds - they sound like great birds!

I'll try to take a new photo today; there's pictures several pages back of the Hamburgs and Wyandottes both. The coop is currently Not What I Want To Be Shown: it needs major caulking, trim, and another coat of paint, at least, not to mention all the wire put on the south and east sides and the secure run wired up (I needed that done long ago, but there's no way I want to work on a structure inside a wired pen only three feet wider than it is!). I think I'm making a temporary day pen and an exit from the chicken tractor today, I can do all the sawing inside and then give Ian some room to stretch: he's WAY too big for his current accomodations.

Construction was slow this week: I had appointments on Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday I washed bedding and took all the construction stuff out of the coop so it could be painted, Thursday I got to Oregon (I was worried something might have happened to it, since I hadn't seen it in eighteen months) for photography and plant purchases, and yesterday was the first day I could actually work on the coop, and also the first day in a couple of weeks when I could wash my own clothing. As I said back along somewhere, I can't get as much done in a day as I could when I was forty, or even fifty.

 

[blueducklings]

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did he try those nose stickers?