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[Stumpfarmer]

Stumpfarmer, that reminds me of 1985 when I was at the time the ranch manager's "ol lady" on a sheep/cattle ranch in Glide OR.....the new owner, new to critters as well, had bred all the ewes way too early.
And we have a bunch of lambs born in the pasture of snow...steamers we called them.
There was one ranch hand after another bringing ME the little shivering lambs.
The ewes walked away, the lambs too cold to follow.
I had to rub them up & made a baricade around the woodstove in the dining room so the little guys would not get burned on the stove...and sat there feeding them, 6 or 8 in all.
bee bees all over the floor........
One guy dropped off a 50# milk replacement & some bottles..........
All my towels covered in sheep grease LOL
The newborn lambs trying to nurse under each dinning room chair~~~~~~~

I lost a cow to a prolapsed uterus (and a stupid vet clinic receptionist who absolutely reversed the facts of the case: she said the cow had a retained placenta and was in the barn when she had a prolapsed uterus and was out in the field in 34F sleet) and ended up with her calf in the same bathroom where the Easter Eggers reign today. I ended up bottle-feeding her and running her with the herd as soon as she was strong enough to run- we had a stray wolfy GSD coming by, and I didn't have a safe place to keep her near the house, but the Mama cows had his number and had almost killed him already, so he stayed away from them. Nothing quite like going out three times a day with a quart of 98F milk replacer in a nursing bottle and letting the slush roll off your raingear while the calf nurses and then runs away back to the nursery.

 

[Chickielady]

I lost a cow to a prolapsed uterus (and a stupid vet clinic receptionist who absolutely reversed the facts of the case: she said the cow had a retained placenta and was in the barn when she had a prolapsed uterus and was out in the field in 34F sleet) and ended up with her calf in the same bathroom where the Easter Eggers reign today. I ended up bottle-feeding her and running her with the herd as soon as she was strong enough to run- we had a stray wolfy GSD coming by, and I didn't have a safe place to keep her near the house, but the Mama cows had his number and had almost killed him already, so he stayed away from them. Nothing quite like going out three times a day with a quart of 98F milk replacer in a nursing bottle and letting the slush roll off your raingear while the calf nurses and then runs away back to the nursery.

I so remember !!!!!!!

 

[Zgoatlady]

the other breed of what?
She was after Swedish Flower hens in this case, silly girl missed a few pages

Oh I thought they were black too

 

[Chickielady]

Ok I am back~~~~~~~~~
Went surfing for Swedish Flower hens cuz I know somebody HERE has them & finally figured it out, it is AnniesMom.
So sent her a PM.
NOW I can go nye nye.
My puter locks up & goes stutter bran dead & the script says "Internet Explorer is not responding"
Until I shut the Modem OFF waite a sec, then turn it on & presto, my puter goes through 3 pages..................

Going page to page is awful!!!!!!!!!!
Goodnight all~~~

No CJ the Swedish Flower Hen is party colored, like a Jubilee, and crested often alot like Icelandics.

 

[Zgoatlady]

A few years back we had snow and I was out milking at about 4:30 trying to keep my hads warm for the girls. Feed the kids, ( 4 leg ones) than head to wrok. I dont miss that..

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so here we go. Look carefully at these 2 lamp fixtures. Note the one on the LEFT has a plastic base where the lamp screws in it also has an on/off switch. This fixture is rated at 150 watts (I think that's a little high). The fixture on the right is a BROODER lamp fixture. Note the base is WHITE CERAMIC. This is rated at 300 watts. See the 250 watt lights we use will cause the fixture on the left to melt. Also please keep in mind I found these on Home depot website and the BROODER light is actually a dollar less.
Also use bare steel wire or "jack chain" to hang the lamps, not twine or string.


OK and here is part of why I push this so much. See I had a local lady who I bought all my feed from. She called me one day and asked if I wanted to haul off a bunch of scrap for her. She then told me that her barn had burnt to the ground. This was a big old about 50'x100' barn. In the fire they lost all of their breeding hogs, tractors, grist mill, silo's full of grain and their grain business. And as it turned out the fire appears to have started from a heat lamp that failed and fell into bedding.

PLEASE make sure you are using the right kind of fixture. I don't want to hear of any fires from heat lamps.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

We are up to 9" now and it's coming down hard. The radars show a classic convergance zone and we are right on the southern edge of it.

Christmas 2008 was the worst I remember. It just kept snowing and snowing and in the end we had 30". I had to dig out all the coop doors/gates to even open them. And it was C-O-L-D and we had to make multiple trips out a day to bring the birds water. Thankfully, we didn't have as many coops as we do now!

 

[RedReiner]

We are up to 9" now and it's coming down hard. The radars show a classic convergance zone and we are right on the southern edge of it.

Christmas 2008 was the worst I remember. It just kept snowing and snowing and in the end we had 30". I had to dig out all the coop doors/gates to even open them. And it was C-O-L-D and we had to make multiple trips out a day to bring the birds water. Thankfully, we didn't have as many coops as we do now!

I have got about 15 over here on my side, nothing falling at the moment, but I am sure it will soon!

 

[Ogress]

X 2

X 3, Yipppeeeee!

 

[Ogress]

This is NOT a heat lamp base, it is usually brown PLASTIC and has an on/off button and cannot take the heat & has a skinny cord !!!!!!!!
DO NOT USE THESE with a 250 watt IR heat lamp please !!!


If you put a 250 in it, it will explode. I thought I bought 3 with ceramic bases, but was not careful and one had only the plastic base. I turned the lamp on, and within seconds it exploded! Luckily it was not in my coop or over chicks yet, I had just plugged it in to feel how much heat it gave off.

I ordered the Brinsea electric hen for the chicks after that, and some radiant heat panels that I had intended to hang by the roosting bars, but they are warming my legs instead.