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[pettec63]

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I have 2 camp options here. First they get to go to boot camp and then if they still have bad manners they go to freezer camp. So far the freezer is empty.

Good you must be doing something right!!!

The reason these guys went of course, is because that is why we bought them in the first place, I did keep two, one cause he's just a handsome boy and very nice and the other, cause he's a crazy lunatic and there isn't enough meat on him to worry about! They get to be the free range pasture roos, who can crow and pick bugs ect. I have three far better picks for roos if I want to start breeding. I'll tell you tho, I will never again buy the 99 cent mixed cockerel bunch at the local feed store for meat birds!! YUK!!!!

I'm not kidding! they were about 4 months old, but they taste terrible!! stingy and tough!! you'd think they were ancient!!! As I always tell my BF the right tool for the job the same goes for animals, the right bird, goat, cow ect for the job!! LOL!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK gonna throw this out there. Do I need to bring the kennel to yard birds saturday. Here is the pecking order jbear, broody and up for grabs. This is a stand alone. The frame is formed in the corners. It is NOT panels. It does all "break down" to a small package (about 6' x 3' x 1' +/-). Just trying to figure out if I need to load it in the truck.

 

[blueducklings]

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Easter eggs filled with sand will give her the same weight and look as a real egg.

 

[hallerlake]

I've no personal experience with this, but I've read that if you leave a rotten egg where she will find it, it will cure her of pecking.

Of course, you'd then have a smelly mess to clean up.

 

[blueducklings]

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[chickens4gramma]

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Hello Jynx.

I am at Lake Tapps, but lived in Graham from 1979 to 1987. (It was a lot smaller then, lol!) Welcome!

 

[chickens4gramma]

Well, as Ron said, "what a difference a day makes". I don't know what happened with Ron, but I see he is selling his coops. I am sorry for whatever it is.
As for us, this was my hubby's vacation week, which we were going to use to convert our shed to a coop. But we spent 7 days at Good Samaritan Hospital Critical Care Unit instead. We are home now, and our daughter is doing well, but life is changed a bit.

Last Thursday morning I heard my 20 year old daughter retching downstairs, and went down to find her on the bathroom floor in a pool of vomit and unresponsive. ( My daughter was a tiny preemie (1 lb 13 oz) and has mild to moderate cerebral palsy. We made a little apartment in our basement for her because she is not able to live on her own.) We called 911 and the paramedics took her to the ER with sirens and lights. In the ER, they told us she was critically ill and to kiss her and tell her we loved her before they put her on the ventilator. After CT scans, MRI, EEG, EKG, and every kind of culture there is, they believe she had a seizure Wed night and laid there all night. She aspirated vomit, so on Friday she developed aspiration pneumonia, and was very ill from that. She was on the ventilator for 4 days, then weaned off and made a slow, but remarkable recovery. We brought her home yesterday, but she requires a lot more care because she is weak and lost some function. She cannot live downstairs alone for quite some time, if ever, so we are doing some readjusting and changing of bedrooms.

Consequently, my chicken project is on hold, indefinitely. I have to focus on Jenna right now, and there will be lots of Dr. appts, physical and occupational therapy, and just keeping a 24 hour watch on her. I am sad about the chickens, but so grateful my daughter survived, and had no serious brain damage, and the chickens can wait until my daughter is better.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I'm going to be so glad when I'm down to two coops and runs, and those two close together! I just did 3/4 of the first run of the yard, fed all the Hamburgs (in two different locations, mind, about fifty feet apart) and moved and fed the elder two Wyandottes- oh, and moved the sheep pen, which is a thing in and of itself. I need to feed and water the younger Wyandottes and try, again, to get good pics of the cockerels so they can be sold soon.

Then there's the making of the chili (chilli! In July! my goodness, what a thing!) and egg gathering, checking of water and feed, gathering of redworms and grass and bedstraw. The air outside is full of the smell of mildew, ugh, no wonder I can barely breath. Yesterday was a festival of sinus pain and nosebleeds, which means the nasty sedating but effective antihistamines.

This is not being my utterly favorite summer. I still have to have some additional labor if I'm going to get things done, though, and such assistance is not forthcoming.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I hope that everything works out more quickly and positively than you all expect. My best thoughts are with you.

 

[pettec63]

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My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family!!! I have a 20 yr old son and a 24 yr old daughter, and I know I would have to make some pretty tough decisions if I were in your shoes too!! God Bless!!!