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[Rainwolf]

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Yeah, a giant pheasant, but peacocks running loose all over the hillsides make for no sleep, day or night...

What is worse is that this guy dumped them out here!
How irresponsible is that?
THE GOOD PART IS THAT WE BOTH SAW THE BIRDS, AND dh SAW THE WHOLE THING, TRUCK & ALL...so we will be notifying authorites.

So he knows how many to catch? and then its supper freezer time if all males

Tho if one was pure white I'd just catch and sell that one....

Defiantly call and report the animal dump... poor things probably did not get good care anyhow....
I had a friend who's farm used to be the puppy/cat dumping ground for the area....
she got into the habit of walking the road ditches and checking boxes/bags to make sure the critters got help rather then died.
How people can do that to critters I'll never know.

 

[justbugged]

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I changed them twice a day the first couple of days, then once a day and now they're on newspaper and aspen shavings like the big kids. I'm hoping I can put them all in one box and switch back and forth to make cleaning easier, but that may not happen before I get their hoop house made on the unused part of the front porch. That's going to be all pvc pipe, greenhouse plastic and cage wire with a loose linoleum floor and one of the plastic bins made into a coop. Framing the door is going to be an SOB, my least favorite job in the world, but oh, well, has to be done.

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Get a few bags of playsand at Home Dept, and use it for your brooder bedding.
#1) Chicks need sand to digest..
and better yet:
#2) Sand is non flammable, and oh so warm for the babies to get in...
no worries that the heat lamp will ignite anything...
#3) Sift the sand with a cat box spoon, to collect doo doos.
#4) the sand will naturally dry the poops, and so it will not remain gooey & get everywhere.........ick.
Just the way I do it~~

I love sand in the brooder. This was the first year we used the sand. I was very leery about using it, because I thought it would travel everywhere. I have enough dirt in the house without adding poopy sand. But we lined the brooder pens with plastic shower curtains. The SC that I buy are a heavier weight of plastic than I can find with another type of plastic sheeting. I can find them for only 5.00 at Grocery Outlet. The last set I bought were pink swrillies.

I don't think it mattered to the chicks.

 

[justbugged]

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X2

I just know you a little better, and I know that you are not trying to hurt anyone here. Dang it Jim we're family here.

 

[T Hi]

Chicken skin with feathers would not freak us out... however... not preffered!

OK That's it from me folks! Im heading to bed. the sinus pressure in my head is making me crazy!!! Must have been from hanging out with all them chickens all wekend!! I should have just stayed by the good old trusty duck row!!!

 

[justbugged]

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Lol I wouldnt turn them down if they just showed up. But I would be in SO much trouble if I brought them home. lol Sorry you have abandoned peacocks at your place. I wonder... What does peacock taste like?

You must know that there is only one answer here.

It has to taste like chicken.

 

[justbugged]

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I think it cause I talked you ear off tonight.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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hey girl, are you listening to me ??

put your chick feeder and waterer up on top of 2x4s ... or some similar small holder (holder for pillar candle maybe ?) .... then the chicks won't kick as much stuff into them, they won't crowd them as much, and the 2x4 will stop them from trying to eat the edges of the paper towels (mine tried it until I battened the edges down)

and how is the ringworm doing? we haven't yet had any urgent reason to drive over your way, but may have to some time this week, DS has run out of a couple of things, and since he cannot drive, must go straight from work to work-release house, he can't SHOP ! could bring antifungal gunk though I suspect your Tiger Balm will poison it sufficiently

looks like we cannot occupy the Maui house until February sometime, so the chickens MAY have earned a reprieve .. DS says he will have put in his time about the end of March, so we'd only need a chicken-and-dog-sitter, or alternate placements, for a couple of months

you might ask your bird hunting relatives if they would like the loan of a good scent hound for a little while?

I use 2x4s to get the water dishes up and out of the bedding to. I have also found that if you can make it work, that a rabbit or rodent water bottle works even better in the brooder. I have a 4'x4' brooder pen, the sides are plastic fencing. So I don't have any problems with hanging the bottles. All the chicks that I have brooded have figured out how drink from the bottle with any problems. And the water is always clean that way. I have also use a 12"x12" marble tile on top of the 2x4s that gives a waterer a little more chance of stay cleaner.

I don't think that I am all that far from the Yelm area, so if you two need any help let me know. I am not very fast, but I am willing to try and help.

I read the tale of the tarp, and I wished I could have helped out. I am native to Western WA so rain doesn't faze me. I believe in the saying "If you won't do it in the rain, you won't do it at all."

Oh, yeah, I know, believe me- I spent February, March, and half of April 1997 bottle-feeding an orphan calf in some of the worst weather ever. She was grafted onto a cow who had enough milk for two calves in better weather- not in rain and sleet and wind in one of the wettest years ever. I lost her mother to a prolapsed uterus and a really dim receptionist at the vet clinic, and we weren't set up for bottle calves at all then, so she was safer with the herd (and topped 600 pounds at weaning). I have all sorts of experience working in the rain.

I'm going to have to hire my cousin's kid again, though, because what I'm lacking is muscle and height for this job, and the ability to communicate in Smithian, which involves a lot of vague gestures and family idiom.

 

[T Hi]

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I think it cause I talked you ear off tonight.

I think that I was the one doing all the talking!!! My oh my it felt good to blow up the phone line tho!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, wow.
Talk about dinosaurs, peacocks are dragons!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I changed them twice a day the first couple of days, then once a day and now they're on newspaper and aspen shavings like the big kids. I'm hoping I can put them all in one box and switch back and forth to make cleaning easier, but that may not happen before I get their hoop house made on the unused part of the front porch. That's going to be all pvc pipe, greenhouse plastic and cage wire with a loose linoleum floor and one of the plastic bins made into a coop. Framing the door is going to be an SOB, my least favorite job in the world, but oh, well, has to be done.

Tip:
Get a few bags of playsand at Home Dept, and use it for your brooder bedding.
#1) Chicks need sand to digest..
and better yet:
#2) Sand is non flammable, and oh so warm for the babies to get in...
no worries that the heat lamp will ignite anything...
#3) Sift the sand with a cat box spoon, to collect doo doos.
#4) the sand will naturally dry the poops, and so it will not remain gooey & get everywhere.........ick.
Just the way I do it~~

I need it for a couple of other things, and was planning on using it on the porch project, but I'm putting it off until Hallowe'en weekend since this has been an expensive couple of weeks.