Washingtonians

[KMoran]

OH MY..................Look at these....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ggs-listing-ends-2-17-12-11-59pm-eastern-time


Don't think I ever have seen them before, a Crele type breed..................as Rain Wolf says "kewl"

Oh I like the roo.

 

[Chickielady]

My DH dispatched it with a hatchet, but it is still stuck there. I'm hoping that a little "seepage" will naturally occur and we will be able to get it pushed through, with out doing an circular autopsy

How strange that it was stuck like that !

 

[Chickielady]

You didn't hurt my feelings... Just my eyeballs with that poor NAKED chicken!!!!

It looks like it has a bad sunburn too !

 

[Chickielady]

-very deep breath-
good thing i didn't ask the past week or so about my chickens. i got to see this morning how they were....
I guess last sunday one of my coops caught fire and burned down.

there were few survivors. Lionel and Pidgin. my favorites are alive... but i will get to them in a second.

Dad counted 9 dead. there was one that went and hid in the back of one nest box and i found it dead... the straw in the nest under it was scorched (and this was in my other coop that it went to)
There is one other survivor that i am going to have dad and john take care of tonight.... it can't walk. It walks on its 'hocks' i picked it up and that smell is burned in my nose... its feet are curled up and black. this was an EE but the legs are dead, bone, melted. so i set it near food and water for some peace.

Lionel has swollen feet and melted toe nails.... his spurs are black.... the few times he walks he picks his legs up sooo high. Him and Pidgin had feathered feet. I think it both saved them but made it worse. I don't know what to do for them. Pidgin has skin peeling off her feet. the skin on both is still... alive looking with some scales gone..... Pidgin seems to be doing 'best' It sounds like dad has been putting neosporin on them all week. Also they don't have tails..... their tails burned off..... all the feathers around their butt are burned off..... and the rest of the feathers are smoke and heat damaged.
This is beyond my understanding of what to do.
Lionel was standing on the snow... which i am sure hurt but keeps the swelling down....
I have placed Lionel and Pidgin in my little chicken tractor with water and scratch and clean straw. If there is medications i can get them today please let me know and i am also posting in the emergencys thread. I know that anything with 'cane' in it can kill them... and i am glad and lucky my dad only was putting neosporin on....
I also have a Cayuga Drake that i put in with them... the other ducks have picked on it bad. he has no feathers on his neck and after picking him up i realized they been keeping him from food and water. I need to find a new home for him, and probably for a few more drakes because i am sure they are figuring out who gets the 2 females...

Even though a week as about passed since they been burned it still looks iffy for Lionel. he is still in shock to me.

This has been a very, very bad winter for chickens.... and very depressing.
I am heart broken Lionel is my oldest chicken. he is just over 4 years old. pidgin is a year younger, but i know she is tough with how she broods alone.

Good Grief you have had some awful trials this winter !
Hope things get better !!!

 

[Chickielady]

I bought the Repti pro for the same reason and love it (heats and cools so can be used in ALL climates, and for Emu and Ostrich eggs not that i have any).Check out incubators.org http://www.incubators.org/thermal-hova-bator-picture-window-incubator-1582r.html similar, much better price. I definately recomend them have had no problems with orders I placed.

RobertH

Heats AND cools ?
WOW That would have come in handy when we were in California & it was 110 degrees in April & just got hotter all summer.
Had the incubators in the house with the air conditioners on but that sucks humidty, and the "swamp coolers" pump too much humidty in the house & makes you feel hotter.
Yuck I hate the heat !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well, here it is too much Muskrat Love I guess?
It has since passed but is still well stuck there. This fence is between my mothers place and ours and we don't want to cut the fence so will wait a little longer and then give it another try? Any other sugestions? Thank you CR I would never have found the new upload icon.

There is a way to dis assemble that fence just enough to get the critter out but Way too hard for me to splain. Easiest way I know is play Tug "O"War !

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Holy cow - I sure picked the wrong few days to go off and get the flu! ReiMiraa, my heart goes out to you. I'm so sorry for your devastating loss - and I really hope you get that job!
I can't even begin to comment on everything else. Oh, except for that photo of poor Fudge - certainly hoping he's got his coat by now cuz he was starting to look a bit freezer burned

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I am hoping that today is the day I get the wettest during this calving season

I went out and stumbled around in the cold rain for an hour and a half this morning, and got soaked through a weatherproof Carhardt hoodie over a boiled wool jacket looking for a calf that wasn't born with- of course the cow thought she had a calf, too, no wonder I was confused. Apparently she and her half-sister were laboring close together in the copse of trees at the north end of the hill (The tallest trees just right of center in this photo, sunset two nights ago)


Also known as The Bovine L&D suite

Apparently when the first calf was born, or soon after, one of the big widowmakers in the tallest of thosse trees came blasting down as only Doug fir branches can, and that cow and her calf took off to the sand pit where the other cattle were feeding- this according to my neighbor, who called right after it happened. The noise and the birth-smells confused poor Dora, and she took off to the top of the hill, looking for her own (unborn) calf. The neighbor thought she'd seen two calves- it's hard to see one of them under the trees, thus (Roseanne and her daughter, yesterday):



(I've always liked Bev Doolittle a lot )

So I ended up going up and down the hill a couple of times, with the wind blowing the big trees around and new broken branches everywhere. Came home wet to the skin and had to clean up, go out to lunch, and then do my quarterly extra errands- I was out of Madras Curry, peperming oil, and other things easier to get down-town than anywhere else.

I'll be glad when this winter's over and the broken limbs are all down!

 

[Chickielady]

I am hoping that today is the day I get the wettest during this calving season

I went out and stumbled around in the cold rain for an hour and a half this morning, and got soaked through a weatherproof Carhardt hoodie over a boiled wool jacket looking for a calft that wasn't born with- of course the cow thought she had a calf, too, no wonder I was confused. Apparently she and her half-sister were laboring close together in the copse of trees at the north end of the hill (The tallest trees just right of center in this photo, sunset two nights ago)

Also known as The Bovine L&D suite
Apparently when the first calf was born, or soon after, one of the big widowmakers in the tallest of thosse trees came blasting down as only Doug fir branches can, and that cow and her calf took off to the sand pit where the other cattle were feeding- this according to my neighbor, who called right after it happened. The noise and the birth-smells confused poor Dora, and she took off to the top of the hill, looking for her own (unborn) calf. The neighbor thought she'd seen two calves- it's hard to see one of them under the trees, thus (Roseanne and her daughter, yesterday):

(I've always liked Bev Doolittle a lot

)
So I ended up going up and down the hill a couple of times, with the wind blowing the big trees around and new broken branches everywhere. Came home wet to the skin and had to clean up, go out to lunch, and then do my quarterly extra errands- I was out of Madras Curry, peperming oil, and other things easier to get down-town than anywhere else.
I'll be glad when this winter's over and the broken limbs are all down!

Oh.StumpFarmer what a beautiful Cow and a gorgeous baby (hidinf as it is)
And I agree, and awful windy rainy days to have a babe in the woods!

 

[Chickielady]

Oh I like the roo.

I wish there was egg photos, I was thinking they may be from penescenda (sp?) bloodlines & lay dark brown eggs.
But I will not ask...I know I am too tempted to buy

And need to thin & sell what I have.
Spring is on it's way, and we will start building soon.
We have several wonderful Mexican families that will help in the build.
they stop by regularly...buy cockerals , meat birds & eggs.
They are more anxious for our build to start than we are.
Well maybe,
I myself am very tired of camping........................