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[Stumpfarmer]

OK, is that sufficiently pink for the room?

 

[Imp]

Still looking for advice on when and how to reintroduce our injured hen, Salma, to the flock. Stubborn little thing clearly feels she's ready but she still has scabs healing on her face and wattles. Please help!

You probably don't want to reintroduce Salma till she's healed completely. Chickens can be very nasty to each other and may go after her. Scabs/blood can draw the others. It is not unknown for chickens to kill and even eat a perceived weaker flockmates.

Russ

 

[Imp]

Quote:
I believe Reber Ranch sells these. I don't think they were $70 though. (I got to admit I didn't pay close attention) They carry a 1 diamond box and a triple diamond box. I did think they looked and felt rather cheap & flimsy.

Russ

 

[Imp]

About the Neiman Marcus coop. They always have outrageous items in their catalog. Nothing more than a publicity stunt. I'm sure they would sell that coop for $100,000, but I don't think they expect to. This is already the 5th posting on BYC (that I've seen) about that coop. Pretty good publicity if you ask me.

Here's another rather odd publicity stunt, for shoes. really really odd. Watch the video.
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/fashion/scariest-shoes-time-173900092.html

Russ

 

[FirewifeJess]

About the Neiman Marcus coop. They always have outrageous items in their catalog. Nothing more than a publicity stunt. I'm sure they would sell that coop for $100,000, but I don't think they expect to. This is already the 5th posting on BYC (that I've seen) about that coop. Pretty good publicity if you ask me.

Here's another rather odd publicity stunt, for shoes. really really odd. Watch the video.
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/fashion/scariest-shoes-time-173900092.html

Russ

Yeah that's just stupid. I don't see style. I see idiocy at its' finest. She looks like an ape walking in them too.

The whole time I watched I just said, "Why!!!???"

 

[UrbanEnthusiast]

A good egg day for both of us then!

You probably don't want to reintroduce Salma till she's healed completely. Chickens can be very nasty to each other and may go after her. Scabs/blood can draw the others. It is not unknown for chickens to kill and even eat a perceived weaker flockmates.

Russ

Yeah, the thing is I'm pretty sure she's going to have scars on her wattles. Do chickens peck at healed scars?

Yeah that's just stupid. I don't see style. I see idiocy at its' finest. She looks like an ape walking in them too.

The whole time I watched I just said, "Why!!!???"

An ape, perhaps. Or perhaps just an excuse to look up the miniskirt of an underaged girl with a likely eating disorder.

 

[DeesHens]

So we got home from the store just after dark. DH likes to shine his light out in the field looking for deer while I get the gate open. Their were a lot of eyes tonight and he said "the shadows look big". So he turned the truck left and shown the headlights out over the field. 10-12 Elk out there. The lights made them decide to move on to the back of the property. Which was just fine with me, they were about 15 feet from the silkie pen where I had to go check on birds and pick up food.

Wow! That must have been an amazing sight. I have heard they do big time damage to property. But they sure are cool looking. ~Dee~

 

[DeesHens]

Hi everyone.. I just skimmed the last few days post.. I'm glad to see the injured birds are doing better.

Everyone seems busy getting ready for the wet and cold coming our way.. We just finished the new fence on the back property line.... and have 6 of the 10 apple trees picked.. so I'm a busy bee making applesauce and apple butter.

I'm a little bummed/worried because we did not get to build our new coop and remodel chicken area as planned. Hubby's work load was changed ( he is moving up in company So he couldn't take his 2 weeks planned vacation... instead he took 2 days.. Those 2 days were following my Grandfathers death last Sunday. So now I'm scrambling trying to figure out winter housing for 30 hens.. My current coop is only suitable for half that many... I told the hubby we should 'nt put it off LOL Should of done when i planned this summer instead of going to the Dunes.. but what do I know I'm "Just the Wife" LOL Oh well it will be OK.... I'm not gonna be too grumpy with him because I have room to complain that he is working steady in this economy. That's a blessing. The new girls just may have to live in a cow stall in the barn this winter and I may just have to build a new run.. That I can do on my own

I am gonna be busy helping my Mom put together services and a gathering for 200 to 300 people for a memorial for my Grandfather on October 27Th. We are in need of some large outdoor tent type structures for outdoor covers on that day.. Anyone have any they would like to rent out???

So now for something I think is really Odd....... I have a wild female pheasant trying to live with chickens...... I had seen some odd feathers about 5 days ago. Yesterday i was working in the garden area and noticed a "funny looking chicken" out with my hens... I realized that it was a pheasant. I shooed it off but she only went a little ways off and in the evening she was nested down in some blackberry bushes next to my pens.. The next few days she just was wandering around with my hens as they were free ranging. This morning she was in a tree above my coop. Then tonite she was actually in the coop with the Rooster and hens... I had kept the hens in their Kennel today hoping she would leave. Because she is getting tamer and tamer around us. So I got her out and then went around and reinforced the top of the pens to keep her out... When I last checked to nite she had dug a little hole right ext to the coop pen and was huddled up next to the wire. I'm only worried about it all because I have heard that wild birds can carry disease that my chickens may not be immune too. Any Insight????

So sorry to hear about your Grandfather. Hope you found the outdoor tents.

I love pheasants. Raised one when I was a girl which got me hooked on birds. ~Dee~

 

[DeesHens]

Quote: That is adorable how RainWolf named her leghorns. ~Dee~

 

[Shyla-C]

That is what I found in a nest box this morning. Wonder if my 2 babies are gearing up to lay?! Woohoo!

I found one like that, but with a thicker membrane (is that what they call it?) just the other day. That was the last egg I've gotten this week and that was Tuesday night.