Waterfowl Pics and Chat!

[brshooter]

So very sorry to hear that (

Bill

 

[Marty1876]

I guess some days are just not good. I walked out to my car late this morning to find a hawk in the yard going after my birds. He killed one of the EE cockerals, and my pied call drake. I felt so awful, I shouldn't have let them out with the flock yet. And then, I was checking everyone over and I found a japanese hen with bubbly eyes and a swollen head. I don't know if they had whatever it is when I got them, or if I carried something home from the show. It's my fault, they should have still been in quarantine anyway. So now I need to cull her, and figure out what I have to do to get her sent off for necropsy. Then possibly cull my whole chicken flock. Praying at this point that what I've read is right and that waterfowl don't catch it. Otherwise, guessing no more poultry for me.

All my poor babies, I've failed all of them.

Oh, Julie I hope its not so bad as that.

Naughty Hawk.

really hope you don't have to cull your flock. Wait and see what happens. At least you have her seperate now. Call the county extension agent!

 

[Marty1876]

went to an Irish folk concert last night.

I'm so jealous. I've been working like a crazed weasil every nice weekend. I wish it would rain like crazy just so DH would relax. We'd clean the house top to bottem, but there are only so many things we can do right now inside. Outside, the work appears to be limitless, and every friday he makes a nice long list that we can't possibly work our way through.

I want an Irish folk concert. Or scottish. Or anything but WORKING!

 

[JulieNKC]

I talked with the npip lady for mo, and she doesn't seem too concerned at this point. I'll keep the flock closed, I'm getting npip tested soon and will have them test some birds for mg then. The swelling has already gone down from the hens face a bit and I haven't done anything. She doesn't act sick at all, hasn't sneezed or coughed. I have picked up everyone and checked them over close looking for injuries, and everyone else is perfectly fine at this point. I am wondering if maybe I had a slight panic attack and she got a claw or goose foot to the head when everyone was running for cover from the hawk. Now I guess it's just sit and wait a few weeks.

 

[psue]

I'm so jealous. I've been working like a crazed weasil every nice weekend. I wish it would rain like crazy just so DH would relax. We'd clean the house top to bottem, but there are only so many things we can do right now inside. Outside, the work appears to be limitless, and every friday he makes a nice long list that we can't possibly work our way through.

I want an Irish folk concert. Or scottish. Or anything but WORKING!

This is the band http://www.3pintsgone.com/Home.html

As requested...

Josephine today


Napoleon


and one with his face

 

[Miss Lydia]

So very sorry to hear that (

Bill

X2 Julie..

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is the band http://www.3pintsgone.com/Home.html

As requested...

Josephine today


Napoleon


and one with his face

 

[Iain Utah]

Julie, very sorry about your birds!! Hope your chicken gets better and it does not spread to your whole group.

LOVE the pics, Paulla!!! They look happy. Thanks for sharing them.

 

[Iain Utah]

I took pics when feeding this evening that I thought I'd share.

No. 1 (my first hatchling) with his new favorite group, the three white africans I kept from the rescue.


The four grey adult girls I kept from the rescue:


Ninja kitty... the feral momma cat that my hubby trapped, spayed and tamed this summer:


And my beloved Spirit, looking much better now that he is putting weight back on:

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Julie, so sorry. Hawks just suck royal. You can wash the eye with saline or even plain water and use a triple antibiotic cream (like neosporin with out pain relief) applied to your finger then wiped across the eye and any injury to the head too. (incase the hawk happened to attack the chicken first) Hope it ends up nothing.

Marty, I am with you on being ready for a weekend of NO projects. We started new driveway gates today.

4'8" high x 11' 6" wide (2 total) Have to set the new posts in cement tomorrow and wait to mount the gates. Seeded one half of the front last weekend, so daily watering and sprout watch. We have an order placed for peanut hay legumes we will get in January to plant. Should make for happy happy geese.

Paula, love the pictures! I need to take new ones, but trying to plow through the to-do lists daily right now. Galdalf the grey is becoming quite the gaggle leader though here and is very photogenic.