I am so sorry in your loss! Keep the paw prints in your heart!
What did you do in the garden today?
- Thread starter Dara77
- Start date
I think you are looking for trouble. bury it somewhere and don't talk unless you want them to come and cull all your birds.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03...-have-to-come-to-grips-with-people-dying.html
Last edited:
Sorry for your loss @WthrLady.
Losing a pet always leaves a hole. In the house, in your heart. So sorry, @WthrLady. 
Avian influenza - the Ohio Dept of Ag just posted some good info graphics on fb. I’m sure other states have done the same once HPAI showed up. But, most helpful to me are signs of illness. There are pictures of the symptoms. Of course HPAI results in very high death rates, but knowing what it looks like takes away that unknown.
Dropped of half our flock at the auction this morning. I did not stay bc I have a tire with a leak, and didn’t want to chance getting stuck. Always a bit sad to sell off some of the birds. One of them we have had for close to 3 years, other just 2 years, and the rest were only 1 year. So, we miss them but cannot keep everyone.
The 18 chicks are still doing well- we have 6 BA, 6 EE, and 6 golden buff which are hybrid layers. We requested light/white fluff EE chicks. Now it looks like we have two nearly all white ones!! We are happy about this. Last time we asked for light ones, they ended up with grey and gold/bronze colors, so not as light as we wanted. In 2.5 weeks, we pick up 24 more chicks! But, most will be male bc we will raise for food and will keep them in another pen. Some of this year’s chicks will not make the winter cut and will be sold too. However, that gives someone else a grown, but young, layer. All this as long as HPAI doesn’t impact any of our plans. We are aware that it might impact fair season, as it did in 2015.
Off to do some work outside. It is cold but nice for now. We get overcast skies then rain tonight.
Dropped of half our flock at the auction this morning. I did not stay bc I have a tire with a leak, and didn’t want to chance getting stuck. Always a bit sad to sell off some of the birds. One of them we have had for close to 3 years, other just 2 years, and the rest were only 1 year. So, we miss them but cannot keep everyone.
The 18 chicks are still doing well- we have 6 BA, 6 EE, and 6 golden buff which are hybrid layers. We requested light/white fluff EE chicks. Now it looks like we have two nearly all white ones!! We are happy about this. Last time we asked for light ones, they ended up with grey and gold/bronze colors, so not as light as we wanted. In 2.5 weeks, we pick up 24 more chicks! But, most will be male bc we will raise for food and will keep them in another pen. Some of this year’s chicks will not make the winter cut and will be sold too. However, that gives someone else a grown, but young, layer. All this as long as HPAI doesn’t impact any of our plans. We are aware that it might impact fair season, as it did in 2015.
Off to do some work outside. It is cold but nice for now. We get overcast skies then rain tonight.
Morning Gardeners. Not raining just now. May get dirt in the tires.
Glad you have a backup plan @Acre4Me - a lot of states have shut down any selling or trading or fairs & auctions. Etc.
I went to pick up the cow today & the farm owner told me the 155 culled birds were her neighbors! I was telling her I was a little late because I wanted to change for the sake of biosecurity as she has chickens. She thanked me profusely & then told me her neighbor called her a while back & said they came in & culled all her birds because they had HPAI. It was a mixed flock, geese included. She said she got a pre-recorded message from the Dept of Ag but already had her flock locked up. I wish I had had more time to talk to her & find out how it all happened.
Aaaanyway, got the cow all in the freezer & have broth bones roasting already - I don't have room for them.
Smells delish in here tho!
They gave me someones box of heart, liver, kidneys & tongue by accident. Ick. I don't know what to do with it, trying to give it away to someone but no one wants it. LOL
I went to pick up the cow today & the farm owner told me the 155 culled birds were her neighbors! I was telling her I was a little late because I wanted to change for the sake of biosecurity as she has chickens. She thanked me profusely & then told me her neighbor called her a while back & said they came in & culled all her birds because they had HPAI. It was a mixed flock, geese included. She said she got a pre-recorded message from the Dept of Ag but already had her flock locked up. I wish I had had more time to talk to her & find out how it all happened.
Aaaanyway, got the cow all in the freezer & have broth bones roasting already - I don't have room for them.
Smells delish in here tho!They gave me someones box of heart, liver, kidneys & tongue by accident. Ick. I don't know what to do with it, trying to give it away to someone but no one wants it. LOL
Run it through meat grinder. Makes great burgers.
Hensintexas
Songster
I haven’t done a blasted thing. A fox has been taking my chickens (10 so far), and I’ve literally been camping out there trying to catch the bugger. Then Frank (our 18 year old Pug), had to be euthanized Thursday. He had been in congestive heart failure for two years, and took a sudden turn. Now I truly understand the heartbreak. Just waiting for my will to have a garden catch up with the desire.
Similar threads
New posts New threads Active threads
-
Latest threads
-
-
Kalmbach Flock Maker vs Organic Starter
- Started by 4chickensIA
- Replies: 0
-
-
I need some advice! Help!!!
- Started by rosalindkate7
- Replies: 7
-
-
-
Threads with more replies in the last 15 days
-
-
-
-
Two dead chicks in brooder pen
- Started by redinator
- Replies: 69
-
-
