What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

@TropicalBabies
Did you know you can make crunchy brownies in the waffle iron? LOL.

 

[TropicalBabies]

@TropicalBabies
Did you know you can make crunchy brownies in the waffle iron? LOL.

No... are they pretty good? Cuz I will def try. Anything to not use my oven is cool with me lol

 

[WthrLady]

No... are they pretty good? Cuz I will def try. Anything to not use my oven is cool with me lol

Um, ya. Like all edge brownies? LOL. The trick is spraying the crap out of your iron.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Um, ya. Like all edge brownies? LOL. The trick is spraying the crap out of your iron.

K. I will try it! Thanks for the hot tip

 

[igorsMistress]

Even I know a virus is for life . Vet should know . Fought coryza for years . Recovered birds would get it again every winter and infect new birds . I now cull any sick bird and have not had any disease in years .

This. It can be tough but it’s the best policy in my opinion.

 

[igorsMistress]

It's summer here in South Africa so busy busy busy ... Watering, weeding, harvesting (tomatoes! so many tomatoes!) and planning more (raised) beds - I need place for my onion starts . And I'm also growing herbs to sell so I've spent a couple of mornings (coz it's cooler) transplanting the starts into pretty pots for Christmas prezzies. Also (organic) spraying my fruit trees and checking the fittings on the drip irrigation system - they're always clogging?! ... It's 8PM and I'm ready for bed .

Hard water? It clogs everything here.

 

[igorsMistress]

Aloha garden gang.
Raked leaves, talked turkey plan with DH, made waffles (waffle Wednesday!) and am on my second cup of joe.
Last night when I went to do my after walk chicken check I found a 1.5 yo Brahma hen laying outside of the coop. I picked her up and noticed she had a little bluing on her comb and she was not able to roost. Brought her in and did a vent check, nothing. Crop was not full... hmmm. So I smushed an antibiotic in Papaya and syringed it in and put her in isolation. I thought she would make it till the morning when I could do a more thorough check up on her. But she only made it a few hours.
In hindsight, I did know she and a few others were slow to get back into the run. I saw her looking a little down but I have 5-6 hens molting right now and she was one. I just feel sorry for and give added protein. I did not notice her walk. I will have to spend extra time with the feathered kids today.
I have all the hens separated together from the roo's today. I was slow to realize they probably don't need the added stress of being chased and mated, that is a young girls game though Shredder is sweet, polite and not that interested in them the 2 young roo's are.
Anywho, I buried her this early morning w/o opening her up. I am sure she had an infection or was bound or another reproductive disorder. Poor girl.
Just going to do a major coop and run clean up and some chicken thinning and moving. We have thunder storms off to our North and South so won't count on it being a dry day.

Stay well and safe all!!!!

Sorry about your hen, poor baby. They hide things so well from us as long as they can.

 

[TropicalBabies]

I know there are some real chicken knowledgeable peeps on this garden site so I like to get some feedback.
I smelt something sour in the bushes on Monday but could not locate the source, then found a dead rat close to the location yesterday morning that my super hero cat must have caught. My chickens must have dragged it out... it had the big fly maggots on it when I scooped it up. My Brahma hen could have died of botulism? That kinda makes some sense to me, does that seem possible to anyone else? Thanks smart gang.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Hard water? It clogs everything here.

Us too. Choking on minerals.

 

[igorsMistress]

Us too. Choking on minerals.

Yup. We have a splitter on the hose bib out back and it’s not that old. I turned it on and could hear water running even though the sprayer was on the side I was using...it’s so screwed up it was leaking out the closed side.