What did you do with your flock today?

[ChicksnMore]

I had a full chicken day.
Filled food in the a.m. Put fresh bedding in nest boxes this afternoon. Went to visit a couple of my hens I gave to a friend this summer, they are loving life at her place. Spoiled! Cleaned waterers in the p.m. and lastly cleaned and rewrapped my bumble foot hen. Looking healthy and healing nice.
It was a lovely day.

That does sound like a lovely day

This guy showed up next door today. Poor guy ♡View attachment 3371504

Poor baby!

 

[ChicksnMore]

Mostly a kitchen day today, but got all the water bowls washed and refilled. Everyone's feeders are topped up. They got all the garden rakings the last few days, so hoping to turn that stuff under in the next few days. Think the chickens had enough fun with it...turn it under and they think it's fresh fun.

Saw the dwarf littles are starting to bed down in the coop with the adults . Smooth integrations always make me happy.

 

[FloppyGirl]

My birds are my therapy most days but the last weeks has been ever so challenging. Lost a pullet last Wednesday to a suspected weak heart. Had to let 6 of my boys go to someone's freezer camp this weekend. Have a hen with a laying issues probably because I didn't send the boys to camp soon enough. It was hard enough dealing with crazy -30C--40C temperatures last month but dealing with the 'thaw' has not been any easier. Apologies, just frustrated and want my flock thriving again.

And then there is the rooster with amputations that will need prosthetics.

 

[ChicksnMore]

My birds are my therapy most days but the last weeks has been ever so challenging. Lost a pullet last Wednesday to a suspected weak heart. Had to let 6 of my boys go to someone's freezer camp this weekend. Have a hen with a laying issues probably because I didn't send the boys to camp soon enough. It was hard enough dealing with crazy -30C--40C temperatures last month but dealing with the 'thaw' has not been any easier. Apologies, just frustrated and want my flock thriving again.

And then there is the rooster with amputations that will need prosthetics.

Does sound like a rough patch. This winters been a hard one for some. Hope your weather improves and your flocks back to a pleasure soon

Amputations and prosthetics sound so rough! Hope that goes well too.

 

[TropicalBabies]

My birds are my therapy most days but the last weeks has been ever so challenging. Lost a pullet last Wednesday to a suspected weak heart. Had to let 6 of my boys go to someone's freezer camp this weekend. Have a hen with a laying issues probably because I didn't send the boys to camp soon enough. It was hard enough dealing with crazy -30C--40C temperatures last month but dealing with the 'thaw' has not been any easier. Apologies, just frustrated and want my flock thriving again.

And then there is the rooster with amputations that will need prosthetics.

Ouch! That sounds rough BUT you will make it through and your flock health and success will be that much more of a satisfying therapeutic joy. I'm sure they really love seeing you now ♡ I commend your bravery with sending boys to camp. I don't have the courage (or smarts) and have to work hard on peace. Keep up the good work.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Mostly a kitchen day today, but got all the water bowls washed and refilled. Everyone's feeders are topped up. They got all the garden rakings the last few days, so hoping to turn that stuff under in the next few days. Think the chickens had enough fun with it...turn it under and they think it's fresh fun.

Saw the dwarf littles are starting to bed down in the coop with the adults . Smooth integrations always make me happy.

X2! Love a good integration!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Fly trap saga. Store bought traps are still grabbing the masses.

Home made jobbers... catching some flies still and also attracting freeloaders

This little cutie was there all day long scaring the flies away

 

[FloppyGirl]

Ouch! That sounds rough BUT you will make it through and your flock health and success will be that much more of a satisfying therapeutic joy. I'm sure they really love seeing you now ♡ I commend your bravery with sending boys to camp. I don't have the courage (or smarts) and have to work hard on peace. Keep up the good work.

Sending boys to camp is the absolute worst. It honestly is the reason I might not let any girls go broody this year. My heart might not be not be able to take it. I raised all the boys and got attached. Only when I saw my girls basically running the gauntlet to get to the roost I knew it was time to make choices.

 

[PopoMyers]

Got the larger run turned. Little rototiller ran out of battery, so got out the fork and cultivator. Smells wayyy better in there. DH got the other long tarp up,, so the other part of the run should stay drier. I will turn that side another day. Finding more rat tunnels, and when I started the rototiller up, I must've woke one up, as it came running out, and dove through the chicken wire into another tunnel that leads into the garden, under the astroturf we have between the raised bed. I'm going to roll up that strip and uncover their tunnel network. Deployed the mole trap near a fresh mound. Think I may put the rat can inside the run, as that's where they seem to go.

 

[Shetland lover]

It is all or nothing with him. When I take him out he squirms to get out of my arms and will RUN across the yard to them. If I put him in a kennel out there it will be the same thing. He will stand the whole time, pass back and fourth, just wanting to get out. That is why I’m giving him a couple hours a day out there. If he is going to loose a toe or all or even his whole leg, I want him to enjoy what he can. I want him to heal but also be happy. Especially not knowing how much damage there is.

I totally get that, FBMcrazy8. I felt the same when we found out Maud had terminal reproductive cancer. She got what she wanted, when she wanted it. It may have ultimately shortened her life but she was content, spoilt rotten and as far as we could tell, happy.

The hard, black, necrotising tissue that forms after frostbite  IS a type of gangrene called 'dry gangrene'. It doesn't smell bad and as far as gangrenes go, is the relatively benign type. It actually protects the healthy tissue underneath and should never be picked off, just allowed to fall off naturally.