What did you do with your flock today?

[FBMcrazy8]

I forgot to update yesterday, but I checked everyone's ears and they all seem clear. Molly is on meds and taking it like a champ, especially seeing as she's been taking them "raw" and not hidden in any sort of food.

I think I got most of the chunks out in both ears. I'm still going to check her for the next few days until I know for sure, but her inner ears look fairly clean.
Yesterday, along with the hydrogen, I flushed her with saline to help clean out any excess in her ear and the feathers over her ear. After I was done I put neo on the area since it felt really weird to dig around and then just send her out. At the very least it'll help keep the area moisturized after the hydrogen. Unless I see more big chunks I'm going to switch to only saline so she can properly heal.

Today I found her sunbathing on the porch, and she's been hanging out with the flock a lot more than she has been. I'm hoping she keeps looking up.

That is awesome news! I don’t think my chickens would tolerate me doing any of that to them. It’s good though that she lets you and taking the medicine without any problems. I hope everything continues to go really well!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

@FBMcrazy8 yall snowed in again?!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

I'm so glad she's on the mend! She is definitely a strong girl!

@FBMcrazy8 hope all yours are on the mend as well!

Didn't hear but one sneeze this morning...so hopefully I'm just worrying over notin as usual.
Did find another shellless egg on the porch of their coop. Saw several watery poos as well here and there.
Of course the extreme shifts in our weather are insane! Wind gusts again and a drop on temps and heavy rains...snow for tomorrow. We did miss out on the hail storm so guess that's a good thing.
On a sad note the Satins from my flock all came from this one breeder in Alabama and their mom/aunt was killed by a hawk last night. That makes and mom and dad killed by hawk now.
Joey didn't take the news too well...gave me a good bite on the wrist.

Thank you! I really don’t know how to respond to if they are on the mend…only because this is my first time dealing with anything with the chickens. They have all been healthy and doing fantastic up until this point. I can say that my cockerel still isn’t using his foot but the swelling has gone down enough that he can hold his feet close together, rather than spread apart. He is still eating and drinking. I didn’t take him out yesterday though because we too experienced a temp drop. Wednesday the high was 60 and yesterday it dropped to 30. We don’t have any snow or rain in our forecast yet though. We were supposed to get a mix yesterday morning but it never showed up. The hen with the frostbitten toes is still using her foot and roosting and walking. She does rest it though by lifting it up. Her fluffy butt is still fluffy. No more poop has been on it since I cleaned her up. But I tell you, I was so worried that it was flystrike. I went ahead and ordered screen, like window screens, to put over the top of the hardwire. The hope is that it will keep flys out of the coop, or at least minimize it. Last year the coop was dry and never smelled but for whatever reason we had SSOO many flies, they were everywhere, including the coop. But with the warm temps during the day I was worried a fly got to her, even though I hadn’t seen any, the way things have been going, it wouldn’t have surprised me. But after thinking about it I don’t think they would have lived long anyway because even though day temps were 50s/60s, night temps were about 20s.

I’m glad the sneezes have lessened for you! I hope the eggs and poops aren’t anything serious. The stress from the weather could very well be problematic. Maybe you will be able to find out which one is laying the shelless eggs. That might be able to help determine what is going on.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

@FBMcrazy8 yall snowed in again?!

No…it is just cold here! We did get the sudden temp drops. Monday we will be back in the 50s with rain. This is just nuts for weather! My birthday is at the end of January and EVERY year around my birthday the weather is TERRIBLE. Snow storms, blizzards, icing, sleet, you name it, probably happened. I’m really curious what it will be like this year. How is it there?

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Getting ready to head to a friend's house. Have a bunch of cages I decided to get rid of so taking them to her along with a pair of yokos. Going to pick up one of the birds I gave her a couple years ago too. Little hen that's getting picked on by a full sized hen. One of her newer birds keeps cornering this one and she's getting hurt. She should do well with Manchego's little flock after a proper quarantine and introduction though.
Starting to make headway on my to-do list. Getting rid of these cages opens up some storage space which I'm always in need of more of.

So glad you are able to get some checks done on your list!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

No…it is just cold here! We did get the sudden temp drops. Monday we will be back in the 50s with rain. This is just nuts for weather! My birthday is at the end of January and EVERY year around my birthday the weather is TERRIBLE. Snow storms, blizzards, icing, sleet, you name it, probably happened. I’m really curious what it will be like this year. How is it there?

Pouring snow today but only sticking to roofs so far.

 

[TropicalBabies]

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I just had to watch this again b4 I started my day

 

[Shetland lover]

No…it is just cold here! We did get the sudden temp drops. Monday we will be back in the 50s with rain. This is just nuts for weather! My birthday is at the end of January and EVERY year around my birthday the weather is TERRIBLE. Snow storms, blizzards, icing, sleet, you name it, probably happened. I’m really curious what it will be like this year. How is it there?

It's my birthday at the end of January too! I can't tell you the number of things we've planned then had to call off because of the rubbish weather. It better not be an issue next year as it's a big birthday and hopefully will fulfil a lifelong dream.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Pretty sure I mentioned that we had a new rooster dropped off. Like many b4 he made his way into my son's big Mango tree backyard and up to our fences where he has been camping, avoiding the established flock of ferals and sngging up to our fence line to be close to our flock. I tossed him food a few times a day to help him out and he took to roosting on the ladder we use to hop the fence. So last eve I picked him up and caged him.

Typical 'game bird' comb and wattle cut and his spurs were trimmed back too. Looks to be at least a year old with the demeanor of a lost pup. I was happy to hear his clucking at finding fresh food and water in his cage this morning but UNFORTUNATELY.

Spider can't seem to leave him alone. So Spider and the crew got grounded to the run and I put barriers up around roosters temp housing.
So hard to like humans

 

[TropicalBabies]

But before all of that drama and my sour feelings towards the human race lol

Spider waiting for his favorite girls to jump down off their roosts.

Beetle keeping an eye on the mornings preenfest. The ground too cold and wet for their feet. We were 65° this am. Burrr!