What did you do with your flock today?

[FBMcrazy8]

@FBMcrazy8 maybe it's like the bad before the good and he's bout to heal on up! Has it been 3 weeks?

@TropicalBabies oh those views u have right there in your own spot of paradise!!!

Yes it’s been 3 weeks. He still isn’t using it very much but I can see he will at least loose 2 if not 3 of is toes. It is really bad. I haven’t let him go back outside cause of the temp drop, I didn’t think it would be good for him. I just wish I could do more for him. I wish I knew how bad it was and if I’m just delaying the inevitable. He still eats and drinks and FOR SURE crowing. I just don’t know what I can do to help him or what I even should do.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

O that poor boy Hope he does ok

Me too! I just love him. I don’t know what all I can do for him or even what I should do. It is breaking my heart!

 

[TropicalBabies]

In Costco picking up supplies today and spot this.

What an easy conversion into a fairly affordable coop- for the space. Love it!

 

[kurby22]

In Costco picking up supplies today and spot this.View attachment 3375815View attachment 3375816
What an easy conversion into a fairly affordable coop- for the space. Love it!

Oooo! That would be a great coop!! Lots easier than the ones I’m building hehe.

 

[TropicalBabies]

So beautiful ! I'm still stubbornly hoping for homegrown papaya fruit even if my poor abused trees are little midgets . I'm looking at your pic and drooling right now

True confessions. I don't have the magic papaya touch. Mine feed the nematodes more than they do me. That papaya tree grew out of my son's compost on the fenceline and kindly leaned over into our yard. Best papaya ever, been giving us really good fruit for 3, maybe 4 years. Glad my son never liked
I love the view from my back deck. A regular fruit salad.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Oooo! That would be a great coop!! Lots easier than the ones I’m building hehe.

TOTALLY thought of you Kurby. You would love it.

 

[kurby22]

Well I think I told you all that JoJo my frizzled Polish boy had a bad case of lice? He recovered slightly from the lice but couldn’t seem to find his stride. I found him passed away yesterday afternoon :-( Sadly, I think Nohope is only a few days off from a similar fate, but I keep holding out in hopes he responds to the vitamins. He sleeps a lot and still eats but not as much :-( Sent JoJo off to be necropsied so hopefully I will learn more about this crap—whatever it is. I did read somewhere that MG affects roosters worse than pullets and hens for some reason. So it explains why the losses are boy heavy I guess. I was painting today and sent my husband to the ups store and he came back laughing because the people at the store were full of questions “Wait, you want to ship a dead chicken? Are you required to? So it is like packed in ice and stuff? Do you have a commercial chicken operation? No?? What do you do with these chickens and why do you need to send it away?” He is pretty sure, as am I, that he will be a story for them for some time! I will miss the weird little beautiful boy-like chicken

We haven’t floated away here yet—but they have issued evacuation notices to lower lying areas in the old floodplains of the rivers that converge here. My younger dog Koda is going insane and running zoomies back and forth from the living room down the hall and into our bedroom…just to get some exercise. My chickens are also totally over it…I went to check on them and Sia was running around just drenched. Silkies look just hilarious when wet I can’t wait till Tuesday when we are supposed to get a bit of a break for longer than a day…I haven’t gotten to just sit and enjoy my babies in weeks :-( I also want to start putting my coop together but can’t really until it dries up more. Need enough dry space to put it up!

Anyway, popped in to say hi. @ChicksnMore i hope you are right and your chickie just had eye irritation! My experience with MG so far has varied enormously from a few eye bubbles that crop up and disappear in some, no signs at all ever, to I’m guessing the deaths I’ve had that ravage their lungs and bring on massive secondary issues and vulnerabilities to the slightest stressors. I’m finding that my MG vaccination works as well as the flu or COVID vaccines. Seems like about 85% success rate and 15% appear as if they never were vaccinated and get super sick. So I hope that your case is just an eye irritant! I think MG sucks. :-(

 

[PopoMyers]

I love that cheapo thought process though! Wish everyone tried to find ways to reuse and repurpose We struggle with flies in the summer here. I'm sad to say the worst area is actually my garden. Not a stinky area! But when I water, the flies appear in droves where ever the moisture is...think they're thirsty and even fresh clean water draws them. It stops once we get rain...but rain brings the mosquitoes.

The downside to paradise. Not many predators, just the tiny flying ones. My folks once made a fly trap with screen in the shape of a box with some kind of opening, and then used Chinese shrimp paste for bait, or dead fish.

 

[PopoMyers]

I am super boring. Just de-moonscaped the run and cleaned and freshened waterers. Oh, and scared out a few roaches from the chicken storage for a couple of quick thinking hens. Did not even scrape poop boards today.
Been working on Boo. Did some touch up painting and repainting (lol) after taking some of her apart the other day. I get to put her back together tomorrow. WITH new turn signals. Gosh I hope they work. Being I destroyed the old ones lol.View attachment 3373115View attachment 3373116View attachment 3373118
Had to make a quick run to the parts store this morning, just 15 miles away. Think-hope I have what I need.
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Forest thinks I am boring too.
Stopped by the Ag yard after auto parts and feeding horses and grabbed some old drip tape. View attachment 3373123View attachment 3373124
Grabbed old basket out of chicken shed (roaches) and as I started to clean it up I realized the whole thing is made out of plastic straps so no sense cut them out to weave another even worse one in. I have it soaking now. Not sure what I am going to do... maybe put it back in the chicken storage... and move on lol.View attachment 3373129View attachment 3373132
No takers on the young lad yet.

Oh, yeah, the roaches! I do not miss those at all. Had them in TX, and Okinawa Japan as well. Boo will be so beautiful with her shiny new coat, and eyes. How old is this young lad? Mine looks almost like yours, just a little darker with a few brown and dark green hackle sprinkled in. 24 weeks old.

 

[PopoMyers]

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.View attachment 3374341
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. View attachment 3374348
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

At least whoever left him knew there was a kind soul who would take him in. Amazing you were able to pick him up. Spider is not having this new competitor at all.