Yoda I hope you get to feeling soon. I had that for the first time ever a few years ago and it's horrible. Unfortunately I had to work. It was tax season and I was the only one in the office so I couldn't take off.
As for my day it wasn't that great either. We've had cold rain a few days and today it turned into sleet then snow. When I went to feed I had 1 hen lethargic and a red legged partridge near death. All 3 A frame pens where soaked and the feed in one got soaked. A new leak started in the sizzle pen. And my Orph pullets have worms.
Found out the hard way. When I was putting out straw for them to cuddle up in I almost put my hand in it.
So First I had to tend to the too cold and dying birds then out to put out straw on the floors of all the pens and covered the A frames up with thick clear plastic. Another bird ended up in the house this evening. She was too cold. The roo has really been taking alot of piggy back rides leaving the hens bare. With no feathers they got cold despite the aprons they had on. So the sisters are in the house under a heat lamp on the porch. The partridge didn't make it, he died. I got to him too late.
By the time I did all that I had forgotten about the worms. So i'll worm them tomorrow. I wormed everybody in the fall like I always do but apparently the orphs needed an extra treatment. I've never seen worms in any of my birds poo before so it was a shock.
The wet weather is suppose to stop and warm up to a whopping low 40's before noon. A heat wave.
I've already had 1 pullet that got sick last week then another I heard sneezing. So everybody in that pen is on antibiotics. This is not a good sign of how this winter is gonna go.
As for my day it wasn't that great either. We've had cold rain a few days and today it turned into sleet then snow. When I went to feed I had 1 hen lethargic and a red legged partridge near death. All 3 A frame pens where soaked and the feed in one got soaked. A new leak started in the sizzle pen. And my Orph pullets have worms.
So First I had to tend to the too cold and dying birds then out to put out straw on the floors of all the pens and covered the A frames up with thick clear plastic. Another bird ended up in the house this evening. She was too cold. The roo has really been taking alot of piggy back rides leaving the hens bare. With no feathers they got cold despite the aprons they had on. So the sisters are in the house under a heat lamp on the porch. The partridge didn't make it, he died. I got to him too late.
By the time I did all that I had forgotten about the worms. So i'll worm them tomorrow. I wormed everybody in the fall like I always do but apparently the orphs needed an extra treatment. I've never seen worms in any of my birds poo before so it was a shock.
The wet weather is suppose to stop and warm up to a whopping low 40's before noon. A heat wave.
