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Avshalom posted:
GORGEOUS GIRLS THEY ARE!
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Does anyone have any experience or advice regarding a limping chicken? Queen Runt, my head hen of two, has somehow overnight hurt one of her legs to the extent that she's mostly lying down with it extended, or balancing on the other leg with the claws curled up. She's obviously distressed but we can't visibly see any cuts, breaks, bites, whatever. She did spend a day last week limping, but she was still scratching, digging, and the next day back to basically being everything a dumb ground bird could be. We wrote that off as maybe a bruise or a strain. She has no grace whatsoever, and could easily have fallen off her perch. But now the problem has returned and its far worse: tail feathers are down, eyelids drooped, only sporadic interest in grass/grain/snails/worms. Any suggestions on what to try or look for? Edit: bollocks, it's going to be Marek's, isn't it? ynohtna fucked around with this message at 17:55 on May 11, 2016 |
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May 11, 2016 17:11
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 He was not successful. Second fucker I've found in there in three weeks. t 
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May 12, 2016 08:27
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Hellacopter posted:
So that little poo poo just slides in and (tries to) swallow an egg? Oh hell no.
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May 12, 2016 14:14
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Holy poo poo. He really wants that egg! What kind of snake is that? Rat snake?
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May 12, 2016 15:47
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Sure looks like it!
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May 12, 2016 16:39
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Rat snake, black snake, I dunno. I let farmer dad-in-law relocate it somewhere on their property so it can go about its snake ways. 
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May 13, 2016 06:59
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send the little snake to my farm, if the chook eggs are too big for him he can just slither on and try the quails
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May 13, 2016 07:29
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ynohtna posted:Does anyone have any experience or advice regarding a limping chicken? Well, poo poo...sounds like it.  Is she a home-hatched bird or a hatchery bird? Most hatchery birds have been innoculated, so if she's one you can still hold out hope for an injury...if it IS an injury I'd isolate her and give her a peaceful spot to heal. Good luck!
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May 13, 2016 21:50
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I made a video for the first day we were able to get the chickens outside! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7jIBSrbk8M Once we get the overhead netting in and the electric fence wired up they'll have a lot more space too.
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May 13, 2016 22:01
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CountFosco posted:I made a video for the first day we were able to get the chickens outside! so adorable. Listen to those soft peeps they still have  Thank you for sharing!
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May 13, 2016 22:03
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Awww, they sound so excited and happy to be out!
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May 13, 2016 22:08
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CountFosco posted:I made a video for the first day we were able to get the chickens outside! enjoy the grass while it lasts
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May 13, 2016 22:32
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Our plan is to use the electric fence and overhead netting to move their grazing from place to place but we'll see how that works out depending on how much energy we have.
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May 14, 2016 13:31
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One of my Black Sex Links waddled up to me, pushed her chest against my shin and laid an egg at my feet. It was a little awkward for everyone I think.
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May 15, 2016 02:13
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Shifty Nipples posted:One of my Black Sex Links waddled up to me, pushed her chest against my shin and laid an egg at my feet. It was a little awkward for everyone I think. You're married now.
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May 16, 2016 02:52
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From TradGames.
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May 16, 2016 03:27
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:You're married now. Exactly as I had feared.
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May 16, 2016 05:07
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:You're married now. AND you have custody of the kid.
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May 16, 2016 07:20
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Velvet Sparrow posted:AND you have custody of the kid. Alright now it's really weird since I don't have a rooster so my kid is in the refrigerator. Don't call CPS on me
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May 16, 2016 20:25
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Shifty Nipples posted:Alright now it's really weird since I don't have a rooster so my kid is in the refrigerator. Don't call CPS on me What have you done with Sheldon?!?!
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May 16, 2016 21:29
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Shifty Nipples posted:Alright now it's really weird since I don't have a rooster so my kid is in the refrigerator. Don't call CPS on me Generally you talk with your spouse about an abortion instead of forcing it, sicko  .
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May 17, 2016 03:36
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We have chickens!!! We got 5 pullets last week, and I have been bringing my laptop into the coop to read peer reviewed articles to the gawkiest flock everyday. Working as a researcher is very glamorous, you see. Our house agreed on Harry Potter themed names but we need to get together to finalize. So far, the black comet is Sirius Black. No one can tell the two white leghorns apart, so we've been calling them both Minerva. I've been calling the gold sex link "Goldie" and the Rhode Island Red "Rhodie." They each have different personalities except maybe the Minervas. They each take a turn on my lap and snuggle up with me each night before going into the henhouse to sleep. I tell them each they are a good chicken and to sleep well. They are three months old and still on baby food from the feed store. I give them a mouthful of whatever veg I am eating because that's what I did with chickens when I was a child. I hear I shouldn't give them too much because they could get upset stomachs. When can they get garden scraps? Oh and their voices are like half developed, so it's all, "Peep peep peep HONK," and then they all look surprised. I expect eventually they will bokbok like chickens but for now I tease them that they are part goose. Pictures to follow! (How to img from phone?) WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 17, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 17:55
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May 20, 2016 10:15
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Fierce!
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May 20, 2016 13:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4
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May 20, 2016 14:27
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(I hope I have included images appropriately! Please let me know if I should fix anything)  Finally they are here! Goldie:  Rhodie:  Sirius Black  Minerva  The chux do not seem to mind my happy cat shirt!  Snuggles before bed 
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May 20, 2016 19:31
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My chickens don't roost, they just dogpile in the corner of the coop. Stupid birds.
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May 22, 2016 04:33
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I... Uh... Capable just laid her first (that I've handled) soft egg and it was horrifying to pick up. It felt wrong! It looked kinda OK then I grabbed it and my world flipped over and now I'm weirdly horrified. This is a normal totally ok thing that happens sometimes, yes? She's gettin' up there in age, so I imagine that's part of the deal. What do you even do with a soft-shelled egg? rubbish it?
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May 22, 2016 08:50
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one of my parents chickens i've been looking after has decided to lay and sit somewhere that isn't the coop or in their garden and last night she didn't come back to the coop and i couldn't find her. fortunately she survived but today seems much the same and is there anything i can do other than just hope that somehow a fox doesn't get her? edit: i've done some extensive hunting for her and have no idea where shes managed to hide so in the unlikely event i see her again shes getting locked in the coop/run for a few days in the hopes she might go back to it Jose fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 22, 2016 |
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May 22, 2016 17:53
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Ugh. My idiots have roundworm. Hit them with panacur yesterday, I'm going to hit them again next week. Why is it, exactly, we can't eat these eggs? Will we just worm ourselves too?
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May 24, 2016 01:47
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Ugh. My idiots have roundworm. Hit them with panacur yesterday, I'm going to hit them again next week. Pretty much. It's probably not enough to dose you but I can't imagine livestock deworming drugs are any good for you. (Egg residue considerations during the treatment of backyard poultry)
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May 24, 2016 03:35
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We've done worming about every 6 months. We don't eat the eggs for about a week. Haven't had any issues. With that and some of the Adams Flea & Tick stuff to destroy the rear end off the lice they sometimes get, we've been pretty pest-free for the last year or so. Thanks to everyone who recommended the flea & tick stuff. It works a treat.
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May 24, 2016 17:08
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Well, this has been a rough morning. We just built an expanded run, taking great care to secure every bit as much as possible because we had bad experiences before. We had six chickens in there, and they were doing great. Having a whee of a time jumping around all the different levels, checking it out, making it their own. Everything seemed to work out for the past three days. This morning, there are six headless chickens. Just yesterday, they were all hopping up on my shoulders.
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May 26, 2016 12:54
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What kind of screening did you use? Any idea what got them?
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May 26, 2016 14:20
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Oh god, I'm so sorry for you.
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May 26, 2016 14:27
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Tad SG posted:What kind of screening did you use? Any idea what got them? Hardware cloth like crazy. Overlapped and wired, buried partway with rocks stacked in front, and a double-locked, hardware-cloth reinforced screen door. I literally cannot figure out how anything would have gotten in... hell, there's been a bumblebee trapped in there for two days. investigations are ongoing. Pretty sure it was a raccoon, we saw one of our chickens get its head lopped off last year before we learned the importance of fine mesh (and how chickens will sleep in the stupidest places instead of going inside their coop) spookygonk posted:Oh god, I'm so sorry for you. Thank you This is unusually lovely because 1.) we thought we'd figured it out, since our last run worked for a year and this one was carefully-planned and worked 3 days and 2.) we raised them from chicks, so they run up to us and jump on us and eat from our hands, not like our other lovely chickens who are still alive because they're in the old, smaller run still. 7am crying wife is not good fun
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May 26, 2016 14:44
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I'm so sorry, that's just awful.
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May 26, 2016 14:51
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Brawnfire posted:Hardware cloth like crazy. Overlapped and wired, buried partway with rocks stacked in front, and a double-locked, hardware-cloth reinforced screen door. I literally cannot figure out how anything would have gotten in... hell, there's been a bumblebee trapped in there for two days. investigations are ongoing. It sounds like a headscratcher, please keep us updated with what you find out. Our big predator loss some years ago came through a vent under the roof of the coop that at the time "I was going to close up any day now". So they don't just dig and enter from below.
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I'm so sorry. That's the worst feeling. I know I've heard that raccoons will grab a chicken with their little hands and pull whatever they can through the mesh -- could that be what happened here? They got kinda mesh-decapitated? We've lost so many chickens recently to the Coyote Tax. I'm hoping the coyotes will get bored now that the chickens aren't easy targets and move on to the chickens of our dumbass townie neighbor who legit tries to scythe his 7-acre property.
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May 26, 2016 17:28
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