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Home Sweet Home! by The Pioneer Woman
6 years ago
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My Mom and I both took some pictures of the butterflies hanging out around the Big Coop. Here's some of mine.
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Even some of the yellow ones are getting more color!
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I got two new books in yesterday! These ones sent me into utter broke-ness, and now I have hardly any money. Though, I think my dad owes me 18 dollars, but I'm not sure if he's going to give it to me. ;)
The first book is written by the fella that wrote the Fablehaven books, and the Candy Shop War.
I decided to start that one first.
The second is written by the Pendragon guy.
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The birds are looking better today! I'm thrilled. Yesterday evening (before American Idol came on, of course,) I went ahead and got all the babies out of the Bantam Coop. I put the lavender ameraucanas and the LF white ameraucana in a pen together, and moved the pen across the lot to the less-inhabited side. And put the remaining two opringtons (I have just a hen/roo pair left) and Rico the polish bantam in a little drop-pen, and moved that across the lot also. Last night, I put a jacket in there with them to help with warmth.
I also moved a mottled cochin bantam to a pigeon cage, because he was looking real ill. I excepted him to die, but he's alive and better today, so I let him out to free-range.
Could this be over?
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I'm having a lot of trouble with my chickens right now.
It started with the normal worm issue that we have at the beginning of each year; two birds died, I thought OK. That normally happens, I'd been worming them for a couple days, and nobody else seemed sick, so I thought we were good.
Then two more chickens died; completely out of nowhere. I added vitamins and electrolytes to their water to go along with the DE in their food.
Today, I've lost four more chickens. All precious, expensive little babies that I hatched in my room and have babying for their short number of weeks. The others look kind of puny, but no other chickens appear ill. I put Sulfa-Med in their water instead of the other stuff today, to treat for Cocci, which I don't think they have exactly (no blood in poop, just worm-infection symptoms) but I figured it couldn't hurt.
The babies are isolated from the main flock, and were the healthiest of everybody for a while, so I'm hoping that this plague is about through. After the Sulfa-Med, I have no idea what else to give them. I've done my research, and have looked over everything in the lot, and no blood at all that suggests Cocci. Perhaps this round of worms is just worse then last year's? Even then we lost several birds, and a good deal of them laying and full-grown.
Luckily the infection hasn't reached my pumpkin hulseys, which I'm guarding with my life in my bedroom. It's also not reached the guineas, Pirate the one-eyed frizzle (the one that runs around our backyard 24-7,) or the Mama gamehen and her single baby. I'm going to give them until tomorrow, and if they're more deaths, I'm moving birds and cleaning out the coops, and moving pens outside of the lot if I have to with my babies. Hopefully this Sulfa-Med stuff will help; if it does, there shouldn't be any more deaths by tomorrow, unless the birds are too far gone already.
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Of the birds I lost, I'm sorry to say on of the hens we got from the Braud family was the first to go; a black sex-link hen. I also lost Shawn Spenstar, the frizzled cochin baby, two mottled cochin roos (least they were roos I guess) a blue oprington, and three lavender ameraucanas. What I've noticed is that the babies die much, much faster. I was fighting for the sex-link hen for a couple days before she died. You could tell she was ill, but these babies just get sick out of nowhere and are dead the next day at the most, so it could still be worms I guess. We'll see. I'm continuing to research it, and hopefully it's over.
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I have not been in the blogging mindset lately! I'm very ashamed of myself, but will do a quick update here...
So, the final for the pumpkin hulseys is nine chicks! :) I'm very pleased, and they're all doing great; and I'll try and take some more pictures soon, because they're so cute.
We went swimming at the Lake for the first time this year Thursday---in new swimsuits, too, that was interesting. We got to visit with the cousins, and had a real nice time even though the water is still freezing!
I watched Peterpan yesterday.
It brought back some memories, lol. :)
I've also got the incubator cleaned, so it's just bidding its time before getting used again. I'd like to wait until all my birds are old enough to lay, and then I'll just hatch their eggs---but I'm not sure if I'll be able to hold back until then!
I got the yard mowed a few days ago, but somebody in the sky's stubbed their toe real hard, or something, and is crying over it because it's been raining, and raining, and just for the heck of it---raining more! I'll be mowing again soon, just you wait and see....
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I've had several chicks hatch since I last blogged... I have a grand total of eight now---with one more piping-egg in the bator! If it hatches, that means all of the eggs that developed, will have made it. This is very, very good, and I'm very, very happy about it.
So, here's some pictures:
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Two chicks have hatched so far! And three more pipping.
Here's a picture of the first chick out---a little white fella from a pumpkin hulsey egg (I think.)
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