City folk gone country
As we have learned bumblefoot sucks. Not only for the chicken or duck but for me too. Such is life for the chicken/duck lady. I noticed Buffy one of our buff ducks limping the other day, so I scooped her up and brought her to the first aid station (this used to be the rabbit […]
My husband decided seeing as I was learning to can and dehydrate food I needed somewhere just for that. Our garage has never had our car in it. It’s a really weird angle to get in and out without going off the driveway. Anyway, we decided to split the garage in half and use one […]
And it’s a dang quail egg. Quail don’t care much about their eggs and the shells aren’t as hard as a chicken egg so when I collect them I usually find one or two with a crack and complete break in the shell. I found one that was larger than the others and of course […]
Another loss with unanswered questions. Why? We will never know. Found her in her den. She was a sweet girl and will be missed.
Welcome little peepers. We had a total of 11 hatch today but one didn’t survive the night. They work so hard to get out of those eggs you just want to get in there and help them out. This “help” is actually the worst thing you can do for them. The best you can do […]
Sad news to report. Poor Tiny passed away last night. No idea why. She had an infection a few weeks ago but the vet said the antibiotics would take care of it. May have been more going on than we thought. I know animal loss is part of farm life but I also think every […]
Well we decided, for reasons I’m not even sure of, to get quail. We were able to get 10 and decided they needed a home. So we built the quail jail. What we didn’t know until it was built and occupied was that like chickens there should be 1 male to every 3-4 females. Oops. […]
I was giving the chicken her spa treatments for bumblefoot when I heard gunshots followed by a puppy squalling and yelping. Now the gunshots alone are really no cause for concern. Out in the country people fire guns for all kinds of reasons. We have done it too. But the puppy crying was more than […]
Just a quick update. Things are moving along qucikly and as soon as Tiny is finished with some medicine for her UTI then they will all move into the big house together. The Bunny Bungalow is 15′ Wide x 10′ Deep x 7′ High. The bunnies won’t know what to do with all the room. […]
Meet Nancy. She is a good chicken. Sweet disposition and good egg layer. Unfortunatly she was limping the other day and when I checked her feet she had bumblefoot. What is bumblefoot? It’s basically like a blister on the bottom of a chicken or duck’s feet. Either they had a small cut or stepped on […]
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