Who knew that hope could arrive in the mail....the hope for spring, that is! Now I will spend days browsing through these harbingers...plotting rotation strategies and planning bed layouts!
What triggers your hope for spring?
Monday, December 31, 2012
Hope Springs Eternal...
The seed catalogs are here!...The seed catalogs are here!...The seed catalogs are here!...
Who knew that hope could arrive in the mail....the hope for spring, that is! Now I will spend days browsing through these harbingers...plotting rotation strategies and planning bed layouts!
What triggers your hope for spring?
Who knew that hope could arrive in the mail....the hope for spring, that is! Now I will spend days browsing through these harbingers...plotting rotation strategies and planning bed layouts!
What triggers your hope for spring?
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Henny Penny on the Mend
Good news this morning! The little hen is progressing...she ate some yogurt and is preening and pooping...also there is a lot less gagging this morning...yes...apparently chickens have a gag reflex...nice...
All good signs...but still keep your fingers crossed please...she is not out of the woods yet...
All good signs...but still keep your fingers crossed please...she is not out of the woods yet...
Saturday, December 29, 2012
The Beginning
Well...MB and I have been trying to get this blog off the ground since 2009. Many distractions, a lot of angst and here we are looking into 2013. BUT, we are getting this thing started! I always envisioned an eloquent introduction....
Instead we begin our blogging journey with a sick chicken...
We returned from our errands this morning to more snow and the need to reshovel the paths to the greenhouse, workshop and chicken coop. When we got to the coop, we proceeded to hang the girls' holiday present, a new hanging feeder that has a full feed bag capacity! As we were admiring our handiwork, we noticed one of our sussex hens parked in a corner, feathers fluffed and a crop as big as a softball. I scooped her up and felt the crop...it was soft, swollen and squishy. So...we set up the chick brooder/chicken hospital in the kitchen, installed her in it and began googling swollen chicken crops....
The issue seems to be sour crop, kind of like sour stomach in humans...a nasty little yeast colony has set up shop in the foyer of the poor little girl's digestive system...nothing to do but keep her quiet, warm and on water with some apple cider vinegar in it to create an acidic environment that will make the yeast "move on"...
She seems to be resting well, drinking the vinegar potion and is alert to her surroundings...If all goes well, we will give her some yogurt in the morning to start healing her system.
Keep your fingers crossed....
Instead we begin our blogging journey with a sick chicken...
We returned from our errands this morning to more snow and the need to reshovel the paths to the greenhouse, workshop and chicken coop. When we got to the coop, we proceeded to hang the girls' holiday present, a new hanging feeder that has a full feed bag capacity! As we were admiring our handiwork, we noticed one of our sussex hens parked in a corner, feathers fluffed and a crop as big as a softball. I scooped her up and felt the crop...it was soft, swollen and squishy. So...we set up the chick brooder/chicken hospital in the kitchen, installed her in it and began googling swollen chicken crops....
The issue seems to be sour crop, kind of like sour stomach in humans...a nasty little yeast colony has set up shop in the foyer of the poor little girl's digestive system...nothing to do but keep her quiet, warm and on water with some apple cider vinegar in it to create an acidic environment that will make the yeast "move on"...
She seems to be resting well, drinking the vinegar potion and is alert to her surroundings...If all goes well, we will give her some yogurt in the morning to start healing her system.
Keep your fingers crossed....
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