Monday, July 13, 2009
SADNESS...BIG AND SMALL
Sadness, over the weekend I had 10 pullets that I had to move to the lower pen. Needless to say they were happy to have a bigger place to live...then I took mama and 4 chicks and put them in the pen with the ducks. The ducks don't pay no mind to the babies, thought all was gonna be alright, then the unspeakable happened. I went down to check on everybody and there was 3 of the 4 chicks floating in the ducks swimming pool. I ran in and got them out...tried CPR on them, 2 died, but after a while of cpr, lights, heating pad One MADE IT! CPR does work on chickens! by 8pm that night it was up and peepin, I took it back down to its mama (already put mama and the one back in the nursery (safe heaven) and it just went on like nothing ever happened. Mama was really talking when i put it back in there, so now I have nunu which is maddie's chick that I had to rescue from an old hen that had already pecked one to death. 3 weeks old and been living on the kitchen table with a light during the day and a heating pad at night. Took it down and introduced it to the mama, hoping she would take up with it. Well she tried and tried to get nunu to eat but it just stood there. Later on...all is well so far so good. There is not a dull moment at my house. This week I have to pick, shuck, cut and can corn...yummy! Blessed the crop did so well!...................
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