Has PJG admired your white cock yet ?
^ That's not really for me to say, Baldrick.
I wouldn't want to put words into her mouth.
Well it'll have to do.
Just about every other thread has been spamdrethed.
^I guess we should be thankful that Mr. Landreth is not interested in Anna the dog nor in Mendy's splendid cock!
Since this is the thread for everything bird/chicken/eating chickens, cocks and chicks, I need help settle a "discussion" between the wife and I.
Currently there's a zombie "bird" of some sort roosting on our walkway handrail. I've walked up to it and it didn't try to fly, it just looked at me. I think it's a chicken that's been mauled, the far side from the pictures looks a tad bloody.
I say it's a cock of some sort that's been mauled, it's right in front of the neighbors door so maybe they had it in a fight and have tied it to the rail. The wife says it's a bird of some sort.
Opinions?
"I was a good student. I comprehend very well, OK, better than I think almost anybody," - President Trump comparing his legal knowledge to a Federal judge.
^ My first opinion is that you need to upgrade your phone!
Your wife is spot on with her opinion on it being a bird of some sort.
It looks like a juvenile to me, and to be honest a hen, not a cock. If it was a cock I don't see why your neighbours would have put a juvenile cock in a fight? Maybe a cat had a go at it (her)?
If your cock's been mauled you usually know about it.
She looks cute, why not try and make a pet of her?
I live in an apartment, no room for pets. If it's still there tomorrow, I feed it something.
^ Any update, Topper?
Our sickbay is full at the moment.
The red egg-layer in the foreground is in a sorry state and I'm not sure that she will recover. She has an injured leg and now lies sprawled on the ground but I will give her a chance to recover. She is eating and drinking fine. These big hens seem to be susceptible to falling off the perch while asleep at night, and due to their weight they aren't so aerodynamic and tend to hit the round with a thud. I imagine that was the cause of this girl's injury.
There is a sad tale behind the smaller orange hen in the background. She had been broody for the past few weeks and another black hen frequently shared her nest to help sit on the eggs. Two chicks hatched out a couple of days ago and the two mums were constantly fighting over possession... and the black one won. I should have separated them sooner and am annoyed with myself, but usually these squabbles sort themselves out and end up with shared parentage.
Anyway, she now has awful cuts around around her face and eyes... when fighting the first target is the opponents eyes. At first I though she had lost her eyes and was gearing up for euthanasia, but after applying eye drops the eyes have partially opened and look to be intact. I've also applied anti-biotic powder to hopefully prevent infection and with any luck she will be fit again in a few days. I hope that the confinement will cause her to forget about her two chicks and that she will go immediately broody again... in which case she will get a few eggs to sit on and her own private hutch.
It disappeared the next morning Mendip. Twas an evil zombie bird, it was.
^^^ Just an update on my sad tale above.
The orange hen who had her chicks stolen is now sitting on four new eggs that I put under her a couple of days ago. They should hatch on 13th April if my calculations are correct.
After I left for work, the gardener diligently continued to apply eye drops to her awfully cut and swollen eyes and she came good. He's a good egg! We used human eye drops that are a fraction of the cost of the animal eye drops sold at the vets.
Blackie the chick thief, is still with the one remaining chick that is now around eight weeks old. One chick disappeared, maybe due to a snake of which we have had a lot lately.
There's Blackie with her one remaining chick behind Nelson. It is so difficult to get in focus pictures of chickens as they walk so jerkily.
Chooks are great for eggs, meat but I can't seem to get to excited about the bastards. Probably coz there noisy fuckers and in Asia there's no getting away from them
All that cacophony of the fuckers all giving it large at sparrow fart does my head in.Tried drinking more, and drinking different variety's but, nope. Fuckers still wake me up.
^ Mate, I find that the noise of the cocks crowing helps to drown out the noise of the barking dogs.
^yeah, but sometimes those cocks crow at 2 or 3 am. Uggh!
The blackie hens that I've encountered have always been good moms. When I was a kid, my mom once bought ducklings and put them under our Blackie hen at night. We wondered if she should accept them. She did! It was funny to see a black hen with ducklings following her. Good memories.
On 'er farm. 'oop north. Sakon Nakhon
^ A turkey?
If so, a first for this thread!
With such hot weather the chicken fan has been on at night as well as during the day, and I regularly spray down the chicken run with water as well. Every little helps, I guess. I watched them go up to roost last night, and they all seem OK.
This girl obviously liked the look of my big white cock and came up for a closer inspection. It's remarkable that he and Nelson cohabit with no sign of aggression from either. I've never seen this before and have always had to re-home young cocks once they reach adulthood.
They spread their wings like that in an attempt to cool down. It must be pretty uncomfortable to have feathery wings in 40 degree heat.
Last edited by Mendip; 06-04-2024 at 04:10 PM.
Must be hot with those concrete tile radiating down, spray them with some water at sun down?
The chicken run is roofed with those GRP sheets rather than concrete tiles, which I think will cool down a bit faster since they are a lot thinner.
But yes, a final spray in the evening can't hurt.
You've got a busy evening shaving Maya and hosing your cock down
I have a bit of an apology to make.
Yesterday came and went with nary a peep from a chick.
I checked first thing this morning and chick number one is on it's way, cheeping away from inside the egg.
I was a day early in my prediction which may not sound bad but usually I'm bang on. I have found 19 days to be typical for the big brown eggs to hatch but these are starting on the 20th day of incubation. Maybe the extreme heat has slowed development down a tad?
Of course, this being Isaan there's no such thing as unreservedly good news. There's always some fly in the ointment... ant on the bollock... to spoil the fun.
This morning I also found one of the red hens dead below the perches. Maybe a victim of the extreme heat or maybe it was just her time? So, the full circle of life in our chicken run today.
I made use of the soft ground where we dug out the mango tree stump for the burial.
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