Burnt Bridges

I joined a poultry forum on Facebook and lasted a whole week!! What a bunch of know it all know nothings!
Someone was enquiring about wormers and I mentioned how I administer it to mine, putting the measured amount of wormer powder on a bit of cherry tomato per bird per day. I was practically held up in court for suggesting it and bluntly told it does not work and that the juice of the tomato negated it. Me being me, I carried out a test, by buying a wormer kit from Westgate Labs and sent off the poop samples after worming them for a week. Came back zero worms. Hey ho. Fingers up to them.
 
Its really great to hear from you Dinosaw!
You overbearing? No! - Me exasperating? Plenty!

As it was thirded here you go
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChickenkeepingUK/
There are a lot of really knowledgable keepers on there - there are a lot of every sort on there! It gets a bit overwhelming - be poised to hit the eject button!
 
DINOSAW :-) Now I think I am losing my marbles! I joined in May 2018 and I am sure I have seen you posting during my time on here? Maybe I am imagining it....
I like this forum for being a small network of knowledgeable friendly people :-)
 
If I click on a username I get a page of ‘user statistics’ including the number of posts they’ve made, this number as a % of total forum posts, when they were last active, and a link to all their previous posts. This was how I knew Dinosaw hadn’t posted for 2 years. Is this just a moderator function, or can anybody do it, I wonder? I know everyone gets a link to enable them to send a private message to another member.
 
I can see that information too Marigold, so it looks as though it's available to everyone.
 
Thank you for your lovely welcome back peeps. Indeed it is over two years since I have been on here, which is quite frightening as it makes you realise how quick time is passing by. What have I been up to?, well put it this way, that's the last time I'm going to attempt to rob a heavily guarded bank in Angola!.

Seems I haven't been up to much to be honest. I have less chickens than last time I posted, most have succumbed to old age, a few of the younger birds died in a particularly crafty fox attack, probably around the time I stopped posting. Lost a lot of my enthusiasm, probably not helped by Mrs Dinosaw's graves disease rearing it's head again as she has always been bit of a driving force in regards of rearing new birds. Then last year I bought her three Silver Campines for her birthday, lovely birds. I gave them their own run separate from the main flock which by then consisted of two Silver Sussex, a little Ko Shamo and Velvet, the Araucana/Ko cross. As soon as they passed quarantine and were let out they headed straight into the main run to join the existing flock and were immediately accepted. I presume my old birds missed being part of a bigger flock. Since then we tried unsuccessfully to hatch some Ko eggs which were infertile and now have a dozen Andalusians, six Faverolles and three Naked necks either in incubators or under our broody SS matriarch. So fingers crossed we get a decent hatch. I am actually hoping for some lads for a change so we can go back to breeding our own mongrels again.

Talking of burnt bridges, we have one little Thuringian left, her history with the other birds means she wants no part of the main flock. Since her sister died she has gone native, thinks she is human and now makes a beeline for the house when let out. Mrs D has been working from home in the conservatory, mainly with the door open in the good weather and little Whitey has been joining her in there. She now lays her eggs in the cat's basket, which annoys the cat no end.
 
rick said:
As it was thirded here you go
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChickenkeepingUK/
There are a lot of really knowledgable keepers on there - there are a lot of every sort on there! It gets a bit overwhelming - be poised to hit the eject button!
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Thanks Rick. I looked it up but as it’s a closed group I don’t think I’ll bother to enrol. I was just after a little browse to find out what I’d been doing wrong re. chickens and sardines!
 
Glad all is well Dinosaw.
Would loved to have seen the cats face when not only a hen but an egg also appeared in the cat basket
 
Never had a Facebook account, or any other account that could be described as a social media site. The sites supposedly dedicated to a particular subject can be pretty horrifying. I can understand that such sites are useful for keeping in touch with people but the mental health price is high.
 
I would never belong to a club that would have me a member :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thanks for the quote Groucho Marx
 
Shadrach said:
... but the mental health price is high.
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It is! There are over 20,000 members on that page and so issues (or non-issues) that crop up for us on occasion - sometimes never - are going off like the clappers every day (with a multitude of diagnosis often based on very little actual information) just because of the numbers. I had never heard of temporary paralysis in chickens before (and it is fairly rare) but you wouldn't think so from the apparent frequency of hens going off their legs with no other symptoms. (seems to be a mineral deficiency - probably through eating too many sardines! :) ) And, of course, they are hatching and dying by the truckload every day.
Its quite fascinating sometimes but all too much - a bit like the Total Perspective Vortex that they threw Zaphod Beeblebrox into!

I did point to the Poultrykeeper pages for a beginners guide several times.
 
rick said:
Shadrach said:
... but the mental health price is high.
Click to expand...
It is! There are over 20,000 members on that page and so issues (or non-issues) that crop up for us on occasion - sometimes never - are going off like the clappers every day (with a multitude of diagnosis often based on very little actual information) just because of the numbers. I had never heard of temporary paralysis in chickens before (and it is fairly rare) but you wouldn't think so from the apparent frequency of hens going off their legs with no other symptoms. (seems to be a mineral deficiency - probably through eating too many sardines! :) ) And, of course, they are hatching and dying by the truckload every day.
Its quite fascinating sometimes but all too much - a bit like the Total Perspective Vortex that they threw Zaphod Beeblebrox into!

I did point to the Poultrykeeper pages for a beginners guide several times.
Click to expand...

Internet wisdom :roll:
I come across people who contribute to multiple sites and I don't understand how they find the time. I contribute to another chicken site and I spend at least an hour a day answering posts etc. I don't have a mobile phone and I expect that makes access easier but one could waste an awful lot of time reading an awful lot of shite.
 
rick said:
Shadrach said:
... but the mental health price is high.
Click to expand...
It is! There are over 20,000 members on that page and so issues (or non-issues) that crop up for us on occasion - sometimes never - are going off like the clappers every day (with a multitude of diagnosis often based on very little actual information) just because of the numbers. I had never heard of temporary paralysis in chickens before (and it is fairly rare) but you wouldn't think so from the apparent frequency of hens going off their legs with no other symptoms. (seems to be a mineral deficiency - probably through eating too many sardines! :) ) And, of course, they are hatching and dying by the truckload every day.
Its quite fascinating sometimes but all too much - a bit like the Total Perspective Vortex that they threw Zaphod Beeblebrox into!

I did point to the Poultrykeeper pages for a beginners guide several times.
Click to expand...
Well, temporary paralysis is actually something I have come across! I had a pol pullet once that became paralysed in her legs . I put her in a cat box when I found her flapping about, with full intentions of culling her as soon as I got back (she wasn't in any pain that I could see, just couldn't move her legs). When I got back later, she'd laid her first egg and was tentatively moving one leg. Over the next several hours, she regained movement.

However, she was a very persistent broody. Several times over her first season, she stopped laying and went broody. And every single time, when she came back into lay, she lost the use of one leg for a time. After several turns of this, she had developed a severe limp, which didn't seem to bother her at all. She then died of a heart attack when she was two.

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