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Today is the first day of my new "job". Becky went back to work today and I'm officially working from home now. So far today I got kids up dressed, lunches packed and on the bus. I put a venison shoulder roast in the crock pot, dressed and fed a screaming baby and then went to the bank and to the grocery store. Micaiah and I got back home and he was sleeping so I grabbed some lunch and then put the groceries away and did a load of his laundry. Whew!!! It's time to sit down for a minute. Anyway, I'm here taking care of things around this place and starting to plan farm things to come. In the next few days I'll be typing up a newsletter to send out in a month or so in hopes of soliciting some orders for our pastured broilers. We'll see how it goes.
I"m still trying to figure out what is going on with these birds dying on me. I had two roosters found dead on Friday and one more yesterday. I've been trying to see what's going on. Did they get into rat poison or poisoned rats or rat poop with poison in it? I don't know. From what I've read I don't think it's bird flu. Thank God!!! I posted some questions about what I've got happening here on a forum where chicken owners come to post questions and to help each other out troubleshooting these kinds of things. A few people suspected mold or moldy feed. I wouldn't doubt that it could be moldy feed or something like that. I've read stories of stuff like that happening before. Another person told of a time she had something similar happening and they found mold in the coop bedding. I haven't see anything like that yet. Still two other people are convinced that we have rattlesnakes somewhere in the barn. I'm pretty sure we can rule out rattlers, since this is northern Ohio in January. I guess the only thing to do is continue to look for causes and see how many birds come out healthy on the other side of all of this. I'll keep you all posted on the progress of this.
I"m still trying to figure out what is going on with these birds dying on me. I had two roosters found dead on Friday and one more yesterday. I've been trying to see what's going on. Did they get into rat poison or poisoned rats or rat poop with poison in it? I don't know. From what I've read I don't think it's bird flu. Thank God!!! I posted some questions about what I've got happening here on a forum where chicken owners come to post questions and to help each other out troubleshooting these kinds of things. A few people suspected mold or moldy feed. I wouldn't doubt that it could be moldy feed or something like that. I've read stories of stuff like that happening before. Another person told of a time she had something similar happening and they found mold in the coop bedding. I haven't see anything like that yet. Still two other people are convinced that we have rattlesnakes somewhere in the barn. I'm pretty sure we can rule out rattlers, since this is northern Ohio in January. I guess the only thing to do is continue to look for causes and see how many birds come out healthy on the other side of all of this. I'll keep you all posted on the progress of this.
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