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My new expanded free range area should have been done today but it looked like a hellofa storm was moving in and the guys left before putting the gate door in because of that...it didnt rain and 5 minutes after they left, sun came back out...oh well! said he'll be back early in morning to get it done....after all..it is Friday and I paid them before they left! That was before the sky turned black for 5-10 minutes!
 
Robinjopo1 said:
I put on layers of clothes, leather bee gloves and crawled under coop and got out my ill rooster. I put him in the infirmary. He is eating and drinking.

Not sure what type meds to give him. He has been limping so maybe his old bones are just giving out.
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Poor thing.
Our roosters never live to be old. They always battle something out and lose.

I would have loved to see you crawling under that coop, though. 😆 Way to go for getting creative!
 
Robinjopo1 said:
I put on layers of clothes, leather bee gloves and crawled under coop and got out my ill rooster. I put him in the infirmary. He is eating and drinking.

Not sure what type meds to give him. He has been limping so maybe his old bones are just giving out.
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You know what to give him in his water.
 
I have worked in the woods a lot , including wading through alligator and snake infested swamps , chest deep , with the forestry commission . Cottonmouths occasionally without any prodding will simply see you and come slithering for you in an attack mode . Only once did I have a rattlesnake race after me . I actually had a foot race with the rattlesnake snake in pursuit for maybe 50 yards . A snake can travel fast . That race ended when I ran by a stick , picked it up and killed the snake . I found out later why that rattlesnake was so hell bent on biting me . Only an hour or so before I walked up , someone had ran a brush cutter over the top of the snake , not being aware they had went over a rattlesnake .
 
Robinjopo1 said:
I've had to kill a few who were sick or injured. Wasn't fun. As I have mentioned before, NEVER kill a hen in front of a rooster. He gets really angry.
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Good advice. Thank you. We have an area away from the coops and hen house we will take them.

I was thinking about my favorite hen when considering harvesting these roosters. Just last night, I picked her up and sat her on my lap because one little buckling keeps trying to headbutt her when he is in the chicken yard. She fell asleep in my lap and rolled on her side. It is hard to kill one of the flock when they are that trusting of me.

It's the same reason I haven't actually harvested any of our rabbits. I am just a big old wimp.
 
Survivor_316 said:
Good advice. Thank you. We have an area away from the coops and hen house we will take them.

I was thinking about my favorite hen when considering harvesting these roosters. Just last night, I picked her up and sat her on my lap because one little buckling keeps trying to headbutt her when he is in the chicken yard. She fell asleep in my lap and rolled on her side. It is hard to kill one of the flock when they are that trusting of me.

It's the same reason I haven't actually harvested any of our rabbits. I am just a big old wimp.
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Hunger will change all that.
 
poltiregist said:
Cottonmouths occasionally without any prodding will simply see you and come slithering for you in an attack mode .
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I have had that happen three times.
The first time I was working at a summer camp and we were having problems with cottonmouths stealing fish from right by kids' feet as they were fishing at a particular spot. So I took a canoe at night to see where the snakes were hanging out. I found it alright. A downed tree in the water next to the spot was covered with snakes. When I shot one of them they all dropped into the water and swam en masse straight at the canoe. It was like a scene from a horror movie. There were too many snakes to shoot, so I started whacking them with a machete as fast as I could swing it. It didn't take long before I realized I was losing, and beat a hasty retreat.
The next time, I was shooting at the edge of a swamp and TWO cottonmouths came up out of the swamp and came straight at me. I guess I disturbed their nap time.
The other time I was taking a break on a sandbar during a canoe trip. A little cottonmouth no bigger around than a pencil charged me. I hit it with the canoe paddle but it kept coming, and didn't stop until I beat it to death with the paddle. I guess that was HIS sandbar!
 
DrHenley said:
I have had that happen three times.
The first time I was working at a summer camp and we were having problems with cottonmouths stealing fish from right by kids' feet as they were fishing at a particular spot. So I took a canoe at night to see where the snakes were hanging out. I found it alright. A downed tree in the water next to the spot was covered with snakes. When I shot one of them they all dropped into the water and swam en masse straight at the canoe. It was like a scene from a horror movie. There were too many snakes to shoot, so I started whacking them with a machete as fast as I could swing it. It didn't take long before I realized I was losing, and beat a hasty retreat.
The next time, I was shooting at the edge of a swamp and TWO cottonmouths came up out of the swamp and came straight at me. I guess I disturbed their nap time.
The other time I was taking a break on a sandbar during a canoe trip. A little cottonmouth no bigger around than a pencil charged me. I hit it with the canoe paddle but it kept coming, and didn't stop until I beat it to death with the paddle. I guess that was HIS sandbar!
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I would have had a heart attack.
 
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