[Ag-eq] Chicken Lady
Michelle Creedy
michelle.creedy at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 04:06:16 UTC 2013
Susan, the poor little thing! Please keep us posted.
Michelle
-----Original Message-----
From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Roe
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 7:23 PM
To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Lady
Thanks Michelle,
When the vet weighed Dover he was 50 pounds and he is normally around 70 to
75 pounds. Matt was able to pick him up and carry him like he weighed
nothing.
Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Creedy " <michelle.creedy at gmail.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Chicken Lady
> Susan, oh goodness, my heart goes out to all of you1! Poor little Dover! I
> know he's not little but wow! Thinking of all of you.
>
> Michelle
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Roe
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:52 PM
> To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Chicken Lady
>
> Hi Jody and Everyone,
>
> I am so glad to see this list pirk up, but I suppose if you want to hear
> from anyone you first need to post and do exactly what Jody did. "What's
> going on with everyone?"
>
> First Jody, about your chickens. Yay! I'm so glad you have your first
> chickens. Without knowing what color eggs they are laying, the white one
> could be a white leg horn, the gold one could be a buff orphington, the
> white and black hen could be a bard rock or a dominicker and the black one
> could be a austrolorp from Austrailia. I have bard rocks, orphingtons and
> one loan little austrolorp left from my original stock. She is like your
> Gabby and she is still laying eggs. We had planned on getting 4 week old
> chicks this month, but that might have to wait until April.
>
> We had a horible emergency Saturday afternoon and all thoughts of getting
> things ready for the chicks went flying out the window. One of our
> retired
> Walker Coon Hounds, Dover, hadn't come up to eat in two or so days. This
> isn't too unusual, but we were getting a bit worried when his brother had
> come back without him. We have the 60 acre farm and they have the run of
> the entire place and seldom wander off. Needless to say, my sister came
> home from grocery shopping and my husband was upstairs sleeping from
> working
> 12 hour nights and she noticed something strange on Dover's neck. She
> brought the bags in and went to check him out. She screemed back to me to
> wake up Matt because Dover had some sort of trap around his neck, choking
> to
> death and hardly breathing.
>
> I got mat up and we went outside on the porch to find some sort of metal
> snap trap that was not only around his neck, but a portion was in his
> mouth
> and pinning his jaws against his chest at an extreme angle. Dover was
> imaciated and he was near death. Matt tried to use his bolt cutter, but
> they were not strong enough and hardly scratched the wire. We called a
> neighbor who came over with a heavy duty pair and he was so shocked at
> what
> he saw. He had to cut the trap in 3 places before he could get it off of
> Dover. One of the coiled springs was in Dover's mouth and could not be
> cut
> like the first coil because they were afraid that in doing so, it would
> brake his jaw.
>
> The neighbor said the trap was called a coil bear trap and it was used for
> trapping beaver. The trap is suppose to be set under water, in moving
> water
> and well away from where any other animals could get caught. It had to
> have
> been illegally set above ground. If that wasn't bad enough, it was
> determined that Dover had been caught in the trap when he first went
> missing
> (at least 2 and a half days) and so he had not eaten or had any water the
> entire time. He was also locked with the trap on his head and then the
> trap
> chained to the ground, because the trap had about 4 inches of dog chain
> attached. Poor Dover had been pulling and jerking and straining to get
> out
> of the trap, only managing to brake the trap free from the chain. Then,
> somehow, none of us knows, he managed to come all the way back home, up on
> our front porch, and lay on the blanket next to his brother. It about
> turned my stomach. Dover is the most sweetest dog and loves everybody.
>
> My husband wrapped an old comforter around him and off in the truck he
> went
> to try and find a vet open on Saturday afternoon. We just knew he was too
> bad off to live, but if that were the case, then I didn't want him to
> suffer
> any more. Everywhere he went, in three counties, they were either not
> open
> on the weekends or had just closed. He found one that was closed, but
> there
> were still people there. They wouldn't take a look at him and told Matt
> to
> take him to the emergency vet that was an hour away. That wasn't going to
> work because Matt had only a couple hours of sleep and had to go back to
> work in less than 3 hours. My sister's driving is limited to familiar
> areas
> due to her sight. He brought Dover back to us and we made him comfortable
> inside. By that time, he could stand up on his own, became interested in
> water and would eat a bit of food out of hour hands. He had a good size
> gash on the back of his neck where the trap had cut in while he yanked and
> jerked to get it off. However, it had not started bleeding until 3 hours
> after the trap was removed because the trap was tight enough that blood
> flow
> was restricted. My sister and I staied up all of Saturday night with him
> and gave him small amounts of food and water whenever he got up looking
> for
> it.
>
> As soon as Matt came home from work, we all piled into my sister's station
> wagon and took Dover to the last clinic Matt went too. They said they'd
> squeeze him in, but there were 3 people ahead of us. When the vet came in
> the room, he found Matt sitting on the floor with Dover laying on his coat
> next to him. The doctor told him that if the trap had caught him in a
> slightly different angle, it would have either proken his neck or crushed
> his windpipe. If Dover hadn't broken free, we would probably never have
> found him. The vet cleaned his cut and put 4 staples in, gave him
> antibiotics and pills to take in his food. The swelling with his neck,
> face, lower jaw and his right eye were all just bruising and would clear
> up.
>
> There is a portion around the cut that was extremely bruised and in
> healing,
> might sluff off, but he will have the staples out in two weeks.
>
> Our neighbor told us to call the game warden because it was illegal to set
> that trap not only above ground, but possibly on our property. He came,
> verified the nature of the trap, checked out our pond and said there was
> no
> way the trap was in our water. More than likely, it had been set and
> ankered over a den hole or a culvert to catch a different animal. We have
> to check the property to see if we can find the rest of the trap and to
> see
> if there are others. If we find anything, then they will be staking out
> our
> property to try and catch who did this. I have a feeling it was not on my
> property, and if that is the case, then there is nothing the game warden
> can
> do. I hope someone wasn't trying to trap ground hogs by placing the trap
> over their den holes. They are a big problem around here for farmers, but
> these traps are not designed for this use.
>
> The traps do not have teath, but are made of a heavy gauge wire as thick
> as
> a pencil. They snap around a beaver under water and hold him there until
> he
> drowns. Two men could not even pry it open.
>
> Dover is doing better, not his old goofy self yet, but as long as he's
> eating, drinking and that tail is wagging, he'll be with us a bit longer.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 9:48 AM
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Chickens
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> This list ahs been quiet so I wanted to see if everyone was frozen.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are an official farm now, we have four chickens and we have collected
>> about 21 eggs in the last four weeks.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have a variety of chickens, one white one, one gold, one white and
>> black
>> and one black chicken. I don't know what breeds they are so if you can
>> help
>> I would appreciate it.
>>
>>
>>
>> The black and white one is named Gabby and she will die of old age
>> because
>> she has such a sweet personality. She stands at your feet and looks up
>> at
>> you and talks to you. The other three act like chickens but Gabby is
>> more
>> like a puppy. <GRIN>
>>
>>
>>
>> We kept them in the coop for the first week so they would know where home
>> was and now we let them out in the morning and put them back in the coop
>> in
>> the evening. They are great fun and we love the eggs.
>>
>>
>>
>> How are you all doing?
>>
>>
>>
>> JODY
>>
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