At It Again

Oh these chickens. Remind me of these days when next year I want to get more. I have to make sure i NEVER forget these moments with them and I think my last moment is me putting A&D Diaper cream on there BUTTS!! Yes folks you heard it right. Now let me back track.

Last night I went out to make sure they had water and food and discovered one of the chicks bleeding from its back end. It was DISGUSTING. I came in and said to DH 'the chicks are to little to be laying eggs right?' (go ahead and laugh) He said yeah and I told him what I saw. He did NOTHING! He said after the B-ball game. I'm like HECK NO there is something wrong.

He went out and said it was probably to far gone but I proceeded to put it in an old fish aquarium in hopes of possibly saving him.

This AM I went outside and sure enough, dang thing was dead. I dump it out in the garbage (oh yeah, DH is gone by now so once again I'm left to do the dirty work). I start feeding the remaining ones and oh my gosh there is another dead one!! No lie it looked JUST like this!!

So I get the dust pan thing, scoop it up and back to the dumpster. REALLY is this happening!!! Call DH and he says to call the feed store and find out whats going on. They tell me it could be the following:

1. Environment (dirty, to many, etc) I know it's none of these b/c i clean that thing every other day

2. Food-they are eating starter food yet so it's not that

3. and guess what, I can't remember the 3rd

But it ended up they are picking on one another. Those stinken black chicks are evil. But where she lost me was when she told me to put Vics Vapor Rub on the bloody spot to prevent further pecking.

Excuse me? You want me to rub what, where???

I investigated more and saw that more were bloody. I thought fine I'll fix you all. Of course, I couldn't find the Vics so I used, yes, A&D. I thought I'd put it on all of them. Easier said then done. I couldn't remember who had it, they were flapping everywhere and i was getting madder and madder.

Call DH and tell him that's IT the black chicks are evicted as of 10:05 AM TODAY! Go pick him up, (he's planting) bring cages over, load em up, bring them to the farm and they are now in there new home at my BIL's. I forgot to mention what a site I must had been catching them dang things. DH commented that he thought he'd NEVER EVER NO NEVER see the day I, his wife, would be catching chickens. And let me tell you the language out of my mouth wasn't awful, but not anything i'd want C'man repeating.

The other ones?? well needless to say i have the hurt ones separated and will see what happens. I thought that maybe just putting the A&D on there wings would be enough, but it's not. ONE has it on the bloody back end and I gagged, winced, and just about puked doing it. Really this is ME doing this? I have LOST IT!!

And there claws/feet?? Those things are ugly. Seriously they are starting to freak me out. Ewww