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*Bumble Foot*

*Bumble Foot*

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *************Bumble Foot************* Don’t laugh………….I didn’t make it up….. It’s a bird-thing….. But it does sound poetic-ish…almost Chaucer-like—“the foot that bumbles…the bumbling foot”…maybe Wordsworth?…or just the start of a bad limerick?—(okay…I’ll drop it)….. Poultry can develop………….”Bumble Foot”   *****(Bumble Foot Explanation)***** I believe it starts out as an injury…probably a puncture wound….. …..and maybe because there’s not profuse circulation in a chicken’s foot…and because they walk on highly-suspect & certainly not sterile surfaces….. …..they then…

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!A.M. Cacophony!

!A.M. Cacophony!

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** How has this happened again….. The only way to know that there are too many roosters…is to wait until the pre-dawn hours….. ….then it’s unmistakable….. How on Earth has this Happened Again!?!….. I need to count the amount of boy birds who are wandering around out there….. I know exactly where they are each morning….. They are right outside my bedroom window….. …..there are at least two that I hear faintly (way out…

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…..finally…..

…..finally…..

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. The “extra” roosters went to auction last weekend….. My older daughter orchestrated and chased them all down….. …..(remember those extra birds who were not ours?)…(the surplus roosters who got dumped on us?)….. I thought there were only three drop-offs….. …..well three roosters had mysteriously grown to four….. …..my daughter caught and caged them all….. She said at one point she had counted six…(in addition to our home-raised boys)…(nine roosters!)….. …..(absolutely great for…

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~~~@#$%&*&%$#@ Roosters~~~

~~~@#$%&*&%$#@ Roosters~~~

*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Farmers never want and/or need a surplus of roosters….. Roosters are valuable…..but you don’t need multiple/crowing birds….. …..they fight…..they do that early morning crowing-thing (try 3:30am)…..(in what world is that dawn?)…..they harass the hens….. …..they’re basically loud  &  disruptive….. …..plus some stupid (short-lived birds) try to chase & spur you….. I try to keep our rooster population to a minimum…..just a…

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