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Originally Posted by Oakieridge 

 

 

I am not happy with the birds we bought last night.  I am going to call the folks at the auction to let them know the birds we brought home are sick.  It may just be change in enviroment but I want to let them know in case others have an issue.  I know they can't do anything about it.  They are in isolation (that is how we do all our new birds).  We got a trio of bantam partridge cochins for Kurt.  Those and the Columbians are on his wish list.  But the roo and one of the hens have a sneeze.  We are treating with Duramycin 10 now in case this is a respitory thing and not allergies or a change in homes.  I know stress of auction and moving a bird can bring out illness so we have decided no more auction birds.  We had decided that before now but I gave in and bought them.  So if you see me at auction DO NOT let me buy any birds, lol. 

 

 

Originally Posted by Oakieridge 

Oh I know it isn't the auctions fault and I don't expect them to do anything about it.  I just want them to be aware just in case.  I don't know who sold the birds and like you said they may have been healthy before getting to the auction.  We always, always quarintine every bird even chicks.  The chicks I bought last week at Newcastle are happy alert little things but I still will not put them in a brooder with chicks we had hatched from our own stock of the same age.  30 days is the rule here with all new birds.  I have 2 barred rock hens I would LOVE to have breeding for sexlinks right now but can't use them for another 2 weeks.  By then we will have quit hatching until after July 4th but I don't risk my healthy breeding stock for anything. 

 

We are now going to look for someone selling hatching eggs for Kurt's birds or someone with day old chicks.  He has 7 little banty cochin chicks now he loves he just wanted to start doing some hatching of his own now.  He can wait for them to grow. 

 

I forgot to post a picture of our new A-frame coops our first one was built out of pallets and some cedar dh had milled.  The others are all out of the cedar hubby had milled.  He made lapjoints for all the sides.  This one wasn't 100% complete when I took the picture, he added a board across the front of the coop for a wind block at the bottom and at the top.   The little BO chicks are loving their new space.  It isn't as big as the coop we had them in but since we sold all the black australorp chicks they were with they didn't need that big of a coop.

 

Originally Posted by RetiredArmyWife 

I must say this is the first time I have seen this at our TSC. The store just opened last fall. Every other time I have gone in there the chicks looked healthy. The cages are always clean too. I don't know that they were not being taken care of, or if they just got a bad batch. Either way they should not have been out on the sale floor. The medicine should not have been left open there either. Some weren't moving at all, but it is hard to tell without touching them if they are alive or dead. I don't mean to bad mouth a store, but I know what I saw.

Originally Posted by mjgigax 
I just love that picture. Unfortunately, my dog killed one of my hens today so no more dog in the chicken pen here or over at Jack's when I am helping catch birds. I thought Louie was doing so well. He ignores the birds walking around but a hen on a nest is just too much of a temptation for him.

Plus, i loved that little hen.

 

Originally Posted by upcdayz 

Late yesterday afternoon I noticed that Bunny, my silkied Serama hen, was acting funny - isolating herself, crouching and just not acting like herself. I didn't think too much of it until about 2:30 this morning. I woke up in a panic remembering that she hadn't laid an egg today. I went to check on her and found her away from all the other birds, sitting on some straw. I think she was trying to lay an egg today and it's now stuck. I immediately put her in a warm, 30 minute bath, blow dried her and put some vaseline in and around her vent. I can feel an egg in there. Now she's in the living room, in a box with a heating pad in it, with towels over the heating pad. Water and food (with oyster shell) is in there with her. I hope she passes the egg. She's got to be hurting. She keeps contracting like she's trying to pass it, but so far no egg. Will check her in the morning. 

Originally Posted by Oakieridge 

Oh I know it isn't the auctions fault and I don't expect them to do anything about it.  I just want them to be aware just in case.  I don't know who sold the birds and like you said they may have been healthy before getting to the auction.  We always, always quarintine every bird even chicks.  The chicks I bought last week at Newcastle are happy alert little things but I still will not put them in a brooder with chicks we had hatched from our own stock of the same age.  30 days is the rule here with all new birds.  I have 2 barred rock hens I would LOVE to have breeding for sexlinks right now but can't use them for another 2 weeks.  By then we will have quit hatching until after July 4th but I don't risk my healthy breeding stock for anything. 

 

We are now going to look for someone selling hatching eggs for Kurt's birds or someone with day old chicks.  He has 7 little banty cochin chicks now he loves he just wanted to start doing some hatching of his own now.  He can wait for them to grow. 

 

I forgot to post a picture of our new A-frame coops our first one was built out of pallets and some cedar dh had milled.  The others are all out of the cedar hubby had milled.  He made lapjoints for all the sides.  This one wasn't 100% complete when I took the picture, he added a board across the front of the coop for a wind block at the bottom and at the top.   The little BO chicks are loving their new space.  It isn't as big as the coop we had them in but since we sold all the black australorp chicks they were with they didn't need that big of a coop.

 

Originally Posted by old*cowboy 

Good looking coop and I bet the cedar smells good too.