ok so i hatched a bunch of ameracaunas and a RIR/gold orph a few weeks ago they are about 5 1/2 weeks old...fully feathered except for their heads
i moved them outside about a week ago, they stay in my coop in a special box that i made. only thing is they have outgrown everything i have put...
WELL THEY CAME A DAY EARLY....all of them i had one that tried to come out the other day which was like 2 or 3 days early and wasnt formed right and he died....so now i have 6 healthy ameracaunas and one that i pulled from my nesting boxes the day i put my blue eggs in..it was a huge brown egg...
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soory it wont let me just post it up on here and i also apologize because it is sideways....i got a new phone and havent figured it out yet...but as you can see its definetly a roo
so i have a few ameracauna eggs in the incubator...hatch date isnt until saturday and this evening i see a beak....very perplexing...so i investigate......
i was breathing and moving around and then it came out about 2 hours later with his guts hanging out his side through a hole just behind...
so one of my roosters has a new thing.........
first of all hes a ameracauna/jersey giant cross
he wont get off the eggs in the box.....he has 6 of them right now and wont leave them alone if i try to take them from him he bites the crap out of me..
he also wont let any of the hens in...
you could run a rod off your pivot point on your turners..out the side and either using small gearing to a crank (like a jack in the box) or just use a push pull rod...
i just noticed this thread.....
i set mine on the 7th of january....so i'm lookin at about the 28th....got all mine from a lady in jersey.....about 6 hrs away...she sent me 18 and said they were all fertile.....
on day 8 and 9 i candled them and had 7 that were veiny and moving and the...
ok so went to tractor supply got the tylan 50 injectable.....and gave her a shot in the skin of the neck...pretty easy to do...she didnt even squawk or nothin...but then again she cant really....
i gave her like 3/4 ml and gave her a little mash of medicated chick starter watered down she...
there is a tractor supply here one in carlisle the other in shippensburg..then one more in chambersburg..thats where i got the tetrmycin i cant spell it...but it doesnt seem to be working....i mix it with thier water...they dont carry much in the way for poultry but the carry the tylan 50 so i'm...
well as of 7:45 am she is still alive..still hasnt eaten anything her eyes are still shut but she is very alert...but thats never changed...
she has drank about a dixie cup full of medicated water since finding her yesterday..so i guess today i'm gonna go find this sulmet ...dont know anyone...
first off a few other of my chickens have the sneezes and sniffles...but they eat and drink just fine nothing unusual...except they want corn and not the pellets....(introduced that to them a few days ago.....)
my barred rock was showing no signs of being sick until today....i went to feed...