Search results for query: *

  • Users: asinnamon
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. asinnamon

    First hatch done, have questions.

    My chicken crazy friend got an incuview incubator. She and I split the first hatch. Together we had 27 eggs to start. 3 were duds. We had a bunch pip on day 19 and 20. We had some hatch on their own and after a few dying in the shell, the rest had some type of help. So here are the things...
  2. asinnamon

    Tube feeding chick with coccidia

    What can I put in the feed? Currently I'm using a mix of corid medicated water, a little Gatorade and raw egg. I tried powdering the chick crumbles, it won't go thru the tube. I also tried ground up meal worms, again, gets stuck in the tube. Can I use baby formula? Baby food, maybe like...
  3. asinnamon

    Coccidia. How do I know when the chicks are out of the woods?

    So I posted yesterday. Thanks to the advice of some great chicken folks I ran out this morning and got powdered corid. I've mixed at 1tsp per 1 gal of water and given to the babies. Well, 11 week old babies. Some are drinking, some we have had to help. How do we know when they are going to...
  4. asinnamon

    Lost 2 today, have no idea why, can you help?

    We lost 2 of our 10-11 week old pullet chicks today. The one the died tonight I watched all day. She was off balance some what, lethargic, kept closing her eyes. This afternoon she drank some but when I picked her up, I must have leaned forward some because water came out of her beak. Her...
  5. asinnamon

    Hen cleaning out nesting boxes!!

    So we have this goofy little Aracuana. Yesterday, we did a spring cleaning of the coop and run. This little girl kept coming in scratching around and acting funny, so we figured she wanted to lay. In went shavings and out we went to give her some privacy. Wouldn't you know it, we heard...
  6. asinnamon

    Are hens emotionally attached to roosters?

    I've posted a couple times about our rooster problem. We still have them all, 3 roos to 9 hens and the roos are still over sexing our hens. We are so torn on which rooster(s) to invite to dinner!! We would never make it as farmers! If we get rid of all three roos, will the hens miss them...
  7. asinnamon

    Need some advice on laceration. Graphic.

    Hey folks. We were cleanING the coop today and putting on saddles. It's cold and snowy here, so the roosters are getting a little over zealous with the girls. When we got one of our hens who really has taken it hard we saw a huge laceration. It looks all the way through the skin, and it...
  8. asinnamon

    Yet another rooster dilemma

    Seems like a lot of folks out there with rooster issues, lol! Last April we got 12 birds of which 3 turned out to be roosters. In the magical land of my mind they would all be sweet boys when they grew up. Not so in reality. All three have come after my daughter, myself and my MIL with beaks...
  9. asinnamon

    Laying in January/Winter?

    I went out this morning to feed the guineas and found 2 eggs!!! These must be my girl's first eggs as she was hatched last June. These are my first eggs and I have no idea what to do with them. It's the middle of the cold, New England(USA) winter. How do I know if there are keets in those...
  10. asinnamon

    Training them to roost in a coop?

    We built a great coop w/ a fence. There is straw for heat and absorbency, a mirror, heated water dish so the water doesn't freeze, heat lamp so the birds don't freeze and a huge dish of yummy cracked corn, millet and sunflower seeds. All inside the coop. Outside there is a covered area under...
  11. asinnamon

    Do males ever, ever, ever BuckWheat?

    Ok, I've had this darn bird now since what. August maybe? I have never once heard it buckwheat, not even close. Now it's in a coop in the back and I hear a weird 2 syllable call. Does one buckwheat mean I have a female? I haven't seen any eggs either..
  12. asinnamon

    Boy or girl guinea? A couple general questions too...

    Makes all the noises a girl makes, but no buck-wheating at all. Little cheeps and chirps, those weird nasally 'swirly' noises, cute little yummy noises when eating....but male type alarm calls, NO buckwheats ever. Haven't seen any eggs. This 'Shim' also refuses to eat chicken/turkey/fowl...
  13. asinnamon

    I had a guinea show up!

    A few weeks ago a guinea just showed up in our yard. He/she had visited the neighbors, but has decided to stay with us. We are in NH and winter is coming. Currently, he free ranges and roosts in the tree next to our house. We haven't kept fowl before and really don't have any idea what...
Back
Top Bottom