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  1. jossanne

    Pullet's feet fell off! What in the world???

    No pictures, sorry. We discovered her this morning when we were leaving for work, so we put her down quickly and went to work. The water is a plastic, 1 gallon waterer. The feed dish is the little metal kind that is threaded for mason jars, with no jar attached. There don't seem to be any...
  2. jossanne

    Pullet's feet fell off! What in the world???

    There was no swelling in her feet. The swelling when I first looked at her seemed to be on her shanks and stopped at her ankles. The feet looked completely normal, except that they were not attached to her body...
  3. jossanne

    Pullet's feet fell off! What in the world???

    I have a batch of 11wk old chicks that live in a cage with a plastic-covered 1/2" mesh floor, with a waste catcher tray directly underneath and no run. A week ago I noticed one penedesenca was weak and not standing well, but didn't see anything physically wrong with her except a little swelling...
  4. jossanne

    Heat exhaustion or coccidiosis?

    I didn't start any corid. They're starting to eat again, and look like they're headed back toward normal. I learned a hard lesson on this one. Poor babies. Thanks for the advice, both of you.
  5. jossanne

    Heat exhaustion or coccidiosis?

    I was in Lordsburg last night, actually. Sorry you had to live there! ;) That's where my parents live, and my dad thinks it's wonderful. This morning the remaining chicks seen to have improved. All the oegb chicks were eating and a couple of the sussex were as well. I was scared to go outside...
  6. jossanne

    Heat exhaustion or coccidiosis?

    I'm in southern New Mexico, and our temps have been around 100 for the last few days. I had 6 speckled sussex chicks and 5 oegb chicks, between 8 and 13 weeks old, in a cage inside the coop. When i got home yesterday evening, i had two dead chicks and this morning 2 more ill. All are off their...
  7. jossanne

    Silver Duckwing OEGB

    Thanks for your input. I've got to choose a pair to give to a 4H boy who is into chickens. Shortly after i got the group i promised him some for this year's fair. I'm kicking myself now because i don't have as many chicks as i thought i would. I don't want to give him the best ones, and was...
  8. jossanne

    Silver Duckwing OEGB

    Last year I bought a silver duckwing OEGB cock and three hens from an APA judge who bought them from a show in Oklahoma - their previous owner was retiring from showing. They were all at least four years old and not really great looking anymore, but he told me the cock won as a cockerel at a big...
  9. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    Feedman77 awesome. You are a great example to the rest of us! :D
  10. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    I'm sorry. :( Poor little baby. One of mine hatched with a curled foot after being helped out of the egg 36+ hours after starting to zip. I used bandaids to splint its feet and it's doing well. It's a bit smaller than the other one, but is eating and drinking and walking well. Its balance is...
  11. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    Exciting! Hope she's okay! Keep it up babies!
  12. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    If it's not out by the time I get home, I'll get it out. I've got to move another out of the turner today anyway, it'll be a good excuseexcuse to open it up and check on it.
  13. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    We have a baby. The first one that pipped is still alive with a dime sized longish hole. It hasn't made any progress in over 24 hours. This is killing me! At least I'm 30 miles away at work where I can't touch it. I don't think I could keep my hands out of the Bator trying to help.
  14. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    Fingers crossed for terrible hatch rates. How far back to I have to read to find out about the lab tests you're waiting on???
  15. jossanne

    Incubators Anonymous

    Hi I'm Jossie, and I've fallen off the chicken wagon. I went a couple years clean with nary a bird in sight. But last year I got me another laying flock, and in September I got a screaming deal on four 4-year-old show-winning OEGB's. I have always had broody hens to do my hatching, but I...
  16. jossanne

    Age of parent birds and fertility

    My two March 24 eggs pipped last night. One's had a dime-size hold since this morning, the other is still just a pip. I'm trying hard to sit on my hands and leave them alone. Hopefully BYC will get me through and help me be patient...
  17. jossanne

    Age of parent birds and fertility

    I've got five eggs developing in the incubator. I've thrown away about twice that many that haven't developed at all. Two eggs go on lock down on Monday. :)
  18. jossanne

    Age of parent birds and fertility

    I haven't broken open any eggs yet, because I didn't want to waste any. :) I figured an incubator would give me a pretty good fertility test, and if it was fertile I would have a chick instead of a broken egg. I'll check tonight when I get home. I don't know what he was feeding them before...
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