➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

I am curious now, are you using any kind of anesthetic for the procedure? If they are getting eaten later, why not. I would try one.

No anesthesia. It's my understanding that anesthesia (even if I were trained and qualified to purchase it) is dangerous to poultry, so (based on my experience) I most likely wouldn't use it even if I could. The chickens don't react like you or I would. As soon as I take them to their recovery cage, they start eating and drinking. (They have to fast 36 hrs from food and 24 hrs from water also, so they're pretty hungry/thirsty.) After watching them for a couple of hours I take them back home. They're pretty happy about that. This morning they were eager to be let out and spread out over the area looking for yummy chicken things to eat. They have special bracelets. Otherwise I couldn't tell them apart from the ones I didn't work on.

They don't get stitches. The skin cut and the muscle incision don't land on top of one another--that's their wound care. Stitches cause them to puff up--called wind puff. I haven't had that happen to mine.

 

[CindyinSD]

I haven't heard of folks keeping capons as pets. The ones I've seen here on byc caponize because they are growing them out for meat. By caponizing, the bird doesn't get as tough as a cockeral or rooster, and there is no fighting as with a bachelor pen of grow out males.

Sometimes people end up with an accidental rooster in with their pullets and they fall in love with it. They live in town and cannot have a crowing pet so they would like a way to stop the crowing. They try the no-crow collars but often find them to be inhumane, so they may turn to caponizing.

I am not good enough to caponize mature roosters, though some few people do it. That's the usual situation with the pet roosters. I suppose if it were a common procedure, people would start to want pet capons but as it is, you hardly ever see it, and if you do it's a remedy, not a matter of intentionally choosing a rooster as a pet.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Also anyone know what the blond is gonna be? It's a tuxedo clutch but he looks like he might be a solid gold by my guess :/
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It is possible, that this may be an Italian Pie Bald/Tuxedo ... but too early to tell at this stage

 

[Kiki]

I set 47.
6 clears.

I'm really pissed about not marking the eggs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Welp, power was out for 8 hours so my babies came upstairs to stay warm enough today. Fieldtrip!!

 

[Sara L]

Sometimes people end up with an accidental rooster in with their pullets and they fall in love with it. They live in town and cannot have a crowing pet so they would like a way to stop the crowing. They try the no-crow collars but often find them to be inhumane, so they may turn to caponizing.

I am not good enough to caponize mature roosters, though some few people do it. That's the usual situation with the pet roosters. I suppose if it were a common procedure, people would start to want pet capons but as it is, you hardly ever see it, and if you do it's a remedy, not a matter of intentionally choosing a rooster as a pet.

Hmm. I thought in my state (maybe others?) it was illegal to practice Veterinary medicine (invasive surgery) on other people's animals without a license. So most were doing the caponizing to their own birds only and not selling or giving them away as pets. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

I don't think a mature rooster would do as well, larger testes means more blood vessels and require a larger incision. Might not fix all the rooster behavior as it could be habit at that point.

 

[tacothechicken]

Ok guys I think I have bad news, I had my 4ty baby hatch yesterday afternoon but the thing is .. it can't walk. It's almost like it's hips are too thin to get it's legs under it properly so it just rolls around instead. It also still has noticable yolk bulge even 9 hrs later. Will the baby teach itself to adapt or is it permenantly crippled? It might not have hatched properly either, it's hips almost seem angle back like it's pushing itself off of something, so I'm wondering if it's legs were in the wrong position and it just got lucy hatch wise

 

[tacothechicken]

Oh weird I swapped him into my larger still air and suddenly he's doing much better! Finally fluffed up and balancing. I do not know what happened he was in the still air originally, maybe his yolk bulge was in the way?

 

[Sara L]

@tacothechicken if he still has a lot of yolk he will probably be wobbly for a little while. If he's still having trouble walking you could try putting him in a cup that's small enough to force him to keep his legs properly situated. Once his little leg muscles get some strength he will probably be fine.

 

[tacothechicken]

Ok put him in the brooder and he's resting/practicing balance using his siblings as support, so hopefully he'll be fine, I'll be gone most of the day today so we'll see how he is when I get home