➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Pugsabi]

Pics of the baby quails. Hatched 15 coturnix and 3 buttons. One coturnix had physical deformities and I had to cull this week after it got worse. One button quail passed within 2 days of hatch. Everyone else looks healthy. I am probably going to try and sell 10 of the coturnix and keep only 4 max, the ones with the good eyebrows, from my tuxedo group I am trying to breed with good eyebrows. The silver one is the chick that started out with the yellow/silver fluff, looks like it might be a silver tuxedo.
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Also, here are some pictures of the chicken babies. I think the cornish might have doubled in size, you can definitely see a difference between them and the other chicks, and they are same age. I can hold the gray/stripey with one hand, but have to hold the cornish in two hands.
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I really love that you choose the ones you want by eyebrows. This is so funny to me!

 

[Sara L]

I really love that you choose the ones you want by eyebrows. This is so funny to me!

The first really pretty tuxedo male I hatched had white eyebrows, I named him Rowan. He passed while I was on vacation but I had already hatched several chicks from him and his ladies. Couldn't figure out what to call his son so have been calling him Rowanson, very original I know, but he has even better defined eyebrows than his father. These chicks are from Rowanson, so I'm happy to see it may be genetic, although ALL of the chicks I have hatched so far with the great eyebrows have been boys..so I hope the 4 I want to keep aren't all boys.

 

[Conan]

Sheesh. Miss a couple days and come back to a tube feeding emergency and pox party discussion!
@jwyles - Ozzie did have blood on his comb. The gal I got him from has a standard rooster that was picking on him. I also found that he was obviously kept from the food because he was starving! I put him in his coop and he just started hammering the food.
Interesting to note the prevalence of fowl pox in these parts. Can't say I have ever seen it or heard of anyone having it in their flock, and I know lots of folks with chickens!
Is it something you see often down south?

 

[ShrekDawg]

I agree. I didn't see where she had a bad attitude either. I think she was just trying to be sure she was coming across clearly. That being said, i do think she's got some serious issues that she seems way too complacent about that could be causing all her problems yet she seems to think she can ignore them and still find a solution. Delusional is more the impression I got from her.

Yeah, I think there is definitely more of an issue with that rather than attitude aha poor birds

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also not to be mean but I don't get why people get animals if they can't or won't take care of them and/or can't afford them. Food stamps don't cover chicken food so you can't buy it? Well then maybe you shouldn't have chickens. Sorry, that sounds really mean but it's true.

 

[jwyles]

Also not to be mean but I don't get why people get animals if they can't or won't take care of them and/or can't afford them. Food stamps don't cover chicken food so you can't buy it? Well then maybe you shouldn't have chickens. Sorry, that sounds really mean but it's true.

Kdogg it's not mean at all. It's the truth. She sounds well intentioned for sure but priorities seem very screwy.

 

[jwyles]

Sheesh. Miss a couple days and come back to a tube feeding emergency and pox party discussion!
@jwyles - Ozzie did have blood on his comb. The gal I got him from has a standard rooster that was picking on him. I also found that he was obviously kept from the food because he was starving! I put him in his coop and he just started hammering the food.
Interesting to note the prevalence of fowl pox in these parts. Can't say I have ever seen it or heard of anyone having it in their flock, and I know lots of folks with chickens!
Is it something you see often down south?

Poor guy. Yes it's seen a good bit here bc it's transmitted by mosquitoes. I dont know if you read all the conversation but the fowl pox on the comb is really not something I ever sweat over. A few of mine have had it but it never got bad at all and went away in time on its own. I think it wasn't bad bc they were young. Hoping my birds don't get it as adults bc apparently it's worse on them. I've never had the wet pox and I'm thinking it may be less common. I think it's spread the same way though. Casport said once they've had either they're immune to it after that which is great news! So how I'd Ozz-man doing?

 

[Pugsabi]

Also not to be mean but I don't get why people get animals if they can't or won't take care of them and/or can't afford them. Food stamps don't cover chicken food so you can't buy it? Well then maybe you shouldn't have chickens. Sorry, that sounds really mean but it's true.

Millions of people around the world don't use chicken feed. I'm not saying it's the best choice but it's not as horrible as your making it out to be. After all people have been keeping birds for a lot longer than they've been making commercial feed.

I think the conditions she's keeping them in is worse then the food thing. Wet and damp, without being able to keep their feet dry is probably bad enough, without adding mold and lice.

 

[jwyles]

Millions of people around the world don't use chicken feed. I'm not saying it's the best choice but it's not as horrible as your making it out to be. After all people have been keeping birds for a lot longer than they've been making commercial feed.

I think the conditions she's keeping them in is worse then the food thing. Wet and damp, without being able to keep their feet dry is probably bad enough, without adding mold and lice.

I'm with you totally IF you can afford to feed the proper rations of daily nutrition. I don't think that's what she is doing though. To me it seems more like they get what she can get her hands on. If you just feed what you have when you have it there's no way to monitor and guarantee nutritional intake. I don't think those chillins are getting balanced meals... ya see?

 

[R2elk]

Read all of them.
I've never read something quite like it.

You mean you missed the one where the person would not feed prepared feed because he couldn't tell what was in it by looking at it so he fed a combination of low protein, high fat foods (bird seed and sunflower seeds) and was recommending that others do the same?