Arizona Chickens

[notinoz2007]

arizona chickens congrats on the new addition

Alohachickens, i have hatched many of your aloha eggs and not had any deaths - except the ones i cull on purpose.

Maddbaggins, i have seen that before, but mostly in younger chicks. it has to do with the temp of incubation if i remember correctly. has she always had a tendency to let those toes curl? the feet can be splinted, and she probably is still young enough to do it. you take hard plastic like a credit card and make a sort of boot for her, use a band-aid or vet tape as the top. it can stay on for a while. google chicken foot splint and you can see what i'm talking about. i can also tell you that i personally raised a rooster with curled toes and he thrived just fine, as a matter of fact he turned out to be the more dominant out of 3.

 

[notinoz2007]

thank you for those links on greywater. wonderful reading...now another project...

 

[Arizonachicken]

I glad to hear that Sophia Marie is doing well. How much dose she weigh?

It is interesting, rejection of a late chick. I, being new, will remember in the future, if I have a broody hen hatch eggs, one is late but viable, to remove the eggs until it hatches, and not give it back to the mother without supervision, to see how she acts.

Sophia was 8 lbs 11 oz. 21" long. She was the only one to be born on her actual due date!

As far as the mother hen attacking her chick, I don't know for sure why. Maybe it was a weak chick and that's why it hatched last. Do mother hens "cull" so to speak? This is my first time hatching eggs with a broody. If anyone has an idea, let me know.

 

[Bill Matthews]

To Alohachickens: Don't worry yourself over this. Something appears wrong with the man's story. Anyone who has raised chickens to the extent he told you that he had and has NEVER LOST A CHICK OR ADULT to disease or mismanagement is the luckiest guy on earth. Take him to the nearest lake and if he can walk on water then then you got a keeper!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

ARIZONACHICKEN from what I know of animal behavior, the answer is i am 95% sure, yes. In the wild weakness is dangerous. Any offspring that is genetically weak, deformed, too noise, behaves badly is at rask of being culled. Having said this it is never 100% of the time, as in people, some parent animals appear to have different criteria. Animals run on instinct combined with the individuality of personality. It is never a given. There would not be evolution if it was. A few mothers have been observed giving equal or greater attention to a deformed infant. Misbehaving offspring usually cull them self. Offspring that are to noise will attract predictors and endangers everyone. As for sick, weak, and other problems with the offspring the parent with cull as in euthanasia. There is also times were the parent animal dose not recognize its own offspring as its own.

IF the late chick was healthy and was only late, mother and peps had left the nest, found a pep that she had not bonded with, she would not recognize it as her own, but an evader. My Grandmother S. told be about a hen that would steal peps, ducklings, and other new borns. She was the mother hen. She had apparently found the newly born barn kittens, when the mother was out. She refused to give them up to the rightful FURY mother. Feathers and fur flow, until my Great Grand Mother came to the rescue, both mothers survived. I have also been reading on broodiness, good mothers, etcetera in breed descriptions. As I said earlier it is a cation that I shall take if it happens to me. See how she reacts.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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Well, with just a dozen chicks you couldn't say anything about differential mortality. With all the other perfectly healthy chicks you've sold in the same time period, it seems clear that something he did is at the root cause. As others have mentioned, it's really hard to trust anything the guy might say now given his lack of knowledge and the credibility-streatching notion that he hasn't lost any birds in at least nine years.

The price of a necropsy for a chicken at the State Veterinary Diagnostics Lab. is $256.50. That expense is so disappointing, especially in light of states that offer it for free or very little charge. It would be nice to be able to figure out the cause of the sniffles and eliminate those symptoms from your flock.

 

[alohachickens]

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The price of a necropsy for a chicken at the State Veterinary Diagnostics Lab. is $256.50. That expense is so disappointing, especially in light of states that offer it for free or very little charge. It would be nice to be able to figure out the cause of the sniffles and eliminate those symptoms from your flock.

Dangit, I really was hoping the price had gone down. But no, it's gone up. It really is disappointing!

 

[Demosthine]

Well, with just a dozen chicks you couldn't say anything about differential mortality. With all the other perfectly healthy chicks you've sold in the same time period, it seems clear that something he did is at the root cause. As others have mentioned, it's really hard to trust anything the guy might say now given his lack of knowledge and the credibility-streatching notion that he hasn't lost any birds in at least nine years.

The price of a necropsy for a chicken at the State Veterinary Diagnostics Lab. is $256.50. That expense is so disappointing, especially in light of states that offer it for free or very little charge. It would be nice to be able to figure out the cause of the sniffles and eliminate those symptoms from your flock.

Dangit, I really was hoping the price had gone down. But no, it's gone up. It really is disappointing!

Yeah, no kidding! I've thought about it a few times with our current problem with the chicks from Ideal. You would think that one of the veterinary schools would be willing to do it on the cheap, so that the students could get direct hands on experience. I thought UofA had a huge veterinary program, so they would be my prime candidate.

 

[City farm]

Clare, being #1 has to keep a close eye on progress of her new run. The run door has to meet her standards.

she insists that there must be a chicken run door for her and the girls in the the giant door. Being able to free range is important, as well as a safe covered yard.

Love your caption.. I have your tub from the amazing greens.. We got to share them with some neighbors.. Thank you for being so generous..
When do you plan on being on this side of town? I could also have a friend drop it off.. I think they live by you?? I will call you..

 

[City farm]

To Alohachickens:  Don't worry yourself over this.  Something appears wrong with the man's story.  Anyone who has raised chickens to the extent he told you that he had and has NEVER LOST A CHICK OR ADULT to disease or mismanagement is  the luckiest guy on earth.  Take him to the nearest lake and if he can walk on water then then you got a keeper!

X2!
Do you think he is trying to get them for free?