Arizona Chickens

[MagicChicken]

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You could try clipping her cheek tufts so she can see better. I would be inclined to cull her if it's not a tuft-related vision problem. If you do re-introduce her to the flock I'd put her on the roost with the other birds at night, and keep an eye on things for the next day or two.

 

[moms3cuties]

 

..Is she new to your flock?


...My second question is do you have a new rooster that has started to try to mate and be rough with the hens? teenage Roos can be quite rough on hens!

Yesersonally would make sure that she is healed fairly well before I put her back with the flock myself

Yes, I picked up a group of 5, 6 month old Ameraucanas about 6 or 7 weeks ago, and this is the only one experiencing any problems. I do have several roosters in that age group, but as I was watching, it was the other hens pecking at her, even some of her sister Ameraucanas. This one marches to a different drummer, almost constantly bobbing her head up and down, like she is listening to a tune only she can hear. To the point that I started calling her Bob. She also seems to never look down, even while eating. When she eats, she keeps her entire head parallel to the ground, so she is really pecking blindly at the food. With her cheek tufts I can't see how she can locate any food, but with enough in front of her, she does get some down. She seems otherwise healthy, but socially, she seems to be in a world of her own, pretty much ignoring all the other chickens.

You could try clipping her cheek tufts so she can see better.  I would be inclined to cull her if it's not a tuft-related vision problem.  If you do re-introduce her to the flock I'd put her on the roost with the other birds at night, and keep an eye on things for the next day or two. 

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[moms3cuties]

Today,

did anybody get Less eggs than they had from the previous day(s) OR week?

....today I received two eggs, from my 18 month old leghorn and my 9 month old Rhode Island Red;
so 2 out of 11 hens actually earned their keep. :/

 

[Sill]

Today,
....today I received two eggs, from my 18 month old leghorn and my 9 month old Rhode Island Red;
so 2 out of 11 hens actually earned their keep.

I also got two eggs today. Yesterday one, the day before zero. The only one I can count on is my olive egger, she is giving me four beautiful large matte olive eggs a week since she finished her molt. And of course the quail hens are giving me 20 or so a day so over half of them are laying daily.

 

[Sill]

Hi Sill what you put in the coop floor?

Mostly shavings. I have a little sand in there and right now some lemon grass since it was available.

 

[Sill]

I haven't checked that thread...but I'll be doing so very shortyly.

I got Naked Neck Turken eggs from two separate breeders. Amazingly they both arrived the same day even though they were shipped from different parts of the country. I'm hoping that's a good sign that this was meant to be.

How exciting! Please post updates as they develop.

 

[MagicChicken]

Test hatch in the hatcher, five eggs due to hatch tomorrow. One hatched more than 24 hours early. Two others pipped a few hours later, then lay dormant for 12+ hours. The overachiever has been peeping the whole time, wondering where all the other chickens are. One of the pipped eggs finally started to zip but it was taking him a long time to get out. Overachiever kept pecking at the edge of the zipping shell, like he was trying to help the chick out of the egg. Awww, I thought. How cute. Now the other guy is out, I can see he has a triangular chunk cut out of the top of his beak. Hmmm. Maybe the overachiever wasn't "helping" at all. Maybe he was pecking at the competition. Good thing it is night now and I can turn out the lights. That should give the new chick a chance to dry out and recover before morning. Hope the other two hatch out and dry before dawn. I'd like to move everyone to the brooder as soon as possible.

 

[DesertChic]

Test hatch in the hatcher, five eggs due to hatch tomorrow. One hatched more than 24 hours early. Two others pipped a few hours later, then lay dormant for 12+ hours. The overachiever has been peeping the whole time, wondering where all the other chickens are. One of the pipped eggs finally started to zip but it was taking him a long time to get out. Overachiever kept pecking at the edge of the zipping shell, like he was trying to help the chick out of the egg. Awww, I thought. How cute. Now the other guy is out, I can see he has a triangular chunk cut out of the top of his beak. Hmmm. Maybe the overachiever wasn't "helping" at all. Maybe he was pecking at the competition. Good thing it is night now and I can turn out the lights. That should give the new chick a chance to dry out and recover before morning. Hope the other two hatch out and dry before dawn. I'd like to move everyone to the brooder as soon as possible.

So exciting!!!

 

[moms3cuties]

 
Test hatch in the hatcher, five eggs due to hatch tomorrow.  One hatched more than 24 hours early.  Two others pipped a few hours later, then lay dormant for 12+ hours.  The overachiever has been peeping the whole time, wondering where all the other chickens are.  One of the pipped eggs finally started to zip but it was taking him a long time to get out.  Overachiever kept pecking at the edge of the zipping shell, like he was trying to help the chick out of the egg.  Awww, I thought.  How cute.  Now the other guy is out, I can see he has a triangular chunk cut out of the top of his beak.  Hmmm.  Maybe the overachiever wasn't "helping" at all.  Maybe he was pecking at the competition.  Good thing it is night now and I can turn out the lights.  That should give the new chick a chance to dry out and recover before morning.  Hope the other two hatch out and dry before dawn.  I'd like to move everyone to the brooder as soon as possible.

So exciting!!! 

X2 Eggciting!

 

[moms3cuties]

Yes it can bee hot for them make sure you have proper shade and enough water for the  maybe a misting fan for the summer time  in the winter if it seems to cold use a heat lamp from wal-mart home depot has the light bulbs also check  with your local farm store