Arizona Chickens

[SonoranChick]

These clouds are teasing me and I don't like it big, puffy gray clouds over the mountain that keep blowing right around us...looks like they're all headed north to you guys again! But it was cooler again today so I shouldn't complain too much.

 

[meetthebubus]

These clouds are teasing me and I don't like it big, puffy gray clouds over the mountain that keep blowing right around us...looks like they're all headed north to you guys again! But it was cooler again today so I shouldn't complain too much.

Haha I feel the same way sometimes as I watch storms move around instead of over, and the forecast this week looks good! The chickens are much more active and there is NO panting going on, I love it and hope it stays and keeps going down!

 

[SonoranChick]

I found some good info on curled toes in my book. It says curled toes can be straightened with bandaids or first-aid tape. Straighten them in a newly hatched chick while its bones are still soft. The toes should straighten out in a day or two, as the bones harden. It says these chickens may not be good in a breeder flock or for show, but that a chicken with curled toes will get along just fine in all other respects.
This is from the book "Raising Chickens" by Gail Damerow.

 

[meetthebubus]

Oh good! Hopefully @BlueBaby sees this and @Michelle Guynn and @nicollee can work something out for "little curly"

 

[BlueBaby]

Thank you Michelle
Can you tell me about the curled toes baby? Are curled toes a lifelong problem? or just one to avoid breeding?
I can handle something that looks a little off? but not something like Ilean that has to be kept separate to protect...
Five is no longer sitting on the last egg.

I culled it about an hour ago. Both feet were curled pretty bad, and it could not walk and was getting rolled over unto it's back and couldn't even right itself again, let alone to to eat and drink.

 

[SonoranChick]

I culled it about an hour ago. Both feet were curled pretty bad, and it could not walk and was getting rolled over unto it's back and couldn't even right itself again, let alone to to eat and drink.

RIP little Curly

 

[FeatherPugs]

RIP little Curly
You can make little feet for these babies and tape them on - they then learn to walk on their slipper feet until the curled toes/spradle or whatever clears - usually about a week. You just cut them out of stiff cardboard (or a cereal box) kinda like flip flops shape - little wider - then tape, bandaid, however is easiest and help them walk on them. I usually use thin strips of vet tape and x-wrap it. They will generally learn right away to walk. I believe Gail Damerow's book talks about this - it might be in her health book.

 

[meetthebubus]

RIP little Curly

 

[BlueBaby]

RIP little Curly
You can make little feet for these babies and tape them on - they then learn to walk on their slipper feet until the curled toes/spradle or whatever clears - usually about a week. You just cut them out of stiff cardboard (or a cereal box) kinda like flip flops shape - little wider - then tape, bandaid, however is easiest and help them walk on them. I usually use thin strips of vet tape and x-wrap it. They will generally learn right away to walk. I believe Gail Damerow's book talks about this - it might be in her health book.

I don't want to waste my time doing what would have been needed for that one. It would take away my time with the rest of them. I still have to watch for poopy butts, and make sure that the other one's are developing right. Plus, I still have more eggs to see if they will hatch. I have the flock outside to do, plus I am still watching my next door neighbors animals too.

I don't want weakness nor deformities in my flock. It could be hereditary, so I cull.

 

[SonoranChick]

Finally getting some rain at my house