Arizona Chickens

[Mahonri]

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YOU ARE AWESOME!

 

[GreatWhiteAfro]

I've done some research and I think the name depends on where you get them. There doesn't seem to be a standard naming system for sex-links.
I had two that Ideal Poultry called a gold sex-link that had white tail feathers and white lacing in other places.  They looked just like the cinnamon queen from Cackle hatchery.  I even ended up with a rooster that looks just like the picture of a rooster cinnamon queen at Cackle.
I also had a hen that Ideal called a red sex-link and it looked exactly like a PR.
Hale Malu Farms calls all 3 red rooster/ white hen crosses cinnamon queens.


Ideal differentiates between the three white hens with these names
From Ideal:
[COLOR=000000]Gold Sex Links are a breed cross using Rhode Island Red males and Rhode Island White females.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=000000]Red Sex Links are a breed cross using Rhode Island Red males and Delaware females.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=000000]Brown Sex Links are a breed cross using Rhode Island Red males and silver factor White Rock females.[/COLOR]

So it looks like if your sex-link/cinnamon queen has white feathers, it was probably a Rhode Island white hen.

There you go, more information than you wanted.  I have too much time on my hands...too sick to do much else. 

Sucks that you're sick. And thanks for the info, I'm learning more every day about our feathered friends!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I hate conflagration! I avoid I'd it much to much, I have desired to set up my experiment for watering my garden. It is my garden! If he doesn't like it he can take his green house and go home.
And that's that.

My girls are molting. I have examined their feathers, all kinds of feathers from all over their body. Someone posted that they all will not molt at the same time. Lucy has what I think is normal feather growth. Blonde has a lot of feathers growing in. Comparing them I am not sure about the others. Powder had been laying every other day about noon, like clock work, At the same time once a day, every day Whinny is loud and then goes in a box for about an hour no egg. Do I have something to be concerned about? And am I assuming correctly about the molt? Or am I looking for a black cat in a black room that isn't there?

 

[momgoose]

I've got a problem. Wonder if any of you have any ideas on how to stop this destructive behavior-it's driving me nuts!
I have five hens. My Leghorn died after tearing her vent badly laying an egg. Even though she was the smallest of all of them, she was the boss and the hens got along until she died. Since then the Barred Rock and Dominique have become bullies. They have pecked the feathers off the backs of my two EE's (to the point that they were bloody) and then started on my Buff Orphington. I separated the bullies from the EE's and BO and now one of the EE's is pecking the BO and the other EE. I'm at my wits end!
What could be causing this and How can I stop it? It seems like they're literally trying to eat each other!
Terri

 

[countrygirl74]

Just wanted to share some pics of all my new baby girls (hopefully girls!) The first couple pics are the first 4 we picked up last week - had some fun with them and my 12-year-old daughter. Then, the next few pics are our new babies that we picked up just today! So fun to have babies around again!
P.S. I apologize for the messy chicks - they are on ff.

 

[Mahonri]

AWESOME CHICKS!!!

 

[Arizonachicken]

That's a shame to have to deal with problems.  Personally, I want the healthiest and best laying flock I can manage, so I am attempting to go the all-natural, minimal intervention route.  Part of that maintenance, in my opinion, is culling the weaker birds and those with health problems.  From the sounds of it, this is one I personally would cull.  From my understanding, there is no cure for internal laying.  it causes the internal organs to fail and will ultimately result in her death.

If you truly want to try to extend her life, you can try to drain the fluid with a large needle.  This link here talks some about the amount and type of fluid he drained, even explaining on Page 1 where he inserted the needle.  Ultimately, she passed away, but if you are truly attached...

Either way, I would do a necropsy to see if you can better determine the cause.  Did you get both birds from the same breeder or hatchery or were they different?

You can't win 'em all! I have 3 SLW from fertile eggs I ordered from a breeder. They have just begun to lay...except this one. The other two are fine. She's fine except for that water balloon abdomen. Thanks for the link, but I refuse to do intervention like that. I, too, need a healthy flock. I can't have chickens I need to baby. Certain things I will treat, like bumble foot. My olive egger had bumble foot, we did surgery, she recovered beautifully, then got a respiratory infection and stopped laying. I separated her, treated her with denagard (it's all I had) she got a little better, and I figured she'd either kick it or not. She's fine now. But this SLW is doomed, I'm afraid.

 

[Arizonachicken]

All right, I had a dream about chicks last night...now I'm waiting for a broody.

 

[GreatWhiteAfro]

Woohoo! Two nights in a row and no chicken lifting! The girls head to the coop at dusk! The learn so fast, gonna see how they do with some free ranging today, supervised if course.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Woohoo! Two nights in a row and no chicken lifting! The girls head to the coop at dusk! The learn so fast, gonna see how they do with some free ranging today, supervised if course.

I have noticed my girls start for the coop 30 min or so before sun set. Spend time going in and out set taking down finding her spot. With Lucy usually the last in as it is getting dark. For a while I hd a problem, I would give then a treat and set with them at coop time. I found them roosting out side their coop, I believe they were waiting for their treat. I now go out earlier.

I still have newbe insecure questions about molting. Because they are all kinds of feathers I hope no one is pulling feathers.