Arizona Chickens

[Papas Chickens]

Sorry to hear about everbodys chickens getting sick, so far I havent had any real issues with mine except for the heat "knock on wood" Hope they get better.

 

[desertmarcy]

There seems to be a lot of "stuff" out there affecting our chickens this summer. I don't know if it's the increased humidity/rains bringing it out or what. My pens got flooded again Tuesday and who knows what all the floods bring into the pens.

 

[City farm]

A few of us have lost birds. Here is that link to a bird issue.. Remember when I mentioned a few weeks ago that the guy from the feed store said something about the wild birds & even the migrating birds??? Anyway..
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news...parrot-fever-psittacosis-scottsdale/13624329/

 

[cyborg]

There seems to be a lot of "stuff" out there affecting our chickens this summer. I don't know if it's the increased humidity/rains bringing it out or what. My pens got flooded again Tuesday and who knows what all the floods bring into the pens.

Likewise. My pen is covered with tarps, but one of the recent storms tore down one tarp, filled my hanging feeders with rainwater, and flooded the run. I like the rain for the rest of the yard, but not the run. On a brighter note, I finally got my truck fixed, so I can put the bike away until the weather dries out a bit.

 

[City farm]

. Are you offering water also? That vinegar is stron stuff. I am assuming it is with live mother? Dehydration is tarrable. I had a girl I thought was on her way when I started. Bringiging her inside is good. I did that along with water, but I had to bring her in again the next day. The heat was very hard on her. I think frozen watermelon was a life saver, and all the other stff. (Fan, water dishes, ice bottles, all the suggestion on keeping cool)

Sorry, I left out the water part. It's a mix of water and acv. 

So she just tried to stand up and her toes are curled under. I'm searching BYC for this now.

Thanks everyone!

Catching up on post's.. How is she??

 

[City farm]

I'm heading to the Phoenix Valley and thought I'd stop at Trader Joes for some fertile eggs for my broody Black Aussie. Do these really work? Should I know anything - questions - dates - whatever before picking them up? thanks for your help.

Yes it does work check the 3 digit number next to the date. It represent the day of the year using the perpetual calendar on when the eggs were packaged. The bigger the number the fresher it is. E.g. ( 1 = January 1st, 240 = August 28) Let them reach room temp before incubating. Below is a picture of my "Trader Joe" chicks I hatched 2 months ago. I got 6 to hatch, 5 males and 1 female.

Are they a cross between two bird's? Someone said California "something" & leghorn..

 

[City farm]

I can't remember which one (I am stuck at work right now) but the curled toes I think are a vitamin deficiency. Definitely give her some electrolytes, and giving her any kind of B vitamins can't hurt. See if she will eat any scrambled eggs, good source of some of the rarer nutrients and minerals.

P.S. just looked it up, give her B vitamins or riboflavin. Do a search on the forum for diseases and cures, and do a search for curled toes.

Hey, I'm off work now, and I just looked it up in the Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow. As Sill mentioned, most feed stores carry electrolytes for chickens, and some of them have added vitamins. If you can't find that, look for vitamin AD&E powder to put in their water.
Curled toe paralysis is caused by a deficiency of vitamin B2, or riboflavin, but is more common in chicks. Older birds can get it if they are penned and fed unsupplemented layer feed. A good source of riboflavin is green leafy veggies, including young grass. Another dietary problem with similar symptoms is caused by a deficiency of vitamin E, and this is usually associated with a selenium deficiency (eat egg yolks!).
If this turns out to be a riboflavin deficiency, you want to treat it now. Left uncorrected, it leads to progressively worse nerve damage, and death.

Dude, thank you for posting this information..

 

[City farm]

City Farm: I hope the mystery chick is a Barnvelder, that would be really cool.  All of the mystery chicks looked the same when they were little, but the one I kept looks like a Partridge Plymouth Rock, it'd be hilarious if they turned out to be different breeds.

Who knows, but after looking at her more she could be a golden laced wyndotes.. The black ones only have a few white feathers.. They almost look like black austrolorp.. Not sure.. it doesn't matter I am raising them for another family.. They will be building a coop soon..

 

[City farm]

So, I took Polly out of the pen this morning and put her in the little pen under the tree. I didn't really expect her to stay there. The fence isn't high enough. But my Blue Copper Marans decided to fly the coop and join her free-ranging this morning. Meanwhile back in the pen ... Eminem is fluffing up in the coop hopefully laying another egg. One of my barred Plymouth Rocks (BPR) is sitting on her hocks, getting up and walking around like an egret in deep water. Could she have an egg working its way out? It would be her first. Isn't she pretty? @desertmarcy bred her and her sister. She is heritage bred. There is such a difference in the barring between them and Polly, who came from a feed store. That said, Polly has much more personality, but I've had her since she was a chick. My two younger BPRs and my Marans don't really have good names. Since I went with naming the RIR and NHR after towns their breeds are named for I could do this with Massachusetts towns for the BPRs. And maybe a French town or something for the Marans? Maggie (Maginot)? I looked up Marans, France on Google Maps and it seems most of the villages are named after saints. Saint-Jean, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Michel ... Saint-Saveur (huh? a taster saint? patron saint of food testers maybe?). Here are some funny names (it's in the southwest, so I think the language there is influenced by an ancient language of d'Oc, which is not all like French):

• Cramchabon
• Niort
• Nieul-sur-l'Autise
• Triaize
• Torxé
• Pyla-sur-Mer

Just thought they were funny.

Wow, those are some georgous birds!!! We had Plymoth barred rocks.. Not nice birds, for us anyway.. Now Delaware those sound nice..

 

[City farm]

Maybe Beverly for one of the BPRs ...

I like that name..