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[tls_ranch]

This is a current photo of the two peeps at one week old..please help if you can..




This is the Father of them.. he has one Black foot

The other peeps are my Black Australorp

Cute chicks As for what mixes they are I have no idea. I would guess that the brownish ones could be crosses from the sex-links, wyandottes, or rhode island reds. The black chicks could be from the australorps, barred rock, and even possibly black sex link hens. Your roo is sure interesting with the one black foot! I have one pullet this year with a dime sized black spot on a otherwise pure yellow leg.

Trisha

 

[tls_ranch]

Here are some updated pics of my splash chicks. All 3 turned out to be pullets!

These are all full siblings. I got 2 blue cockerels, 1 black cockerel, 2 black pullets, and 3 splash pullets. The laced pattern shows up the best on the black and blue, but doesn't seem to show up well on the splash (at least at this age). One splash pullet has a couple of dark blue feathers that clearly show the double laced pattern, but not so much on her other feathers. I can't wait until they get their big girl feathers because it will be interesting to see how double laced pattern looks on a splash.

Huge dark blue cockerel and the smallest splash pullet


One of the black pullets, the light blue cockerel and a medium sized splash pullet. Note the darker legs on the black pullet and the cleaner yellow legs on the splash. I'm not sure, but I think the double dose of the blue gene may be diluting the melanizers in the dermis/skin too.


Here is the biggest splash pullet. She ended up with a black spot on her leg. You can just see it on her right hock. I think it has to do with the way splashes get random dark feathers all over.


Light blue cockerel, splash pullet and dark blue cockerel

 

[RachaelS]

I LOVE the splashes!!!!!

 

[islandgal99]

They are so beautiful. What age are they?

 

[tls_ranch]

They are so beautiful. What age are they?

They're around 8 week's old.

Trisha

 

[CP-FARM]

Cute chicks As for what mixes they are I have no idea. I would guess that the brownish ones could be crosses from the sex-links, wyandottes, or rhode island reds. The black chicks could be from the australorps, barred rock, and even possibly black sex link hens. Your roo is sure interesting with the one black foot! I have one pullet this year with a dime sized black spot on a otherwise pure yellow leg.

Trisha

Trisha; I should of told you the mother could only be one of the following, Rhode, Golden Sex Link, Black Sex Link, ore Golden lace Wyandotte......My Black Australorps are all babbies and my Rocks are in a different coop.The 4 new chicks are in my Australorps holding area, so the black ones you are seeing are my babby Australorps.....I love the variety of color in yours

.. I will post more photos as they grow..

 

[islandgal99]

I am the one who posted a while ago about the barnevelder girl with sour crop. She's still hanging in. I have been feeding her a mash of crumbles, fresh crabapple sauce, garlic, brown rice and scrambled egg. Applecider vinegar in her water with vitamines/electolytes. Two days ago I picked her up in the morning and her crop had shrunk to almost nothing. She's been rather upset in being removed from her flock and paces a lot. She still spits up a bit and does the neck spasm motion, so I'm going to deworm her today incase she also has gapeworm. She's terribly skinny. Thinks she should be a lap chicken. But good spirits and happy, we often put her blue americauna friend in with her. I'm reluctant to put her in with her flock till she's one hundred percent, especially since the runs are on grass and are moved often.

Anyone have any additional experience in sour crop success and how long it takes to full recovery, and if I might be missing something else here. It seems to have taken her do long to get to this point. Cheers.

 

[tls_ranch]

Glad she's hanging in there. Maybe give her some probiotics or yogurt to help her get back on track. Sometimes you can find probiotics in the pet store or at the feed store. The avian (parrot?) type from the pet store might be more ideal. If she can handle it, try giving her some higher protein (meat) and calorie foods to help her get stronger.

Trisha

 

[Happy Chooks]

Sounds like you're doing everything right. Glad she's doing better.

Have you tried giving her a small piece of bread soaked in olive oil? The olive oil is supposed to really help with crop issues.

 

[islandgal99]

Thanks everyone. I did forget to add that she also gets Kefir in her mix, and when she doesn't get it she is noticeably worse. We tried yohgurt and it helped but the Kefir helps more. I did add quite a bit of olive oil to her mix at first also, that didn't really seem to make a difference. I only used that for the first few days as I had read too much oil for too long will stress some of the digestive organs. But maybe I should add a little once a week or so. Even now that her crop is down, she still does the "got something stuck in my throat" motion, and although I'm tempted sometimes to do a crop surgery to see if there is infact something there, I'm pretty sure that type of intervention would kill her as she's pretty skinny. When I massage her crop (3x daily) I can't feel anything in there other than gravel. I do hope she starts to gain some weight, and I hope deworming helps AND doesn't kill her.