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[wolftracks]

I posted about my little cockerel's beak and eye, but no one has replied.

I wish I knew when all this stuff happened.

When to let them out for the day and he has no feathers on one side of his face, his eye is swollen shut and his beak is turned. He didn't look like this before. I haven't been out there much since friday, but he didn't look like this then.

I've never heard of a beak twisting at 3 months.

 

[Truevalentine]

<sigh> I knew there was a reason that I didn't turn down any fertile eggs that anyone was willing to give me! Not 5 minutes in the incubator box and my destructive daycare boy cracked THREE! They were looking in the box all fascinated and I left them with strict instructions not to touch while I went to the bathroom. They didn't touch, but he did drop the thermometer down on them!

oh, and one of my girls has already flown over my little fence twice today since the wing clipping last night, so I guess I'm gonna need a taller fence/cover :-(

Chickens plus daycare = complicated

 

[wolftracks]

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Oh no

I used to have a daycare. Now I have chickens. LOL
I raised exotic birds back then, but had to lock them down tight. After a while they did alright around them.
Hope it was a couple of those white ones from me. I get a ton of those.
Do you need more?

 

[sewandgrow]

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Sorry Kim neither have I but I did have the eye problem a while back & the first hen died before I knew what to do. When the rooster got it I gave it shots of Tylan 200 for 3 days & it knocked it rigt out & he is as good as new. Thank goodness for all the knowledge the people you meet raising chickens are willing to share.
Good Luck

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Oh no

I used to have a daycare. Now I have chickens. LOL

Me too!

I ran my own Day Care and had chickens. Yes it is quite a challenge! I really miss having kids around though.

Often the parents were more challenging than the kids were.

Actually that's not fair, most of the parents were gems too. It's just that the one or two challenging individual stick in your mind.

 

[Truevalentine]

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Oh no

I used to have a daycare. Now I have chickens. LOL

Me too!

I ran my own Day Care and had chickens. Yes it is quite a challenge! I really miss having kids around though.

Often the parents were more challenging than the kids were.

Actually that's not fair, most of the parents were gems too. It's just that the one or two challenging individual stick in your mind.

yea, it was two white ones from you Kim and a brown one from pnp4kidz...my daughter enjoyed her cheese omelet for dinner and I got to really SEE the bullseye for myself. I'm good, I think we've got pretty good chances with how many I still have left in there, and I've got the box in a spot that isn't easily accessed by them on their own.

I've got some pretty great parents and kids so far. They have their quirks of course, but all in all a good group, the one not so great one I didn't realize wasn't so great until the end of her short stay here, but that's water under the bridge.

Boys are just so much rougher than the girls! And destructive at times for no apparent reason! When I was preggo I didn't care boy or girl, but my daycare boys make me glad I had a girl!

 

[wolftracks]

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Me too!

I ran my own Day Care and had chickens. Yes it is quite a challenge! I really miss having kids around though.

Often the parents were more challenging than the kids were.

Actually that's not fair, most of the parents were gems too. It's just that the one or two challenging individual stick in your mind.

yea, it was two white ones from you Kim and a brown one from pnp4kidz...my daughter enjoyed her cheese omelet for dinner and I got to really SEE the bullseye for myself. I'm good, I think we've got pretty good chances with how many I still have left in there, and I've got the box in a spot that isn't easily accessed by them on their own.

I've got some pretty great parents and kids so far. They have their quirks of course, but all in all a good group, the one not so great one I didn't realize wasn't so great until the end of her short stay here, but that's water under the bridge.

Boys are just so much rougher than the girls! And destructive at times for no apparent reason! When I was preggo I didn't care boy or girl, but my daycare boys make me glad I had a girl!

When that brown egg I gave you hatches you'll either have a FBCM from my Davis flock or an Olive egger from my blue Ameraucana and a Davis hen. If you can't keep it, put in on the website and if you make a few bucks, use it for the daycare.

 

[wolftracks]

Do any of you think that if his face is swollen that that could be causing the cross beak? Just thought of that.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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That makes sense, I just don't have any personal experience with this type of problem. Could he have been injured by that terrible cat and now it's infected?

 

[Laurieks]

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You did put down your phone

Yay for smart little Dolly, following directions like that. I suspect she learned not to jump that fence again.

lol I knew I should have read all the posts before I said that.. but leaving it as is anyway.

I love the card design, and ditto on making the egg blue.

&

for the lost little ones

Our little group is happy as little clams, and learning to use the rabbit water bottle, & eat yogurt/mash spread on their walls (hehee). Pics coming soon I hope.
I worry that the darkness of the little wheatie wings means all 7 are cockerels.

And the partridge Chanteclers... is white chest boy (or was it girl?) like in Barnies???

Thanks BUNCHES again to Jeremy for 'making' us get these cuties, and to Dawn for driving.

One more thing.... for posting the pic of Tudy with the five of us... we're supposed to tag with facebook IDs. Are they searchable on BYC's facebk & I haven't found it? Can you who are in it PM or fB me with them? (Norm, Judy, Dawn, Jeremy)

Sweet Dreams all!
Laurie