Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[delisha]

Quote: Its not. The females have it in a different area. You just see it on the males.
Flip your hens over and look at the vent area.

 

[kukupecpec]

Its not. The females have it in a different area. You just see it on the males.
Flip your hens over and look at the vent area.

Ah ok. But why would the males have it under their chin?

 

[delisha]

Quote: The mites/lice will stay where it is warm and moist. They need fluids too. They have more heat and fluids on the vent of hens. The males do not have vents or the high heat hens do in that area. They still have mites in that area, but it is not as visible. Under the neck is hard to groom out ..mites want the baby's to hatch and not get pulled out. Eventually the chicken will die from the over abundance of mites/lice. They infiltrate the whole chicken. To have eggs on the face and neck the mites/lice have been around for a long time. They will use the feather shaft and have baby's and just suck the chickens dry every night and lay more eggs.

There are a large variety of mites and lice and each variety has there own place they prefer and how they live and propagate.
Each area of the world has different varieties. I am not a specialist on mites and lice so i can't tell you your variety (if I had to guess it wiuld be a bad infestation of northern fowl mites )or even of you have several different varieties. I do know you need to treat your birds, clean your coops and stay on top of this infestation.

http://www.poultryhub.org/health/disease/types-of-disease/2715-2/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mites-lice-treatment-and-prevention

I hope this answers your questions

 

[kukupecpec]

The mites/lice will stay where it is warm and moist. They need fluids too. They have more heat and fluids on the vent of hens. The males do not have vents or the high heat hens do in that area. They still have mites in that area, but it is not as visible. Under the neck is hard to groom out ..mites want the baby's to hatch and not get pulled out. Eventually the chicken will die from the over abundance of mites/lice. They infiltrate the whole chicken. To have eggs on the face and neck the mites/lice have been around for a long time. They will use the feather shaft and have baby's and just suck the chickens dry every night and lay more eggs.

There are a large variety of mites and lice and each variety has there own place they prefer and how they live and propagate.
Each area of the world has different varieties. I am not a specialist on mites and lice so i can't tell you your variety (if I had to guess it wiuld be a bad infestation of northern fowl mites )or even of you have several different varieties. I do know you need to treat your birds, clean your coops and stay on top of this infestation.

http://www.poultryhub.org/health/disease/types-of-disease/2715-2/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mites-lice-treatment-and-prevention

I hope this answers your questions

Thanks for the info!
I was really curious about the egg location.
I feel so bad that I didn't see this before! I'm not usually down on the ground with them where I can see under their chin, and they usually keep their head upright when I pick them up.
We are getting all set up for treatment and coop cleaning though now that it's been spotted. I haven't found anything on any of the other chickens, and I checked them all over when I noticed this guy had the white stuff on his chin, I have to figure out where just those four picked it up! Too weird...

 

[ki4got]

ok... I've got a puzzle I need opinions on...

my bantam blrw pair, the roo is nice in type and color (could be a bit darker overall, but still nice) the hen's color is lacking and she's broody 2/3 of the time...

of the eggs I HAVE gotten from her, the first 6 I set, 2 were fertile - 1 died at 2 days the other died at about 2 weeks... the next 8, again 2 were fertile, 1 quit. 1 hatched but is not thriving. on this last round, I set another 6 eggs, 1 hatched and died within 24 hours. the same roo bred with a bantam cochin, those chicks are doing just fine. another hatched today. I've got 1 more of the bantam blrw eggs due tomorrow or the next day (forgot to write the date down).

so what would you do? wait for the hen to start laying again and try some more? or farm her out and try another hen?

i'm wondering if it's possibly that they're too inbred, or maybe something else... these are the only chicks I've had problems with. the dorkings, ee's cochins sfh and crosses are all doing just fine.

 

[delisha]

ok... I've got a puzzle I need opinions on...

my bantam blrw pair, the roo is nice in type and color (could be a bit darker overall, but still nice) the hen's color is lacking and she's broody 2/3 of the time...

of the eggs I HAVE gotten from her, the first 6 I set, 2 were fertile - 1 died at 2 days the other died at about 2 weeks... the next 8, again 2 were fertile, 1 quit. 1 hatched but is not thriving. on this last round, I set another 6 eggs, 1 hatched and died within 24 hours. the same roo bred with a bantam cochin, those chicks are doing just fine. another hatched today. I've got 1 more of the bantam blrw eggs due tomorrow or the next day (forgot to write the date down).

so what would you do? wait for the hen to start laying again and try some more? or farm her out and try another hen?

i'm wondering if it's possibly that they're too inbred, or maybe something else... these are the only chicks I've had problems with. the dorkings, ee's cochins sfh and crosses are all doing just fine.

Some lines are not viable period. ......you are doing nothing wrong. Get another hen.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: well, new hen(s) were already in the plans, so that's what i'll likely do. i'm just debating what to do with this roo. keep him and try him over another line, or sell him too and just start over. or give up on the bantam blrw project all together.

the other option is to keep him and try my hand at a bantam blr cochin project... but I think i'm better off concentrating on my silver laced cochins first then incorporating blue and mahogany later on.

 

[delisha]

Quote: well, new hen(s) were already in the plans, so that's what i'll likely do. i'm just debating what to do with this roo. keep him and try him over another line, or sell him too and just start over. or give up on the bantam blrw project all together.

the other option is to keep him and try my hand at a bantam blr cochin project... but I think i'm better off concentrating on my silver laced cochins first then incorporating blue and mahogany later on.
You already know he is fertile and not the issue. I would not get rid of him till you have a proven replacement.

 

[heirloomorps]

ok... I've got a puzzle I need opinions on...

my bantam blrw pair, the roo is nice in type and color (could be a bit darker overall, but still nice) the hen's color is lacking and she's broody 2/3 of the time...

of the eggs I HAVE gotten from her, the first 6 I set, 2 were fertile - 1 died at 2 days the other died at about 2 weeks... the next 8, again 2 were fertile, 1 quit. 1 hatched but is not thriving. on this last round, I set another 6 eggs, 1 hatched and died within 24 hours. the same roo bred with a bantam cochin, those chicks are doing just fine. another hatched today. I've got 1 more of the bantam blrw eggs due tomorrow or the next day (forgot to write the date down).

so what would you do? wait for the hen to start laying again and try some more? or farm her out and try another hen?

i'm wondering if it's possibly that they're too inbred, or maybe something else... these are the only chicks I've had problems with. the dorkings, ee's cochins sfh and crosses are all doing just fine.

I would try putting her with another rooster (any rooster!) and see if they can produce any fertile eggs. If they do, I would say they are too inbred. If not then you need to find another hen.

 

[Nickeyo]

Ok I have a Wyandotte hen with two chicks, they are both 8 and a half weeks old, what age should they leave her, they have their main bond broken, she feeds them now and then and when I let them out the run they go off together but slowly separate to the point of being opposite side of my fields, she has just started laying again and at night she now try's to go in the main coop but the chicks won't go to bed without her, they just stand outside the broody coop and scream and when I put her back in with them they rush over to snuggle in, I normally hatch with my incubator so I'm new to natural incubation

Any input will be great