Brabanters and Spitzhaubens--The Differences PIC HEAVY!

[EweSheep]

Where did you buy yours, Ewesheep?

Ideal Hatchery.....if you are going that route, you better buy many more than you need to get a few good ones!

If you don't want to spend all that money culling about almost 90 percent of the chicks to get a few good or acceptable ones, you might want to consider buying breeder's birds because they are a few steps ahead or generations ahead than the hatchery Spitzhaubens.

 

[allen wranch]

Blue,
I have raised both Brabanters and Spitzhaubens and love them both. Each seem to have mysterious deaths, but anything I could diagnosis externally was fixable.

Fowll pox is treatable if you keep on top of it. Put a drying agent like iodine or calomine lotion on each of the sores with a cotton swab every day until they are dry enough to gently pick off and throw away out of reach of the other birds.

I had an extremely bad case of fowl pox in one of my Brahma hens. She also had a pox sore in her ear. Once I got the scab off, I put peroxide in her ear daily until she was better. Her eyes were swollen almost shut too. She is fine now.

CRD is also treatable.

Hang in there.

 

[tazcat70]

Cackle hatchery Spitzhaubens. I ordered 20 and they sent 22. They are straight run.

 

[elmtree]

I've got a question for the spithaubens experts out there. I just bought 3 spitz's from a fellow BYC'er. She got the spitz's from a hatchery. My question is they don't really have their Mohawks yet at all. All the pics I've seen of three week old spitz's they have quite the 'hawk' already. Here are a couple pics.

 

[EweSheep]

Sometimes you get some late "bloomers", I've had a few that had no mohawks and they got it later when they feathered out.

 

[elmtree]

Sometimes you get some late "bloomers", I've had a few that had no mohawks and they got it later when they feathered out.

Great! Thanks. They have popped out the last couple days. Also, my DH and I noticed that they don't scratch as much as our other chicks did. I took them outside and I didn't really see them scratching around much, just pecking. Is that typical of the breed?

 

[flitter]

My Spitz only runs are the only runs with grass growing... so I'd say "yes!"

 

[elmtree]

My Spitz only runs are the only runs with grass growing... so I'd say "yes!"

 

That's so funny! I was feeling a little concerned. They sure don't act like my flock of 23 already outside. They are chatty too!!

 

[danib]

I wantecd to get a pullet to add to my flock, but I read that they don't like confinement. My chickens have a good sized coop and a good sized enclosed run, and they love it. Is it true that Spitzhaubens wouldn't be happy?

 

[Blue]

Thanks. I only have 2 hens from my original brabanter flock. I really like the breed, so I may try to start over with my brabanters next spring with some more chicks.

Blue,
I have raised both Brabanters and Spitzhaubens and love them both. Each seem to have mysterious deaths, but anything I could diagnosis externally was fixable.

Fowll pox is treatable if you keep on top of it. Put a drying agent like iodine or calomine lotion on each of the sores with a cotton swab every day until they are dry enough to gently pick off and throw away out of reach of the other birds.

I had an extremely bad case of fowl pox in one of my Brahma hens. She also had a pox sore in her ear. Once I got the scab off, I put peroxide in her ear daily until she was better. Her eyes were swollen almost shut too. She is fine now.

CRD is also treatable.

Hang in there.