California - Northern

[zooweemama]

Another question- I feel dumb asking. We have now have a Silkie, sizzle/frizzle whatever crowing and a Showgirl (err Showboy? lol) crowing...they are all housed in a very large dog crate (quarantine) but taken outside to a pen daily for exercise. Is crowing a sign I need to get them gone asap/urgently? I don't want fighting. My marans and orp roo live together pretty darn peaceably BUT it's a bachelor pad and no ladies live with them. I have one sweet little frizzle/sizzle girl in the with ALL those boys. She is SO small. I cannot put her in with the large fowl when she is only like...I wanna say 4 months old? They will attack her. I don't know what to do with her. I only have the one girl! Should I move her into the house, into the chick brooder? lol I really have no idea what to do with her. She is in a crate with 4 other birds and all are cockerels and 3 are crowing. I need to put her somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

 

[ronott1]

Is there such a thing as pre-broody? My black Orp pullet has started to yell at us when we come into the coop lately. When she is in the lay box of course. She eventually lays her egg and leaves but the yelling is newer. She does not bite per se but if you get your hand close to her she does spank you with her head lol.

Is there a way to encourage a hen to GO broody? I need one asap. I have all these bantam eggs collected and a few EE eggs I want hatched.

In a natural environment, the hens will lay in one box. When the number reaches 9 to 15 eggs, one of them will begin setting on the eggs. Does your Black Orp sleep in the nest box too?

I have a Hatchery RIR that growls at me when she is on the nest. It is cute but she has not gone broody. The two broodies started sleeping in the nest box, got a "look" to them and would not move when the other hens laid their eggs. The egg laying hen kind of skooched in, laid the egg and then the Broody moved it in with the fake eggs she was trying to hatch.

Put a bunch of fake eggs into the nest box. If she goes broody, wait until night time and switch the fake ones for fertile ones. To make sure she is broody, wait some time, like 5 days.

Good luck!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

I think the hens are splash

So pretty! I have a pair of bantam BLRW but they look a lot different than these guys. I wonder if there is something wrong with mine?

I think the girls are splash that's probably why

 

[ronott1]

I got my report from the Fecal Float test.

No Worms!

Either they did not have them or Ivermectin really does work. No Valbazen for my chickens!

They did find a small amount of Coci: Coccidia oocyst 0-1 /lpf. I do watch the chicks. I do not give them medicated feed, but often have to give them a round of corid at about 9 weeks old. One of them in the group gets the symptoms. So far all have made it ok.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Another question- I feel dumb asking. We have now have a Silkie, sizzle/frizzle whatever crowing and a Showgirl (err Showboy? lol) crowing...they are all housed in a very large dog crate (quarantine) but taken outside to a pen daily for exercise. Is crowing a sign I need to get them gone asap/urgently? I don't want fighting. My marans and orp roo live together pretty darn peaceably BUT it's a bachelor pad and no ladies live with them. I have one sweet little frizzle/sizzle girl in the with ALL those boys. She is SO small. I cannot put her in with the large fowl when she is only like...I wanna say 4 months old? They will attack her. I don't know what to do with her. I only have the one girl! Should I move her into the house, into the chick brooder? lol I really have no idea what to do with her. She is in a crate with 4 other birds and all are cockerels and 3 are crowing. I need to put her somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

Personally I would separate her out. Three boys and one girl makes for fighting and overbearing the girl when they get their full hormones - and sounds like the boys are working on that already. Do you have a cat carrier? I keep my two quarantine silkies in a small cat carrier for the night - and put them outside in a fenced off area for the day. Until you get more girls I would separate her out - safer for both her and the boys.

 

[zooweemama]

Personally I would separate her out. Three boys and one girl makes for fighting and overbearing the girl when they get their full hormones - and sounds like the boys are working on that already. Do you have a cat carrier? I keep my two quarantine silkies in a small cat carrier for the night - and put them outside in a fenced off area for the day. Until you get more girls I would separate her out - safer for both her and the boys.

Will she be ok alone? I actually have the male Wyandotte who is not crowing yet and is very docile. So I keep them together or just keep her alone? I do plan on separating her- I just worry about her being alone...trying to figure out who to keep her with?

 

[zooweemama]

In a natural environment, the hens will lay in one box. When the number reaches 9 to 15 eggs, one of them will begin setting on the eggs. Does your Black Orp sleep in the nest box too?

I have a Hatchery RIR that growls at me when she is on the nest. It is cute but she has not gone broody. The two broodies started sleeping in the nest box, got a "look" to them and would not move when the other hens laid their eggs. The egg laying hen kind of skooched in, laid the egg and then the Broody moved it in with the fake eggs she was trying to hatch.

Put a bunch of fake eggs into the nest box. If she goes broody, wait until night time and switch the fake ones for fertile ones. To make sure she is broody, wait some time, like 5 days.

Good luck!

Ok! I have white ping pong balls we use. LOL I will put them all in one nest and see what takes place.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Hers are splash. A blue to blue mating will give you blue, black and splash. So, with the BLRW you will get black laced red, blue laced red and splash laced red.

Is there such a thing as pre-broody? My black Orp pullet has started to yell at us when we come into the coop lately. When she is in the lay box of course. She eventually lays her egg and leaves but the yelling is newer. She does not bite per se but if you get your hand close to her she does spank you with her head lol.

Is there a way to encourage a hen to GO broody? I need one asap. I have all these bantam eggs collected and a few EE eggs I want hatched.

She could be thinking about it.

Quote: Or you could integrate her and all the boys into to flock together (so she doesn't get the brunt of the integration) and then pull the boys back out later.

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Will she be ok alone? I actually have the male Wyandotte who is not crowing yet and is very docile. So I keep them together or just keep her alone? I do plan on separating her- I just worry about her being alone...trying to figure out who to keep her with?

She would be fine alone. I personally do not like mixing sizes of any animals as the little ones will get the brunt of any bad encounter, dog, horses, etc.. It doesn't mean that anything will happen, it is just my choice.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Will she be ok alone? I actually have the male Wyandotte who is not crowing yet and is very docile. So I keep them together or just keep her alone? I do plan on separating her- I just worry about her being alone...trying to figure out who to keep her with?

How much longer do they have for their quarantine time? I think if you keep them in the same room, but separate "pens" she won't be lonely - she can talk to the others - they just cant jump on her. If you want to try the Wyandotte rooster as a friend, you could - as long as he isn't to big for her if he does jump on her.

Once they are out of the quarantine time I guess you could put them all in together with the big chickens - but I did have one big rooster break a young hen's back because she wasn't strong enough to hold him up.. so I guess it depends on how big your "big guys" are. I found that if you put several different groups in together at the same time then nobody picks for very long on anybody else - its only bad if you do one bird at a time.