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[Deerling]

So we treated for cocci per Ron's instructions (thanks again!) and Alice seems the same. Still very docile, puffed up and pale. She plays treat-football and explores the garden, and she'll practice flying and crowd in to be picked up to go outside. Here are some pictures of her and her sister (and brother):



Alice


Alice in the middle

Alice on the right

Alice in front

There are a few more pictures here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/761436/puffed-up-pale-chick-treated-for-cocci

What's the next step? Is there any chance this is just how she is? She's such a sweetheart, I really want to make sure I'm doing everything I can for her. Should we treat for worms? They're five weeks old. Hope everyone had a great Easter!

 

[Deerling]

Our Easter:

Good ol' Balthazar


Malcolm and Buffle


Our Partridge Cochin roo. We call him Dino-Baby right now. The Polish in the background is one of Clementine's special girls. She's so sweet, Clementine named her Cotton.


Ducks! Rapunzel ripped off her back toenail yesterday. I put corn starch on it and it stopped the bleeding. Seems fine today.


Ms. Coulter, the Sultan. She's a weirdo, but I kind of like her.


Much loved SLW Huckle.


Our cat, Scout, hanging out on the dirt pile with the chickens.


Malcolm in time-out for throwing dirt clods at the chickens, but BO roo Gilbert is visiting him anyway


More chickens mob the hill and chase Scout off (she's in the top right corner)


Colombian Wyandotte, Anne





Iorek Byrnison is kind of ridiculous looking, but he broke up a squabble today. He's going to be a good roo.

 

[lizanne]

It's hatching!! No one else has even piped. But I can back in and saw this.... So excited!!!

 

[OR4-hmom]

Looks like you're getting a cheerleader to coax the others on. I love listening to them encourage each other.

 

[ronott1]

So we treated for cocci per Ron's instructions (thanks again!) and Alice seems the same. Still very docile, puffed up and pale. She plays treat-football and explores the garden, and she'll practice flying and crowd in to be picked up to go outside. Here are some pictures of her and her sister (and brother):



Alice


Alice in the middle

Alice on the right

Alice in front

There are a few more pictures here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/761436/puffed-up-pale-chick-treated-for-cocci

What's the next step? Is there any chance this is just how she is? She's such a sweetheart, I really want to make sure I'm doing everything I can for her. Should we treat for worms? They're five weeks old. Hope everyone had a great Easter!

Contact CAHFS.ucdavis.edu and find the closest lab to you for a fecal test. Ask them to check for worms and cocci. You can mail in the sample and they charge $10.50. The test will tell you if there are worms and if the treatment worked. There may be a vet that can test too. Treat based on the test.

While waiting, give her a teaspoon of plain yougurt and pro biotics like save a chick pro biotic.

Puffed up is never normal.

Good looking flock!

 

[debs_flock]

I just got home from Easter dinner and checked on my eggs. I have my first pip!!! It's actually 2 little cracked places. Is that normal?? One is right below where the air cell was on Friday, and a bigger one in the air cell. Humidity is at 62%. Do I need to bump it up a little?



Of course, now you've posted it has started to hatch, but I was going to say, everything looks perfect! Good luck.

 

[threadgeek]

My Bresse pullet laid her first egg today!

Now I need to get a Rooster ......The new ones are a month old now.......

Congrats!

My Bobwhite quail just started hatching this evening! They just went into lockdown last night and were not supposed to hatch until Tuesday. Within a couple hours of lockdown, several of them had pips. We just got home from having desert at my oldest daughter's house and one quail has hatched!!! So, I ended up hatching at least one baby on Easter after all!

Woot!

Our Easter:

Good ol' Balthazar


Malcolm and Buffle


Our Partridge Cochin roo. We call him Dino-Baby right now. The Polish in the background is one of Clementine's special girls. She's so sweet, Clementine named her Cotton.


Ducks! Rapunzel ripped off her back toenail yesterday. I put corn starch on it and it stopped the bleeding. Seems fine today.


Ms. Coulter, the Sultan. She's a weirdo, but I kind of like her.


Much loved SLW Huckle.


Our cat, Scout, hanging out on the dirt pile with the chickens.


Malcolm in time-out for throwing dirt clods at the chickens, but BO roo Gilbert is visiting him anyway


More chickens mob the hill and chase Scout off (she's in the top right corner)


Colombian Wyandotte, Anne


Iorek Byrnison is kind of ridiculous looking, but he broke up a squabble today. He's going to be a good roo.

Thank you for sharing your pictures. These cheered me up after my horrible afternoon (see story below...)

It's hatching!! No one else has even piped. But I can back in and saw this.... So excited!!!

Yeah!!

A few weeks ago I told a story about seeing an adolescent bobcat stalking my hens but my DH scared it away before it had a chance to do anything... well, I wasn't so lucky today. I got complacent because I hadn't seen it since and was getting lazy about sheparding the girls around the yard (DH hasn't put up the chicken run yet). Luckily I was sitting inside where I could half watch the chickens and I heard a screach, I looked up and a bobcat grabbed one of the girls and ran up the hill. I ran after him yelling and he dropped her. I was sure she was going to be dead but she was just in shock. She has at least one huge gash on her neck, I'm sure there is a matching one on the other side. I put her in a pen inside the coop and am gathering the courage to clean out the wounds per these instructions on post #6:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/723550/large-flesh-wound-new-pictures-added
Tomorrow I'm going to try to locate some penicillin G, I really hope they have it at our feedstore. I'm mad at myself for getting lazy, this didn't need to happen.

I just hope I can help her get better.

 

[lizanne]

We have a chick!!! Should I take it out and put it in the brooder? No one else has pipped, and I don't want her to kick her friends.

 

[Ali707]

We have a chick!!! Should I take it out and put it in the brooder? No one else has pipped, and I don't want her to kick her friends.

Everyone says to let them stay in there and dry off a while until they fluff up a bit. Maybe if it starts peeping in there it will convince the others to come out now. I know I had a hard time watching the quail kick everything around.

 

[ronott1]

Pictures?

Bresse First egg:



Not bad for a first egg! 33G

This is the Bresse that laid her first egg today:




It was easter, so who couldn't resist a Lamb and the Lion picture: