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[ronott1]

I have a goose egg wiggling! eeee!

Where is the video? Is Ustream set up yet?

 

[tommysgirl]

I taped our little Missy for months but it just frustrated her so I stopped trying to help her and decided if she could get to food and water on her own then she could live her life. Well, it was fine for maybe the first year...she hopped around on one foot using her wing to stabelize herself. But the bigger she got the harder it was to hop around and she stopped coming out of the coop in the morning, choosing to stay in her spot most of the day, coming out to eat and drink. She looked horrible! Her feathers were mangled from using her wings to beat the ground to get herself anywhere and her belly was bare from dragging on the ground. She was the sweetest girl and loved her physical therapy I would give her several times a week and she always talked sweet to me when I came in the coop and I did put her treats closer to her but still encouraged her to move to get them. It was really hard to watch and I questioned her quality of life. Our coop has a lower level that's a step and she got down below on a hot day and when we put her in that night it was dark (she was a black EE) and when I called for her she did her little twill but I didn't know she was down on the lower level where there's no food and water. The next morning she was dead. She lasted 2 years but I have to admit I was relieved when she passed. It was hard to watch her struggle although she always seemed happy.

That's why I cull if they don't get better within a few days. But everyone has to make their own decisions.

What is in your water out there huh? Could be a whole new offering though. Mutant chicken eggs. They may not sell very well though.

Good morning! I had a soft shelled egg this morning but I think I know what is going on I hope you all can tell me if I make sense. Della is my least productive layer but she is also the egg in the egg layer x2 now I think. There have been multiple times when, if you counted eggs per chicken it came out 7 or even 8 for 6 in a 24 hour period but the extras and were membrane only eggs. I think that Della doesn't ovulate regularly and when she does ovulate she sometime releases more than one now she has enough calcium in her system that one of those eggs will be hard shelled but the others will not. Does that sound right?

With this softshelled egg this morning that brought my total to 8(ish) eggs for 6 hens in a 24 hour period. Does my theory have merit? Has anyone else experienced such weirdness? I don't worry about it but it is odd!

 

[chiqita]

I'll admit I'm in between helping and culling. I sell 2/3of my chicks as pets. And failure to thrive chicks or wobbly chicks often make good pets. So iI spend more time on babies that need help and regime for the right house.

Last year I had a waiting list on my ftt showgirls ( finally figured out who's genes didn't work together so we don't do that anymore)

I kept them for about 4 months and then they were a tiny chicken pet that went with a silkie friend. About 2/3 of those lived.

 

[debs_flock]

I have a goose egg wiggling! eeee!

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If I find more eggs than I have girls, I usually assume I missed one the day before. I suppose it's possible though. Weirder things have happened, like the egg in an egg. I'd never expect to find that one, but I've seen photos that purport to be from reliable sources.

 

[chiqita]

This year with the better incubator I have many less leg problem s. I think it was my temps in the Styrofoam s.

I also raise my quail with problems and process. We had a severe cross beak this year (scissor beak) we gave his coop only fermented mash and vitamin water and he scooped away.

I'm torn about what to do about my chicken getting around on his knees. We are just watching now to see how long they are healthy and happy. I worry it will get too heavy.

But we will see.

 

[tommysgirl]

Thanks for this Pam

I taped our little Missy for months but it just frustrated her so I stopped trying to help her and decided if she could get to food and water on her own then she could live her life. Well, it was fine for maybe the first year...she hopped around on one foot using her wing to stabelize herself. But the bigger she got the harder it was to hop around and she stopped coming out of the coop in the morning, choosing to stay in her spot most of the day, coming out to eat and drink. She looked horrible! Her feathers were mangled from using her wings to beat the ground to get herself anywhere and her belly was bare from dragging on the ground. She was the sweetest girl and loved her physical therapy I would give her several times a week and she always talked sweet to me when I came in the coop and I did put her treats closer to her but still encouraged her to move to get them. It was really hard to watch and I questioned her quality of life. Our coop has a lower level that's a step and she got down below on a hot day and when we put her in that night it was dark (she was a black EE) and when I called for her she did her little twill but I didn't know she was down on the lower level where there's no food and water. The next morning she was dead. She lasted 2 years but I have to admit I was relieved when she passed. It was hard to watch her struggle although she always seemed happy.

That's why I cull if they don't get better within a few days. But everyone has to make their own decisions.

It sounds like Missy was mostly happy. I am sorry that it got so hard to watch. When you invest the extra time you get bonded don't you. I understand the relief when she passed too. The first couple of nights after Curly hatched I thought it would simplify my life if she didn't last the night.

Thanks for going in to more detail for me. I feel fortunate that Curly is totally ambulatory. She stands as tall as the others so I think she will be OK. Her foot is responding to the taping too. I think that she will likely have a funny gate as an adult but at this point that is the only thing that is setting her apart from the others

I had a chick that was so bad, I literally had to dip it's beak for every bit of water and carry it to it's food for every mouthful for it's first month of life. It then was able to get around like Pam's Missy. It lived for six+ mos and then I found it dead. It had spent all that time dragging to the food/water and being lifted into it's coop at night. My DH is a marshmallow and refused to let me euthanize it. I was afraid we just prolonged the death with a less than enjoyable life. That's why I've decided no more extraordinary efforts to prolong the life of a chick. If it can't walk well by then, I cull.

And I truly believe only the best and strongest should be allowed to be part of the breeding flock.

In our sheep flock, we had a ewe that had to have her lamb pulled for her last year and we had to bottle raise him (we wethered him). This year, her lamb was stuck again, we put the ewe down as well. That is not something you want in a flock of sheep. You need strong, naturally reproducing animals.

My husband is a Marshmallow too. I was so so happy when I caught Curly drinking on her own and so grateful to you and the others who helped me help her to get up and ambulatory so she could do that. If she hadn't been able to I was not sure what I would do but I wasn't looking forward to it

Sorry about your ewe...did her lamb survive? Do you often have bottle babies...we used to call them "bummers" and I raised quite a few of them...LOVED my bottle raised lambs!

 

[ronott1]

With this softshelled egg this morning that brought my total to 8(ish) eggs for 6 hens in a 24 hour period. Does my theory have merit? Has anyone else experienced such weirdness? I don't worry about it but it is odd!

It is possible for a chicken to lay two eggs In a day. it depends on how long the hen lays between eggs. Hens lay an egg on average every 22 to 25 hours.

I collected eggs at 5:30 last night. When I locked them up at 8:30 there was an egg by the fence--silly amelias(Cream Legbar X Crele Penedesenca) pullets are still figuring out the nest box. There was one under the Broody when I checked this morning that was not there last night. At 5:30 this morning, there was also an egg in one of the grow out hutches that was not there the night before and it was cold.

It is possible that the soft shelled egg came out faster because it missed the Shell formation part of the egg making process. I always assume that I missed one the day before or one of them laid an egg late at night like Deb. It is very hard to get all of mine to lay in a day. My Broody is not laying so one would always not be there and the two plus year olds do not lay every day now....

 

[tommysgirl]

If I find more eggs than I have girls, I usually assume I missed one the day before. I suppose it's possible though. Weirder things have happened, like the egg in an egg. I'd never expect to find that one, but I've seen photos that purport to be from reliable sources.

Hope you consider me a reliable source hahahaha I have had two in the last couple of months! I only have 6 hens and two nest boxes so it's hard to miss any. Though early on a couple of the girls laid in the run and I had no idea how long they were there when I found them

 

[tommysgirl]

It is possible for a chicken to lay two eggs In a day. it depends on how long the hen lays between eggs. Hens lay an egg on average every 22 to 25 hours.

It is possible that the soft shelled egg came out faster because it missed the Shell formation part of the egg making process. I always assume that I missed one the day before or one of them laid an egg late at night like Deb.

The 8th egg fits that...but the 6/7th were the egg in the egg weirdness weirdness weirdness...You know Lake County has the highest twinning rate in the US...maybe Ali is right and it IS something in the water.

 

[BCollie]

Good morning!

So I've been giving the chicks yogurt every morning, and most of them have normal poops now...But a couple still have diarrhea, and I think it's 2? chicks refuse to eat the yogurt. What else can I give them?