California - Northern

[chickee]

I'm pretty sure the one that's more of a butterscotch color is a pullet; so far so good. The others were very obviously cockerels. Sorry to hear about your pullet, it's sad to lose chickens

They both look like pullets to me

 

[Miss Molly]

yeah

Love your new coop Jason, congrats

 

[Miss Molly]

These are on my must have list. Where did you get your eggs from?

 

[Miss Molly]

Thank you!

 

[tommysgirl]

Debi and Ron Thank you both so very much. She still isn't eating and her comb is partly flopped over but her crop no longer feels like a water balloon and she is less lethargic so that's progress. However, this was in her water this morning. I thought it was a weird poop but when I dumped out her water I could see it wasn't. It's consistency is more like chicken muscles. Have you ever seen anything like it??


That's a AAA battery for comparison




She was singing an egg song a few minutes ago and I haven't checked but I am sure there is nothing there b/c I was just with her a few minutes before that. so for now she is still isolated The internal laying thing has me worried. She doesn't have a big full abdomen at this point but she has issues in her reproductive tract to say the least. I thought she was just a weird layer and maybe that's all it will be...I hope so.

Everyone else is fine. My pens are right next to each other and the big girls range so they have become used to seeing the little ones. The big girls are in my brown layer pen so I integrated my brown laying chicks and my Iceladics in with them last week and it has been fairly smoothe. Mornings are the worst. Buckbeak, one of my AL, is a bit of a bully but all she does is chase. The run is about 350 sq feet and the coop is 28 so there is room to get away. Plus the big girls get to range every pm so that's a peaceful time for the little ones too.

The plan is to have the white and colored layers in one pen, the Brown and the Icelandics in another and curly and Petunia and I think Willa in a third....hmmmm that leaves room in my colored/white egg layer pen for a couple of Golden Campines and a Cream Legbar...........

Anyway thanks so so much For your reasurrance and tips. Do you guys think I should keep on with the ACV today? She has some in her water but another BYC person said to get some in her with a syringe which is what I did yesterday.

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Orally for sour crop. One of my friends had a chicken with a bad case of vent gleet and she gave the dosage in her vent. With my chicken, I gave it orally which helped take care of the fungus infection in her crop and then went through her system and helped with the vent gleet at the other end.

I had one this Winter that had Vent Gleet but not sour crop. I put 1/3 of a monistat 7 suppository in the vent each night before treating. I put the cream on the outside of the vent--I also washed her back area with baby shampoo each night.

The instructions I found said to treat twice a day but that was not going to work. I did not have help in the morning--It took two boxes of Generic Monistat from Walmart.

I did give them a gel cap of Ultra pro biotic--It was a powder so I opened it up and mixed it with some plain yogurt. I did this for three days.

It all worked!

 

[chiqita]

Tommy I have never seen anything like that.

 

[lawatt]

hi all -- i'm curious, since i haven't done this before, how manageable does it tend to be to raise more than one cockerel chick up together, or does it just totally vary by their individual personalities? in my current batch of random chicks, i have these two araucana cockerels, one cream legbar, one birchen marans, and possibly one isbar, and i'd like to wait to see how they all grow & what personalities they develop before deciding which to keep -- but don't want a constant brawl in the coops, either? should i just keep all the chicks together in one pen, or put the boys in a separate pen from the girls, or...?

any suggestions would be welcome!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

they should be ok if they are close to the same age if they where raised together
1 will become dominant .
I have 4 in my one run. well now 6 all is well.

 

[tommysgirl]

hi all -- i'm curious, since i haven't done this before, how manageable does it tend to be to raise more than one cockerel chick up together, or does it just totally vary by their individual personalities? in my current batch of random chicks, i have these two araucana cockerels, one cream legbar, one birchen marans, and possibly one isbar, and i'd like to wait to see how they all grow & what personalities they develop before deciding which to keep -- but don't want a constant brawl in the coops, either? should i just keep all the chicks together in one pen, or put the boys in a separate pen from the girls, or...?

any suggestions would be welcome!

I have no experience but read in an article that the way to keep multiple roosters is to any or a combination of the following

a) raise them together b) have plenty of hens for them to share c) keep them isolated from the girls in a bachelor pad.

My uncle has his "raised together" roosters in a bachelor pad with no problems. I am sure you are right that temperament has a ton to do with it but it is doable. Good Luck.. Though I feel like the woman who handled the broody drama as well as you did just sort of has a knack and may not need luck

 

[debs_flock]

hi all -- i'm curious, since i haven't done this before, how manageable does it tend to be to raise more than one cockerel chick up together, or does it just totally vary by their individual personalities? in my current batch of random chicks, i have these two araucana cockerels, one cream legbar, one birchen marans, and possibly one isbar, and i'd like to wait to see how they all grow & what personalities they develop before deciding which to keep -- but don't want a constant brawl in the coops, either? should i just keep all the chicks together in one pen, or put the boys in a separate pen from the girls, or...?

any suggestions would be welcome!

I raise groups of boys together all the time. If they grow up together there is usually no problem. Many of my breeding pens consist of the girls and two boys that were the top two from the group. That usually works, but sometimes it is too much for the girls and needs to be reduced to one.

I also keep bachelor pens. For the most part they get along if there is no girl involved, then they start to tussle (like teenaged boys). You'll find you can't take one out for any reason and hope to be able to return him to the pen, that won't work. Once the pen is established as belonging to the other roo, then there will be territorial warfare.

Also with bachelor pens, there will at times be a little fighting. You have to keep an eye on things. If it's a Camp Kenmore pen for me, I don't worry too much about it unless they start to do real damage to each other. If it's a spare pen for show roosters, then I really have to watch for any damage.

Some breeds get along better than others. I have a pen of bantam BR. There are 8-10 hens and 3 roosters. No one gets picked on, but the most submissive rooster spends a lot of his time standing off to the side, obviously ruled by intimidation.

In a holding pen for processing, I needed to put in a bunch of boys. There was one big cream legbar roo living there by himself. I put in five Icelandic boys, not a single fight. A couple of days later, I added one more OE boy and again no fighting. I was even amazed how seamlessly the seven boys lived together. I never once saw a fight, they probably would have been a gang of thugs if I turned them out loose, they seemed to be working together