California - Northern

[fowlman01]

Off to the Shasta show.......

Walt

 

[OR4-hmom]

I like my wide bodies but I really don't like it when they try and land on my shoulders, it is not as scary when it's a bantam flying towards my head! They are also easier to travel with unless it's the loud-mouth ORP.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Off to the Shasta show.......

Walt

So jealous, hope you have a great trip and good weather like last year. I couldn't work it into the schedule this year, 5.5 hour drive back before working graveyard shift.

 

[Audio51]

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That's the one. It seems random when they do it but maybe it's before or after laying and I just don't notice.

I love that sound, but not sure how my neighbors feel about it...

 

[Audio51]

After sitting on my hands all day, I finally checked under my broody hen - and all the fuzzy butts are out!
Yay!
5 nice healthy plump chocolate orp peepers.
AND - 1 pipping in the incubator (finally), a lemon cuckoo orp.
Double Yay!

 

[ronott1]

Looking for opinions on hatching shipped eggs with saddlebag air cells. Lockdown is in 4 days, the eggs from BBB look fine but the little rock eggs have wonky air cells. Does it help to lay them down rather than large end up for hatching. I will separate them from the others since they went in a day later. I worry about them breaking veins with the saddlebags, guess that's mother natures survival of the fittest coming into play.

Draw an outline of the saddle air cell. set the eggs either in cartons or on the wire with the big end tilted up and the big part air cell up too. Watch for the pip and if it is not within the outline, make sure that the chick is not drowning.

Good Luck!

 

[caychris]

Think this one might be a boy. Has always been the most outgoing and the comb is developing differently than the other 3

 

[casportpony]

Think this one might be a boy. Has always been the most outgoing and the comb is developing differently than the other 3

Cute!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Those that use ivermectin might find this interesting:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/867541/important-information-on-ivermec-warning-autopsy-photos

Add that to this:

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2816174
Ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic--trials with naturally infected domestic fowl.

Oksanen A, Nikander S.
Abstract

To evaluate the use of ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic, 29 White Leghorn hens naturally infected with Ascaridia spp., Heterakis spp. and Capillaria spp. were treated with 0.2, 2 or 6 mg/kg intramuscularly or 0.2 or 0.8 mg/kg orally. Faecal samples were collected before treatment and at autopsy, 2, 6, or 16 days after treatment, when the intestines were also examined for helminths. None of the treatments gave satisfactory anthelmintic results.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Off to the Shasta show.......

Walt

Good luck and have fun!

-Kathy