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[ronott1]

So my chicken numbers have gotten out of control lol there wasn't very much demand for the Serama chicks I hatched so I decided to give them away......15 2 1/2 month old chicks gone. Whew. I've sold almost all of my layer flock too, down to 4 LF and 11 Seramas. (not counting the 7 chicks and 2 older chicks in the garage not sure what I'm going to do with them) but it was a relief to be able to do chicken chores in 5 minutes. My coop is so empty!!

Good Job!

 

[liz9910]

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Ha ha ha yeah my boyfriend said "you can always hatch more" chicken math at its finest!!

 

[chiqita]

I can't commit 5 days of dropper feeding a chick. We will be gone Fri - Sun moving stuff out of our house in the mountains. I guess that just clinches it. Total bummer. I HATE culling chicks. On the brighter side of things, I have 4 apparently healthy Basque chicks off of the 1st cockerel.

If you have nutri drench give that today and see if it fixes itself. I have had miricles before with that and wry.

One of the quail chcks looks like it has a leg issue. They all like to crawl under the quail egg sized hatching carton and I thinl it go stuck under there. It looks like the elbow joint may be hyper extended. I tried a vetwrap splint but I need a new roll (won;t stick to itself very well anymore) and an not really sure what position I would splint it in. Any suggestions on how to try tohelp this guy? Get a tiny cup and put it in there but you have to give it food and let it drink. Let me see if I have the pic on byc. I lost aother one overnight (t got up between the wires on the "modified heating pad brooder" and I guess could nor get out. I covered it with screen so that won't happen again. The way I had it set up works great with chicks, but the quail are too tiny and can get in places the chicks can't. On a brighter note...I have on BLRW out and another pipped under the broody this morning! Woo Hoo!!! e

Oops!! I replied in the middle of your post see above

 

[Happy Chooks]

One of the quail chcks looks like it has a leg issue. They all like to crawl under the quail egg sized hatching carton and I thinl it go stuck under there. It looks like the elbow joint may be hyper extended. I tried a vetwrap splint but I need a new roll (won;t stick to itself very well anymore) and an not really sure what position I would splint it in. Any suggestions on how to try tohelp this guy?







I lost aother one overnight (t got up between the wires on the "modified heating pad brooder" and I guess could nor get out. I covered it with screen so that won't happen again. The way I had it set up works great with chicks, but the quail are too tiny and can get in places the chicks can't.

On a brighter note...I have on BLRW out and another pipped under the broody this morning! Woo Hoo!!!

Can you put the leg in the proper position? If so, I'd hobble it. Tape it's legs together with medical tape. Keep it on for several days. Be careful with the waterer, hobbled birds can drown really easily. If you can't get the leg in the proper position, it may be a slipped hock joint. If that is the case, I've never had any luck fixing it, and end up putting them down.

 

[Audio51]

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I have that and Poly Vi Sol....any preference as to which to give?

 

[Audio51]

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I have rocks in the water so hopefully that will prevent drowning. I have hobbled for splayed legs, but am not sure how to get this into the right position. I will give it a shot though...

 

[chiqita]

I have that and Poly Vi Sol....any preference as to which to give?

For wry I use nutri. Poly does not have something

 

[chiqita]

I have rocks in the water so hopefully that will prevent drowning.    I have hobbled for splayed legs, but am not sure how to get this into the right position.  I will give it a shot though...

That is why cups work better with quails did you see the pic?

 

[BCollie]

I had noticed my Tolbunt Polish wanting to get into the coop, so I picked her up, put her in, and locked all the other hens out. Checked on her a couple hours later and found an egg in the nest box! Woohoo! Officially have another egg to set, I'll set exactly 10 days from now I think. Hopefully I'll be able to continue being able to tell which eggs are hers by separating them when it looks like she wants to lay.

 

[casportpony]

Think we might have our first case of wry neck.  This chick would just keep looking at the ceiling and twitching until it fell over.  Very odd.  Wry neck?

That was last night about midnight. 

This morning it looks like it might be trying to die.

Do you all have a go-to for wry neck?  An instant cure?


This is one of those tiny Basque from my just-laying pullets who may or may not have been on Corrid when I first started gathering eggs.  

Researching wry neck makes me think I should just cull the thing.

I had two ducklings do the same, but not because they had wry neck, it was a systemic infection that started in the yolk sac.

-Kathy