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[tommysgirl]

These 2 look very much like ny latest Mottled Ameraucana project chicks

Nor Cal Chickens in Chico has announced that they will have Mottled AMs spring 2015 if you want to get on their waiting list...I think I will wait until they have hatching eggs.

This seems to be a bad year for me with chickens. There were only 2 that hatched from the last batch of Mott AM project chickens for LuvinBlue. They have been doing well outside and are very tight in their relationship. They pretty much go everywhere together. I went to let them out of the small pen yesterday morning and found the younger, darker one "hiding" next to a piece of downspout drainage tube near the door of the pen. I was not making any effort to move and the 2 of them usually hide behind the broody coop. The other one was there. I picked this one up and say a wound on the right light about mid way up from the ankle. There was dried blood in the feathers and I think that was restricting it's ability to move the leg because the feathers were caked and kind of wrapped around the leg. I loosened the feathers and cleaned the wound. I put some Vetricin wound gel spray on it put it in a box in the house with food/water. I sprayed it again later. It was holding the leg up when it stands, but mostly is laying on it's keel. I checked it this morning and the bird seems to be holding it's own an far as attitude, but the leg looks worse. It looks like there is an abscess in the foot. The color is gray while the other one is pink. It feels the same temperature as the unaffected foot, but I am not sure what to do for this chick. I am thinking t needs oral antibiotics, but not sure which to use. I have Tylan 50 and Terrravet 10.

I am sorry. Poor little thing! I don't know what to tell you other than it sounds like you are doing the right thing and I know someone here will be able to guide you further.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: The last eggs I got were from Mason Creek Farms and here were only $37.50 for 3 dozen eggs Not a great hatch rate (6 of 36 and lost the last one from unabsorbed yolk), but all of the chicks were mottled and all were black/white mottled. No blue mottled, blue or black from those (the 2 from LuvinBlue are both blue...one solif and one blue mottled).

I sure hope someone can give me some info to help this one with the injured leg. Poor thing......

 

[debs_flock]

Anyone ever have issues hatching polish eggs? Ive tried hatching several to no avail and the eggs end up scrambling themselves

Polish are one of my easiest. They lay well, have great fertility, super simple to candle, hatch clean and are up raring to go almost immediately. I've raised three kinds of polish (LF tolbunt & WCB and bantam SL), it was true for all three.

 

[PetRock]

Nor Cal Chickens in Chico has announced that they will have Mottled AMs spring 2015 if you want to get on their waiting list...I think I will wait until they have hatching eggs.

If it is the mottled look that you want, you could get some Pita Pintas! You won't get blue eggs but you will get very friendly birds who are better egg layers than any of the colors of Ameraucanas that I have had. And you won't have to wait until spring 2015 for them!

 

[caychris]

If it is the mottled look that you want, you could get some Pita Pintas! You won't get blue eggs but you will get very friendly birds who are better egg layers than any of the colors of Ameraucanas that I have had. And you won't have to wait until spring 2015 for them!

Single handedly supplying the state with them.

 

[tommysgirl]

On the breed genetics chart it says that a red rooster over a crele hen will produce a red sex link. The girls being solid and the boys being barred.

I have my hatchery NH roo and my Amerlia and two of her eggs hatched under a broody 9 days ago. Because she is a hybrid I didn't know what would happen but I hoped that the chicks would be sex linked because her parentage is crele pene/legbar. These are the two chicks. I am thinking that my boy streak is contnuing. (their hatchmate is a male NH Dorking SL) They clearly aren't solid red and they are no major differences between them other than one has a more defined marking on its head. What do you think of the wings does it look like they could end up red barred/cuckoo?



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At first I thought it didn't look like barring/cuckoo but then I realized that I haven't seen it in any color but grey and brown so what do I know.

I know no one is keeping track but I have the opposite gift as Ron.

Since July 2013 my broodies have hatched 33 chicks.

If these two are cockerels that will mean the overall boy/girl ratio is 24/9.

I had 4 great little SL pullets in my Easter hatch. I sold them all assuming that there would be more around the next corner.

I have two girls on a total of 11 eggs and Ron set 23 for me on friday

that his male/female ratio luck is passed to that hatch and not the other way around

 

[caychris]

Its my understanding that there are very few verticals (disease migration) between chickens and humans. Aside from Salmonella what are the major concerns. Can you transfer the common cold?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: The last eggs I got were from Mason Creek Farms and here were only $37.50 for 3 dozen eggs Not a great hatch rate (6 of 36 and lost the last one from unabsorbed yolk), but all of the chicks were mottled and all were black/white mottled. No blue mottled, blue or black from those (the 2 from LuvinBlue are both blue...one solif and one blue mottled).

I sure hope someone can give me some info to help this one with the injured leg. Poor thing......
If you were going to give antibiotics I think the Terravet 10 would be the better more "broad-spectrum" one, but I'm not positive. To me the injury looks more like swelling and bruising than infection, but I could be wrong.

-Kathy

 

[PetRock]

Single handedly supplying the state with them.

I'm trying my best to be a good PP pusher!!!

 

[ronott1]

This seems to be a bad year for me with chickens. There were only 2 that hatched from the last batch of Mott AM project chickens for LuvinBlue. They have been doing well outside and are very tight in their relationship. They pretty much go everywhere together. I went to let them out of the small pen yesterday morning and found the younger, darker one "hiding" next to a piece of downspout drainage tube near the door of the pen. I was not making any effort to move and the 2 of them usually hide behind the broody coop. The other one was there. I picked this one up and say a wound on the right light about mid way up from the ankle. There was dried blood in the feathers and I think that was restricting it's ability to move the leg because the feathers were caked and kind of wrapped around the leg. I loosened the feathers and cleaned the wound. I put some Vetricin wound gel spray on it put it in a box in the house with food/water. I sprayed it again later. It was holding the leg up when it stands, but mostly is laying on it's keel. I checked it this morning and the bird seems to be holding it's own an far as attitude, but the leg looks worse. It looks like there is an abscess in the foot. The color is gray while the other one is pink. It feels the same temperature as the unaffected foot, but I am not sure what to do for this chick. I am thinking t needs oral antibiotics, but not sure which to use. I have Tylan 50 and Terrravet 10.

It looks like a problem from the original wound. You may need to open up the wound and clean it out.

Great wound article here in post 10.:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/231156/wound-with-maggots-and-bad-smell

Use an inject-able antibiotic.

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