California - Northern

[caychris]

cheater!


Holy cow, those are TERRIBLE TERRIBLE photos! You say thats an agent that is selling that?? Kathy, I'm thinking about trying to rehome my royal palms. Mario wants less birds, but I need cranberries to go to a pet home if I do it. Interested?

And here we were just talking about these birds earlier

Here are some pics of the wild turkeys this morning
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[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: I plan to be there on Thursday to drop off hatching eggs, one of my incubators and a few display birds.

Then it's back and forth for the next few weeks. My next even is judging a table at Champion Challenge on Saturday morning.
How neat!

Quote: Thanks!

id be interested i. them
Quote: Sent a PM.

 

[fatcatx]

I took some chickens to this vet, years ago: http://birdandpet.net/

I did this in addition to having submitted some chickens with symptoms to the CAHFS lab for necropsy. The vet in Roseville needed the lab results in order to make a diagnosis and plan for treatment.
Edited to add this good resource for details on poultry health problems: http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/

I made an appt at UC Davis for tomorrow but Ethel went into respiratory distress this afternoon so we had to put her down. It happened very suddenly. Sadly I am sure I will need these links in the future so thank you for passing them on.

 

[ronott1]

I made an appt at UC Davis for tomorrow but Ethel went into respiratory distress this afternoon so we had to put her down. It happened very suddenly. Sadly I am sure I will need these links in the future so thank you for passing them on.

Take her in anyway. It will help you make sure of what she had and keep the others healthy.

I am so sorry that you lost her!

 

[chiqita]

 I made an appt at UC Davis for tomorrow but Ethel went into respiratory distress this afternoon so we had to put her down.  It happened very suddenly.  Sadly I am sure I will need these links in the future so thank you for passing them on.

Im sorry for your loss!! It is so sad when you know something is wrong and can't fix it

 

[SpringPeeper]

Ok, nutrition experts, I need some opinions. My husband couldn't find the grit we usually get, so he picked up some of *this stuff* instead. It has calcium carbonate (min .01%, max.10%). Is it okay to give this to birds you wouldn't usually want getting extra calcium (my cockerels and pre-POL pullets)?

 

[ronott1]

Ok, nutrition experts, I need some opinions. My husband couldn't find the grit we usually get, so he picked up some of *this stuff* instead. It has calcium carbonate (min .01%, max.10%). Is it okay to give this to birds you wouldn't usually want getting extra calcium (my cockerels and pre-POL pullets)?

Can you take it back?

Chickens do not need grit every day. A better alternative for baby chicks is play sand. You are not supposed to give them parakeet grit and it is too small for big chickens.

I pick up a big bag of grit for the big girls from TSC.

 

[gander007]

Ok, nutrition experts, I need some opinions. My husband couldn't find the grit we usually get, so he picked up some of *this stuff* instead. It has calcium carbonate (min .01%, max.10%). Is it okay to give this to birds you wouldn't usually want getting extra calcium (my cockerels and pre-POL pullets)?

Calcium is good for bones so a rooster can eat it but I found the best and cheapest grit to be small gravel just above sand and poultry were using it long before humans started putting grit into bag's for them ......




But then it is naturally all over my yard for free pick up ....









gander007

 

[ronott1]

Calcium is good for bones so a rooster can eat it but I found the best and cheapest grit to be small gravel just above sand and poultry were using it long before humans started putting grit into bag's for them ......




But then it is naturally all over my yard for free pick up ....









gander007

Poultry Studies have shown that feeding layer levels of calcium to roosters will kill them over time. Necropsies showed kidney damage from the calcium.

Grower and flock raiser feed has the correct level of calcium for a Rooster. Read the label and you will see less than half the calcium in Grower and Flock Raiser. Many do not want to believe this since it can take about two years to destroy their kidneys. Sadly a lot of things in life are like that.

I told one person about this after they complained that a lot of their roosters died at two years old. The person though that was normal. It is not normal and the deaths stopped after the layer feed was stopped.

With mixed flocks, feed them grower or flock raiser and provide oyster shell calcium. The Roosters will not eat enough calcium to hurt the kidneys and the Hens will eat enough.

 

[caychris]

I finally got the oyster shell into a feeder they cannot spill and make a mess of and I noticed my Dels actually eating it. I wonder if this is another indication of them reaching POL. They are officially in week 20 now. Its my understanding that Dels can start laying at 20 weeks, Ive read a number of people say that they started right on week 20. Ill just be happy if I get my first egg this month.
They are looking like they are filling out nicely 3 of them have largish combs and wattles. Which is good in the heat apparently. They sure are getting vocal too. If I open the back door but do not visit them I hear it.