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[TheKeeper]

Anyone need a silkie roo? Free if you pick up. I'm in Fairfield.
I have 2 beauties that are crowing & must go by Sunday.
Both are sweet & easy to pick up.

#1 - blue partridge










#2 - partridge (calico)









PM me if interested.

 

[chickee]

Are you finding wheaten/ blue wheaten are easier to sex earlier in the am's?
I've heard that but wasn't sure.
The bbs have given me a run for my money!
I have a 4 month old I swore up and down was a blue girl. Now I find its a boy.
I even did crop surgery to save it because I only had 2(I thought) blue girls in this batch, haha!

Wheaten/blue wheaten Ameraucanas are able to be color sexed around 3 weeks of age. Sometimes sooner. Pullets stay solid cream color and the cockerels get dark patches of black and blue on the cream.

I had Lavender Ameraucanas and they were harder to sex. Looking at the combs can help sex them. Cockerels have 3 rows of peas and the pullets a single row. I saw your post on the Ameraucana thread asking for help sexing your blue Ameraucana and agree it is a cockerel. Sorry it didn't turn out to be a pullet for you after all you went through to save it.

 

[chiqita]

(((hugs)))

Oh, that's hard. I've never had to put a chick down yet.

Your splash orp hen is doing great.
The 12 stitches are mostly holding.
If I can keep her from getting infected, I think she'll be just fine.
She's a sassy thing - she must be feeling pretty good to scold me as she does.

are you giving antibiotics? Or just topically?

Anyone need a silkie roo? Free if you pick up. I'm in Fairfield.
I have 2 beauties that are crowing & must go by Sunday.
Both are sweet & easy to pick up.

#1 - blue partridge










#2 - partridge (calico)









PM me if interested.

i can likely pair them with a hen too ( might be frizzle or showgirl) if you are looking at breeding too! but that would abe a lto of driving

 

[TheKeeper]

are you giving antibiotics? Or just topically?

Just Vetericyn topically so far.
I have Blu-Kote too - is that better?
I have Tylan 50 that I can give orally but not sure if I should unless she starts to look "droopy" or pale or weird poo (i.e., shows a need for it).
I can also get Terramycin if that's better but I thought it was weaker than Tylan 50.

I welcome any advice or pointers.

 

[TheKeeper]

All 3 are OEs. First two look like boys and the third (last picture) is definitely a pullet.

You got lucky with more Ameraucana girls than boys. I have been hatching mostly boys this year. The 2 Silkies are from my eggs? Blue/buff? Porcelain? I would like to see pictures of the d'Anvers and Silkies.

The OEs hatched 04/20 & 4/21so they're 1 week shy of 3 months.

Here are the 2 silkies that hatched - LOVE love love their color - I think I have 1 boy (on L) & 1 girl (on R) but we are talking silkies here so...


Here are the d'anvers (4 of 4 eggs hatched

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I think it's 1 boy, 3 girls

 

[Audio51]

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Well, today I became a real chicken keeper. Got home from work and one of the three day olds was dead (looked like it got stepped on) and one was squashed with its organs hanging out but still alive. So I snapped its neck with a kitchen knife. *sniffle* Now I need a drink.

Oh, no! How awful! I have lost a few that got squish under the broody., but I do keep them separated from the rest of the flock for the first week or so at least. Then I just let them out during the day and back in the broody coop at night for another week or so. Mine get locked into the secure part of the pen with coop access at night and as soon as thy hear me walk out of the house in the morning they swarm the gate out to the main pen where I feed them. I fill the feeder fist and then stand well to the side when I open the gate. I would get trampled otherwise. Some of them even come flying out!

Quote: Very nice!

 

[chrissyr]

Wheaten/blue wheaten Ameraucanas are able to be color sexed around 3 weeks of age. Sometimes sooner. Pullets stay solid cream color and the cockerels get dark patches of black and blue on the cream. 

I had Lavender Ameraucanas and they were harder to sex. Looking at the combs can help sex them. Cockerels have 3 rows of peas and the pullets a single row. I saw your post on the Ameraucana thread asking for help sexing your blue Ameraucana and agree it is a cockerel. Sorry it didn't turn out to be a pullet for you after all you went through to save it. 

I appreciate the explanation . Ya, I'm having a time with these bbs. They're from 2 different lines so some boys are extremely obvious. While the others are not.
On the plus side- I did learn how to do crop surgery. It worked really well.
I'm telling my family they should consider me a dr now , but they don't.
But if the apocalypse happens and all of the people dr's are gone, I am ready to help if called upon
I just once want to say "I am a Dr, let me through"

 

[chrissyr]

Just Vetericyn topically so far.
I have Blu-Kote too - is that better?
I have Tylan 50 that I can give orally but not sure if I should unless she starts to look "droopy" or pale or weird poo (i.e., shows a need for it).
I can also get Terramycin if that's better but I thought it was weaker than Tylan 50. 

I welcome any advice or pointers.

chickens can have keflex and Amoxicillian (the people kind) just smaller amounts.
They are good broad spectrum antibiotics
....and all of your pics are tempting Lisa.
Are you trying to get me in trouble over here? I'm out of room!
I told my hubby that was the last coop he'd have to build.
Well...for the year anyways!

 

[Audio51]

Quote:
That is a great skill to have! If you can do that you can probably caponize! I will call you Doctor!

 

[curious chickee]

I got my first egg. It wasn't my BR who I was expecting so the color was a surprise. 1 layer down 15 more to go. She is 20 weeks old. I have 2 more EE and my BR the same age. Plus 2 RIR & 2 NH 18 weeks old, then 6 golden sex links & 2 Australorps 10 weeks old. Eggs here we come.