California - Northern

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Is that a Jersey? He's nice!

My sneaky rooster decided that he wanted to walk around the forest today. We put the chickens in the barn within the garden fence at the end of the growing season, and so far, none of the hens have figured out that they can fly over the 4 ft fence! I give you Ramone!

 

[ronott1]

Boy am I tired. Tomorrow is the big move day but I did take a few loads today but the main goal of today was the 2 breeder pens for the Crele's and the Emp's.
I put up 18 more 5" x 8 ft peeler cores and used 36 bags of 50 lb cement today. I still need to turn the coop more north and level the coop and add the No climb fence and poultry netting on top.
This will happen tomorrow if the concrete cures enough after I move all the heavy stuff into the house.
Here is the first run.


We decided on a name since we are also going into the Blueberry Business.

Hangtown Farms ( since Placerville was once called Hangtown )

Good Job on the run and all the work this weekend!

I have been corresponding with Fly Babys and will be ordering PP Eggs form them in Mid February.

Third time is a charm?

ron

 

[chkndaddy]

Someone up here ordered some last year. Haven't seen any posts for him in a while but I'll PM if you would like. This birds came from Ideal hatchery.

Yes, please do pm me if you get a line on one.. Another sunny day. Yeah!

 

[PetRock]

I need some advice. My first POL Langshan pullet (the chicken in my new avatar) began laying this week. She laid 4 days in a row and then skipped 2 days. Yesterday afternoon, she was sitting in the yard and just didn't look right. Then she got up and was penguin walking. Her vent looked fine. It was pink and moist. So I assumed that she must be egg bound. I brought her in the house, increased her calcium, gave her a bath in warm water, and massaged her abdomen. I didn't feel an egg in the process but hers are small pullet eggs. She spent the night in the dog kennel and pooped quite a bit in there. This morning, she was walking around in the kennel with her tail up and complaining all the while. I checked her vent again and it looked fine. I took her outside and she ran to join her buddies for their morning fermented mash. When I checked on her later, she was in the nest box. She did not lay an egg and came out of the box to guzzle water. Shortly after that, I saw a group of my hens going after something. It ended up being Jewel who was huddled on the ground at the edge of the run. They were pecking her head and back not her vent. Needless to say, she was removed from the situation and put back in the kennel. She started showing signs of egg laying and laid a perfect brown egg in the kennel. I gave her another message bath just in case she was backed up in there. I could feel her bones easier today than when I bathed her last night. I put her back in the kennel but she is back to standing and walking like a penguin. What should my next course of action be? Should I keep giving her extra calcium and baths?

 

[ronott1]

I need some advice. My first POL Langshan pullet (the chicken in my new avatar) began laying this week. She laid 4 days in a row and then skipped 2 days. Yesterday afternoon, she was sitting in the yard and just didn't look right. Then she got up and was penguin walking. Her vent looked fine. It was pink and moist. So I assumed that she must be egg bound. I brought her in the house, increased her calcium, gave her a bath in warm water, and massaged her abdomen. I didn't feel an egg in the process but hers are small pullet eggs. She spent the night in the dog kennel and pooped quite a bit in there. This morning, she was walking around in the kennel with her tail up and complaining all the while. I checked her vent again and it looked fine. I took her outside and she ran to join her buddies for their morning fermented mash. When I checked on her later, she was in the nest box. She did not lay an egg and came out of the box to guzzle water. Shortly after that, I saw a group of my hens going after something. It ended up being Jewel who was huddled on the ground at the edge of the run. They were pecking her head and back not her vent. Needless to say, she was removed from the situation and put back in the kennel. She started showing signs of egg laying and laid a perfect brown egg in the kennel. I gave her another message bath just in case she was backed up in there. I could feel her bones easier today than when I bathed her last night. I put her back in the kennel but she is back to standing and walking like a penguin. What should my next course of action be? Should I keep giving her extra calcium and baths?

Last year, about this time I had a Golden Comet doing that. I did the bath thing and checked her vent. I treated for mites and she recovered. She had the symptoms, even pulled out feathers--over preening.

If she is getting better after moving into the kennel, it could be mites. They hide out in the daytime and come out to feed at night.

Laura: mites will cause the combs to be pale too.

Check for them at night with a flashlight or head lamp. They will have little brownish specks that move slowly--look at the vent. They like to chew them up there and the vent will even be hot from them. The pink vent might be from mites. If they have mites, I would treat them in at least three ways:

1. get poultry dust--one with real insecticide in it and do the shake and bake or spray them with poultry protector.
2. 1/4 cc of ivermectin in the mouth(cattle and swine injectable) or pour on dabbed under the vent and under the wings. Do not worry so much about the dosage since it is hard to over dose them with ivermectin. Repeat in 10 to 14 days.
3. Get Die Mite strips from McMurray
4. Use Poultry Protector(mana Pro--comes in concentrates too) and DE in the coops. Get the poultry protector into the crack and crevices. Make sure the DE is on the perches and in the nest box.

Get better soon Chickens!

 

[zooweemama]

Is it still warm? Leave it alone if it is, mine kicked some out for a time, then took them back. They even got really cool to the touch - but they all grew. The hens do that to control the growth rate so they can all hatch at the same time... If you want to candle them to check you will need to wait until day 10.

My son said it was ice cold. He put it back under her. I asked him to please leave them alone and just alert me. I found a 7th egg under her. Very odd. There were 6 yesterday. So I Sharpie'd #7 on it. It was almost white with a slight off tint. (my bantam BLRW also laid an egg and it was not hers. too big anyway) I have never seen an egg like that from my crew. Maybe Leghorn? So odd. We thought maybe an EE egg with all the color rubbed off. If I find new eggs under her- I should be removing them now right? I'm on Day 3 of her sitting.

 

[zooweemama]

I need some advice. My first POL Langshan pullet (the chicken in my new avatar) began laying this week. She laid 4 days in a row and then skipped 2 days. Yesterday afternoon, she was sitting in the yard and just didn't look right. Then she got up and was penguin walking. Her vent looked fine. It was pink and moist. So I assumed that she must be egg bound. I brought her in the house, increased her calcium, gave her a bath in warm water, and massaged her abdomen. I didn't feel an egg in the process but hers are small pullet eggs. She spent the night in the dog kennel and pooped quite a bit in there. This morning, she was walking around in the kennel with her tail up and complaining all the while. I checked her vent again and it looked fine. I took her outside and she ran to join her buddies for their morning fermented mash. When I checked on her later, she was in the nest box. She did not lay an egg and came out of the box to guzzle water. Shortly after that, I saw a group of my hens going after something. It ended up being Jewel who was huddled on the ground at the edge of the run. They were pecking her head and back not her vent. Needless to say, she was removed from the situation and put back in the kennel. She started showing signs of egg laying and laid a perfect brown egg in the kennel. I gave her another message bath just in case she was backed up in there. I could feel her bones easier today than when I bathed her last night. I put her back in the kennel but she is back to standing and walking like a penguin. What should my next course of action be? Should I keep giving her extra calcium and baths?

Oh no! I can't help but wanted to say I hope she gets better!

 

[zooweemama]

I love these pictures! I think you have more calendar winners there!

One of the Ph.D Candidates in my Dept. loves the TJs Leghorns. I have to print pictures of them regularly.

Ahh awesome! I find them fascinating. They are very independent. The roosters are now trying to mate them. One of them has a larger redder comb. I will grab a pic to show. We didn't name these guys. Assumed they would burn out pretty quick. :\

 

[ronott1]

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The color does not rub off of the blue eggs. It is part of the shell.

Yes, the Leghorns are ready to lay, especially the one with the bigger comb and wattles. They are one of the earliest layers and in the spring, would have already reached Point Of Lay.

Congrats!

Broodys will steel eggs from the other nests too.

 

[zooweemama]

Here she is Ron. The other LH. More developed comb and darker red too. I don't think she is ready yet. But I know probably soon.