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OR4-hmom said:
The lady fostering her didn't like my choice of vets and came and got the kitten. Their vet was sending someone out to collect specimens before taking the kitten into the office. They are checking for cocci or leukemia. I couldn't have gotten her in before 10:00 tomorrow without it being an Emergency call fee.

Sure hoping the tiny little thing pulls through!

I'm still working on disinfecting DD room.
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You've done what you can do. My mom told me a long time ago, and it's stuck with me "do what you can, and can the rest".
OR4-hmom said:
I took the camera out today. Warning, picture quality is bad but I like the subjects.

The broody committee, sharing 7 chicks. The rooster stations himself right in front of the ladies at night.

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Broodies are my favorite....and then too have two. I love those two hens!
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lizanne said:
Quote: Boy, it's the blood throwing me. If the chicks drawing blood! After I pulled the other Marans, one of the pipped Marans started zipping so ...now I have to wait again. It's still peeping at me and responding to the flashlight. The Marans is almost done zipping....found another EE, next to the wayward zipper has pipped but it and another Marans have just pipped so when the zipped Marans hatches and has a little time to equalize, I'll pull them both. Who's on first!
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lawatt said:
such lovely pictures -- cats and chicks and broodies!

i have a cute story to share: put all the chicklets away into their coop just now, and as the fog is rolling in again & it's chilly, the mamas and their chicks all went up the ramp pretty early -- i watched them all in, as the youngest marans chicks have been having trouble jumping up into the nesting box their mom settles in, so wanted to be on hand to help (one did it on its own, one needed assistance) -- but black australorp Daisy, whose chicks are 3 weeks old, apparently decided to show them all how to roost -- first she perched on one of the lower branches, & they all (five!) followed suit, arranged in various spots on the perches. then Daisy moved over to the PRIME roosting spot, on the highest branch (where Max usually roosts) -- and all five chicks followed, with three snuggled underneath her on the branch and *two* perched on her back.

crazily adorable!!!

did i have a camera with me? of course not!!

you'll just have to use your imagination -- i just loved how proud those two babies on her back looked, being up so high! (i'm sure they'll all get dislocated back to a nesting box, once Max & the other girls decide to go to bed.)
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The sweetest of the sweet....and makes us wonder why we worry so much about them!
lawatt said:
i didn't have a photo for my earlier story, but have a feeling these might be appreciated here:



my dad and stepmother are moving house & gave me these on friday, they used to belong to my grandmother -- they were very grimy & full of old wax, but i heated them in the oven to melt & got them cleaned up, and they really have the *perfect* chicken expressions!!
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What a special gift and I love them too. Is there info on the bottom. They look like a collection I've seen.
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OR4-hmom said:
Well it has been a day!  I took kitty in where I thought see came from, the volunteers got one look and opened the gate for me and we rushed her in for treatment.  She got karo and perked up a little.  I thought she was maybe 6 weeks because she was so tiny, turns out she is 8 weeks and weights 14.2 ozs., too small for worming or earmite treatment.  They think she may have cocci.  Every bit of fluids we got in to the kitten came right back out except the sub-q fluids.

Turns out the kittens littermate died last week, the person fostering the kitten figured since when she gave the kitten a bath she got bitten, she was well enough to go to a new home.  The kitten was still nursing but showing an interest in dry food, hadn't really eaten any yet.

The lady fostering her didn't like my choice of vets and came and got the kitten. Their vet was sending someone out to collect specimens before taking the kitten into the office.  They are checking for cocci or leukemia.  I couldn't have gotten her in before 10:00 tomorrow without it being an Emergency call fee.

Sure hoping the tiny little thing pulls through!

I'm still working on disinfecting DD room.
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I hope your kitten gets better...sorry you are having such trouble :(
 
ronott1 said:
The laying curve is very steep with hatchery hens. Heritage breeds will not normally(Penedescecas and other medeteranian breeds lay a bunch during the first couple of years too) lay as much at first but they will be steady longer.

These are your layers and you have a rooster with them? Does he pester them? Stress, like the temperature swings can lower egg laying. Does something bother them at night, like rats running around or predators roaming around the coop?

I think nutreena is a good feed but you should give them free choice calcium and grit. I wonder if some Big Old Bird by southland organics might not help too.

I was also very serious about parasites. Mites can infest one part of your place and they are very hard to see along with round worms--They will lower hatch rates.
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Wonder how much it is to do the float test? No the roo is nice to them. And they're all healthy looking. Who knows ill check with the vet
 

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