California - Northern

[PetRock]

Megan shipped 10 Pita Pinta and 2 Marraduna Basque Hatching eggs to me. One was broken so I set 11 of them.

All 10 of the Pita Pintas eggs hatched! One of the Basque eggs was a dud. I have 10 chicks from 11 set.

I love these babies!!!! I have a real fondness for black and white chickens!

 

[tommysgirl]

I opened her beak, stuffed the piece in, and held her beak shut while she swallowed it.

if she doesn't do it on her own, that's the plan ^^ Thank You!


Just wanted to share that Little Ray is a little girl (90% sure) so my daughter named her Norma

She may hop up on the coop holding a sign in her beak that says "Strike" one day but I hope not.

 

[PetRock]

Ron - congratulations on the hatch! 100%?!? They are so awesome!

Megan, are the Pita Pintas a dual purpose breed? I loved babysitting your first group of chicks and I love what they look like now! My incubator is sitting empty for the first time in 2 1/2 months and I'm trying to figure out how to justify adding another breed.

 

[PetRock]

if she doesn't do it on her own, that's the plan ^^ Thank You!

It was easier than I thought and my OE is a huge FBCM mix girl. Monet helped me hold her at the beginning but I figured out a way to hold her on my lap while prying open and stuffing in! It took her 3-4 weeks to start laying eggs again but now she is laying around 5 beautiful, dark brown eggs per week.

 

[ronott1]

I love these babies!!!! I have a real fondness for black and white chickens!

Great news Ron

Thanks!!!!!

The chicks are beautiful BTW I love the color of the the Basque!

I like them too! I have wanted them since I hatched their parents last year.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I opened her beak, stuffed the piece in, and held her beak shut while she swallowed it.

I'm trying to imagine how many arms you have to accomplish that, and little eyes rolling around in a shipping box. My day just got better.

 

[ronott1]

I'm trying to imagine how many arms you have to accomplish that, and little eyes rolling around in a shipping box. My day just got better.

That is why I only treated once a day. I needed a helper for the process.

 

[Happy Chooks]

tommysgirl..........do you notice a smell when you are close to her? Does she smell sour? It could just be an impacted crop, not sour crop. With an impacted crop, they will have all the same symptoms, but will not have a sour smell. You can aid an impacted crop with bread soaked in olive oil to try to get the blockage to pass. Also, how is her weight? Does she seem abnormally thin? Is she laying eggs?

Here is a link on sour crop. I've never had sour crop, but I have had impacted crops. I've never used Monistat, so I can't speak for that.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/619872/medication-for-sour-crop/0_50#post_8243479

Hope your girl is feeling better soon.

 

[debs_flock]

I almost posted that Deb probably had some left from the Cinco De Mayo Turkey Hatch a long....

I do have a bunch of those left. My son came over today, looked in the pen and said..................."Which one is Thanksgiving?" I told him I'm saving a trio of blacks and the rest are going in the freezer, so lots of them!

I also have another 10ish poults I've hatched since then. And a few more eggs in the incubator. Turkeys are just about done laying for the year. We've gone from 6 eggs per day to about 5 per week. I'm glad I hatched the last group though, they included the first RP that hatched. Up to that point, all slate and black.

 

[tommysgirl]

tommysgirl..........do you notice a smell when you are close to her? Does she smell sour? It could just be an impacted crop, not sour crop. With an impacted crop, they will have all the same symptoms, but will not have a sour smell. You can aid an impacted crop with bread soaked in olive oil to try to get the blockage to pass. Also, how is her weight? Does she seem abnormally thin? Is she laying eggs?

Here is a link on sour crop. I've never had sour crop, but I have had impacted crops. I've never used Monistat, so I can't speak for that.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/619872/medication-for-sour-crop/0_50#post_8243479

Hope your girl is feeling better soon.

Thank you. I have no sense of smell so I don't honestly know I have to get a nose double out to sick bay STAT. Her weight is normal. She is a hatchery Del so she is about 5 lbs instead of 6 or so. She laid a soft shelled egg wed thur and fri yesterday and today so far nothing.