Good Monday morning! Love the pics that people have been posting especially the chick pics!
It seems to be constant drama around here. I have a BW Ameraucana hen who is a first time broody. 2 weeks ago, I gave her 5 fertile eggs from the farm and placed her nest box in a secluded area of our predator proof run. The very next day, my 2 year old granddaughter played with them and broke all but 2 of them. So I gave her 4 more which brought her total to 6. She has been doing a great job sitting on them and the granddaughter is not allowed off the patio without supervision. They are due to hatch next Sun or Mon so we candled them last night. The 2 Bresse eggs that Adel played with showed signs of early quitting and 2 others lit up like neon lights so not fertile. Cossette is down to 2 but I have a full incubator so may slip some chicks under her if hers don't hatch. I am going to rearrange the pens so she has a pen all to herself. I've not had much broody success this year so I'm holding my breath.
Good things are happening in my incubator! It was day 9 for the Pita Pinta eggs plus an assorted group of eggs from the farm so we went ahead and candled them last night while we were candling. The 14 PP eggs are going strong and look great!!!21 of our farm eggs are also developing and we only pulled out 6 eggs (4 neon glowing and 2 early quitters). The farm chicks are going to be an interesting mix. There are a few Bresse eggs in there so they will be easy to tell what they are shortly after hatch but the rest of them are going to be fun to guess who's your mama/daddy. We have our laying and breeding hens in a temporary pen that was supposed to be separated from the boys. Our Langshan roos were way too amorous for the number of hens that we have so for the hens' safety we had to separate them a couple months ago. We are planning on decreasing the number of roos to 4 or 5 at the next processing day and then the hens can go back into the field with the boys. The pen that the girls are in has tall sides but is mostly open on the top. We have a group of cockerels that are mostly marans and CL mixes. Well, the CL mixes are great fliers and they managed to get in with the hens. The young boys are obviously doing their duty because most of the eggs are fertile!
On the home front, we have had a few cases of cocci in my 10-12 week old Bresse chicks. I treated all the outside brooder areas with amprolium and all chicks are better. But then it spread to my quail pens that are raised off the ground but above the aviary chick area. I lost one 4 1/2 month Bobwhite and thought that my dog had barked, scared her, and caused her to fly & break her neck. Two days later, there were 2 more dead and fluffed up quail in both pens. I started treating them with amprolium and the top pen seems to have recovered. The quail in the pen closest to the ground do not look good. Most of them are still fluffed up after 7 days of treatment, they aren't eating much, and I saw a bloody poo this morning. So, what do you recommend that I try now? I do have Sulmet. Should I switch to that and treat both pens? I am seriously thinking that I will not be continuing with quail.
I know there is a breeder out near you, I've been to her house. She wanted to buy a dorper ram from us.
You do have a lot going on!Good Monday morning! Love the pics that people have been posting especially the chick pics!
It seems to be constant drama around here. I have a BW Ameraucana hen who is a first time broody. 2 weeks ago, I gave her 5 fertile eggs from the farm and placed her nest box in a secluded area of our predator proof run. The very next day, my 2 year old granddaughter played with them and broke all but 2 of them. So I gave her 4 more which brought her total to 6. She has been doing a great job sitting on them and the granddaughter is not allowed off the patio without supervision. They are due to hatch next Sun or Mon so we candled them last night. The 2 Bresse eggs that Adel played with showed signs of early quitting and 2 others lit up like neon lights so not fertile. Cossette is down to 2 but I have a full incubator so may slip some chicks under her if hers don't hatch. I am going to rearrange the pens so she has a pen all to herself. I've not had much broody success this year so I'm holding my breath.
Good things are happening in my incubator! It was day 9 for the Pita Pinta eggs plus an assorted group of eggs from the farm so we went ahead and candled them last night while we were candling. The 14 PP eggs are going strong and look great!!!21 of our farm eggs are also developing and we only pulled out 6 eggs (4 neon glowing and 2 early quitters). The farm chicks are going to be an interesting mix. There are a few Bresse eggs in there so they will be easy to tell what they are shortly after hatch but the rest of them are going to be fun to guess who's your mama/daddy. We have our laying and breeding hens in a temporary pen that was supposed to be separated from the boys. Our Langshan roos were way too amorous for the number of hens that we have so for the hens' safety we had to separate them a couple months ago. We are planning on decreasing the number of roos to 4 or 5 at the next processing day and then the hens can go back into the field with the boys. The pen that the girls are in has tall sides but is mostly open on the top. We have a group of cockerels that are mostly marans and CL mixes. Well, the CL mixes are great fliers and they managed to get in with the hens. The young boys are obviously doing their duty because most of the eggs are fertile!
On the home front, we have had a few cases of cocci in my 10-12 week old Bresse chicks. I treated all the outside brooder areas with amprolium and all chicks are better. But then it spread to my quail pens that are raised off the ground but above the aviary chick area. I lost one 4 1/2 month Bobwhite and thought that my dog had barked, scared her, and caused her to fly & break her neck. Two days later, there were 2 more dead and fluffed up quail in both pens. I started treating them with amprolium and the top pen seems to have recovered. The quail in the pen closest to the ground do not look good. Most of them are still fluffed up after 7 days of treatment, they aren't eating much, and I saw a bloody poo this morning. So, what do you recommend that I try now? I do have Sulmet. Should I switch to that and treat both pens? I am seriously thinking that I will not be continuing with quail.
Thank you for the advice! I was leaning towards doing just that and I appreciate the validation! Any recommendations on what to scrub the pens out with? I read somewhere that bleach doesn't work on cocci but ammonia does. I also have oxine and tektrol.
Also, Dawg53 says to give them a half dose of corid after the treatment to help them build up immunity. Also give them B vitamins since the Corid causes a deficiency.
