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[tommysgirl]

I am beyond delighted that finally I have German New Hampshire chicks, and wanted to share my joy with you : ) All the chicks, and birds shown are the progeny of: "Walt Leonard-fowlman01" birds.

The adults are so beautiful and the babies are heart melting. Thanks for sharing them! New Hampshires are luminescent and I can't wait to get mine home.

 

[chiqita]

Here's the ugly/cuteness I was referring to earlier - this is one with no "bow-tie" (patch of fluff just above crop): A roo, right?

If you have not named him fezzak please consider it. That has to be peaches baby.

 

[Audio51]

Bad news- one of my Blue Orpington pullets has managed to get hurt very badly. Most the skin on her neck and throat has been torn away. I'm not sure if something managed to reach into the pen and grab her or what... it didn't look like chicken-inflicted wounds I've seen, but I suppose it is possible. She is in treatment for the wound and shock, but I don't know if she's got much of a chance. If she is still very shock-y by morning I may just cull her. I don't want her to suffer for nothing.


More cheerful news- I put a dozen eggs under my stubborn broody on the evening of the eighth. While I was outside she hopped up for a drink so I quickly candled the eggs. It wasn't dark enough to see very well and I just had my crappy keychain flashlight on me, but I could still see veins in seven eggs! If I get a chance after day 7 I'll check again, or by day ten I'll be mean and make her give me a chance to toss any non-starters. It was hard to see in the brown shells with the lighting the way it was.

Oh no! So sorry about the wounds. Chickens can be pretty tough though, so don't write her off just yet!

Congrats on the fertile eggs! I just got 19 BLRW eggs from Papa Brooder that have been in the incubator to almost a week and, right on qeue...one of my BCM went broody 2 days ago. She had raised chicks before so I will give her another 5 days or so and then give her any eggs that are developing...

I am beyond delighted that finally I have German New Hampshire chicks, and wanted to share my joy with you : ) All the chicks, and birds shown are the progeny of: "Walt Leonard-fowlman01" birds.

Wow...these are really beautiful chicks, There is something very elegant and refined looking about them

Sadly none of my chickens are related to iggy and his extraordinary gene.

All.were.lost in the great fox attack. Now that I know more aboit chickens genetics I am completly flabbergasted by iggys offspring. He passed the hook gene onto 97% or so of his male offspring. And almost never to his female chicks. But how is that possible when his gene have nothing to do with sex? Its a mystery.

I still miss him Josephine and ester. Theu were my first showgirls.

Aw,,,poor Iggy. I will just have to be patient then and wait it out to determine sex.

Quote: LOL!!! I may name mine Fezzik! That would be perfect...even if it turns out to be a girl....

 

[chiqita]

Oh no!  So sorry about the wounds.  Chickens can be pretty tough though, so don't write her off just yet!

Congrats on the fertile eggs!  I just got 19 BLRW eggs from Papa Brooder that have been in the incubator to almost a week and, right on qeue...one of my BCM went broody 2 days ago.  She had raised chicks before so I will give her another 5 days or so and then give her any eggs that are developing...

Wow...these are really beautiful chicks,  There is something very elegant and refined looking about them

Aw,,,poor Iggy.  I will just have to be patient then and wait it out to determine sex.

LOL!!!  I may name mine Fezzik!  That would be perfect...even if it turns out to be a girl....

I am good with an army of fezziks.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

i'm home after a week's vacation and now doing some chicken-pen reorganizing -- and i think i've decided which of my five silver campine rooster/cockerels to keep, as only one of the boys has NOT inherited their dad's squirrel tail -- so, he stays. have separated dad & the other boys into a separate pen, and will probably take them down to the local feed store, who takes extra boys...

and discovered a mama fox has made a den underneath the front walkway to my house, and now is raising three little kits. so the chickens are on lockdown, no more free-ranging even with supervision until the babies are grown & dispersed -- but thankfully their pens are proving (once again) to be predator-proof, and the baby foxes are SO cute!

looking out my front door!

lol thats too cute

 

[chickee]

I am beyond delighted that finally I have German New Hampshire chicks, and wanted to share my joy with you : ) All the chicks, and birds shown are the progeny of: "Walt Leonard-fowlman01" birds.

Wow! Lual those are gorgeous! Great pictures as usual!

 

[SpringPeeper]

Oh no! So sorry about the wounds. Chickens can be pretty tough though, so don't write her off just yet!

Congrats on the fertile eggs! I just got 19 BLRW eggs from Papa Brooder that have been in the incubator to almost a week and, right on qeue...one of my BCM went broody 2 days ago. She had raised chicks before so I will give her another 5 days or so and then give her any eggs that are developing...

I won't be too quick to write her off. I just sent my husband to retrieve or replace my Blu Kote he apparently lent out without letting me know. At least I had an antibiotic to coat still. She's drank a bit without having her beak dipped today, so that's a good sign. Going to offer her some egg once the Blu Kote is on.

Good luck with the Wyandotte eggs! And thanks.

@lualshannon , the roosters are gorgeous!

 

[TheKeeper]

If you have not named him fezzak please consider it.

That has to be peaches baby.

He had no name until today.
Fezzik it is.
I completely see the resemblance to Andre the Giant.
(Plus it is one of my favorite books & movies)

 

[SpringPeeper]

I thought she had a chance, but that has changed. Spoilered for those who don't want to read about the full extent of the injury,


My husband offered to gently clean the wound while I was taking care of the other birds. He did, then we covered it in Blu Kote. He took her over to put her in the isolation bin with her egg and shock water. A few seconds later he came over and just told me "you need to end it, please just kill her." I don't know if I somehow missed it last night (I don't think so, because she did consume a bit in front of me) or she was worrying at the wound and made it worse, but when she would take a drink or gobble down some egg, it would fall down from under an intact-looking bit of skin and dribble down her wound. Her trachea was severed at least partially above the skinned area, right beneath some remaining skin. How she is breathing without any distress is beyond me.The injury is just more than I feel I can be repaired by me or the local 'farm' vet and still give her a good quality of life.

I'm getting the kids settled in and distracted and then I am going to cull her,

 

[ronott1]

I thought she had a chance, but that has changed. Spoilered for those who don't want to read about the full extent of the injury,


My husband offered to gently clean the wound while I was taking care of the other birds. He did, then we covered it in Blu Kote. He took her over to put her in the isolation bin with her egg and shock water. A few seconds later he came over and just told me "you need to end it, please just kill her." I don't know if I somehow missed it last night (I don't think so, because she did consume a bit in front of me) or she was worrying at the wound and made it worse, but when she would take a drink or gobble down some egg, it would fall down from under an intact-looking bit of skin and dribble down her wound. Her trachea was severed at least partially above the skinned area, right beneath some remaining skin. How she is breathing without any distress is beyond me.The injury is just more than I feel I can be repaired by me or the local 'farm' vet and still give her a good quality of life.

I'm getting the kids settled in and distracted and then I am going to cull her,

It is a hard but good thing to do for her.