California - Northern

[Papa Brooder]

help!? i have two cream legbar hens that are heat stroked. Just found them on my check. brought them inside, gave a bath and stuck them in crates on wet towels. can't get either to drink when I dip their beaks in water. I am worried about them needing water but also don't want to get water into lungs by trying to force it. any ideas on what i should do???

 

[ronott1]

help!? i have two cream legbar hens that are heat stroked. Just found them on my check. brought them inside, gave a bath and stuck them in crates on wet towels. can't get either to drink when I dip their beaks in water. I am worried about them needing water but also don't want to get water into lungs by trying to force it. any ideas on what i should do???

Oh no!

Amy Beth used a medicine dropper and carefully gave her Orpington little bits of water.

Ron

 

[UrbanviewFarm]

Not a bantam... these birds call for 11 lbs in the breed standard. He is an 'O-Shamo'. I would LOVE to get himm some hens...

So somebody walk me through this picture-posting process and ill see what I can do. The Shamo is my display picture.

 

[UrbanviewFarm]

help!?  i have two cream legbar hens that are heat stroked.  Just found them on my check.  brought them inside, gave a bath and stuck them in crates on wet towels.  can't get either to drink when I dip their  beaks in water.  I am worried about them needing water but also don't want to get water into lungs by trying to force it. any ideas on what i should do???

I save and clean vaccination syringes(from puppies not chickens) for things like this. It's good to have a couple around for things like draining off fluids or administering fluids.

Saline solution administered under the skin will help in this case.

 

[ronott1]

Not a bantam... these birds call for 11 lbs in the breed standard. He is an 'O-Shamo'. I would LOVE to get himm some hens...

So somebody walk me through this picture-posting process and ill see what I can do. The Shamo is my display picture.

Click reply or quote. Look for the edit bar at the top and click on the square that looks like a picture. Browse your computer for the picture and select it. Say yes to the question and then submit the picture.

I will check for the picture soon.

Walt from Sanoma has some of the O-Shamo' chickens. He may be able to get you some hens.

Ron

 

[Happy Chooks]

Catching up here:

Amy...... Congrats on the puppy!

Both SPPR's and the Delaware are pullets.

 

[UrbanviewFarm]

Click reply or quote. Look for the edit bar at the top and click on the square that looks like a picture. Browse your computer for the picture and select it. Say yes to the question and then submit the picture.

I will check for the picture soon.

Walt from Sanoma has some of the O-Shamo' chickens. He may be able to get you some hens.

Ron

Many thanks!!! My Shamo came from sme rather poor quality hatching eggs I picked up. There were bugs crawling all OVER them so I had to fumigate before the incubator drop ceremony. Out of 7 eggs ONE hatched...bummer!!

So now forthe picture part.... ehrrrrrm?? Image URL....so they do need to be uploaded somewhere else first. This helps!

 

[lawatt]

Catching up here:
Amy...... Congrats on the puppy!
Both SPPR's and the Delaware are pullets.

that definitely seems to be the consensus -- so glad! i just had one of those moments of realizing, hey, i don't really KNOW what to look for re: gender changes, and will need to be on the lookout with the new straight-run chicks that will arriving soon. greatly appreciate all the pointers!

off the let the girls (girls!!!) out of their run for an afternoon/evening stroll...
laura

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Click on my computer. The picture file should be on your computer, but you could get it off of a camera if it was connected to the computer as a drive.




You are very close!

Ron

 

[lawatt]

omg -- i just dropped a lone cherry (i had planned on eating) in the chicklets' run, and accidentally started a brawl.

oops