California - Northern

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, tea tree oil is very bad for chickens. I wouldn't use anything really fragrant, their respiratory systems are delicate.

 

[lawatt]

Ah, I see.


Mary (The Sheriff) is in Auburn and sells Isbar chicks/eggs. I think she has extra chicks right now too, but not positive on that.

I'd actually emailed her a week or two ago, but at the time she didn't have any chicks available, and while she offered to set some eggs in the incubator for me, i'd thought it better to try to get the chicks all at the same time so they'd be the same age & could grow up together. perhaps that was a mistake -- but i've only heard wonderful things about Richard (yes, i let him know right away), & he's going to try replacing the chicks, so hopefully the second bunch will make it through the cross-country trek!

fingers crossed,
laura

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'd actually emailed her a week or two ago, but at the time she didn't have any chicks available, and while she offered to set some eggs in the incubator for me, i'd thought it better to try to get the chicks all at the same time so they'd be the same age & could grow up together. perhaps that was a mistake -- but i've only heard wonderful things about Richard (yes, i let him know right away), & he's going to try replacing the chicks, so hopefully the second bunch will make it through the cross-country trek!

fingers crossed,
laura

it is suppossed to be cooler next week. I am waiting a month to bring my chicks across country just to be on the safe side.

 

[lawatt]

it is suppossed to be cooler next week. I am waiting a month to bring my chicks across country just to be on the safe side.

probably smart -- if i hadn't already ordered some chicks locally that are hatching tomorrow or friday, i'd wait too -- the best-laid plans...

on a lighter note, the SPPRs' voices are starting to change, from peeps to more chicken-y sounds -- and it seems to startle THEM as much as the others! very funny.

and i can tell the little six-week-old sussex girls are going to be great -- they're the only chicks i've had so far who don't completely freak out when i pick them up -- seem to be quite easy-going and curious. have them separate from the big girls (i hadn't noticed how big and hen-like they're becoming, until the contrast with the littler ones!) but everyone can see & hear each other, hopefully they can integrate gradually into the flock.

lucy's still in the bathroom by herself, but she may be perking up a bit... or it's just my imagination, but she doesn't seem to be getting any *worse*, so that's a good thing.

what a day!

 

[ronott1]

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That is great news!

Hens become friendlier when the start laying. One of my Partridge Rocks walks right up to me and says bok bok to my face now! She even flew up onto my shoulder one day last week.

Sometimes they like me too much.

Are you giving Lucy Corid yet?

Ron

 

[lawatt]

That is great news!

Hens become friendlier when the start laying. One of my Partridge Rocks walks right up to me and says bok bok to my face now! She even flew up onto my shoulder one day last week.

Sometimes they like me too much.

Are you giving Lucy Corid yet?

Ron

i've held off on the Corid, since she's seemed somewhat stable... i.e. not getting worse. i suppose i'll watch her through another night and see how she seems in the morning? is cocci usually a fast-acting disease, or could it be causing this kind of gradual malaise?

and one of the cuckoo marans, dixie, actually flies up onto my shoulder sometimes now, or hops on my lap, looking for some additional handout of treats -- but none of them particularly like being handled. the only one who's really *not* friendly is Daisy, the australorp who was raised by my friend's broody hen -- my friend was preparing for her daughter's wedding through most of Daisy's hen-upbringing, so i don't think she got much human contact as a baby, & her sister/nestmate was killed by a rat -- so she's a bit anti-social. but is slowly mellowing out, at least she'll take treats from my hand now!

 

[ronott1]

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When they start getting friendlier, that is when you can expect an egg soon.

Yes, Cocci can kill them fast. Yours have been eating medicated feed, so they should have some resistance. Get Corid to her quickly if she stops drinking water or wont eat food.

Ron

 

[lawatt]

When they start getting friendlier, that is when you can expect an egg soon.

Yes, Cocci can kill them fast. Yours have been eating medicated feed, so they should have some resistance. Get Corid to her quickly if she stops drinking water or wont eat food.

Ron

great, i'll do that... so appreciate all the advice!! i just checked on her, and she's still drinking, at the very least -- and her stool seems to have more dark/firm bits, although still greenish, but at least yellow and watery than yesterday. have decided to go ahead and give her Corid in her water, just to be on the safe side.

and just to remind myself not to be too blue: here are the new sussex girls, still thinking about names -- they're going to be gorgeous!

 

[debs_flock]

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well, the six-week-old sussex pullets shipped from illinois arrived just fine, but the baby isbar chicks from georgia arrived all dead... so sad.
a bit blue,
laura

How sad, sorry! I lost three chicks in a shipment when the PO lost them for a day.

That's my system (and I have 5 acres of burial places). Chicks are wrapped in a papertowel, the few large birds I've lost are bagged in a plastic bag.

Deb

 

[debs_flock]

...60 here... foggy, cold, dewy.

SHUT UP!!!!!!

Deb