Colorado

[Denverchickee]

New Egg Day!!! New Egg Day!!!

Its like a kid on Christmas!!! now watch probably wont happen again for two weeks. I am very confident its the buff cochin. As out of the 3 newbies she would be only one laying a brownish egg. This egg is def a little browner and sightly larger than my batam cochin. So Im feel good about my ID. Although I must say, for as large of a hen her eggs aren't much bigger than her bantam counterpart??? Strange I thought!!
I also thought this Blondie would be the last of the 3 to lay. Just waiting on a 24 wk Blue Andulasian and a 20wk Egyptian.

Yesterday there was a lot egg song talking but only 2 eggs out of the 9 total, but I was hoping it might get the others in the mood.....

And of course I still have this 15 month old EE who has still never even given a thought to lay a egg on my hands. We held out some hope for that the food change might turn on the egg fountain, but no such luck. I only have a small coop and run and over my limit by one. Lil Lynard its not looking good for her. I can't imagine anyone wanting a nonlaying hen, but you are welcome to her.


Good day to everyone!!

Cheers,
Bonnie

 

[pichuris]

Hi Everyone,
I'm welcoming myself back lol. I've been following the thread up until the end of June. Busy summer and my atrocious work hours I only have my weekends to get everything done and it only leaves me with sleep time and no computer face time. sigh.

Any how I was at a friend's house and one of her chickens has very swollen eyes and bubbly tears. Almost looks like abcesses. Anyone have any ideas? She is a very old chicken and my friend did say that it happened to her before but then she got well pretty quickly. This time around she says its double worse and poor thing can barely open her eyes. I'm a little freaked out myself about it so I didn't touch her and my clothes went into the wash right away and my shoes I'm tempted to throw out (their old anyways and gives me an excuse to buy new ones, hehe).

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

 

[wsmith]

Hi Everyone,
I'm welcoming myself back lol. I've been following the thread up until the end of June. Busy summer and my atrocious work hours I only have my weekends to get everything done and it only leaves me with sleep time and no computer face time. sigh.

Any how I was at a friend's house and one of her chickens has very swollen eyes and bubbly tears. Almost looks like abcesses. Anyone have any ideas? She is a very old chicken and my friend did say that it happened to her before but then she got well pretty quickly. This time around she says its double worse and poor thing can barely open her eyes. I'm a little freaked out myself about it so I didn't touch her and my clothes went into the wash right away and my shoes I'm tempted to throw out (their old anyways and gives me an excuse to buy new ones, hehe).

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

Welcome back!

I would have done the same......

 

[Mtn Margie]

Hi Everyone,
I'm welcoming myself back lol. I've been following the thread up until the end of June. Busy summer and my atrocious work hours I only have my weekends to get everything done and it only leaves me with sleep time and no computer face time. sigh.

Any how I was at a friend's house and one of her chickens has very swollen eyes and bubbly tears. Almost looks like abcesses. Anyone have any ideas? She is a very old chicken and my friend did say that it happened to her before but then she got well pretty quickly. This time around she says its double worse and poor thing can barely open her eyes. I'm a little freaked out myself about it so I didn't touch her and my clothes went into the wash right away and my shoes I'm tempted to throw out (their old anyways and gives me an excuse to buy new ones, hehe).

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

That sounds like infectious rhino(something-or-other , can't remember the name!) but it is definitely not something you want in a flock.

 

[mketchum826]

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice and helpful hints! My new girl is finally a part of the group they don't pick on her anymore and she steps right in the way to get snacks!! I'm so thankful and we've already gotten 4 eggs from her

 

[dennarahl]

We have used a power auger for about 75% of the holes we have dug, eith er the tow behind version, or one mounted on a skidster. My neighbor rented his at Home Depot. and did about 50 holes with it Saturday morning at his place before coming over to my place. Even though we are about 1/2 mile from each other, our soils are very different. His is very gravelly/sandy, while I think we dug up two small rocks in all the holes we bored at my place. The one he rented was pulled behind his car. The tool rental place wasn't accurate in their statement to you.......

We rented the single man one a couple of weeks ago, and it did great in the areas that were watered. Not so great in the areas that were dry as a bone because the dirt was so loose. We ended up using the auger to alternately break the dirt and then scoop it out with a small bucket.

 

[dennarahl]

That sounds like infectious rhino(something-or-other , can't remember the name!) but it is definitely not something you want in a flock.

Ditto, this sounds like an infection more than an absess. I had an older chick with something similar about a year ago. I gave it Duramycin and it cleared up quickly.

 

[WendyGeisler]

Ready for help/advice:

I have an older chicken that isn't looking so good. I adopted her in December from a farm, and she was never handled. So while she has been with me, she is impossible to catch and I haven't really pushed it. Her name is Pepprica and she is about 2.5 years old, she's a black copper Marans. She has laid eggs just about every other day. Well, in the middle of winter I noticed she had poop on her under tail feathers. It was too cold to give her a bath, so I kept telling myself I would give her a bath in the warmer weather.
Now it's warmer and I still haven't done that.
In the last 2 weeks I have been noticing her bum feathers are falling out. As of today she is almost naked. I can see her skin below her vent. She won't let me catch her, and I don't want to stress her out by trying. But I am not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

 

[samsr]

Ready for help/advice:

I have an older chicken that isn't looking so good. I adopted her in December from a farm, and she was never handled. So while she has been with me, she is impossible to catch and I haven't really pushed it. Her name is Pepprica and she is about 2.5 years old, she's a  black copper Marans. She has laid eggs just about every other day. Well, in the middle of winter I noticed she had poop on her under tail feathers. It was too cold to give her a bath, so I kept telling myself I would give her a bath in the warmer weather.

Now it's warmer and I still haven't done that.

In the last 2 weeks I have been noticing her bum feathers are falling out. As of today she is almost naked. I can see her skin below her vent. She won't let me catch her, and I don't want to stress her out by trying. But I am not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

 

A fishing net with a long handle works nicely to catch chickens. It sounds like you will need to catch her to figure out what is wrong and give her a bath.
Good luck and happy fishing.

 

[P-Funk]

The rooster I was trying to get rid of has now multiplied X 3. I told my mom to try the Colorado Chickens FB page, since she uses FB. Again, my offer still stands to deliver or meet you halfway from Franktown (it seems you all live in the Springs).