Colorado

[COChix]

Hey guys, well we have a Welsummer that has frost bite on her comb. I noticed her in the nest boxes in small coop. She was in There when I did an egg check and i went and walked the dogs. My guess she was in there for about an hour, she was there when I returned from our walk and I noticed what looked like blood in her nostrils. I brought her in the house and we tried applying Blu Kot and putting her back with grouo. She got picked on so we brought her back inside in a crate and kept her in the bathroom until it dried, she got warm and w re-applied Blu Kot and put her back.

Weird something like this happens today, when it was sunny and warmer here. Here are a couple shots. Checked the rest of the flock and didn't see any issues...will monitor. Also the humidity in the coop has not gotten above 21%.

 

[Percheron chick]

Well I had a bummer of an evening chicken check. I found my cream brabanter cockerel frozen to death. He wasn't having much fun with this weather but who is?

 

[trsturself]

Well I had a bummer of an evening chicken check. I found my cream brabanter cockerel frozen to death. He wasn't having much fun with this weather but who is?

wow that is surprising with the warmer weather and sun we had today. I'm sorry to hear you lost him.

Our BCM roo has a tiny bit of frostbite but doesn't look bad. It looked like it got a little too moist in their coop. There's no heat lamp but I think the heated waterer is putting off too much moisture. I cracked a window that is below the roosts and right over the water tonight. I hope that helps. Tomorrow I'll be putting a thermometer and hygrometer in the coop.

 

[Double Kindness]

I saw blood in the ff feeder earlier today in my laying flock pen, it looks like Lenny's comb is bleeding a bit. No signs of frostbite tho. No heater in the layer coop or the condo. The babies in the barn are plenty warm tho. I'm needing to process by myself with no plucker or help, my bf hurt his hand very badly Friday.

The bunny water is driving me loony toons. Reginald my surgically decrowed ayam cemani rooster looks to have sour crop I think. He's in the master bathroom in a cage with a haffie pullet chick Cookie I want to integrate into the cemani pen anyways. I made gluten-free pizza today and bread yesterday.

I have a couple slw pullets, but they are hatchery quality and I was planning on keeping the 2 slw and 1 br for egg laying until my breeding flocks get established.

I got no eggs today, 2 eggs yesterday. But they aren't eating as much since the cold snap. The ducks and rooster pen tho is a different story. They are eating everything. They gotta go to freezer camp. Anyone want to help in exchange for a duck and a couple/few chickens to take home for yourself? Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

 

[COChix]

Well I had a bummer of an evening chicken check.  I found my cream brabanter cockerel frozen to death.  He wasn't having much fun with this weather but who is?

Sorry for your loss, what do you think happened?

wow that is surprising with the warmer weather and sun we had today. I'm sorry to hear you lost him.

Our BCM roo has a tiny bit of frostbite but doesn't look bad. It looked like it got a little too moist in their coop. There's no heat lamp but I think the heated waterer is putting off too much moisture. I cracked a window that is below the roosts and right over the water tonight. I hope that helps. Tomorrow I'll be putting a thermometer and hygrometer in the coop. 

We have had an Infared light in the coop, I wonder if I closed the vent too much last night. I decided to close it s bit since we were having such wind last night....

 

[megshenhut]

If anyone is interested in producing some olive eggers, I have some Ameraucana cockerels that I need to find a home for. The bantams are ready. LF will be ready before too long. PM me.

 

[Latestarter]

Has anyone had luck with Vaseline on the combs???? I am tempted to try it with my guys with bigger combs.

I've been putting triple antibiotic covered with vaseline and it seems to be helping (over the past 3-4 days). Couldn't think of anything else to ward off any possible moisture. Those roos do NOT like it when I hold them and apply it... Don't they understand I'm trying to help them?

Hey guys, well we have a Welsummer that has frost bite on her comb. I noticed her in the nest boxes in small coop. She was in There when I did an egg check and i went and walked the dogs. My guess she was in there for about an hour, she was there when I returned from our walk and I noticed what looked like blood in her nostrils. I brought her in the house and we tried applying Blu Kot and putting her back with grouo. She got picked on so we brought her back inside in a crate and kept her in the bathroom until it dried, she got warm and w re-applied Blu Kot and put her back.

Wow... sorry to hear about your hen's comb COChix... hope it heals OK. I don't plan to bring any chickens into the house... I have too many to start doing that :-\

Well I had a bummer of an evening chicken check. I found my cream brabanter cockerel frozen to death. He wasn't having much fun with this weather but who is?

Sorry for your loss Percheron chick :-(

 

[uzisuzuki]

I am so sorry to hear about all the hard times this cold snap caused everyone. I was super nervous about taking care of my surprise flock since it's the first time I've had chickens and because it got so cold and windy out Northeast here. I'm even more thankful I could find all you nice people before winter showed up and that you were all so willing to share advice and tips with me.

Since yesterday got into the 30's almost, I got to muck out the barn coop and let my ladies and gent adventure in the pen for the first time all week. The Supremes (the nickname my dad gave the hens that seems to have stuck) even let me handle them a bit more. They had been a little skiddish and reluctant to let me handle them after we purchased them. I figured they just needed to settle in more like Odysseus had to do. Since I am still not very mobile and the cold wasn't helping alleviate any pains, I'm glad they decided not to put up much of a fit about being caught up and transferred to and from the barn. They all finally got properly named, too. Since the rooster got named Odysseus (famous dude who got lost on his way home), his hens got named after characters from the same story. I'm such a story nerd. They haven't produced any eggs yet, but I kinda figured they probably wouldn't yet or during the cold at all.


Athena


Penelope


Calypso


Nausicaa


Odysseus being too cool for pictures with me anymore.


And, finally, my Shiba Inu/German Shepard, Toki Wartooth, "hiding" because he got in trouble for pulling a few head feathers out of Penelope during the transfer back to the barn. Thankfully, it was only 6 feathers and no serious damage was done to the hen. I'm so glad my smaller dog has no interest in getting up close and personal with any of the chickens. This one and I have some serious work to do on not messing with chickens.

I hope everyone has a better week than last and no more serious injuries or deaths occur to your flocks.

 

[trsturself]

I am so sorry to hear about all the hard times this cold snap caused everyone. I was super nervous about taking care of my surprise flock since it's the first time I've had chickens and because it got so cold and windy out Northeast here. I'm even more thankful I could find all you nice people before winter showed up and that you were all so willing to share advice and tips with me.

Since yesterday got into the 30's almost, I got to muck out the barn coop and let my ladies and gent adventure in the pen for the first time all week. The Supremes (the nickname my dad gave the hens that seems to have stuck) even let me handle them a bit more. They had been a little skiddish and reluctant to let me handle them after we purchased them. I figured they just needed to settle in more like Odysseus had to do. Since I am still not very mobile and the cold wasn't helping alleviate any pains, I'm glad they decided not to put up much of a fit about being caught up and transferred to and from the barn. They all finally got properly named, too. Since the rooster got named Odysseus (famous dude who got lost on his way home), his hens got named after characters from the same story. I'm such a story nerd. They haven't produced any eggs yet, but I kinda figured they probably wouldn't yet or during the cold at all.


Athena


Penelope


Calypso


Nausicaa


Odysseus being too cool for pictures with me anymore.


And, finally, my Shiba Inu/German Shepard, Toki Wartooth, "hiding" because he got in trouble for pulling a few head feathers out of Penelope during the transfer back to the barn. Thankfully, it was only 6 feathers and no serious damage was done to the hen. I'm so glad my smaller dog has no interest in getting up close and personal with any of the chickens. This one and I have some serious work to do on not messing with chickens.

I hope everyone has a better week than last and no more serious injuries or deaths occur to your flocks.

I'm so jealous of your gold laced polish (GLP), I have tried to get one for a long time. The last one we had disappeared one day. It was always able to escape the run somehow and one day didn't come back. We had a GLW (gold laced wyandotte) chick recently and it too disappeared. It's like we aren't meant to have a gold laced chicken.

I love the mix of gold laced girls with a silver laced roo. My daughter will love the names, she is a greek fanatic.

 

[Percheron chick]

My little rooster was visibly having trouble with the cold. Every time I'd go in the barn, he's be a little puff ball just standing there. He was eating but in the evening, I would find him down on the cold ground. A part of me thought about throwing him in a crate and bringing him in the house at night but the other part was saying if you're going to use him to raise chickens, he has to be resilient and if there's something not right with the way he regulates body heat and doesn't have the fight to live, I can't use him.He had a nice easy going personality but as far as SOP, he was weaker than the pullets.