Cream Legbars

[caychris]

look at the combs wyandottes have rose combs while leg bars have straight combs

I am given to understand that wyantottes can have straight single combs as well though it is not considered standard it does happen rather frequently. And we have had people breeding rose comb CLB though those are far less frequent than single comb wyandottes.

 

[rc50]

People breed many things... does not mean that they are bred to the Standard of Perfection.... but that should still be the goal.... if I buy a bird from a breeder and it comes up with a difference as big as a comb... than for me I NEVER buy anything from them again... I can get anything from a barn yard mix... I want pure birds....


Keith
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[Phage]

Random fact which has come in quite useful when sorting out chicks, is that the markings around the eyes of wyandottes and other laced birds is one way of telling that a bird is laced.

 

[Odelia]

It's a girl!



Eyeliner and no spot! I think I'll name her after the new British baby princess.

It sounds like you need two more chicks. That baby has an awful long name.

 

[Scatterknit]

I posted this in the Hatching forum but thought I'd post it here too since this is one of my CL chicks. I need some advice.

4 of my 7 hatched (2 CLs, 2 CL/EEs) - 3 without problem but the 4th (CL) stalled - she broke a large hole but she just couldn't break through. I waited a day and figured she was a goner anyway but she kept chirping and chirping so I helped her out. Everything was fine - no blood, yolk sac absorbed - I think the shell was just super thick and hard to break and she couldn't do it herself.

She's been out of the shell about an hour (she's back in the incubator now) but she can't seem to get out of her "egg" position. Her neck is curled under and she can't seem to get her feet under her. She's flopping around.

I guess I waited too long to help. It's like she was in the shell with her neck down too long and now she's stuck that way.

Should I do anything? Leave her in the incubator for awhile and see what happens?

Is this "wry neck"? Or something worse?

 

[Scatterknit]

I should say that clearly she won't go in the breeding pen, but if she survives will go out with the layers. I don't want her to suffer but if there's a chance she could make it - she IS a CL after all!

And she's a SHE! Dark eyeliner - precious.

 

[KernH]

I posted this in the Hatching forum but thought I'd post it here too since this is one of my CL chicks. I need some advice.

4 of my 7 hatched (2 CLs, 2 CL/EEs) - 3 without problem but the 4th (CL) stalled - she broke a large hole but she just couldn't break through. I waited a day and figured she was a goner anyway but she kept chirping and chirping so I helped her out. Everything was fine - no blood, yolk sac absorbed - I think the shell was just super thick and hard to break and she couldn't do it herself.

She's been out of the shell about an hour (she's back in the incubator now) but she can't seem to get out of her "egg" position. Her neck is curled under and she can't seem to get her feet under her. She's flopping around.

I guess I waited too long to help. It's like she was in the shell with her neck down too long and now she's stuck that way.

Should I do anything? Leave her in the incubator for awhile and see what happens?

Is this "wry neck"? Or something worse?

That happened to two of my chicks about a month ago when they hatched. They just couldn't straighten out their necks. I took an envelope and tore it in half the long way and made a kind of a splint for their necks. I rolled the part of the envelope loosely around their necks (with their necks straightened out) and then taped it with scotch tape. Left it that way about one day and took the splint off, and both chicks were as good as any of the others in their hatch. Kern

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Scatterknit, I am not sure there is much you can do right now except keep her warm. She may just be exhausted and need time to recuperate. I think you won't know for sure what is going on until she has rested. I don't have any experience with the neck curling under so I can't help you there.

I have had two chicks that I assisted from a different breed with curled toes. They couldn't get their feet under them and did a lot of flopping around. I ended up bracing their toes with bandaids and cardboard and they both lived and are able to walk with no issues.

 

[Scatterknit]

Thank you both!

Kern, I was kind of thinking "wonder if there's a way to make her a mini cervical collar" and the envelope is a great idea! I think I'm going to let her rest a couple more hours and see where we are. She seems to be getting a better "grip" but it could be wishful thinking. I put her in a little box with a shelf liner insert so she could try to get her feet under her and that has seemed to help. The incubator was too big and she was slipping and bashing and flopping all over.

I have her under a lizard light with a thermometer - it looks like a mini NICU in there.

 

[KernH]

Thank you both!

Kern, I was kind of thinking "wonder if there's a way to make her a mini cervical collar" and the envelope is a great idea! I think I'm going to let her rest a couple more hours and see where we are. She seems to be getting a better "grip" but it could be wishful thinking. I put her in a little box with a shelf liner insert so she could try to get her feet under her and that has seemed to help. The incubator was too big and she was slipping and bashing and flopping all over.

I have her under a lizard light with a thermometer - it looks like a mini NICU in there.

Before I put the "cervical collars" on mine they were bashing themselves left and right. Once the collars were on they immediately started doing much better. Kern