Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh sparky thank you!! but your a busy kiddo, I will get some eventually!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I HEAR THAT!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Oh, and Joey laid his first egg today! Don't question my logic, haha. He will always be my little man.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

All of this talk about gardening is making me jealous. I want spring to come. Not the calender spring, but the nice weather. I woke up to a temperature of - 9 degrees. If the heat lamps were to ever go out, I'd be in big trouble...

I know!!! I had to unthaw waterers!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I jinx it.. I just walked down to the barn and the duckling's heat lamp was unplugged. Thankfully it had only been for a short while and everyone seems ok.

I looked at all of their feet. 10 out of 13 ducklings seem to have bumble foot. Large, hard, wrinkly bumps instead of nice soft foot pads...

I'm not sure how I'm going to treat so many of them and try to keep all of those feet clean. I've never dealt with bumble foot before, but from what I read, you can use Tricide Neo for mild cases. Tricide Neo is expensive, but I always have some on hand because of my koi.

Can you take a pic tomorrow coch so I know what it looks like? my hen had it but chickens its a black spot.

 

[cochins1088]

Can you take a pic tomorrow coch so I know what it looks like? my hen had it but chickens its a black spot.

That's what I kept looking for. There is no black spot, but their feet are definitely not right. Some have normal feet with nice foot pads, but others have these large hard lumps and the tops of the lumps are rough and wrinkly. I found a couple pictures of duck feet that looked similar to theirs and everyone said it was bumble foot. I'll try to get pictures later tonight.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

oh no! what bedding are they on?

 

[cochins1088]

oh no! what bedding are they on?

Hay

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

oh sparky thank you!!  but your a busy kiddo, I will get some eventually!

Ok, but if you can't find any then you can just ask and I would go get them from my neighbor- I was planning on hatching some this summer

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: what the heck!