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

[el pollo rey]

Hey oz your first round girls start to lay yet ?

 

[Ms Steak]

Good morning everyone. Hopefully some news today. Ive been medicating since Monday with no improvment.

Fingers crossed for you.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Quote: Mine are too. Thanks

 

[chicksooner]

roasting. I love summer. Ice in all the waterers. Fans going in the coops.

I think I might have pushed my broody hen to her limit of accepting chicks from the incubator. I gave her two more this morning. She was on her way out with the two remaining chicks. She saw me and the chicks and went back in her nest and clucked to everyone to come. I sat with her a while until she let the newbies under her. After that I figured she would be fine. I love a good broody. I have 6 eggs left in the bator. 2 should hatch tonight or tomorrow. Guess I will have to set up a brooder.

 

[ozexpat]

. Hey Sally sorry for not posting in a while been busy as a one legged man in a a $$ kicking contest down this way and all the hatches have been coming off great my gringo birds are a month old on Tuesday already and are feathering out nicely spunky and healthy I have completed my list and orders for my July trip back up north and am looking forward to my next immigrant egg set late in July my bators have been running non stop since April and hatch rates have been marvelous . My gringo pullets should start laying in November so I will wast no time getting them bread out and established I ended up with trios of each breed except for the Sussex and that was a fertility issue and had nothing to do with the incubation and travel so I have been happy happy happy

Glad to hear things are doing so well!!

 

[ozexpat]

Hey oz your first round girls start to lay yet ?

My January Pullets are up to 10 eggs per day!!

 

[bellah1]

Hi everyone! Have been crazy busy and haven't been on here in quite a while, hope everyone is well. I have a duckling dilemma! I have three 4 week old Australian spotted ducklings, I was only going to keep the two girls but one of the boys got hurt a couple days before I sold them so I've kept him. They were all swimming in my sink and he got his foot stuck in the drain as my husband was taking them out. Before my husband could stop him, the duckling tried to yank his leg free, it ended up being inward when he walked, I thought it was a slipped tendon but that's not it. I wrapped it but its just getting worse. It's now behind him and still twisted inward and for some reason he tries to only use the bad one, always using it to scoot around. When I correct it and bend it at the hock, straiten it and wrap it so he has to use his good leg to get around then he actually hops around pretty well and stands for long periods instead of always laying down. His muscle tone is diminishing and its becoming more useless everyday, his feathers by the bad leg on his belly are rubbing off and that foot is getting two tiny sores from always using it to scoot. Sometimes he just moves his bad leg constantly for no reason like he can't control it.
Anyway I feel it probably should be amputated since its causing nothing but problems for him and he does so much better with just the one good leg.
I guess I have to take him to a vet but I don't know if I will find one who would amputate his leg and I don't even want to know how much its going to cost me.
Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone ever had a one legged duck or one with a lame or useless leg?

 

[ozexpat]

Hi everyone! Have been crazy busy and haven't been on here in quite a while, hope everyone is well. I have a duckling dilemma! I have three 4 week old Australian spotted ducklings, I was only going to keep the two girls but one of the boys got hurt a couple days before I sold them so I've kept him. They were all swimming in my sink and he got his foot stuck in the drain as my husband was taking them out. Before my husband could stop him, the duckling tried to yank his leg free, it ended up being inward when he walked, I thought it was a slipped tendon but that's not it. I wrapped it but its just getting worse. It's now behind him and still twisted inward and for some reason he tries to only use the bad one, always using it to scoot around. When I correct it and bend it at the hock, straiten it and wrap it so he has to use his good leg to get around then he actually hops around pretty well and stands for long periods instead of always laying down. His muscle tone is diminishing and its becoming more useless everyday, his feathers by the bad leg on his belly are rubbing off and that foot is getting two tiny sores from always using it to scoot. Sometimes he just moves his bad leg constantly for no reason like he can't control it.
Anyway I feel it probably should be amputated since its causing nothing but problems for him and he does so much better with just the one good leg.
I guess I have to take him to a vet but I don't know if I will find one who would amputate his leg and I don't even want to know how much its going to cost me.
Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone ever had a one legged duck or one with a lame or useless leg?

Personally I would cull him but I am a cold hearted *******.

You will probably end up with a 200 dollar plus vet bill for an amputation.

You could do it yourself but it wont be pretty. If I was not going to cull it, I would try and slide the skin up the leg as far as possible, cut it off mid bone with a sharp set of side cutting pliers, use an anticoagulant powder to stop the bleeding fast and then pull the skin over the stump and super glue the edges together. Once the glue dries, dress the stump. Follow up with antibiotic in its water - cephalosporins are banned to use in poultry so I would give penicillin.



I have seen plenty of one legged birds in the wild including aussie ducks.

 

[sumi]

Hi everyone! Have been crazy busy and haven't been on here in quite a while, hope everyone is well. I have a duckling dilemma! I have three 4 week old Australian spotted ducklings, I was only going to keep the two girls but one of the boys got hurt a couple days before I sold them so I've kept him. They were all swimming in my sink and he got his foot stuck in the drain as my husband was taking them out. Before my husband could stop him, the duckling tried to yank his leg free, it ended up being inward when he walked, I thought it was a slipped tendon but that's not it. I wrapped it but its just getting worse. It's now behind him and still twisted inward and for some reason he tries to only use the bad one, always using it to scoot around. When I correct it and bend it at the hock, straiten it and wrap it so he has to use his good leg to get around then he actually hops around pretty well and stands for long periods instead of always laying down. His muscle tone is diminishing and its becoming more useless everyday, his feathers by the bad leg on his belly are rubbing off and that foot is getting two tiny sores from always using it to scoot. Sometimes he just moves his bad leg constantly for no reason like he can't control it.
Anyway I feel it probably should be amputated since its causing nothing but problems for him and he does so much better with just the one good leg.
I guess I have to take him to a vet but I don't know if I will find one who would amputate his leg and I don't even want to know how much its going to cost me.
Does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone ever had a one legged duck or one with a lame or useless leg?

Sorry to hear about your duckling! Post in the Ducks section and ask the members there for advice? Also look here, there may be something that could help:

https://sites.google.com/a/larsencreek.com/chicken-orthopedics/leg-braces

 

[Sally Sunshine]

5 out of 20 shipped eggs hatch, candled the remaining last night and no movement no peeps NOTHING.

. Guniea eggs go into lockdown on Sunday, that is 16 eggs.

awwwwww where the Guns shipped?