Easter Egger club!

[jenniferlamar70]

Thanks that's what I'm doing basically I'm not feeling any odd spots but I'm assuming u underdeveloped digestive tract because she's surviving and I believe she is starting to grow a little. She's never had issues eating or drinking and gets plenty of electrolytes and probiotics

It just takes time. It usually is due from problems during incubation. A few of mine that had that problem have grown up to be normal sized. You would never know they had been the runt lol

 

[TherryChicken]

EEEEEP!

Missing one chick from that group. The little peeper stayed like a pancake and I couldn't get a good photo of her. I got these babies from Ideal Poultry labeled as Ameraucana, but I knew they were Easter Eggers and I was looking for Easter Eggers too

 

[AmandaMBG]

I kept vitamins and electrolytes in this guys water while he wasn't growing. Here he is with his bantam friends after he finally caught up enough to be out with his hatch mates. He is the black Roo on the left (the two others are bantams that are 2 weeks younger than him)

Here he is next to a black Austrolorp hen his same age (he is a black Austrolorp Roo so he should have been bigger than her)

And this is him this week. My guess is he will be 8-9 lbs fully filled out. He's massive

i fermented his and all of my other chicks feed until they were at least a couple months old to boost their probiotics and make it more digestible. That plus apple cider veniger and chick nutrients in water. I agree think it's something to do with incubation because they sent me an extra Roo and he was even more stunted and died the first week but the girls are fine. My guess they were in different areas or something happen to the eggs.

Hmm I would use antibiotic to be safe of infection and an electrolyte probiotics powder in the water to help boost their immune system it could help their chances quite a bit. I've had difficulty getting responses for somethings medically I have one EE chick that looks 2 weeks old but is actually 6-7 weeks now she's not growing

 

[AmandaMBG]

I am sorry this is happening to you. I've never dealt with any sort of disease but it can suck losing birds. I know what it's like to lose animals you have spent a lot of time on. I've lost close to $1k in aquarium fish I had been growing our for years in my show tank overnight more than once. Chickens just like fish are really sensitive to disease and accidents because they live in numbers and are in much more comfined spaces than what is natural. I have heard of people putting iodine on the fowl pox spots to help dry them up and keep away secondary infection as well as neosporin in the eyes if it is near their eyes. Other than that everyone pretty much says to let it run its course.

not really sure i come home and they die all i know is that they have Avian pox (fowl pox, chicken pox what ever you call them) they have the dry form of it only thing i can think of would be secondary infections but i don't think that are fine one day and then you come home the next day there gone and Goldie seemed like he was getting better too and then he passed away i guess i will start another thread about it GEEZ! how many threads do i have to make to get my point cross I NEED HELP THERE DIEING!! but i might get one response and its not that helpful. I'm not good with there health I mainly focus on chicken breeds so that's why I am so confused and fustrated!

 

[taunya1979]

I have a question I hope someone can answer.  I have 4 EE pullets almost 24 weeks old.  2 of them started laying eggs this week.  I started out with 1 small green egg and 2 days later collected another small green egg and a small blue egg.  Today somebody laid a huge green egg.  Do you think it's from the same green egg layer that produced earlier this week or do I have another one starting to lay?  As I understand it, the color of egg a pullet lays stays consistent, but does the size too?

I have had mine lay a double yolker once in a while after consistent laying of medium eggs

 

[cmccullough1390]

It just takes time. It usually is due from problems during incubation. A few of mine that had that problem have grown up to be normal sized. You would never know they had been the runt lol

Good and thank you that gives me hope

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Good and thank you that gives me hope

 

[kblod66]

I got Blue from a man that had better then 800 chickens, all the same age. We loved the coloring.

 

[heyfoe]

30 weeks old and not laying.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

30 weeks old and not laying.

Let me know if you figure it out. I have an old english game that is almost there and still not laying