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[Nava]

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welcome Amy. you are officially added to the list

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[AspiringUrbaniteFarmer]

Lyric, I investigated the dog rescue site & it seems as though they are inactive. Check pounds and petfinder.com, though. Craigslist, too! Just got some black copper marans. Beautiful big girls who are around 5.5 months & laid an egg on their second day with me! Carol saucier and her darling granddaughters took two of the originally five bcms. Her girls picked the prettiest ones- I was so happy to see them get a great home after realizing I simply had too many chickens. Is there such thing as too many!? Anyway, I love chickening and I love it here! Did I mention one of my Easter eggers is a scissor beak!? She was born in the beginning of July and is hanging on, but significantly smaller than her sibling. Either he's a roo or she isn't getting enough food. Last night I had an epiphany and started feeding her moistened food w a baby med syringe. It's working great and she doesn't spend all day in the food bowl anymore! I hopeshe makes it. Anyone have hopeful/ survivor scissor stories? Also, welcome newbies and thanks to my peeps who shared about their fall gardens!

 

[AspiringUrbaniteFarmer]

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[ItsAZOO32]

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Hey! A friend of mine breeds blue cochins, and her roo is VERY handsome

http://tropicalchickies.webs.com/

she is a user on BYC as well- FLchick, i think, is her name... not sure on that one!

I want some LEMON BLUE COCHINS... ANYONE??

 

[LisaAnnW]

Please add me to the list! Southwest Ranches, just west of Ft. Lauderdale.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Welcome Lisa Used to live in west Davie before we moved to north Florida

 

[anderson8505]

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I used to live in Davie, too!

from 1981-1992

 

[ftlmom]

Hi lisa

, you don't live too far from me. Welcome

 

[FlChickie]

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Hey! A friend of mine breeds blue cochins, and her roo is VERY handsome

http://tropicalchickies.webs.com/

she is a user on BYC as well- FLchick, i think, is her name... not sure on that one!

I want some LEMON BLUE COCHINS... ANYONE??

Awesome, thank you. Her roo is beautiful. I'll send her a message, thanks again. I'm still looking for the others too.

ItsAZOO I think someone is going to have some Lemon Blue cochins at the Ocala swap on Sep. 3rd. But I'm not sure. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=532610

 

[math ace]

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I have an EE with a scissor beak too. Did you hatch her yourself or was she purchased with it?

My girl is now at point of laying and doing just fine. I say she is at point of lay because all her hatchmates are laying. I haven't caught her in the nesting box yet.... so I don't know if she is laying.

When she was smaller, we would give her wet ( oatmeal consistency) chick starter in a bowl of her own. If you leave the wet stuff out around the other birds, they will eat it before she gets a chance too.

My girl stopped hanging out at the food bowl 24/7 when we filed her beak a little. That seemed to help a lot with the eating issue.
We've had to file it twice in her 7 months of life. Our little "wild thang" did not have a real bad deformed beak.... Real bad scissor beaks can be a problem because you can only file the beak nack so far before you run into the vein. Keep some blood stop powder around if you try to file the beak.

If he is a roo, I would not let him mate with any chicken I was planning on hatching eggs from. Scissor beak is a genetic problem.
In my case, the EE with the scissor beak and her mom are off limits for hatching purposes. However, the mom's eggs are some of are favorites to eat.

Good Luck!