Oh you!!!! Get me all eggcited for more babies! Then say things like that
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Pastel the Rooster
Crossing the Road
I’ve been asking around and there is someone else on BYC whose AC’s died around 6 weeks too. Two of her friends also had AC’s who died around the same age. My last baby is six weeks as of today. Hopefully she isn’t found dead tomorrow by my chicken sitter.
I wonder if it has something to do with blood lines? Or maybe they are just really difficult to raise to adulthood?
I wonder if it has something to do with blood lines? Or maybe they are just really difficult to raise to adulthood?
I’m having trouble getting the ones I do have to integrate with each other. It’s like water and oil so far.Oh you!!!! Get me all eggcited for more babies! Then say things like that
notabitail
Big Rooster
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We ended up not integrating our Littles with the Bigs. I know that's not what you want, but it ended up that way here as well.I’m having trouble getting the ones I do have to integrate with each other. It’s like water and oil so far.
Grandma The Chicken
When I Pull Up, It's Silent
Extremely Late Caturday Saturday
This is the exact definition of a cat being a couch potato. Oh, wait. Perhaps, she's just stretching. Oi, we're going to have to clean up all that hair.
This is the exact definition of a cat being a couch potato. Oh, wait. Perhaps, she's just stretching. Oi, we're going to have to clean up all that hair.
If you don’t have the space or facilities to integrate them then yes it’s safer to keep them separate.
Sleeping beauties
Thank you everyone for your condolences. And my sympathies to everyone else who lost beloved chickens and other members of their family lately, both human and pets.
Warning - more discussion about Goldy’s death.
I have watched the cam footage of the attack(s) on Goldy several times. I know it is probably wishful thinking, or me seeing what I want to see, but in some ways it almost seems like they knew she was sick and that it was a mercy killing. Only the other hens that I got the same time as her participated, not Speedy or any of the Wyandottes. And they targeted just her head. Although I think I spotted some mounting behavior as well, which I have never seen any of them do before.
Crystal seemed to stop the attacks when Goldy stopped moving. In fact, Scarlett came out of it with some nasty pecks on her comb and some blood on the top of her head. Either from getting caught in the crossfire, or from Crystal pecking her several times when she was still threatening Goldy. But Crystal is also the one who would go back every now and then and grab Goldy by the head, and when that would make her start to struggle a little Crystal would start the attack again.
We laid Goldy to rest today under some trees, with the tip of a branch that had a few leaves on it, and the top portion of some grass that had gone to seed. She loved those seed pods. I kept a few of her ruffled golden tail feathers, and her yellow leg band.
PS @Pastel the Rooster
I wanted to do a simple necropsy on her, to confirm if I was right about the swelling in her abdomen being ascites, and maybe see the cause. I also considered doing a “practice” crop surgery. So that maybe some good could have come from her death. But I didn’t think of it until after I went to bed, and by this morning she was too stiff.
Warning - more discussion about Goldy’s death.
I have watched the cam footage of the attack(s) on Goldy several times. I know it is probably wishful thinking, or me seeing what I want to see, but in some ways it almost seems like they knew she was sick and that it was a mercy killing. Only the other hens that I got the same time as her participated, not Speedy or any of the Wyandottes. And they targeted just her head. Although I think I spotted some mounting behavior as well, which I have never seen any of them do before.
Crystal seemed to stop the attacks when Goldy stopped moving. In fact, Scarlett came out of it with some nasty pecks on her comb and some blood on the top of her head. Either from getting caught in the crossfire, or from Crystal pecking her several times when she was still threatening Goldy. But Crystal is also the one who would go back every now and then and grab Goldy by the head, and when that would make her start to struggle a little Crystal would start the attack again.
We laid Goldy to rest today under some trees, with the tip of a branch that had a few leaves on it, and the top portion of some grass that had gone to seed. She loved those seed pods. I kept a few of her ruffled golden tail feathers, and her yellow leg band.
PS @Pastel the Rooster
I wanted to do a simple necropsy on her, to confirm if I was right about the swelling in her abdomen being ascites, and maybe see the cause. I also considered doing a “practice” crop surgery. So that maybe some good could have come from her death. But I didn’t think of it until after I went to bed, and by this morning she was too stiff.
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BeastBaby
Crater Raker
Good luck little chickie! Hopefully it’s just the splay leg and nothing more involvedSome trouble
Seems the last chick born early this morning around 5am has some mobility issues. I have consulted and chatted with some people on here and it was suggested that she be popped back into the incubator for a few hrs to sleep and get stronger.
So that’s whats happening now, if she is no better by morning I will bring her and a friend back here and put some hobbles on her to try and get her legs straightened out.
BeastBaby
Crater Raker
Get us all excited! DangOh you!!!! Get me all eggcited for more babies! Then say things like that
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