frizzle,silkie,Cuckoo Maran,Showgirl,EE,Polish-Follow up thread

[TNChicks]

Laurie, That's wonderful news.
I remember on our hatch day, my wife and I both sat at the bater and welcomed each and every one into the world... It was Great Fun. We had several periods of temperature issues, from unplugging the circulation fan overnight, to trying to regulate the proper temperature setting. Yet, all of the fertile eggs hatched.
Good luck with the rest of your hatches.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

We now have 23 fuzzbutts! Eggs are still hatching, today is Day 23. One baby didn't make it out of the egg.

It was a beautiful little splash baby, it looks like.

The rest are all healthy, awesome looking sweet babies. I have a couple of Polish chicks, a couple of Silkies, and a whole bunch that I have no idea what they are except C U T E LOL

I'll keep everyone updated.

Laurie

 

[TNChicks]

We lost one of our chicks today... Our only little EE chick. He started having breathing problems yesterday. Treatments of VetRx and antibiotics did not help. I suspected a heart defect as he had no other symptoms. Anyway the initial necropsy reported his chest cavity was filled with fluid and it caused heart failure... One of those things. We are now at thirteen chicks, still going strong.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I'm so sorry to hear this. Poor baby.

Well out of the 41 eggs in the 'bator, I got 27 chicks. One chick was DIS and the rest were infertile. The infertile ones were dark eggs that I had a hard time seeing inside.

I opened up the remaining eggs and they were all hard boiled.

My camera battery died and I have to go get a new one (lithium ion). Then I'll post some pics of the little ones.

I do have 2 eggs that I put in a different bator that I believe are duck eggs. I'm going to try to candle them tonight and see if I see anything.

Laurie

 

[TNChicks]

Oh.... Bad news. I just had one of the hatchlings die today, suddenly without showing any sings of sickness. She was about 22-23 weeks old and the only thing I noticed is that she was a little slow running around with the other flock mates the past couple of weeks. Nothing struck me as unusual as she has always been sort of a loner.

I took her into the state diagnostic lab and the initial report is poultry Lymphoid Leukosis, which had made her liver grow to ten times its normal size.
The bad news is that it appears this can be transmitted by infected mothers through the eggs.

Here is a BYP link about this disease.
http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?t=1319

 

[TennesseeTruly]

That absolutely stinks! I don't have any of the ones that I got from Joanie left. Two of my dogs went on a rampage and killed them several weeks ago but I did give some of those chickens away. I'll have to let the gentleman know that I gave them too.

Laurie

 

[TNChicks]

Same here, I gave away four of the Roos and two hens two weeks ago. This little hen that died was my wife's favorite, cute as a button and just as sweet. I lost my favorite Roo a little over a month ago to a bobcat... Almost got that bugger the other week too.. I was standing five feet away from him before I noticed him, then he darted into the woods. Too quick for me!

The fact of having PLL is a new can of worms here. The rest of my flock is doing well, just looking very ugly due to the molt going around!

Hope no one else has this show up in their flocks.

Rod

 

[sonew123]

OMG wait-are you telling me theres something going on qith Joanies eggs? I got 40 about 5 months ago and half my flock is from her eggs...SLpolish, bantams, cochins, and many others-should I be nervous-I havent read that link yet but I am now!

 

[sonew123]

Oh now Im sick to my stomach...I have not had any birds die on me-as I said they are around 5 months old now. Have you read about what age that is considered "safe" like if they made it to 6 months or 8 months it is highly unlikely they had it transmitted? I would be so so sad-these guys have become my babies-I have around 12 of her offspring with the rest of the flock that I hatched from other BYCers...My babies are all very healthy eaying like pigs and free reanging all day very healthy-none of them look ill or have shown any signs of an illness??

 

[TNChicks]

I would not go crazy at this point. The poor thing just died today and I am still researching what this all means. There are many more BYC folks that are knowledgeable on this disease. What the State Diagnostic Lab told us was that most chickens can survive PLL and will be carriers for life. Bad if you are in the breading business and have infected hens. It is also possible that the eggs were not infected and the chick picked it up on its own. It takes sixteen weeks to show itself, and some are asymptotic as ours was. I will know more after reading up of this problem and reading the actual lab report in a few weeks when it arrives. I did drop Joanie a PM telling her what has transpired.

I did read that most infected are the females and most die at egg laying onset.

Rod