Guess My Sex

[casportpony]

Hey Zazouse, how is Patch's nostril? Is it improved?
He looks lovely and healthy in this picture...

Ditto!

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

They bare still mashed almost shut but he seems to do ok, one side is barely open the other side looks closed still, it looks like something pinched them inward when they were still soft, kinda like a foals hooves are when they are born, very soft.

 

[casportpony]

Just got done looking at the rest of my chicks and I think they're mostly boys!

But I'll try to get some pictures and maybe you guys will see lots of girls, lol.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

Try to take a photo with them on a white towel in natural lighting without the wire top they will be much easer to see in the photo.

 

[casportpony]

I'll try!

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

Good heavens Kathy arn't you the one that weighs your peas? seem to me you would have them trained to be still for ya by now.

 

[casportpony]

Good heavens Kathy arn't you the one that weighs your peas? seem to me you would have them trained to be still for ya by now.

Four of the 18 will stand on the scale for me, but the other 14 are wild and have to be weighed in a box! The 14 are the ones with the broodies, so they are not tame, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Yoda]

I will try, but mine aren't very tame, so no promises, lol.

Mine do love the mealworms and between the 18 of them, they can devour a box of 1000 (2.2 pounds) in less than a week!

-Kathy

Be careful feeding too many mealworms cause to much protein can cause leg issues in a couple months. Also be careful from where you get live worms from cause you do not know what condition they are kept and what they are fed. I fed my chicks in 2011 live mealworms and was told not to for that reason. They did make a great treat when I did feed them though, they loved them but hated the dried ones LOL! A friend of mine fed her chicks last year mealworms and at about 3 months one has permanant splayed leg and one had to be put down cause it could not walk anymore. The bird Vet said to much protein in the chicks diet. Next time I go to her house I will take a picture of the hen she call her "kickstand"

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Thank you so much for the reminder, Yoda.
I definitely don't want to cause any harm to these cuties!
They just get so excited when they see worms, that it's hard to resist.

Do you know how much is safe for them to eat?
Maybe I should just cut them off...

 

[casportpony]

I believe the disorder is called Chondrodystrophy, perosis, or "slipped tendon". The feedstore I go to has always has a bunch of them every year. Last year I took two home and tried to save them, but couldn't, it's a nasty disease.


These links have info on the disease:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62159343/1/By#page=73
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/220/slipped-tendon-perosis
http://www.upaforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=9077&sid=93effe7127295ccfde7a2b663613a1f3
https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry#chick_crooked_leg
http://avianbiotech.com/Diseases/aviandis.txt

Here is one of the chicks I tried to save, this picture was taken one day after it started limping, and as you can see, the leg is already starting to turn. Some will eventually turn 180 degrees, some just 90.



-Kathy