I have to talk POLISH!

[sbucciarel]

Nice thank you for posting photos..

Love our polish babies.. Advice on doing a switch a roo.
We have our speckled sussex sitting on 19 small to medium eggs.. From our flock.. She is not separated from the flock..
We are hoping to build a small tractor for her and the new ones.. Our polish are 2 weeks old, do you think we could switch
out the new ones for the 2 week old ones?

& do you think the other hens or roo will go after the babies? New & the switched ones.. If we can pull that off??

We have the babies in a make shift wire cage where they have all been looking at each other. Nothing agressive..

Thank you for the advice..

I couldn't advise you on that. Have never done it. As for switching eggs, I'm pretty sure that could be done. Probably chicks too, but how the others will react to them, I wouldn't want to venture to guess.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

I have to show mine under AOV. Your Cockerel is very nice. The only thing hard to develop is the red in the wings. That was the last thing I had to really work on. The last judge was really pleased. I would show him anyway even under AOV.

Just as an experiment, I'm going to breed him to my Gold Laced, just to see if it will produce a redder wing. Only one little group, see what happens.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

TDBarnQueen- awesome job on getting lacing on them! Fabulous!

Pam

Ps- You probably got a half a millions "likes" on your FB page from me. Pamela Smith Pittman

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

I think its very normal exspecialy when they were raised to gether.. cause my two silver lace roosters are exactly the same way they ahve to always be by eachother and they never fight.. some roosters will just be like that and some will turn against eachother

Ricky
Ricky&Rico

Ricky again

these 2 polish cockerels love each other VERY much,if they get separated,the flip out.is that normal??

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I have just one Polish chick. I have no idea how/when I can tell gender on this chick, but I hope its a girl!

 

[atmaclean]

I could use some from you all who breed the tolbunt polish. I was given a tolb. Pol. egg at a show about 4 weeks ago and it hatched and seemed to be doing well for the first 4 days then I realized that it was not eating. So, ive been syringe feeding it and it is having normal poops. However, it just sits there and eyes are squinted or shut. It doesn't move around just sits there. Someone told me the tolbunt pol are not easy to raise and have trouble thriving and surviving.

Anyone have any ideas on what could be going on????

 

[eeyore75]

I could use some from you all who breed the tolbunt polish. I was given a tolb. Pol. egg at a show about 4 weeks ago and it hatched and seemed to be doing well for the first 4 days then I realized that it was not eating. So, ive been syringe feeding it and it is having normal poops. However, it just sits there and eyes are squinted or shut. It doesn't move around just sits there. Someone told me the tolbunt pol are not easy to raise and have trouble thriving and surviving.

Anyone have any ideas on what could be going on????

That sounds like he's sick- my tolbunts do normally are fine after hatching out. If there is an issue with any of my chicks (from all the breeds combined- mine and Mom's)- they never act fine.(more of a down on the hock issue if any at all- but VERY few issues with them at hatch) I give all chicks vitamin/electrolye water for the 1st week then do a week of cocci treatment, then back on V/E water for 3-4 weeks, then week of cocci, then back to V/E water and so on until 4-5 months old. I feed nonmedicated gamebird starter (24%) mixed evenly with 20% non medicted chic starter for a 22% protein feed. I raise all my chicks in my basement until feathered out- so they don't have temps fluxing.
My tolbunts that hatch out do fine with this- I would think it would be more of an enviroment issue than chick born that way issue (ie; got chilled, needs vitamins, cocci meds)

 

[winniem13]

Ok. have another polish chick that I want to see if anyone has opinions if cockerel or pullet. I am thinking cockerels. there is only 2 white polish, but I'll post 3 pictures taken this week. they are 8 week old bantam and are small. I am more accurate to tell pullets right away, the cockerels are more tricky. these are confusing me. tell me what you all think please.

 

[seminolewind]

I could use some from you all who breed the tolbunt polish. I was given a tolb. Pol. egg at a show about 4 weeks ago and it hatched and seemed to be doing well for the first 4 days then I realized that it was not eating. So, ive been syringe feeding it and it is having normal poops. However, it just sits there and eyes are squinted or shut. It doesn't move around just sits there. Someone told me the tolbunt pol are not easy to raise and have trouble thriving and surviving.

Anyone have any ideas on what could be going on????

I've been tricked twice by Polish chicks "looking" like they were eating when in fact they were throwing the food around. I always grind the crumbles smaller now.

I think it's good you're tube feeding. With my last sick chick I was dripping sugar water on the side of her beak, and she'd lap it up. I was doing it every hour. But she died and when I picked her up, she was pretty heavy, so I guess the water was going in, but not out.

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

Ok. have another polish chick that I want to see if anyone has opinions if cockerel or pullet. I am thinking cockerels. there is only 2 white polish, but I'll post 3 pictures taken this week. they are 8 week old bantam and are small. I am more accurate to tell pullets right away, the cockerels are more tricky. these are confusing me. tell me what you all think please.

that will be a pullet