Curled toes can be caused by a Riboflavin deficiency. A good source is Alfalfa. I buy Alfalfa leaf tea at the health food store and sprinkle it on the top of my chicks feed. It is super good for them. I have not had success using chick shoes/splints on chicks that developed curled toes after a week of age. Good luck with yours!
just noticed one of my 6week old toes are crooked it it to old to splint them or dose that only work for realy young chicks
ok will try some alfalfa tooCurled toes can be caused by a Riboflavin deficiency. A good source is Alfalfa. I buy Alfalfa leaf tea at the health food store and sprinkle it on the top of my chicks feed. It is super good for them. I have not had success using chick shoes/splints on chicks that developed curled toes after a week of age. Good luck with yours!
just noticed one of my 6week old toes are crooked it it to old to splint them or dose that only work for realy young chicks
i do show at my local level but it is verry small show and this is not the only chick ( i ordered 16) so its no biggie if this one is not SQ i won't show her also last year we had the only polish my girls was judged as a LF Hen not as a polish lol she go 2nd place.
LOVE HER!!!!! She's Beautiful just the way she is!!!! I really want another white polish...I miss the one I had!!!What do you experts think about this Polish? Is she any quality? I bought her from my friend (she was part of an Ideal Hatchery Polish assortment) as a chick. I'm not sure what color she is. She is either white with a lot of stray black, or a messed up Black Crested White. Is her crest too small? Also, should she have a comb? Because she doesn't.The black feathers go down her neck, there is one or two in the crest, and a tiny one in the wing. I was told her type was good. What do you all think? Is she SQ (or at least 4-H quality), and what color is she supposed to be? Please give your honest opinion.
(sorry about her dirty crest. She is clean everywhere else.)
Here she is sunbathing for fun.
I wish I had better pics, but she seems to only want to show me her butt... Or her sunbathing technique. There is a lot of black on the back of her neck, but the pics don't show it (kind of in the first).
(a younger pic of her) Also, is this normal? Notice how her beak hangs open at the tip? She still does that. When I pick her up, I can close it with my hands easily, but she always leaves it open a bit. Why would she do this? Can I fix it?
yes, ideal
she may have suppose to have been a black crested white i ordered three from ideal and got two white crested blues and a blue crested blueWhat do you experts think about this Polish? Is she any quality? I bought her from my friend (she was part of an Ideal Hatchery Polish assortment) as a chick. I'm not sure what color she is. She is either white with a lot of stray black, or a messed up Black Crested White. Is her crest too small? Also, should she have a comb? Because she doesn't.The black feathers go down her neck, there is one or two in the crest, and a tiny one in the wing. I was told her type was good. What do you all think? Is she SQ (or at least 4-H quality), and what color is she supposed to be? Please give your honest opinion.
(sorry about her dirty crest. She is clean everywhere else.)
Here she is sunbathing for fun.
I wish I had better pics, but she seems to only want to show me her butt... Or her sunbathing technique. There is a lot of black on the back of her neck, but the pics don't show it (kind of in the first).
(a younger pic of her) Also, is this normal? Notice how her beak hangs open at the tip? She still does that. When I pick her up, I can close it with my hands easily, but she always leaves it open a bit. Why would she do this? Can I fix it?
I have a second generation hatchery cockerel I bought from a swap, luckily he's a decent quality bird
