Idaho?

[Mo5C]

So far I haven't found any on the other 5 hens and 2 roosters I have, I am going to check all of them again in a couple days. I should have noticed the signs sooner...earlier this month I noticed her bum was devoid of feathers and she was sporadically giving me eggs, it was nasty when I finally started searching her over I found eggs clustered all over her feathers on her underside, around her neck, top of her head and even the feathers on her cheeks, the poor thing must have been just miserable.

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

So is anybody else getting colosal eggs that dont fit.. i guess my mom said she saw somebody send in to channel 7 Facebook a pick of there egg and they did a little storie about it.. but dang this egg is almost bigger then my hand

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

You might not need a big rooster with the goat to help out. LOL

iF you are wanting a rooster to help protect your hens i know of a person you can get some roosters that will so do it.. as she runs a rescue sort of farm of all chickens, roosters ducks and geese and so on.. let me know if you want to look cause she has some really great roosters and they need great homes.. i can hook anybody up she doenst ask for an adoption fee what so ever but if you like to donate they are appreciated that is were i got alot of my flock from is from her as they all were either tossed in ditches, out in the desert and so on as people decided they didnt want chickens any more she goes and rescues them all.. but she does have like 2 or 3 nasty roosters 2 of them are white leg horns and love to attack the other dont remember what he is but the rest are pritty sweet some of them actually will walk up to you and just sit in your lap like Mr. Piggy he is my fav he is a huge Rode island red Roo sweet as can be and freakin HUGE!!! and her little daughter holds him all the time but i got a friend adopting him and gona hold on to him for me cause when i can move in to the country i'm gona have him just cause he is a big sweetypie.. but get at me if anybody is wanting roo's

 

[Mo5C]

So is anybody else getting colosal eggs that dont fit.. i guess my mom said she saw somebody send in to channel 7 Facebook a pick of there egg and they did a little storie about it.. but dang this egg is almost bigger then my hand

my Amber White Wilma lays ginormous eggs like that too, I can hardly close the carton when hers are in there. Hers are big around and not so long.

 

[IcyOldHen]

I'd bet even odds that one of the things Porter is barking at is their dog coming over to our fence....

Sounds like a frustrating situation, with difficult neighbors. Hope you prevail! Please let us know what happens. This potentially affects us all. It could be us next!

Good Luck!

 

[Mo5C]

Can you amputate a rooster's toe without killing the rooster?

 

[pawtraitart]

Can you amputate a rooster's toe without killing the rooster?

Why does it need to be amputated? I have a rooster with NO FEET because of frostbite. They just fell off. He gets around on stumps like a champ and is the happiest bird on the farm.

 

[IcyOldHen]

Can you amputate a rooster's toe without killing the rooster?

Last March a friend & I purchased 18 just-started-to-lay hens from a seller that had about 50 hens and was overwhelmed with eggs. We went in the coop & caught a few of these & a few of those. Put them all in 3 or 4 crates/boxes.

When we got home one of the hens had reopened an obvious old compound fractured toe. It had "healed" with the fracture & a good bit of bone exposed, no doubt from continuous re-injury of the toe. I had no choice but to amputate her toe. I did it at the fracture so I was only cutting through tissue, not bone.

I bandaged it up which stayed on for about a week. After she lost the bandage bone was still exposed and I feared I was going to need to cut the bone back so that hopefully tissue would heal over the end of the toe. But I dreaded doing it and kept waiting to see. Tissue eventually healed over the bone.

I used a pair of dog toenail trimmers (like these http://www.amazon.com/Safari-Professional-Large-Nail-Trimmer/dp/B0002ARQV4 ) to amputate her toe. I have photos of before & after the amputation, should update with a healed photo. I could post them if they wouldn't be inappropriate for the group.

 

[Mo5C]

Why does it need to be amputated? I have a rooster with NO FEET because of frostbite. They just fell off. He gets around on stumps like a champ and is the happiest bird on the farm.

His toe is just hanging there, he get's around just fine but it get's in his way, I think he reinjured his broken toe from the winter because it is the same toe.

 

[Mo5C]

If he lives through losing his toe does anyone want him? He is small, about bantam size and really sweet(he won't let you pick him up but he isn't aggressive). He even lets the other hens pick on him when they want the spot he is sitting in, he just sits there and takes it, he also hardly ever crows and when he does it is a soft crow and quiet.