I was more hopeful earlier in the day because she was eating drinking and playing but now she has stopped eating and drinking. Will force feed her some electrolytes and yogurt/scrambled egg paste. Will see how it goes. Chicks can surprise you. The Jubilee chick whose wing got clipped in the incubator fan recovered without any issues. Apart from couple of primary feathers missing he is indistinguishable from other chicks.
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I was more hopeful earlier in the day because she was eating drinking and playing but now she has stopped eating and drinking. Will force feed her some electrolytes and yogurt/scrambled egg paste. Will see how it goes. Chicks can surprise you. The Jubilee chick whose wing got clipped in the incubator fan recovered without any issues. Apart from couple of primary feathers missing he is indistinguishable from other chicks.
That is ugly. I would get some Blue-kote, F&F has it.
Sold some of my lav orp hens (Marshmallow & Muppet) to a 4H kid from Iowa. I really need to get the numbers down by winter, but I already miss them. My family will miss the eggs, but the March 4th pullets will be starting up very soon. I may have gotten an egg from my blue orp Jewel. It looked just like one of Oopsie's eggs, but Oopsie is currently broody.
The big news is that DS's pullet Chizzy just laid her 1st egg. It's so cute!
Here it is next to an orp egg.
The big news is that DS's pullet Chizzy just laid her 1st egg. It's so cute!
Here it is next to an orp egg.
Yes, she's really pretty.
I have to get you some updated pics of the chicks I hatched from you. Each one is amazing. I also can't believe how many females I got. (One of the blk/lav splits that I thought might be male looks female now.) So that brings me to 2 males & 6 females from you. I hatched some of my own eggs in that batch. If I count them, I got 3 males & 10 females. CRAZY! The only thing I can come up with is that perhaps all the eggs that didn't hatch & the 2 that died could have been male.
The DuPage county fair went well. DS was happy to share his Cloverbud project. DD had fun dancing for the talent show. In 4-H she earned 2 red ribbons, 17 blue ribbons, 8 Class Champions, 1 reserve (alternate for state), and 3 Best in Shows. We did not enter any live animals but we may consider it next year. We spent some time talking with the others in the poultry/rabbit area. Great bunch of people.
I'll post some pics when I can.
Below are some of my current babies.
BTW- The silver laced orps are my favs, so forgive the extra pics of them.
I have 1 male:
Don't you just love his grumpy little face!?!
Here's the female silver laced orp.
Both side by side:
Here's the blue buff Colombian orp: Very friendly girl & one of the biggest
Blue laced orp female:
Not sure what she should look like. Perhaps she's a blue laced splash.
Blue Laced orp male:
Gold Laced Orp female (with the blue laced male on right)
Here are the 2 blk/lav split orps. Both look female now.
Here's a lav orp from my birds. I'm planning to keep her.
I have 3 female choc cuckoo orp females at the moment. We simply call them all "Baby Bricks." They look & act so much like their daddy but slightly bigger since the moms were from my giant birds.
BTW- The silver laced orps are my favs, so forgive the extra pics of them.
I have 1 male:
Don't you just love his grumpy little face!?!
Here's the female silver laced orp.
Here's the blue buff Colombian orp: Very friendly girl & one of the biggest
Blue laced orp female:
Not sure what she should look like. Perhaps she's a blue laced splash.
Blue Laced orp male:
Gold Laced Orp female (with the blue laced male on right)
Here are the 2 blk/lav split orps. Both look female now.
Here's a lav orp from my birds. I'm planning to keep her.
I have 3 female choc cuckoo orp females at the moment. We simply call them all "Baby Bricks." They look & act so much like their daddy but slightly bigger since the moms were from my giant birds.
Oops. I forgot the blk/lav split from my birds. She's not staying but very sweet. Always one of the 1st to jump up for cuddles. I'm hoping to find her a good home where she'll get her daily loving. This girl, the lav, & 2 of the choc cuckoos are 2 weeks older than the rest. Cookie adopted all of them
Very cute @Faraday40.
Well we are having another round of crappy. Popcorn one of our khaki campbells has suddenly gone lame. One day he was fine, the next he cant stand. Me and Husband both have spent a lot of time researching and are giving him flushing water, and tylan 50. I hate that its about all we can do. He is still eating and drinking. Just cant seem to stand. We put him in water and he flops to the side, but can move both feet. All other ducks are fine. Doing their duck thing. We hope that he recovers but arent optimistic.
On a less crappy note, man Licorice is a prolific layer. We get an egg from her about 5 days a week now that she has gotten the hang of it! We have also had 3 double yolker eggs in the brown range. Not sure if all one chicken or what at this point... But it looks like Meringue and Olive are getting close to joining the others in laying. And Ms Cinnamon our orp has started to egg squat at the age of like 27 weeks. Shes late to the game.
Well we are having another round of crappy. Popcorn one of our khaki campbells has suddenly gone lame. One day he was fine, the next he cant stand. Me and Husband both have spent a lot of time researching and are giving him flushing water, and tylan 50. I hate that its about all we can do. He is still eating and drinking. Just cant seem to stand. We put him in water and he flops to the side, but can move both feet. All other ducks are fine. Doing their duck thing. We hope that he recovers but arent optimistic.
On a less crappy note, man Licorice is a prolific layer. We get an egg from her about 5 days a week now that she has gotten the hang of it! We have also had 3 double yolker eggs in the brown range. Not sure if all one chicken or what at this point... But it looks like Meringue and Olive are getting close to joining the others in laying. And Ms Cinnamon our orp has started to egg squat at the age of like 27 weeks. Shes late to the game.
The silver laced are gorgeous. They already have great lacing. Blue laced lacing may get better after the molt otherwise it may be an incomplete project.
Is Popcorn doing any better today?
Glad you're at least getting some good news from your layers. The hope of finding eggs makes me look forward to going out to do the chores every morning. Then I return late morning.....noon.....afternoon treat time....etc. to check on them. LOL My blue orp, welsummer, & spec sussex are all red & probably laying. I just haven't been able to verify how often.
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