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WVduckchick said:
It's odd that they were ok for a month. Curious, how old were they when you got them? I think the average mareks chicks die when they get near laying/mating age? I had one death that had some Mareks signs and I got worried, but haven't lost one since, so I think it was a random odd thing.

Then again, after all the reading that i did on the subject, it seems like everyone has a touch of it anyway. Some flocks just take harder hits with it.

But still, I'm sorry you lost a few. :hugs
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First the cockerel came up lame. So i separated him, hoping he would get better. Tried everything but he just kept getting worse. I would say he might have been 4 months old. Then the smallest pullet got sick, and then the bigger one. Limping around, staggering a bit. Bigger one died first.
Any way, i lost both cockerels from my Sussex flock, and all but 4 of my pullets. I had 10. 66% death rate since mid August. :hit
 
CapricornFarm said:
First the cockerel came up lame. So i separated him, hoping he would get better. Tried everything but he just kept getting worse. I would say he might have been 4 months old. Then the smallest pullet got sick, and then the bigger one. Limping around, staggering a bit. Bigger one died first.
Any way, i lost both cockerels from my Sussex flock, and all but 4 of my pullets. I had 10. 66% death rate since mid August. :hit
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I guess I'd still like to think something else caused it, until you can actually get one tested. :(
 
CapricornFarm said:
They always seem to die on the weekend. But i have no idea where to take one.
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Ain't that how it goes? I had one die that I considered sending off. They want refrigerated, not frozen. I couldn't bring it inside, so I was going to use the fridge in my wood shop. Well wouldn't you know I had left an egg in that fridge, and it had exploded and was infested with maggots. :sick :sick
Didn't have the time to clean the fridge, so I put the chicken in a Ziploc on ice. Figures, I sat it on the back porch, right where the sun hit it enough to melt the ice and ruin it! :he

I think there's a thread somewhere that lists the different labs for each state.
@casportpony has a list, I think.
 
apryl29 said:
Are they getting along well? My younger one wants to get more chicks this year, but I'm thinking it's not a good idea since we don't have a lot of space and we have several who are quite pecky with those beneath them.


How exciting! How much longer do you have til they hatch?
I always wondered if it was ok to let a pullet hatch their eggs. Kind of like how an 11 yo human is capable of birthing a child, but it's not really a great idea... Good to know it's ok. I haven't had a broody yet. My birds will all be a year old this spring, I've thought about letting someone hatch out, but right now all our chicks would be bantam crosses & I'm not sure how much I really want to do that.
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Well, yes and no. 3 of the pullets aren't too crazy with the teenage boys. One pullet hangs around with them a lot. They haven't really mingled with the older birds much yet. Had one of the little cockerels run into the pen while I was filling their water. He almost immediately tried to mate one of the hens, and luckily for him Red Rider didn't go after him. The 2 barred rocks were looking at him as an intruder and one of the EE hens attacked him.

When I went out to check on everyone after their first night in the coop I thought all was well. I had let the older chickens out to roam the yard and then opened the chick cage to let them run around the house. Then I noticed Eve just standing in the back. I pulled her out. She was holding her head up and her beak open. She didn't make a peep. I sat her on the feedbox and dribbled a tiny bit of water on her beak. She coughed and out flew a lot of mucus. I took her in the house, gave her some fresh wet food with mashed egg, electrolytes and a few drops of Vet Rx and a big dish of water.

She ate and drank well and got color back in her face soon after. By evening she was squawking up a storm and feverishly trying to get out of the brooder. She was hitting the wood top so hard I finally had to leave it open. She really wanted the company of her little friends. I now think she had a wood chip lodged in her trachea and not a respiratory issue. I am so relieved. I took her back to the coop today. I think she wshould do fine as long as she stops being so fearful of the boys.


WVduckchick said:
Ain't that how it goes? I had one die that I considered sending off. They want refrigerated, not frozen. I couldn't bring it inside, so I was going to use the fridge in my wood shop. Well wouldn't you know I had left an egg in that fridge, and it had exploded and was infested with maggots. :sick :sick
Didn't have the time to clean the fridge, so I put the chicken in a Ziploc on ice. Figures, I sat it on the back porch, right where the sun hit it enough to melt the ice and ruin it! :he

I think there's a thread somewhere that lists the different labs for each state.
@casportpony has a list, I think.
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You probably don't even have to send it to a lab in your state -- I would think any of them would do. Not sure if you can send it yourself or if you have to have a vet send it.
 
Crooked Chicken said:
Well, yes and no. 3 of the pullets aren't too crazy with the teenage boys. One pullet hangs around with them a lot. They haven't really mingled with the older birds much yet. Had one of the little cockerels run into the pen while I was filling their water. He almost immediately tried to mate one of the hens, and luckily for him Red Rider didn't go after him. The 2 barred rocks were looking at him as an intruder and one of the EE hens attacked him.

When I went out to check on everyone after their first night in the coop I thought all was well. I had let the older chickens out to roam the yard and then opened the chick cage to let them run around the house. Then I noticed Eve just standing in the back. I pulled her out. She was holding her head up and her beak open. She didn't make a peep. I sat her on the feedbox and dribbled a tiny bit of water on her beak. She coughed and out flew a lot of mucus. I took her in the house, gave her some fresh wet food with mashed egg, electrolytes and a few drops of Vet Rx and a big dish of water.

She ate and drank well and got color back in her face soon after. By evening she was squawking up a storm and feverishly trying to get out of the brooder. She was hitting the wood top so hard I finally had to leave it open. She really wanted the company of her little friends. I now think she had a wood chip lodged in her trachea and not a respiratory issue. I am so relieved. I took her back to the coop today. I think she wshould do fine as long as she stops being so fearful of the boys.




You probably don't even have to send it to a lab in your state -- I would think any of them would do. Not sure if you can send it yourself or if you have to have a vet send it.
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I think Eve should just be an inside chicken. She's too much of a princess to be outside. She deserves to live in luxury.
 
WVduckchick said:
Ain't that how it goes? I had one die that I considered sending off. They want refrigerated, not frozen. I couldn't bring it inside, so I was going to use the fridge in my wood shop. Well wouldn't you know I had left an egg in that fridge, and it had exploded and was infested with maggots. :sick :sick
Didn't have the time to clean the fridge, so I put the chicken in a Ziploc on ice. Figures, I sat it on the back porch, right where the sun hit it enough to melt the ice and ruin it! :he

I think there's a thread somewhere that lists the different labs for each state.
@casportpony has a list, I think.
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Yes, there is one lab in VA.
 
apryl29 said:
I think Eve should just be an inside chicken. She's too much of a princess to be outside. She deserves to live in luxury.
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She is a princess, but she didn't want to stay in. She's back with the others and seems happy. I had them all out in the yard today and she's getting along pretty good. The big chickens were out behind the barn searching for treasures, so only had a few minor run-in's with the littles.
 
My little bantam still hasn't laid again. She molted in Oct, then didn't lay until January, then stopped again. Is that normal? I'm still getting weird eggs from Jackie. They ate the last one.. just found the remnants of the white and a couple bits of shell in the nest. She seems fine otherwise so I'm not going to worry too much, she's eating, has good weight, comes when food is offered and seems to be near the top of the pecking order. The eggs are no more often than every other day so I think she should have enough time to make a thicker shell. Hopefully once there's more hours of daylight things will straighten out.
One of my eggers is molting and she's leaving piles of white feathers all over the place. She looks so ragged right now. It seems like a cruel joke for nature to have them molt mid winter.
 

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