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[BantyChooks]

Saw an different colored chick today at the TSC. It had chipmunk stripes but had a white bib on its chest and belly. It was in the bantam bin. Any idea what it is?
They also have Lavender Cochins in the bantam bin.

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My Spangled OEGB chick Jace.
-Banti

 

[Penny Hen]

Good Morning! I have 2 OE eggs left in the bator that should hatch today or tomorrow. Then I can clean the bator and take a week off. Then I am going to set more cortunix quail and a dozen Silver Penciled Wyandotte bantams. Meanwhile I am going to work on finishing the Wyandottes new digs.




I am going to put a nest box on the right too so that if I decide in the future to run two breeding groups I can can put a divider in the chicken house and the pen,

 

[pjnbill22]

Help! My eggs are stuck! Six of my 12 White Leghorn eggs are stuck in the turning tray. I was candling the assorted eggs that were set on Saturday, but when I got to the Leghorns, some were stuck in the turning tray. I don't see any cracks or anything spilled inside. I can see that the eggs are fertile, so I don't want to (further) compromise them, or any of the others, but they're going to have to come loose sooner or later. Anyone have experience with this? If so, how did you get them loose? I keep thinking of that Jr High science project where an egg placed on top of a beaker of hot water slips through an opening smaller in diameter than the egg, except this project doesn't end well.

I just realized that I posted that in the wrong thread last night. I've misted and used a Qtip to loosen one egg. There is nothing sticky in the tray. I double stacked the egg I got loose so it can't stick again. I thought about putting a drop of mineral oil on a Qtip and swabbing the egg cup of the tray, but I don't want to compromise the eggs. I'm off to work in a bit, so I'll have to have Hubby work on them when he gets home this afternoon. Any suggestions?

 

[Penny Hen]

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My Spangled OEGB chick Jace.
-Banti

That's it! So good to know. I may have to go back for those Lavender Cochins. They were awful cute. Bantams only count as half a LF bird right? I am supposed to be keeping my numbers at 12. But that was large birds.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Today is my birthday

Happy birthday RR! Long years and health!

 

[Akrnaf2]

BC look what we have in TV now!

 

[country lovin]

I hate mornings that the dog doesn't want to go out to pee. I'm always so sure there's a puddle somewhere.

that's how I feel about my 3 yr old. Lol

 

[ChickenCanoe]

well still no eggs shipped from my pet chicken yet but.Yes I got a job

That's fabulous. Congratulations!!!

I,candle five of the twelve eggs under my muscovys and all five are fertal

Good - but I never candle eggs under a broody. They're her responsibility, not mine.
A broody provides the correct temperature, the correct humidity, the correct amount of turning and she doesn't have a thermometer nor a hygrometer. She doesn't need them. If they're fertile and the breeders have good nutrition without disease, the eggs don't need candling.

When I picked him up from nesting box, it was obvious he hadn't moved. Though I didn't see much liquid, maybe from me carrying him to the house shook it loose.Poop stuck to his but that I got off, but no movement since last night...

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Any recommendations on human antibiotics? I don't have any chicken ones. What type of antibiotics?

None. The reason is because you don't even know if his problem is bacterial and if it is, it may not be a type of bacteria treatable with antibiotics. The latter is partly because of indiscriminate overuse of antibiotics.
I love Casportpony and respect her research but I'm on the complete opposite side of the medication spectrum. I don't treat if I don't know what I'm treating for.

Another reason not to give medication is that, if you do get a necropsy, medications can render the lab results inconclusive.

Anyone think my roo could possibly have cancer? I looked up types and his seems exactly the same to some of them...

It's possible. I had a hen that was going down hill fast. It was clear she wasn't going to make it. I took her to the state vet school lab because I had to know if I needed to treat any of the other birds. The necropsy showed she had cancer.

Do you think there is any possibility of saving him? I'm not too worried if I can't. Should I cull him to end his suffering? I have pregnazone and menacyclene... Will the antibiotic fight it or will it just help in the meantime? I'm thinking he might have cancer, but I don't know.

An antibiotic can only kill some types of bacteria. It can't do anything for viral, protozoal, parasitic, fungal, environmental or nutritional problems. It certainly wouldn't be good for treating a bird with cancer.
Don't cull him, get him to the poultry lab right away. Then you'll know what it is.
I wish we had free necropsies like you do. I have to drive a bird 5 hours round trip to our lab and then it's $85. I consider that a deal since I'm not guessing and prolonging a bird's misery.

No, she was a high school student, but she did leave at semester.

German students can come for a quarter, semester or scholastic year. They're the only ones that can do quarters. A few other countries allow semester visits but most are for entire school years. Australian students come for a calendar year.
I was the Area Coordinator for the International Education Forum for Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois.
It is a great program. After the breakup of the Soviet Union we brought over thousands of students for school years from all the former Soviet republics. One year I supervised kids from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The same year, I had kids from Hong Kong, Denmark, Croatia, Spain, Germany and Mexico. Our group events were really fun. Each year I'd schedule a canoe trip on an Ozark river. Go figure.

Might be best just to euthanize him and ship him off to off to UC Davis for a free necropsy. I think he's probably too young for cancer. Poop looks like a bacterial infection to me.

-Kathy

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Better yet, send the live bird so they can humanely euthanize and the carcass will be fresher so results will be more conclusive.

Day 24 and we had a baby hatch, seems perfectly healthy. So 7 healthy out of 9- two dis- so 9 of 42 eggs pipped. The rest are silent. I still have hope

Are these chickens? If so, I'd say your temperatures have been way low throughout. When you do an eggtopsy, let us know at what point they failed. They will probably be in various stages of development when they failed.

I put food and water in there for him again, and this time he ate a ton and drank a lot! He touched nothing last time. Maybe he just has severe diarrhea, but I don't really think so. He just looks like he's too tired and maybe heat exhaustion of some sort? We had a bunch of cold days with harsh cold wind here, and it suddenly is really hot. Maybe it out a ton of stress on his body? He seems to be perking up now that I have him in the cool house. But he's still staying inside overnight.

A sick bird usually enjoys warmth. About 80F is good.

I hate when the post office does not scan packages for updates on their trip cross country. My eggs should be here in California tomorrow, but as far as USPS is concerned, they are still sitting at the post office in New Jersey....

They don't scan them because they don't have them. They are passed off to another vendor who don't have the capability to scan into the USPS tracking system.
They get them to the destination as expeditiously and inexpensively as possible. That often means that if another shipping company is already flying that route, they make the trade.

The vast majority are good employees, but there are a VERY few bad apples, that treat packages horribly. The most damaging thing is the conveyor belts that packages travel on. If the eggs off load with a heavy package behind them, it's just like luggage at the baggage check in an airport. It travels down a conveyor belt, until it lands into a basket and everything comes down on top of it.

It's amazing eggs or anything glass makes it....

As in any company - referencing the bad apple thing.

I say, thank goodness for the USPS. Otherwise, how would we get eggs, chicks or adult animals across the country? Drive them there?

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Well Happy Birthday!

Oh, a live incubator, sweet!

That stinks! What hatchery is it? For future reference.
Happy birthday!!!

Thank you all ya I they are really pretty birds I can't wait I will also be breeding them

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Awesome, my daughter loves silkies

Happy birthday RR! Long years and health!

Thank you all silkies I might start raiseing them and once my mixed flock dies I might raise them completely