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[HouseKat]

A place in Pennsylvania will not let you keep chickens unless your property is at least five acres!?! They have a petition trying to get it changed:

http://www.change.org/petitions/low...tm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created

 

[kabhyper1]

Went out and candled tonight. We threw 3 clear silkie eggs out, but the other 9 were all developing and moving like crazy!! We even saw a beak and a little foot through the shell. SO cute. Lavender hates it when we take her eggs, but now we know how many we have so far. Hopefully everything goes well until next tuesday.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

My salmon favorelle went to bed early yesterday. this is her at 6:00 pm.





One of my silver duckwing OEGBs sprouted a second head


Here my only white bantam AM. She is still pretty young she is 10 weeks old. I cant wait to see what she looks like when she is full grown.

this pic makes her beard look funny

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Went out and candled tonight. We threw 3 clear silkie eggs out, but the other 9 were all developing and moving like crazy!! We even saw a beak and a little foot through the shell. SO cute. Lavender hates it when we take her eggs, but now we know how many we have so far. Hopefully everything goes well until next tuesday.

crossing my fingers you have good hatches

 

[julie0477]

For the last few days I have had second thoughts on chickens. I have four sick birds. The one that I got at a swap no longer has the mites or lice or whatever it was thanks to Sevin dust. She still has a respiratory thing. Even though I have kept that chicken away from the rest of the flock, I now have two girls and a Japanese bantam roo that are coughing and sneezing. One of the girls is almost gurgling. The other doesn't sound as bad, but her eyes are matted shut and her face is puffy. The little roo just sounds sad (his crow is always hilarious and I miss it!)

Right now all I have is VetRx and that is going into the water and I have been putting it under their wings and have rubbed some around the one's face. This chicken never lets me pick her up and I sat and held her for a little bit, helping her eat and drink a little.

I have those three separate from everyone else as well, but not in the same pen as the newest bird.

I am ordering some other med stuff today because our Rural King doesn't carry much and I don't have anywhere else to get stuff in my area (more crops than livestock).

My dad's only question was this: Will the two big laying girls still be good for chicken and dumplings? To which I said, Since your back and hip are bothering you and you didn't go to work today, will you still be good for.... I'll just stop there...

Anyway, it's frustrating to have to quarantine birds and have to do all this extra stuff. My dad started with the chickens and I have added several to his original birds. I brought the work on myself, so I shouldn't complain.

All the rain and humidity aren't helping.

You all are like therapy, I'll be fine later!   -------------> :yiipchick

I think I'd try some duramycin-10 in their water. It's cheap antibiotic and they sound pretty sick. it's worth a shot. The only draw back is the withdrawal
Period for eggs is 21 days but for meat its much shorter for some reason. You'd have to look it up to verify but i think its only like four days. Strange I know.

 

[Delawaremommy]

My salmon favorelle went to bed early yesterday. this is her at 6:00 pm.





One of my silver duckwing OEGBs sprouted a second head


Here my only white bantam AM. She is still pretty young she is 10 weeks old. I cant wait to see what she looks like when she is full grown.

this pic makes her beard look funny

Your Salmon looked like she needed the sleep! Adorable bantams!!!! I'll take the one with two heads.....the motto at our house is if it aint broke it aint ours!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Your Salmon looked like she needed the sleep! Adorable bantams!!!! I'll take the one with two heads.....the motto at our house is if it aint broke it aint ours!

She acted pretty beat the other night, because you know being a chicken take a lot out of you. Walking around, eating, foraging and all who wouldn be tired!lol. thank you. Nice motto!lol

 

[pbirdhaven]

For the last few days I have had second thoughts on chickens. I have four sick birds. The one that I got at a swap no longer has the mites or lice or whatever it was thanks to Sevin dust. She still has a respiratory thing. Even though I have kept that chicken away from the rest of the flock, I now have two girls and a Japanese bantam roo that are coughing and sneezing. One of the girls is almost gurgling. The other doesn't sound as bad, but her eyes are matted shut and her face is puffy. The little roo just sounds sad (his crow is always hilarious and I miss it!)

Right now all I have is VetRx and that is going into the water and I have been putting it under their wings and have rubbed some around the one's face. This chicken never lets me pick her up and I sat and held her for a little bit, helping her eat and drink a little.

I have those three separate from everyone else as well, but not in the same pen as the newest bird.

I am ordering some other med stuff today because our Rural King doesn't carry much and I don't have anywhere else to get stuff in my area (more crops than livestock).

My dad's only question was this: Will the two big laying girls still be good for chicken and dumplings? To which I said, Since your back and hip are bothering you and you didn't go to work today, will you still be good for.... I'll just stop there...

Anyway, it's frustrating to have to quarantine birds and have to do all this extra stuff. My dad started with the chickens and I have added several to his original birds. I brought the work on myself, so I shouldn't complain.

All the rain and humidity aren't helping.

You all are like therapy, I'll be fine later!

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I would get a good antibiotic. Tylan 50 is pretty effective with respiratory issues. I don't know whether RK or TSC carry anything besides the injectible, but it comes in other forms. I'm partial to the injectible. Last fall I had a bout with respiratory problems. I caged the birds in my enclosed sun porch and ran a vaporizor with Oxine in the water. I don't know of any place locally that carries Oxine; I ordered through Amazon. Most poultry supply houses list it now also.
Good luck with your chickens!

 

[wheezy50]

Thanks for all the rabbit advice! I figured there would be some people here who have had pet rabbits, i appreciate the help.

I still don't know the exact breed we will get but probably either a full size or mini lop. I think the living indoors %100 of the time thing is not going to work, but supervised inside time should be ok. I think a large cage/kennel in the climate controlled garage will be the best idea. With an outdoor hutch for good weather.

 

[barb s]

Well I have what is probably a dumb question but I candled the eggs under my broody hen tonight she's been sitting on them for a week. If they are fertile what should I be seeing? They all looked like they have a dark mass in them except for one it looked like it was clear. Does anyone candle with a flashlight, if so what type/size?
On a different subject I have a new layer today. I found this in the nesting box.The second picture is it compared to one of my other eggs. It looks like one of my banty eggs but they all lay white eggs so I know it wasn't one of them. It had to come from a slw, glw, bpr, rir or nh. Any idea which one lays an egg this dark? Thanks for any help.