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[Birdylady3]

Night all

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I am excited - I was playing with the "girls" and discovered something today... I guess I was blind before cause I play with them daily... but I discovered that 2 of my "yellow" chicks are different from the others. I knew their wings were brown, unlike the others who are solid white... but that was all I noticed that was different until today... I picked one up, pulled her out and got her to stand on my hand without me having to "cradle" her (in the fear she would jump or try and fly away from me) which allowed me to really see her completely and the beauty she is. That is when noticed.. her feet were DIFFERENT from the rest of my chicks...... I 1st noticed the feathers going down her leg to her feet.....THEN I noticed she has an extra toe on each foot (as does her "sister" who looks just like her). What breed of chicks does this happen with? Remember I got these ladies from Ideal Poultry.... so not sure what they could be yet. I took some photos so you all could see..... what do you all think?

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OOOOOOO!! So lucky they are sweeties!

My two turkey hens came off their nests today with the apparent intentions of killing the 3 month old Polish chicks... Needless to say, they weren't allowed back on their nests and are now in solitary confinement. Stupid turkeys... They've been sitting for three months anyways.

I have a tom that may not see spring for that very reason. I have a few "mutt" chicks running about that hens hatched. He killed one that got into their pen! I am very surprised by it, Snoodles has never been aggressive to other birds before. Hoping it was accidental, he is a pretty heavy bird.

 

[kabhyper1]

Indyshent~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread!

I'm so sorry to hear about the health issues . . . as you've noticed, we have a great group of people who are willing to help. How long have you had chickens? You have a nice selection!

@bradselig ~ Those cemani chickens are so cool! I can't wait to see your photos. Good Luck!

@pipdzipdnreadytogo ~ Your story was fun to read, and Rosie is adorable!

@kabhyper1 ~ How often do you bathe your white silkies, and how do you wash their heads? My blue splash, Ditzy, often looks dirty. When I've given her a bath, I still can't get her head clean. I've used a washcloth with a tiny bit of Dawn to gently wash her head (I'm paranoid about the vaulted skull issue). I'm also afraid to get soap in her eyes or ears. I've used a little bit of Dawn in a washtub filled with warm water, and then I've put her in a tub of water with a little ACV to rinse off. After I've patted her dry with a towel, I've blow dryer her on low heat. Her pouf hasn't looked much different.

I really don't bathe them. They have coarse sand in their run, and they dust bathe a lot. If I do bathe one, I have to use selsun blue on one hen who has a flaky skin issue sometimes, I just bathe like I do my dogs. In the tub, with the shower head on low pressure. Lather them up good and rinse well. Not too hot though. As far as the heads go, I hand wash them, meaning I wet them down with my hands not the shower, being extra careful to keep water out of their nostrils. Then lather the crests and carefully rinse using a cup, cupping my hand under the crest to guide the water back ward. They enjoy baths, and love the hair drier. Always dry them if you can. If it's hot outside you can let them air dry. Blow dry the feathers backwards for the most fluffy result.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Hopefully your back mends quickly~ I hear ya, I way overdid this week also. Got a lot done tho and am really happy I did! I just adore the pic's of Purrcy

Had a great day yesterday (besides the first half at work). Cookout at my moms, then stopped at Brads and picked up a couple chickens. Even left with an extra one (Polish for my son) thanks Brad! Got home put the birds in there new home. Then left again to hang out with Kabhyper1. Great time over there as always!! Hope everyone has a good holiday!

Sound like a great weekend! And birds from Brad is always and AWESOME thing!!

Want to run my winter plans by ya'll ( yes getting a late start ) .
We are buying a 10x9 metal shed planing on insulating on the outside so as not to take up room on the inside, and we are going to split it into 2 coops, and a storage area, if you can follow me on this, this is how we think it will work:
Storage area will be in front 10x4 ( the whole front back 4 ' ) which leaves 10x5 split that in 2 parts at 1 side 4x5 and the other 6x5. the 6x5 will house 5 EE hens and 1 EE roo, the 4x5 will house 4 silkies and 2 ISA hens, ( they were raised together and do badly when apart ). Each side will have its own run with porch area for shade and snow free zone. How much run space would each need to keep they from dry lotting it? And do you think the floor space will be enough to keep them inside on real bad days? I'm pretty sure the Silkie side will be fine, smaller birds, but not sure at all about the EE's.
If I have it figured right the EE's will end up with 20 sq. ft of floor space, which I think will be 4 sq. ft. short of the recommended. No wait I just noticed I figured that wrong... the EE's will have 30 sq. ft. that should work... it gives me 6 sq. ft. more than the recommended, love talking to you guys... you help even before you answer, aint that great... lol
I don't know what the recommended is for space for the bantman's. Just guessing that the smaller the bird the less space needed. So the Silkies will have 20 sq. ft.

The Layers will be housed in the original coop.

the MF's and the special needs girls????
thinking the old Silkie house that is 50" x 38" divided in 2, 1 side for the 3 MF hens and 1 Roo. The other side with Baby girl and Shorty. With the old Silkie run divided. I know the Run will be plenty big enough, but again I don't know how much room the little's need inside.

any suggestions will be appreciated.

I like the ideas you posted. Sheds are so much easier if you have the land to do it! Can be changed, improved.If you plan it in advance, can be moved too! I know LF is 4sq ft..hope someone better up to date on what birds need can help. I focus mostly on roosting space here since my birds are free ranging all day. I do plan to start on breeding tractors so I am ready for next spring, So I want to be sure the tractors are large enough to confine them full time.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Morning all. Had a terrible coughing fit that would not let me sleep until it was time to get up and it looks like it might rain again. *Groan* I am soooo not really for Fall.

Ugh! DH is miserable too. Eyes all red and itchy, coughing a LOT. He has allergy medicine and its barely helping This is a really bad year I guess due to cool temps and so much rain. Lots of weeds out there making us all miserable!

Howdy! I'm in Indianapolis.

I have Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns, one ISA brown, one Broad-breasted Bronze tom, five Pekin ducks (four drakes, one hen), one Swedish Black hen, two Rouen hens, one EE roo, one mille fleur D'Uccle roo, two Golden Sebright hens.

I'll be open to trades and swaps when I can be absolutely certain nobody's contagious, but a new hen turned out to be ill and passed her bug shortly before dying. Long painful story. I've moved the only symptomatic bird inside and will be continuing 1cc of Liquamycin for another nine days just to be sure I kill this bug. So far the only one who's come down with it is Buttermilk, an adopted white Leghorn pullet. She's a super sweet gal and takes her shots better than I do Hopefully it's not CRD because I really don't want to cull her.

and our thread

I have a feeling we have spoke from craigslist..If not thats ok too. Is your tom Bacon?
We have so many members versed on illness I betcha someone can help you work through it.

Brad's right, that doesn't work on Sebrights. The difference in coloring you're seeing will likely only be the difference in the quality of lacing they will have as adults. The lighter ones will have thinner lacing and the darker ones will have thicker lacing.

Rosie's a Golden Sebright, but you can see her lacing is very thin. Scooter has nice, thick lacing. This is what you're seeing in your chicks.

The reason this works with Faverolles is because of their Wheaten-based coloring. Salmon is basically silver Wheaten (with Mahogany thrown in, too, I think). The very same works with 'gold' Wheaten birds (which are just called Wheaten, of course) like Ameraucanas and Marans. The adult males are black with reddish or silver hackles (depending on if they are 'gold' or 'silver' Wheaten) and the hens are brownish with varying levels of white, which shows up pretty much immediately as chicks when they start feathering in. With Sebrights, since the males and females are basically identical in feather pattern down to the males being henny feathered (meaning that they shouldn't grow pointed saddle feathers or sickle tail feathers), you pretty much have to wait until their combs start coming in, which is usually in the 4-6 week range, before you'll know which are boys.

My roos did develop saddles but its not what you see in a normal roo. Winter got my sebrights last year

I did like the breed very much, but they need warmer housing or a lot of LF bodies to help keep them warm.

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thats got me thinking I need to call some folks!

Quote: Our poop board fell last week, another reason the coop needs retired. My nephew is very motivated so I think my new coops are going up pretty fast

We discovered the main coop has termites. That's why it went downhill so fast, ugh! The wood was not treated so they managed to chew it away. The building is 30 yrs old next year, so I shouldn't complain.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Thank-you very much for that link! I filled it out right away and sent it!

I am so hoping that this isn't MG/CRD (they are the same thing the same way HIV/AIDS are. One is the agent, the other is the resulting syndrome caused by the agent).

There are so many things about this case that I find horrifying. The man who traded this hen knew she was dying and still thought she was a fitting trade for three drakes (I had one female duck at the time, and they were raping her into the ground so I had to find them new homes or I wouldn't have even thought about this trade). He brought his prepubescent son with him, and I can't even fathom what makes a parent think that this would be okay. He is teaching his son to cheat people, to take advantage of hapless newbies in the trade, and he is making his son party to these practices and thereby endorsing them. After all the care I gave these animals--my birds are pets! I brought them into my house to treat them and care for them when they were injured. They were all tame and healthy, and the whole reason I was talked into them was because they could provide some necessary therapy for my children. But the hen he gave me died right in front of my children, right after the loss of their favorite hen who was mauled by an unknown animal only days before.

I am so sorry to hear the children had to see that! There are some out there that will take advantage.. ok several

I do use craigslist and have met so many good people there. But ugh, so many that are not so good too. That's why our thread is here. Its because we are all tired of looking for honest folks to improve our flocks. We have a great group of friends here and so many I just adore.

Quote: I need to send eggs!! UGH and meet up with CCCChickens too! Things are really settling down so I can finally do regular stuff I need to.

some chickie humor for all y'all:

sooo not kidding!

Yea! Recycling!

Old fence posts and pallets that have been cut apart are turning into a three level brooder tower.

I scored a truck bed water tank DH got at an auction. thats reallllly gonna help this winter!

Quote: Pallet coops are just too awesome. I saw a barn going down about 2 miles from here, stopping tomorrow!

I've decided to sell my Buff Sebastopol geese, if and only if I can sell all 4 of them together. $250 cash. firm
gander and 1 female are pure sebastopol, other 2 (I believe are girls, but no guarantee) are sebastopol crosses, but do have curls. Not related to pure sebastopols
Greencastle, IN









Also have some white girls for sale, and some half sebastopols for sale.

They are stunning! You have lovely birds without a doubt. I really would love to add a few, DH is fussing me about waterfowl.
Once we get the rest of the pekin flock to size for winter I will PM.

A day at Harmony Lane farm.

I just adore your black and white paca

Lovely birds!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

AAAAAHHHHHHH! My cemani eggs are growing! I really hope these guys make it! I'm pretty sure all 6 eggs developed but one maybe an early quitter.

SOOO excited for you! I had time to look them up, oh my just stunning birds!

Quote: ROFL you know he will! Greenfire has a good video on the breed, LOVE how they look and are quite interesting.

Quote: LOL!!!! I would take the eggs for sure.
I am so excited cant wait for your hatch!

vibes to you!

 

[kbha]

just started this year purchased 23 back in April, just now getting eggs

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Awesome weekend! Got to meet up with @jsummers and family for a bonfire and cookout, had a great time! Jess and I went to get her new goat doe Monday, Elsie.
She was from a familiar farm. What a small world! She had found an ad on craigslist that turned out to be my buck Bochephus home he was bred from. Really excited for her, she was able to add a very sweet doe and I shared pictures of Bo with his breeder. We were even more pleased when our breeder looked them up and they are not related!
I love working with this breeder, she has a fantastic herd. Just added several from ohio, and has a new line (VERY impressive buck) completely unrelated from ours. She also works with heritage RIR so I will be texting her a lot for more info. Hope to convince her to join our thread! Lot of knowledge on several species. She is very pro organic also, just a fantastic plus on general health.
Nite everyone and good morning! Time to start the day.

 

[kittydoc]

@Mother2Hens The antibiotic and pain med amounts you quoted for sweet Adeline sound like they were diluted by Dr. Gormley from their usual strength. Just so someone doesn't make a serious or fatal mistake, could you please confirm? If they are not in original bottles, then they have been diluted for chickens, which is perfectly legal and appropriate. Thanks so much!