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[chick rookie]

@ellymayRans caught my error — I corrected the birth year which was 2014! I don't think egg binding is the issue because I found an egg she laid the day before that DH hadn't collected. I saved it in case it helps and I also have some of her poop. I'm supposed to call vet back after 2:00pm today to find out if he will do a necropsy. I'm guessing he will.

Yes! I saw your Oliver! He is SO handsome! @chick rookie has a lot of gorgeous chickens and other animals. I could go on and on! I wanted to steal one of her darker colored EEs that had double laced feathers with a similar look of a silver barnevelder. She had a part BR and part (forgot) roo that had random colored feathers mixed in with black and white barred feathers. Michelle has pens with a variety of chickens, dogs, goats, and horses. It would make a great petting zoo if it weren't for biosecurity concerns. (I washed/sanitized my boots and when I returned home, I showered, washed my hair, etc.)

QUESTION
Since I have my new Lacy in quarantine inside, would it be okay if I took her outside for a little bit to a neighbor's yard where my chickens haven't been? I know that I am the only one in our subdivision that's ever had chickens. It's sunny today and almost 50 degrees.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the tour.. lol my grand kids and their friends come over and are allowed to go play in my petting zoo, but I know them all and they don't have any animals other than maybe 3 dogs between all of them, so I think I'm ok with it. It has been said I should do that here, but really just don't want too. lol
No Lacy has never had pelleted feed, I did try it 1 time but the littles all seemed to have troubles with it so I just went back to my crumble. The only worm I have ever seen Lacy eat was 1 of those tiny red worms, and 1 is enough, she wants no more!! lol o and dont try and give her a crub... oh my she will freek out!!!
After you left I went out to make sure Mr apple pig ( Doc ) didn't give himself a belly ach ( he didn't ) and Ransom came up and nosed around in the bucket..... then he wanted some!!! The dork.
Bob ( the rooster you were wondering about ) is BR/Welsummer, he was the lat chick hatched from my original Kellogg ( Welsummer ) before he passed.

Here's short video of my new Lacy from @chick rookie
Bantam Birchin Cochin Hen

I am so very happy that you and Lacy are getting along so well. And I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for giving her a loving home. I missed her ridding around with me at feed time today.

 

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[COLOR=A52A2A]QUESTION[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Since I have my new Lacy in quarantine inside, would it be okay if I took her outside for a little bit to a neighbor's yard where my chickens haven't been? I know that I am the only one in our subdivision that's ever had chickens. It's sunny today and almost 50 degrees. [/COLOR]

I agree with Jchny, probably fine. Usually the recommended distance for quarantine is about 100 feet from the established flock, so if you're at least that far away, I wouldn't worry about it one bit. If you wanted to be extra sure, you could make sure Lacy was downwind from your flock as well. Just some things to consider. P.S. I am super jealous not only of adorable little Lacy (she's a double-doozy, a bantam Cochin and a gorgeous color!), but that you're getting Bielefelders!!

More pics today... These are Large Frame! Chocolate Cuckoo English Orpington roo over Chocolate English Orpington hens...

Oh my goodness, grabby hands!! Y'all are killing me with all these beautiful birds!! If my coop was any larger, I'd have to have one of each.

We are sure getting somewhere with flock plans this year. My tiny snow mallards are the funniest thing to watch! Bossy little girls, they tell off the muscovy drakes in a second. Fly off as soon as a scovy drake thinks he can catch one! Scovy drakes can't fly once they mature, too much weight. My little mallard drakes think they are a hundred pounds LOL! I am not getting eggs yet, but I am really excited to raise them. They're about the size of call ducks. I am keeping them mainly for eggs. Too small to be a meat type bird.

They sound adorable! How little are we talking? My tiny call ducks are about the size of pigeons. Are you sure you don't have snowy calls? (Either way, swoon, snowies are so gorgeous!)

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I had a genetics quiz yesterday and there was a question about chickens on it!! The question went something like, 'If a heterozygous barred rooster is bred to a hemizygous barred hen, what would be the phenotypes of the offspring?' (For those of you unfamiliar with the terminology, basically, a dark barred rooster bred to a barred hen. ) I could answer it without even thinking because I already knew the basics behind it (the ZW chromozome system and the fact that barring is Z-linked), but I still drew a Punnett square to be sure.

 

[Indyshent]

Welcome to the Indiana Thread!
@James Beller I don't know of anyone on our thread who breeds Jubilee Orps, but I bought mine from @chickenscratchpoultry.com. Not sure where you live, but it's in Southern Illinois only an hour or so from me so I drove there.


Originally posted by ChickCrazed Last night two of the mottled Breda and a brave silkied Ameraucana even roosted with the big girls in the big girl coop! It is so much fun seeing them start to get more comfortable with life!
All of my June babies held off on laying before Winter hit, but one of the Breda is now giving me cute little cream pullet eggs! They are gorgeous! Several other girls have started back up, it is nice having eggs to go collect again!

@ChickCrazed Please refresh our memories about the Breda breed! I just looked up some photos and they look interesting. How did you decide upon them and what are their personalities like?

I have a pair of mottled Breda. They looked black when I picked them up, but the pullet had white underfluff. Now they're both getting irregular white spots throughout their plumage. Really pretty ninja birds. Mine make almost no noise, and the rooster hasn't crowed yet (even when he was inside being treated for a respiratory injection, and generally, that's the first thing a rooster does once he finds himself in my dining room). They're easily handled and seem to like attention for the most part, very tall and have stately demeanors and unusual in almost every aspect. Super shiny, very low on the totem pole. They talk a lot when being handled (esp the hen). They don't have combs so their noses look really odd, and the feathers where their combs would have been have an odd ruffled, semi-mohawk texture. They take a long time to reach anything resembling maturity, so I'm not holding my breath for her first egg because it usually takes them about nine months to reach POL. They're supposed to lay white eggs, but we'll see when it happens.

Regarding Jubilees, doesn't kittydoc breed them?

 

[SAOrnduff]

My ringneck pheasant pair is for sale
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[Faraday40]

Do you by chance have a picture of how you setup the computer fan in the styrofoam incubator? That was another thought/plan I had. Maybe add a fan to my Styrofoam bator, I'm starting to figure out that it definitely has hot spots as well.

I just found a video, gathered my supplies, & followed along.

DH works with several business networks, so we have a computer graveyard in our garage. I was able to find a free fan & a/c power cord before they headed off to the recycler. The still air Styrofoam incubator & turner came from my sister's attic. (She had used it back in the early 1990s, but it still worked.) Basically I got everything for the cost of some nuts & bolts. Even that I could have gotten for free if I had stopped by my fathers workshop. The only thing I did differently was add a piece of screen to the bottom of the fan. I was afraid that the chicks might try to jump up & get their head caught. Don't know if they actually could, since they can barely walk while still in the hatcher, but why not add it anyway.

 

[chick rookie]

I just found a video, gathered my supplies, & followed along.

DH works with several business networks, so we have a computer graveyard in our garage. I was able to find a free fan & a/c power cord before they headed off to the recycler. The still air Styrofoam incubator & turner came from my sister's attic. (She had used it back in the early 1990s, but it still worked.) Basically I got everything for the cost of some nuts & bolts. Even that I could have gotten for free if I had stopped by my fathers workshop. The only thing I did differently was add a piece of screen to the bottom of the fan. I was afraid that the chicks might try to jump up & get their head caught. Don't know if they actually could, since they can barely walk while still in the hatcher, but why not add it anyway.

thanks for the link.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

My ringneck pheasant pair is for sale
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Welcome to BYC and our thread! Lovely pair of ringneck!

 

[chick rookie]

My ringneck pheasant pair is for sale
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Hey kid I see you made it. Good luck with your birds.

 

[Mother2Hens]

I agree with Jchny, probably fine. Usually the recommended distance for quarantine is about 100 feet from the established flock, so if you're at least that far away, I wouldn't worry about it one bit. If you wanted to be extra sure, you could make sure Lacy was downwind from your flock as well. Just some things to consider.

That's a good point, thanks! Although I've always quarantined chickens in a spare bedroom, when I first got home I set up her kennel on the sofa (!) in the family room/kitchen so we could see her. Then it dawned on me that I shouldn't let her walk around on the floor there since it's a high traffic area and sometimes the chickens will walk inside for a minute when I open the sliding glass door. What I've done in the past in the bedroom is to put down plastic on the floor and over furniture and then put down paper towels over the plastic. In the kennel, I put old towels as the base layer and put paper towels on top. I learned that shavings are a nightmare inside. One bantam hen is much easier to clean up after, though, than a flock of chicks!
Today Lacy tried a little shredded cheese and liked it.

I'll try not to give a daily report - lol - it's just fun to have her inside.

@Faraday40 @chick rookie
@jchny2000 probably remembers that way back toward the beginning of this thread, a lot of people were making that type of incubator (lots of discussion). I remember sending a computer fan and some other parts to @animallover
@Indyshent I think that @kittydoc has bred Jubilees before, but I don't think she has plans to now.
Thanks for the info on Breda chickens. I'm surprised that they're low on the pecking order because the photos I saw online look just as you described them. Tall —good posture! lol And I read some descriptions online that they have a "hawk or vulture like beak." Seems like those traits would be intimidating. Also interesting that they "small to nonexistent combs and waddles," but have feathered legs and feet — good for cold winters!
I'm heading outside now for one of our last warm and sunny days before the next cold blast.