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[hbrown322]

This is so funny! A must see when you have a broody hen!

Oh my gosh!!!

 

 

[wheezy50]

Meet "Fancy Pants" she's mad as she just had a bath and dry. But when she stands it looks like she's wearing fluffy pants.

So I have this Cochin. I thought it was full sized but it's clear it's a bantam! It was supposed to also be a pullet but I'm not so sure. What do you think?

It's bum has been pretty bad from the get go (this was one of our first additions). I was terrified once I realized there was some problem. I treated for vent gleet. Acv offer Greek yogurt and did some probios for awhile. The last two weeks just normal food and water. It's poop is always caked in the feathers. I soak, wash rinse and dry. I've tried to space it out from every other day to weekly because I thought maybe I was adding stress causing more issue. Clearly am going to have to try twice a week. This soak she has a few feathers stuck in the poo that fell out. In the beginning there was whitish thick gunk. Now there's just mostly poo.

I feel like I'm letting her down because I can't make her better. Her skin isn't red or irritated. I just don't get it. No bugs. No nits. No other birds have anything weird with their rear ends. Is it because she has longer feathers? Help? Suggestions. Is this just the life of a Cochin bantam breed?

Mrs. Fancy Pants looks like a mister to me! Although I've been wrong plenty of times with my own bantam cochins.

 

[KlioLynne]

These are my babies. I have the one Leghorn (Lucky Poppy) the two blondies (chunk and chunky) and the two dark ones we call Heckle and Jeckle.

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[KlioLynne]

It takes a little learning for incubation success.  Re-read the instructions that came with the incubator.  I have a Little Giant model 9200 with the heating coil that goes around the perimeter.  Still air, with a turning tray.  The newer models have the heating unit just in the center and when I tried that one, the temperature difference was as much as 5 degrees in different places.  Adding a fan may have helped, but I took that one back and exchanged it for the last older model.

You can do everything right, and not have good results if the eggs are not good quality.  The parents need a good diet, free range time, eggs before incubation need to be stored properly.

What type of thermometer/hydrometer are you using?

I have the Little Giant 6300, with the heater in the lid, but we for have the fan or turning tray. I cracked the eggs from the last try and found that even though they were fertilized they didn't developed beyond day 3 or 4. With the eggs being porous, I can't see any veins. But Im on day 11 of this batch, with only 3 eggs that's have developed out of the 4 I started with. And the air cell is extremely bright with one egg, and has grown sine 4/7/17 and with this one, I can a fairly large dark spot in the yolk. Im hoping that I get at least this one, this time!!

 

[kanina]

Hi everyone! I'm in Anderson!



I've got six chicks. I'm hoping they're all pullets.

2 Light Brahma - Dixie and Trixie - Feb 15 2017
1 Buff Orpington - Addy - Feb 15 2017
1 Ameraucana - Kami - Feb 25 2017
2 EE - Racer and Lana - Feb 15 2017 - though Racer may be a roo

I'm considering adding two hens so I can start getting eggs again. I am absolutely in love with BLR Wyandottes but I can't find anyone selling hens currently.

Feel free to PM me if you know anyone selling Brahma, or Wyandotte laying hens.

 

[flyladyrocks]

Fingers Crossed - I'm experimenting with a new broody. Veteran mama- who hatched eggs like a pro once last year has lost all parenting rights. Last hatch she abandoned and pecked. When I tried to put day olds under her she attacked them.

Sooo, I have one broody girl who has only been broody 10-14 days but is very determined. I brought her in, and put her in my big brooder. Before I went and got the 2 chicks I turned out the lights and covered her up - bedtime! She zonked out and I was able to slip the babies under her when I got home. She and the babies seem very happy right now. If I reach in she wants to rip my hand off.

So I am playing lights out for a another hour or so, then will wake her up and see how things go. I know you are supposed to do this in the wee hours of the AM. I am just trying to duplicate that idea b/c I just don't think I can get up at 5 AM tomorrow! I have slept so little the past few days and am fighting a migraine. Everyone was sleeping and I hear happy chirps right now, so fingers crossed! I really hope this mama works. My main concern is putting them out with the general population for a wedding at the beginning of June. I think they will adapt much better with a mama to defend them!

Big thank you to @Angels Eggs for bailing me out and taking the other 2 babies! I wish I could have taken them all but it just wasn't possible right now.

Anyone interested in 1 or 2 Gold Laced Polish? They come to Agrarian a week from today, April 19. I ordered 2- hoping to scrape up enough to maybe keep one. If anyone would like to help me with that order I'd be very appreciative!

This is just a random pic of a teenaged Gold Laced Polish from Backyard chickens but a cute one:



I have wanted Polish for 3 years- the one chicken I really wanted at the beginning of this journey! Got 3, two years ago from an NPIP breeder and they ended up coming to me with lice. (never even occurred to me that could happen with newly hatched! But they were in her breeding barn on the dirt) I lost most of 19 chicks from that group. I have a Buckeye and 2 Silkies that made it. It was horrible. So praying these babies make it!

 

[Leahs Mom]

This is so funny! A must see when you have a broody hen!

 

[Leahs Mom]

@flyladyrocks
I did have a broody mom that I added chicks to in the middle of the night. She had hatched one of her eggs and the others no good. So I got 3 hatch mates and under her at night. She took care of them all with great success!

 

[Nyla]

@flyladyrocks
I did have a broody mom that I added chicks to in the middle of the night. She had hatched one of her eggs and the others no good. So I got 3 hatch mates and under her at night. She took care of them all with great success!

Today I let my 12 ducklings out of their coop for a swim and my adult Muscovy Ducks were in the run with them. One of my female ducks name Mew (Little Brother) She is my chocolate pied, started trying to shove them under her and lay on them and tried to attack me when I was trying to put them back in their coop! And she never has done this. She is my nicest one! So shocked! She sat outside of the ducklings coop all day till I had to put them in their coops for the night! She was acting as if those were her ducklings!

Also Anyone looking for Muscovy Hatching Eggs Or Quail Hatching Eggs, I have some for sale! Send me a pm of your offers!

 

[Chiksrus]

Hi All!

New member from Valparaiso- have 4 chicks. So glad to have found this site! I'll have a ton of questions I'm sure