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[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: While I was there looking at your Jaerhon chickens, I found the Red Shoulder Yokohamas. So pretty. Now they are on my list but of course they are rare and no price is given.

 

[lilmizscareall]

Hello everybody! I've been AWOL from the group, but today I need some help.
I've been having a rather difficult, time consuming life event. Which has caused me to not spend as much time with my birds and my chicken care has been to the bare minimum.
They get clean water, food and safety everyday. I check them for lice and bumble foot every week, but I just don't get to sit down and spend anytime with them.
To me they appear very active and quite happy.
While out doing my egg collection I spied a huge mess of silkie feathers. I figured that she was either molting, or worse, taken by a predator. I called everyone over and she came bouncing out of the weeds just like everybody else. Of course most of her feathers are missing. I started to check her over and right at the base of her tail is a very ookey, infected looking wound. I do not have a strong stomach when it comes to this stuff.
My initial reaction is to put her down. I had to do it with a lame bird earlier in the spring, and I think I can do it again. My concern is that because I can barely look at the spot, she might be ok with the proper care.
Would anyone be willing to take her into their home to fix her up and give her a better chance???
If my life were in a different position, I would take her to a vet, but I can't. She was very alert and active. She is an excellent layer, gets broody, but is easily broken.
PM me if you can help.

 

[Indyshent]

Sounds like I'm limited to silkies and 'Scovies then How bad are your silkies about crowing all hours of the night? Not sure who started it or why, but all of my roos took to crowing from sundown to sunup to sundown. Drove me crazy because I knew the neighbors hated it. I sleep with a fan on anyway, so it didn't bother me. My RIR is a sponge of vicarious learning--of bad habits. First time he sees something, he picks it up and runs with it. Love him to pieces, but he's so impressionable and doesn't 'un-learn' things as well as I'd like (it's why he mounts a duck periodically and crows all night). I got rid of the Brahma roo (the one who started the duck mounting thing) months ago... but the RIR still occasionally does it (though he's getting more chivalrous with teh ladies every day).

I'm so happy to hear Bacon's getting his exercise and lovies! 6 miles is a long time for him to be strutting. I'm amazed he could do it

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Two things I forgot to mention about them: 1) they are sex link chicken, so you know what you have right when they pop out of the shell, and; 2) they take about six months for egg laying maturity.

Sex link...or auto-sexing? 

Glad you pointed this out, because I was going to as well! Norwegian Jaerhons are an autosexing breed, not a sexlink.




To be clear, for those that don't know, I've seen these terms used interchangeably but they are far from the same thing!

Autosexing breeds like Jaerhons, Cream Legbars, Bielefelders, and the like, are actual breeds of chickens of which the males and females are distinct at hatch in every generation.

Sexlinks are hybrids of two breeds that carry the genetics necessary for a one-time sexlinked hatch; if you cross chickens from a sexlinked cross back to one another for a second generation, the resulting offspring cannot be sexed at hatch.

That being said, since there is a gold and a silver variety of Jaerhon, it's likely that you can produce sexlinked chicks from crossing the colors--but the chicks would already be autosexing if kept pure so there wouldn't be much of a point in a sexlink cross there.

 

[Urbanmom519]

maybe at the Lebanon show in Oct.

when is this show? And where in Lebanon?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

when is this show? And where in Lebanon?

It's on October 18. Here's the website with the address and entry information if you want to show:

http://ibccn.org/poultry/

 

[Urbanmom519]

Thank you!!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: http://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Indiana.html

here is a listing for other shows as well.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Do any of you have housing that has cement floors (as in a barn or other cement floored building)?

I may end up putting the birds in the pole barn for the winter if I can work out a containment plan. The floors are cement and, of course, I'd have a deep litter over that.

But I'm curious...it seems like the cement floor would be really cold and even make the litter cold and uncomfortable under it. I could probably get a remnant of vinyl flooring to throw on there under the litter.... I'm also wondering about condensation.

 

[CharlemagneRoost]

Glad you pointed this out, because I was going to as well!

Norwegian Jaerhons are an autosexing breed, not a sexlink.




To be clear, for those that don't know, I've seen these terms used interchangeably but they are far from the same thing!

Autosexing breeds like Jaerhons, Cream Legbars, Bielefelders, and the like, are actual breeds of chickens of which the males and females are distinct at hatch in every generation.

Sexlinks are hybrids of two breeds that carry the genetics necessary for a one-time sexlinked hatch; if you cross chickens from a sexlinked cross back to one another for a second generation, the resulting offspring cannot be sexed at hatch.

That being said, since there is a gold and a silver variety of Jaerhon, it's likely that you can produce sexlinked chicks from crossing the colors--but the chicks would already be autosexing if kept pure so there wouldn't be much of a point in a sexlink cross there.

Color me corrected and happily schooled

... I have learned something new!