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[Chaneys Ranch]

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am planning to purchase this.. and hoping it will allow me to brood without additional heat.

 

[Mother2Hens]

Hi all I'm from Cicero Ind. and I'm new to the chicken business but I am so excited I have 5 hens and 2 roosters i got my hens last summer and finally one of my barred rocks went broody her first day of sitting was Feb 3rd. She had 12 eggs under her from the other hen laying in the same box I had to move her to the brooder with her eggs. I candled them this Sunday all but 3 were good i don't know what happened to the 3 that were bad but the boys and I are so excited for the hatch which should be Feb 24. Does it always take 21 days? or could it be shorter or longer we cant wait too much longer lol. I think another one is going broody she sat in a nest box all day long on 4 eggs and when I went to close up my coop she was roosting with the others. this is exactly how the first one done and after doing this for a few days here and there the last time she wouldn't budge not even for treats so I thought i would leave the eggs and see if she would sit on them and she has done a great job so far. I absolutely love my chickens so the more the merrier Elizabeth

@tmarsh83 I enjoyed your nice, crisp, clean video: video playback (page 4624) Very pleasing camera work. I love Barred Rocks! So classic and beautiful.


I get white chicken breeds mixed-up— what breed is this? I love her U-shape.

@pipdzipdnreadytogo ~ So sad about Marama!

I think she was one of your small mixture of chicks that you used to list as they grew—right? I know you had an Egyptian Fayoumi in that group.

Love your gray EE Wynne!

Is Marge still broody? What breeds of eggs is she mothering? My silkie, Smalty, was broody until Saturday when it was 73° and sunny! She decided it was too nice out to be broody. That's fine since she's never been a reliable broody, plus I don't need chicks in the middle of the health crisis.

I am hoping to hear from Purdue tomorrow. After you mentioned that you thought my vet told me the wrong kind of wormer to buy, I decided to ask the Purdue vet and his resident vet assistant their opinions about worm treatment, any other treatments, disinfectant type — I have Virkon S, what to expect with adding Lacy to the flock in a couple of weeks. I received an email saying they will respond tomorrow, so I will let everyone know. I will also post the necropsy in case anyone is interested in what the report entails. I'm just waiting until I have additional info.
@amwchickin ~ That's great that you're a Chicken Education Ambassador — keep up the good deeds! Considering all of the chicks that will be sold from RK and places like that, you will especially be in demand from people who didn't realize that chicken raising requires work!

"Trouble" is now famous on BYC. I was happy & surprised to see that her pic was chosen as Chicken "Pic of the Week."
Congrats! You take great photos!

our 50 new fuzzy buts arived today I'm very excited.25 welsumer and 25 black copper marains
@charleschicken That's a lot of chicks!!! So cute.
@ChickCrazed Beautiful silkied ameraucana hens! Do their feathers feel just like silkies "fur"?

 

[Mother2Hens]

Hi I live in northern indiana the south bend area I have an existing flock of 18 and just got 16 more chicks from Rural King.
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@Mishlerfarm24 So happy your hen returned!
@RhondaCaroline Welcome!
@Momma 2 silkies ~ Let's see, I'll take these: (in my dreams!)

@iamfivewire ~Beautiful! Breed(s)? And I loved your photo of Brownie, too!

Crazy busy~My sow is about to farrow any day! Setting her up in our livestock trailer so she is warm, dry and by herself. Her milk dropped this morning, she is due the 27th!
Set my first tray of eggs from my breeding pens. Dark Cornish, Sumatra and Orpingtons. Converting 2 big heavy workbenches into breeding pens. That will pretty much take care of the last few groups I wanted to confine. Waiting for ducks to start laying, and the guineas.

@jchny2000 ~ Oh my gosh! Never a dull day at your farm!! lol

 

[tmarsh83]

[rule] @tmarsh83 [COLOR=8B4513] I enjoyed your nice, crisp, clean video: [/COLOR]video playback[COLOR=8B4513] (page 4624) Very pleasing camera work. I love Barred Rocks! So classic and beautiful. [/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]I get white chicken breeds mixed-up— what breed is this? I love her U-shape.[/COLOR] [rule] [ [rule]

Thank you. So many people use their phones, and I get that it's convenient but it's so hard to get steady images. The most underutilized piece of photo or video equipment is a TRIPOD! That's a MM leghorn. She's flighty and aloof, and is still dealing with a limp from that foot injury, which kept getting worse despite treatment, but she's back laying so she must be doing ok.

 

[CogburnIsMyRoo]

@CogburnIsMyRoo


Greetings!  I live pretty close to you   I was up toward TSC this morning but didn't stop at RK.  I didn't realize they had chicks there this early in the season.

Yeah they have chicks and did you get there ad because you can get 10 straight run chickens for free after rebate.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo  [COLOR=8B4513]~ So sad about Marama![/COLOR]  [COLOR=8B4513]I think she was one of your small mixture of chicks that you used to list as they grew—right? I know you had an Egyptian Fayoumi in that group.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=8B4513]Is Marge still broody? What breeds of eggs is she mothering? My silkie, Smalty, was broody until Saturday when it was 73° and sunny! She decided it was too nice out to be broody. That's fine since she's never been a reliable broody, plus I don't need chicks in the middle of the health crisis.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=8B4513]I am hoping to hear from Purdue tomorrow. After you mentioned that you thought my vet told me the wrong kind of wormer to buy, I decided to ask the Purdue vet and his resident vet assistant their opinions about worm treatment, any other treatments, disinfectant type — I have Virkon S, what to expect with adding Lacy to the flock in a couple of weeks. I received an email saying they will respond tomorrow, so I will let everyone know. I will also post the necropsy in case anyone is interested in what the report entails. I'm just waiting until I have additional info. [/COLOR]

Yes, Marama was one of my 2013 babies along with Rangi, the bed-hopping, trouble-making Ancona who I probably posted about the most back then. Marama was my little dinosaur. Even as a baby, she was just full of sass and attitude. She was never overly friendly so she didn't get a whole lot of attention, though I think that was only because she had a tough-girl reputation to keep. If no one was looking, she was perfectly glad to climb to my shoulder or get a little attention from me. I remember one time she was being so sweet and enjoying some hugs and affection right up until I pulled my camera out, and then she immediately was back to Miss Attitude. I especially missed her last night, as she had gotten into the habit of sassing me every night at roost time until I put her in the rafters with the bantams. She was perfectly capable of hopping up there, and had when I was a little late to close the coop some nights, but for some reason she always preferred to prod at me and sass me with that croaky voice of hers until I lifted her up there... Sigh.

You may remember this picture of the little dinosaur when she was a baby. Such an attitude!

Margie is definitely still broody! She has always had the determination for it, so I'm hoping the spring weather doesn't change her mind like it did with your Smalty! She's on her own eggs, and Reuben is the daddy, so they're 'pure' Silkies but mixed colors. Marge is a Porcelain project Silkie, and Reuben is a Paint Silkie. It's kind of exciting to wait and see what colors of babies they will make!



It should be interesting to see what the Purdue vets say back... I'm not sure if the Purdue vets will recommend the same wormers that I did because both are off-label usages for poultry, though. There's no 'think' about it, Wazine-17 (AKA Piperazine 17%) works ONLY for roundworms in poultry (this page has the label instructions and uses on it: http://www.drugs.com/vet/wazine-17.html ). It is one of very few wormers approved for use in chickens, however, and was the only one on the market for a long time, which is quite possibly why he recommended it. Unfortunately, it will not solve your capillary worm problem. I hope the Purdue vets can guide you to something that will.

 

[Indyshent]

No matter the age, whenever a bird is "down in the legs" a Thiamine/Riboflavin deficiency should be one of the first suspects. Vitamin E can also play a role.

It definitely won't hurt to go that route in any case.

Is it possible that he may have jumped from some height and injured himself? I did have a cockerel about that age that seemed to injur himself. There was no apparent evidence of injury that could be seen or felt, but he was one for going up on high places and jumping down. It was just as he was coming into that age that he wanted to mate everything that he saw (at least 3 x in quick succession) . Anyhow, after not being able to see anything external, I did offer him the raw liver...which was kind of a joke because he kept giving it away to the ladies! I even locked him by himself so he'd eat it and he'd feed them through the fence.

I did manage to get some down him...

Anyhow, I just kept an eye on him. He had bright eyes, was healthy in all respects except that he didn't want to put weight on the leg. By all observances he was not experiencing a deficiency as he exhibited no malaise whatsoever. Eventually he learned to hop on one leg...it was hilarious to watch him because he wanted to protect the flock and he got really fast on one leg - sometimes even faster than the others. Hopped like that for at least 6 weeks. I began to wonder if he'd ever use that leg normally but eventually he started putting more weight on the leg and then at some point was walking like normal.

The other thing that was funny - because he didn't have full strength in his leg, he couldn't keep the ladies "against their will". They learned really fast how to side-step him if they didn't appreciate his "advances". It was probably the best thing for teaching a young fella his manners real quick. But, heck, what torture for a "teenager" to be given the slip when all these "women" were around to drive him crazy! Honestly, I think I enjoyed that part a little more than I should have...but it was quite hilarious.

@Leahs Mom is probably right, his brother is a climber, jumper type. He will go up on the livestock house, and fly down. Surprised he hasn't broke a leg yet.

I'm soooooo hoping you're both right on this. He just kind of flops around (uses his wings more than his legs much of the time), but he's still extra vigilant and alert, still talkative, doesn't appear to be sick at all. It's quite possible he jumped badly, and hurt himself, though I haven't seen him doing anything like that, and I've never seen a chicken both legs seemingly equally badly. I've got him back on chick starter and a lot of electrolyte/vitamins now.

We do have a lot of rough and tumble boys here who are a LOT bigger than him (6 full grown beefy roosters, and probably four other little roosters who are his size or just a little smaller), and I know Wun Wun has been pretty good about interrupting the guys as they're trying to get their bump-n-grind action on, so if he tried something like that (and he's certainly old enough; EEs have always been the first to try that, in my experience), I'm sure one of the boys (who are almost all bigger than him by a wide margin) bowled him over pretty good. That said, he does have a pretty devoted following of little EE/OE pullets from @jchny2000 and @LonelyPageTurne .

Hoping he works out, but at least I've got spares coming out of my ears. He's such a good boy though.

 

[Indyshent]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/187335298300802

This is a live auction on facebook to benefit a very important poultry enthusiast who cannot afford a life-saving cancer treatment. All proceeds are going to fund his surgery, and everything being auctioned is poultry related (art, birds, eggs, etc), and most of it is from excellent quality, closed flocks. I've seen a lot of rare colors and breeds going on it, including Pomeranian geese (buff and gray saddleback), Pilgrim geese, cameo peafowl, gold laced Orps, mottled Orps, show quality bantam RIR and Rosecomb, silkies (buff, white, partridge), calls ducks, Silver Applyard, mallards, d-dang quality dark Cornish (currently up to $180 for 18 eggs), all kinds of stuff. Some are selling chicks; most are selling eggs, and a few are selling breeding pairs.

 

[tmarsh83]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/187335298300802

This is a live auction on facebook to benefit a very important poultry enthusiast who cannot afford a life-saving cancer treatment. All proceeds are going to fund his surgery, and everything being auctioned is poultry related (art, birds, eggs, etc), and most of it is from excellent quality, closed flocks. I've seen a lot of rare colors and breeds going on it, including Pomeranian geese (buff and gray saddleback), Pilgrim geese, cameo peafowl, gold laced Orps, mottled Orps, show quality bantam RIR and Rosecomb, silkies (buff, white, partridge), calls ducks, Silver Applyard, mallards, d-dang quality dark Cornish (currently up to $180 for 18 eggs), all kinds of stuff. Some are selling chicks; most are selling eggs, and a few are selling breeding pairs.

The ancona ducks at the bottom of the first link you put in there look like a steal currently...

 

[tmarsh83]

With chick season upon us, I have a chick question that seems to have as many answers as almost any I have found.

What do you do with chicks and grit?

Thought it might be a good discussion for any newbies like me trolling around the thread since we are in chick season.

I've seen some people say do nothing for them if you are feeding a starter only, others say sprinkle feed with chick grit, others say offer it in a dish of its own, still others say, just get a chunk of sod with dirt attached from your yard (not your run) and let them pick around at that to get acclimated to your soil, and have the grass/soil to pick at that they will get enough grit from.

What do you do or recommend?