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Fingers crossed. Little bronze poult from the incubator has had a tough time hatching the past couple days. I pulled most of the shell off of it, but it seems really weak.

Sweetie's still alive, but ooey, she stinks. DH has been ultra-reluctant to help and I haven't wanted to badger him about it. She's in good spirits but hasn't been walking. don't want to flush it with water but have yet to find "isotonic saline" anywhere. Will flush with water (maybe with a bit of contact lens saline) and then inject with antibiotics, rub a ton of neosporin in there and get crazy with an eye patch on my turkey girl. Trouble is always finding a way to keep an eye patch on one side of her face without blinding her other eye.

Tintaglia has taken a turn for the worse. She's acting cold all the time and just huddles up or stands alone, looks tired all the time. Still can't see in front of her face--same as Syd. They peck the wrong place every time. Kinda wondering if it's related to an ear problem with all three girls on account of Sweetie's poor balance, and Syd and Tintaglia's strange rotation of pecks (always shift a few degrees to one direction every time they peck--generally about five degrees to their left, increasing with every peck until they bring their heads all the way back and start over). Really odd. normally muscles at the rear of the eye can give them greater binocular vision, but these two just don't seem to have access to those muscles at all (probably why they're so small). Just can't figure out what to do about it. Been giving them food in much wider containers to allow for their rotational pecking and aim problems, and having to feed them separately at night. Just doesn't seem to be enough.


The good news is that I've received the first egg from the younger gals! One of the black girls gave me a teeny weenie egg this week! Looking forward to some turkey egg omelets in the coming months!

All of the poults that have hatched so far were all from Pretty Boy (big bourbon tom formerly at @jchny2000 's) so I'm loathe to eat the eggs from the older two girls. I'm amazed they're laying fertile eggs because they're been here quite awhile longer than I'd figured his wigglies would have lasted. This whole time, we'd been figuring he's been shooting blanks because jchny2000 had only had a couple poults hatch from him this year. I've get fertile eggs that all seem to have his kids in 'em.
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@Indyshent

I confess I don't remember where the wound is.... but you could flush most wounds with vetricyn (can get it at tsc). Vetricyn is a bottled "Dakin's Solution".


If you can't get to the supply, here are the directions to make it at home. Most folks have the items at the house.

http://www.itstactical.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dakins_Solution.pdf


The recipe for chickens is:
1 Tbsp. Bleach
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 Gallon Water

It should be mixed fresh daily.
See more here: http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2015/04/how-to-care-for-injured-chicken-and.html

After flushing, one of the best ointments I've ever used is NuStock. I have never seen it on the shelf; have to buy online but it is amazing at healing. VERY STRONG SMELL however.


edited to fix a spelling error.
 
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[COLOR=8B4513]Hi everyone! My chickens have helped me cope with a bad year, and I've especially enjoyed my newest little ones from @ellymayRans — Black Bantam Cochin Frizzle girl, two months old. They're still in quarantine in my basement bathroom although I extended their space so they could look out the sliding glass door to the backyard. Although I had full spectrum lights in the bathroom, I felt bad about them not having a natural light source. The first day I saw my four pullets that I got last summer from @kittydoc looking through the glass at the chicks. When the four saw me, they turned around and ran like they thought they weren't supposed to be looking. Haha They are always well-behaved, and I've still never seen them peck each other. I've kind of wished they could be a separate flock from my three four-year-old hens! The three hens occasionally peck the new ones, but mostly give them the stink-eye. The four pullets are beautiful, sweet, and are excited about everything. They're like, "Oh boy! We get cut-up grapes!" "Oh boy, we get to go on a field trip in the far backyard with Mom!" The three jaded hens are like, "Grapes again?" "Same ol' field trip again! Boring!" At nighttime, after changing positions in the coop several times, the four pullets decided to sleep on the top perch with the flock leader, my SLW Lacey. Lacey gripes about it, but I trained her not to peck at them in my usual way—I look a chicken in the eye and just point my finger at her and say, "No!" Meanwhile, the four pullets haven't started laying—They should be old enough, so I'm guessing because of the season change. My jaded hens haven't laid in at least two months. They went through major molting and then the season changed. It's been a long, dry spell![/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Back to my Frizzle babies—They are so adorable and funny! Sometimes they look like conjoined twins, and they constantly chatter in that chick style nose whistling manner. I wonder what they're talking about! The younger one is more fiesty. I take them outside across the street at least once a day while I do work in my DS's yard. The best thing about Cochins is that they are so friendly, curious, and want to be held. They definitely think I am their Mom. They like to perch on my shoulder while I try to work. I occasionally have to change my shirt! I wish chickens could be trained to use a litter box.[/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Here's a very short video of them dust bathing, out of focus, but you can see how fluffy and cute they are: [/COLOR] Frizzled Black Bantam Cochin Pullets Dust Bathing [COLOR=8B4513]In this photo, the one on the right has her head buried in frizzles![/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]Below: The child-sized hoe is a reminder to Lacey to not peck the new girls![/COLOR] [COLOR=8B4513]I have to run, but I will respond to some posts this evening. [/COLOR]:)
Love seeing them and hearing about how spoiled they are!
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Another hard and unexpected hit by predators last night. I trap nonstop.. I had 2 Muscovy hens sitting on eggs. what ever creature dug under my 16" barrier and took both moms. I saw my 2 ducks gone and immediately put all the eggs in my incubator this morning My drake was brooding the eggs.. I candled 2 eggs and i saw movement.. but the eggs felt cold, not hopeful.
My poor drake is just sitting in the same spot, won't eat and now has no hens. Locked him up in a crate. He is so sad, he just let me pick him up and move him to a safe place. We have added electric fence to the area my coops are in. I have no idea what else to do to protect them.
Please.. if you trap and release don't let predator animals off here.
Electric wire 1-2" off the ground will stop a digging predator, unless it doesn't mind getting it's nose zipped. How is your drake doing?
 
Everything's been confirmed earlier this afternoon with Purdue University, blows all the information:

Updated!
I confirmed the below information with the appropriate people at Purdue University within the last hour.

Out of Bluffton Indiana you have a company called veterinarian poultry supply that will open the program up to let poultry owners know the products they carry and there is a farmer 3 miles east of converse Indiana by the name of John Boyer that's doing some real interesting things with non-GMO grains for livestock feed.

Poultry Seminar & Bio Security Lecture 5PM December 6th at Eastbrook high school-east of Marion Indiana

Dr. Wakenell headed of the ADDL at Purdue university, Dr Alexandria Holloway, DVM Purdue university resident: ADDL at Purdue and Dr Jeff Lossie ADDL at Purdue will becoming to Eastbrook high school east of Marion, several veterinarian interns & animal science majors from Purdue University will be accompanying her. Topics covered will be internal & external parasite identification in poultry, treatments and medications to use and there's a chance there will be a live demo and individual tutorial sessions instructing how to properly identify parasites under a microscope by observing fresh stool samples from chickens.

If your considering attending, please contact me with numbers in your party, this way we can ensure area seminar is held in is big enough to handle our crowd.

James Heasley
765-661-4597
 
I have a slew of Muscovy ducklings available if anyone is interested. All are Black Pied or black Barred. All but 8 are outside. The outside ducks are all fully feathered and hand raised so very friendly. The 8 inside are from a chocolate mother. I'm pretty sure that those are 1 male and 7 female and I'm only wanting to keep 1 of those. Listed below are details. Just PM me if you're interested.

If you're not familiar with the breed do some research. IMO they are the best all around duck. Wonderful meat, seasonal layer but still produces a good # of eggs, great broodies, very friendly and good flock mates.

Inside: hatched 9/2016
(5) appear black - barred
(1) black wild type
(1) appears black - atipico

The outside ducks:
(6) black Pied females hatched 8/14/16
(3) black Pied females hatched 6/29/16
(1) black Barred male hatched 5/16
(1) black Pied female hatched 5/16
(1) black atipico female hatched 5/16

I also have a black atipico pair hatched 4/2016 I'd be willing to part with.

A few pics of the ducks listed above.

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Everything's been confirmed earlier this afternoon with Purdue University, blows all the information:

Updated!
I confirmed the below information with the appropriate people at Purdue University within the last hour.

Out of Bluffton Indiana you have a company called veterinarian poultry supply that will open the program up to let poultry owners know the products they carry and there is a farmer 3 miles east of converse Indiana by the name of John Boyer that's doing some real interesting things with non-GMO grains for livestock feed.

Poultry Seminar & Bio Security Lecture 5PM December 6th at Eastbrook high school-east of Marion Indiana

Dr. Wakenell headed of the ADDL at Purdue university, Dr Alexandria Holloway, DVM Purdue university resident: ADDL at Purdue and Dr Jeff Lossie ADDL at Purdue will becoming to Eastbrook high school east of Marion, several veterinarian interns & animal science majors from Purdue University will be accompanying her. Topics covered will be internal & external parasite identification in poultry, treatments and medications to use and there's a chance there will be a live demo and individual tutorial sessions instructing how to properly identify parasites under a microscope by observing fresh stool samples from chickens.

If your considering attending, please contact me with numbers in your party, this way we can ensure area seminar is held in is big enough to handle our crowd.

James Heasley
765-661-4597
What an awesome opportunity! Do you mind if I share this on our facebook page also?
 
Lovely pictures @ellymayRans and @Mother2Hens ! Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and flock events.
@JanetMarie yes. We have a 50 mile charger and it HURTS lol! I was the first to "forget" and leaned my arms on the fence! Was in a conversation with the person that helped install.. totally not thinking, learned my lesson fast how strong a jolt it gives you! Its a "weed burner" style charger since I keep goats and cows also. Our lowest wire is just above ground level, about 2 inches. 3 strands total. The game camera we borrowed showed the raccoons dropping from a tree that overhangs our pasture. We have to move the coops further from the fence line. And actually attach wire around the coops bases.
After 4 1/2 years of fighting predators, I have learned its better to prevent than just keep trapping, but I sill do.. It seems critters always figure out a new way of getting in.
 

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