J's 2018 chicks!

[Dona Worry]

J's 2018 chicks!
Everyone is starting to look like little vultures. Half fluff, half feather!
Day twenty-one
My adult flock has had an outbrake of dry fowl pox, so my chicks have not been able to go out in the sand box since the first time. I'm hoping to find some vaccine for the chicks and unaffected chickens soon. If you have a vaccination recommendation, please let me know! The affected adults are starting to get better. The wounds are starting to heal on the first few I noticed the spots on. Now on to brighter things!
This is the full view of the background of most of the chick's pictures.
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This is my beautiful back yard! Surprisingly this picture has both a pond and a rose bush in it. The young maple tree that you can barely make out, front right lighter green, is right in the middle of the rose bush. The rose bush is obviously not in bloom and is covered in vines and weeds. Vines and weeds are also why you can't see the large pond very well.
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There all gorgeous! I can't wait to see what you have!

 

[TheBeardie]

I see it!

My fake Buffalo head is the perfect place for my scarf!

My hat is on my cousin it/cat toy most of the time and my sonic is on my book shelf.

I got all of this for Christmas last year. 4 is my dad's favorite, but I'll watch anyone honestly, though 11 was the first series I watched so I do have a soft spot for him! And 13 is great so far.
Maybe I can take a page from your book and name some of these chicks after Doctor who!

 

[Dona Worry]

My fake Buffalo head is the perfect place for my scarf!
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My hat is on my cousin it/cat toy most of the time and my sonic is on my book shelf.
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I got all of this for Christmas last year. 4 is my dad's favorite, but I'll watch anyone honestly, though 11 was the first series I watched so I do have a soft spot for him! And 13 is great so far.
Maybe I can take a page from your book and name some of these chicks after Doctor who!

Go for it!! Can't have too many Doctor Who chickens!
And oh my gosh, as sad as I am to be loosing Capaldi (my first and favorite Doctor) I am LOVING Jodie Whittaker so far!

 

[TheBeardie]

After some more research on fowl pox I've decided to bring my little ones out later. I have quite a large property and my adult chickens only been in a fenced-in portion of my yard. There hasn't been any chickens on the other side of my yard in months. The infected chickens have never even been out of the fenced-in area, so I don't think any scabs have made it from their coop to the other side of my yard.

I going to start letting them out in the nice, grassy front yard at least a few times a week, to get them adjusted to anything in my ground. I brought my favorite little chick out to take some pictures and this was the result!

I'm thinking about naming this one river, she's a bit mischievous and a lot fabulous! She already has the best beard too! I'll post more pictures later.

 

[TheBeardie]

J's 2018 chicks!
Today is day twenty-five! Everyone had a good time outside even though it was so hot out today. We had to move three times to stay in the shade.

I found out that the chicks like music today! I was on TikToc( a video making app that has different tracks on it such as music, TV show audio or your video audio) and every time a video with music came on most of them came and listened to it!

This still moment was because a helicopter was flying overhead!

This dirt patch is an ant hill.... They didn't care.

This thread now has 100% more dog!

This is tunechi or tuni for short. He is my sister/moms dog.

This is my dog Keke! She was the only female in the litter. Tuni is her brother. They both decided to go play in the swamp across the road. They like to roll in sand to get themselves dry....

This is my grandfather's dog bo. He is the brother to Tuni and Keke. None of the dogs from their litter look anything alike. There's these three one was a fluffy yellow male, one was a dark brindle and I think the rest where different shades of brindle. Bo looks like a small mastiff.

This is karma. She's also mine, she is the mother of tuni, keke and bo. She's also blind. Her pregnancy was due to my uncles stupidity, my family went on a trip for two days and one night. She was getting fixed the next month, I believe, and she went into heat before we left. We told my uncle to let our dogs out and feed them.... For some reason he left our dogs out with his Un-fixed male and he ended up getting karma pregnant. Her pregnancy went smoothly, just some morning sickness that was helped with some crackers.
She has since been fixed and is a very happy girl.

Next is Bob. He showed up and never left.

And last, Bella. She has a Mohawk!

 

[TheBeardie]

I probably won't be able to get pictures up in the next few days. One of the chicks has a slipped achilles tendon. I'm trying to get the swelling down to get it back in place, but so far I have not been successful in getting it back in place.

She's still eating and drinking well and can move around quite well. She only seems in pain when I tried to get the tendon back in place.
I hope she can make a full recovery.

Her knee is getting wrapped in vet wrap for support. I've been stretching her leg and giving her some epsom salt soaks too. I going to try to make a Functional brace for more support.

 

[WhoDatChick]

Oh my! How did you figure that she had that?

 

[TheBeardie]

@WhoDatChick You can feel the tendon out of place. The leg bends out to the side too. I'm just hoping I can get the tendon back in the groove.

 

[WhoDatChick]

Oh man! I sure do hope you can get it back in place... and you sound like you are taking very good care of her! You are a good chickie mama

 

[TheBeardie]

Oh man! I sure do hope you can get it back in place... and you sound like you are taking very good care of her! You are a good chickie mama

At this point I'm not sure it's going to happen. but I'm going to keep her as comfortable as possible. She's kinda gimpy at the moment though.