"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

Yay! What kind did you hatch? Happy Thanksgiving! FYI working with Rogue (GSD) quite a bit, she is doing well!

Crested Cream Legbars! Glad to here about Rouge their is a trainer on U-Tube called Nando Brown all positive reinforcement. Thats how I like to train. Happy thankgiving everyone!!! Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Have a happy thanksgiving

Thanks Happy thanks giving to you too. I promise I will be by soon. Time just got away from me. I had to start cooking are we would be hungery tomorrow :/
Hpoefully a good amount of poulets will hatch.Martha laid another egg bigger than the last. I used it for ginger Bread no double yolker just a hudge egg.

 

[LindaB220]

Oh my gosh I'll Neva catch up

Where ya been? Missed you. Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[LindaB220]

You've been gone too long to catch up. But I'm glad to see you here. Happy thanksgiving to you and all tha La-yers! Pam

You too Sweetie.

 

[LindaB220]

Happy Turkey day everyone!

I have tons of pics of the last few weeks lol but can't post at the moment.

Have a lot of processing going on, layers still laying strong, up to about 70 rabbits, kids are great, hubby is awesome, had a hawk attack last week that wounded Blue the head hen but she survived!

YOU are ready to quit your day job, right?

 

[Ron Skekel]

Thanks Linda,
I have 4 hatched this morning all poulets so far hope more hatch.One is loud and peeping away. Happy holidays everyone.

 

[LindaB220]

Thanks Linda,
I have 4 hatched this morning all poulets so far hope more hatch.One is loud and peeping away. Happy holidays everyone.

Hoping I can hatch some of the Cobb 500. I tell ya. I fixed breakfast this morning. I used a couple of eggs that I got the first day or so that they came. And the rest of them after they had been eating fermented feed for days. WHAT a difference. Pale creamy eggs against orange healthy eggs. MAN. what a difference. I wish I had been able to take a picture.

 

[JennieRD]

Hello everyone, Happy Thanksgiving! Well chicken pox/fowl pox has found its way to one of my coops... What a nightmare!!!! Mine are not vaccinated, but vaccination is on its way. My favorite BLRW is severally infected. Now one of my Wheaten Marans has a bump, and one of my 6 week old Cornish chicks looks like his eye is swelling. NONE of these are in the same coops......OK, I feel better now....I vented, the last two weeks have been a nightmare with sun down early, and working till dark I've had a flashlight in hand and coop lights helping watch for any sick chicks. Its funny how when one is sick, you find something wrong with all of them.....Good news, no one else is showing signs of sickness. The wheaten hen, its really not noticeable unless I pick her up and look eye to eye with her, and the Buff Cornish, I am beginning to think it was a little dust in his eye. I gave them all antibiotics for a week and its not noticeable now. But my BLRW it looks bad. He is isolated and a very unhappy camper, his girlfriends are lost without him. The have become anti social, perching by themselves, and hiding in the back of the coop. Even when they are out, the two girls find a spot and perch by themselves. It makes you wonder about chickens and there ability to grieve or miss a flock member! But. there is no way I can let him go back right now, they would all pick on him, and if it is pox, he could spread it to everyone. It was just a slight eye discharge when I got to him, now his eye has swollen shut. I started him on Tylan, and Water Soluble Auromician.

Then Neville, the Jungle Fowl, decided to pick a fight with his roost mate, Blue, a many breed mongrel rooster, that's too pretty to cull. It must be in the air. All of my roosters are behaving except these two...And the Guinea's are egging them on squawking louder and louder until I break the two up. Then they settle down for a while. Nevil, Blue, Bertha, and Mutt all free roam at nigh an usually get along well. But now Nevil is hurt and in hiding and I cant get close enough to see how bad he is hurt.

I've got to stop incubating eggs, I've got 140 in the bator, and a dozen hatching every week until mid December and I think I am done for the year. Ill start back again in March or April. I love to see what they are going to look like, especially the project eggs. I took on several new breeds, Danish Brown Leghorns, Red Leghorn's, Black and Lavender Australorps, Rhodebars, Isbars, Legbars, and White Rocks. and I am adding a few new Wheaten and Splash Marans, Gold Laced Wyandotte, and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte to the flock.

I am not keeping them all of course, 1/2 already have homes, I already have too many, I counted 133 yesterday, that not including the 5 half breeds I keep around running lose.

That's about it on my end, so how's everyone else's coops?

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hello everyone, Happy Thanksgiving!  Well chicken pox/fowl pox has found its way to one of my coops... What a nightmare!!!! Mine are not vaccinated, but vaccination is on its way. My favorite BLRW is severally infected. Now one of my Wheaten Marans has a bump, and one of my 6 week old Cornish chicks looks like his eye is swelling. NONE of these are in the same coops......OK, I feel better now....I vented, the last two weeks have been a nightmare with sun down early, and working till dark I've had a flashlight in hand and coop lights helping watch for any sick chicks. Its funny how when one is sick, you find something wrong with all of them.....Good news, no one else is showing signs of sickness. The wheaten hen, its really not noticeable unless I pick her up and look eye to eye with her, and the Buff Cornish, I am beginning to think it was a little dust in his eye. I gave them all antibiotics for a week and its not noticeable now. But my BLRW it looks bad. He is isolated and a very unhappy camper, his girlfriends are lost without him. The have become anti social, perching by themselves, and hiding in the back of the coop. Even when they are out, the two girls find a spot and perch by themselves. It makes you wonder about chickens and there ability to grieve or miss a flock member! But.  there is no way I can let him go back right now, they would all pick on him, and if it is pox, he could spread it to everyone. It was just a slight eye discharge when I got to him, now his eye has swollen shut. I started him on Tylan, and Water Soluble Auromician.

Then Neville, the Jungle Fowl, decided to pick a fight with his roost mate, Blue, a many breed mongrel rooster, that's too pretty to cull. It must be in the air. All of my roosters are behaving except these two...And the Guinea's are egging them on  squawking louder and louder until I break the two up. Then they settle down for a while. Nevil, Blue, Bertha, and Mutt all free roam at nigh an usually get along well. But now Nevil is hurt and in hiding and I cant get close enough to see how bad he is hurt.

I've got to stop incubating eggs, I've got 140 in the bator, and a dozen hatching every week until mid December and I think I am done for the year. Ill start back again in March or April. I love to see what they are going to look like, especially the project eggs. I took on several new breeds, Danish Brown Leghorns, Red Leghorn's, Black and Lavender Australorps,  Rhodebars, Isbars, Legbars, and White Rocks. and I am adding a few new Wheaten and Splash Marans, Gold Laced Wyandotte, and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte to the flock.

I am not keeping them all of course, 1/2 already have homes, I already have too many, I counted 133 yesterday, that not including the 5 half breeds I keep around running lose.

That's about it on my end, so how's everyone else's coops?

Is it dry pox or wet? Pam

 

[JennieRD]

Is it dry pox or wet? Pam

I am not so sure its pox at all....go to https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...len-eye-with-bubbling-liquid/90#post_14401012 I posted pics on emergency thread....my husband just sent me pics...Hes ready to take my blue lace to the chopping block, I am not ready to give in that quick..... can you take a look and get back to me here it got worse..His throat is clear, but his eye is bad. It may only be a bad infection. There is no nasal discharge that I know of right now.