Maine

[anyasmifya]

Thanks everyone for your get well wishes for Bart. He is still very lethargic. My neighbor vet found a puncture wound under his wing. We cleaned his wounds yesterday and dressed them. She is going to come back this afternoon to take a look at him. I think he may have ate a bit of food. It's hard to tell since it's soaked pellets. I also think he's wounds look less inflamed, but again that's hard to tell too.

 

[Jazor]

Thanks everyone for your get well wishes for Bart. He is still very lethargic. My neighbor vet found a puncture wound under his wing. We cleaned his wounds yesterday and dressed them. She is going to come back this afternoon to take a look at him. I think he may have ate a bit of food. It's hard to tell since it's soaked pellets. I also think he's wounds look less inflamed, but again that's hard to tell too.

They are surprisingly resilient critters, I wouldn't be surprised if he made a full (and quick) recovery. You're doin' the right stuff!

 

[quailtrail]

Lost the 2 sick chicks last night. Up all night with sick child... asthma attack, fever... etc. Didn't help that I have a brooder in the garage, and a sick bay brooder in the livingroom, with temps ricocheting all over the place. In my sleep deprived state, I put most of the layer chicks in the upstairs brooder to keep the little dom company after the first chick died. Totally screwed up on sanitization, and threw all the chicks in there. I'm hoping that I didn't expose them to some nasty pathogens.

Introduced all the chicks to fermented feed this morning. Apparently, it tastes better when you stand in it.

The big girls are very P****d at me. Apparently it's my fault that it's raining today. They had a good time foraging in the woods yesterday.

Sorry to hear you lost the 2 sick chicks...and a sick kiddo. Hope you can all get some rest!!

 

[CoopChick719]

Q. T. If it's 1/4" mesh, you'll be fine. I covered mine with waffle shelf liner, then ended up covering that with paper towel. Not sure it was the right thing to do b/c it held a lot of moisture and got really nasty at the end. One of the last chicks to hatch just died tonight, I think from peritonitis. (I'm sure the nastiness in the incubator contributed to it.) The other assisted hatch, a little female is doing fine, in spite of her petite size. She seems to be a feisty thing. Because she was brought back from the brink of death, I've named her Phoenix.

Today has been quite the day. I got the 17 chicks I'd ordered: 4 Dom, 3 RCBL, 10 Pioneers. When I went to the hardware store to pick them up, they were clustered under the light... or as close as they could get to it, since they only had 2 lights for 4 bins, and they were way too high. The poor chicks were standing on their tip toes trying to get a little heat... and screaming their little hearts out. 2 of them were comatose and hypothermic. I scooped up as many as I could hold in my hands to try to warm them up while waiting for an employee to address my needs. They didn't seem to have a clue that the chicks needed a specific temperature... "They have a heat lamp..." as if a lamp hanging 3 feet above them is going to do much good. Not a thermometer in sight. So, after they dropped the lamp, I went out for coffee to cool my jets, and came back. The little dom was still comatose. So, I waffled back and forth about bringing her home... Didn't want to pay for a dead chick. In the end, they did not charge me for her. She can keep her eyes open, and can stand up, but still not eating or drinking. If she survives, she'll be Phoenix #2. The Doms are really poor representations of the breed. On a bright

I think I'm all done dealing with hardware stores. In the future, I'll be ordering direct, or hatching my own. OK, rant over!

SERIOUSLY, Is it that hard for the feedstores to have a short list of Do's & Don'ts on chicks & ducklings?! I don't know if they're stupid or just don't care!!

Lost the 2 sick chicks last night. Up all night with sick child... asthma attack, fever... etc. Didn't help that I have a brooder in the garage, and a sick bay brooder in the livingroom, with temps ricocheting all over the place. In my sleep deprived state, I put most of the layer chicks in the upstairs brooder to keep the little dom company after the first chick died. Totally screwed up on sanitization, and threw all the chicks in there. I'm hoping that I didn't expose them to some nasty pathogens.

Introduced all the chicks to fermented feed this morning. Apparently, it tastes better when you stand in it.

The big girls are very P****d at me. Apparently it's my fault that it's raining today. They had a good time foraging in the woods yesterday.

Sorry about the chicks, LG

. Hope your sick child is feeling better!

Yes, last year's chicks thought the FF tasted much better that way too! Some of them are still doing it now that they're a year old! I'm constantly saying, "Get out of the pan. Get out of the pan! GET OUT OF THE PAN!!"

My girls were P**d at me last night as well. I've been letting them out of the pen when I get home from work for a few hours of ranging. I felt a little nauseous last night so wouldn't let them out while I did minimal chicken chores. I heard about it!

Why don't children follow directions?! As I didn't feel well, I asked DS to close pen door, close popdoor & small front window in coop. I go out this morning--pen door open, big window (open for ventilation) and small window closed. Popdoor was closed. Thank goodness! Last time the pen door & pop door were left open after dark, I had a skunk in the coop!

Does the Call Duck look like he gained about 19lbs overnight?

Thanks everyone for your get well wishes for Bart. He is still very lethargic. My neighbor vet found a puncture wound under his wing. We cleaned his wounds yesterday and dressed them. She is going to come back this afternoon to take a look at him. I think he may have ate a bit of food. It's hard to tell since it's soaked pellets. I also think he's wounds look less inflamed, but again that's hard to tell too.

Glad to hear Bart seems to be doing better! Nice of your neighbor to help you out!!

 

[lazy gardener]

No more losses, and all the chicks look good, even the remaining 3 Doms. they're hopping all over the place, making great sport of jumping over each other. If you folks want a bird that will brighten up your egg baskets, is feed thrifty, an excellent forager, winter hardy, and that will be about as good at predator evasion as possible... look no further than the Rose Comb Brown Leghorn. They lay a large white egg, and are an absolute hoot to watch.

7 y.o. has strep. I don't expect much rest for a few days.

 

[quailtrail]

No more losses, and all the chicks look good, even the remaining 3 Doms.  they're hopping all over the place, making great sport of jumping over each other.  If you folks want a bird that will brighten up your egg baskets, is feed thrifty,  an excellent forager, winter hardy, and that will be about as good at predator evasion as possible... look no further than the Rose Comb Brown Leghorn.  They lay a large white egg, and are an absolute hoot to watch.

7 y.o. has strep.  I don't expect much rest for a few days.

yay about chicks!!!! Boo to strep

 

[quailtrail]

Thanks everyone for your get well wishes for Bart. He is still very lethargic. My neighbor vet found a puncture wound under his wing. We cleaned his wounds yesterday and dressed them. She is going to come back this afternoon to take a look at him. I think he may have ate a bit of food. It's hard to tell since it's soaked pellets. I also think he's wounds look less inflamed, but again that's hard to tell too. 

glad to hear he's hanging in there!!!

 

[Cknldy]

I've been thinking about rose comb brown leghorns- the males' coloring is what caught my eye. I had an old-timer tell me that I don't want rose comb, I want straight comb brown leghorns because they lay better! Uh, I just said oh really? Huh. After he left I just thought to myself "Yep, I still want rose comb brown leghorns"

 

[quailtrail]

Hatch day is tomorrow! !!! I've been staring into the bator...but a watched bator doesn't make them hatch...hope I sleep lol!!!!

 

[buckabucka]

Good luck with your hatch quailtrail!