Meyer Hatchery Chicken pics anyone??

[MsChickenMomma]

Just realized that I accidentally put that Sunni was 22 weeks and 5 days old. She's actually 21 weeks 5 days. My bad!

 

[NotableNancy]

It snowed here today. Luckily the ground is still warm enough that it didn't stick. Poor Sky (BA) got left out of the coop all night! She must have run out while I was getting the younger girls out of the nest boxes because I know she was in there when I first got there. She's lucky she didn't freeze! She's also lucky I shut up their caged in pen that surrounds the coop so a predator couldn't get to her.

It's been so wet here that the girls haven't had anywhere to take a dust bath and they are starting to show little eggs of something on them. Gave them all dust baths with some DE. We put a pile of it on the ground for them too but it snowed on it. :-/ I sprinkled it in their coop too. Hopefully it will help.

Wow, snow! It was 87 degrees here yesterday and I'm in PA! It's awful. Supposed to break by Monday. I love snow but I may start liking it less now that I have chickens. Sky shows how tough chickens are. So glad she made it through the night outside. Maybe you can put a container of DE, wood ash and sand big enough for 2 of them to dust bathe in or is the coop big enough that you can put one in there for them. My chickens have taken to dust bathing when they go in the coop at night. Their poop board is covered with DE and PDZ and they love that. Dust flies everywhere but I'm sure it's good for them.

Good job Daisy and Sunni!!!

Yesterday I checked each of my 6 girls hip bones. They are 19.5 weeks now. Pearl/BA, Diamond/SS and syrprisingly Daisy/CW were a good loose finger. Bianca/WR and Goldie/BO were a snug finger. Olivia the EE wasn't even a finger.

I do have man hands... but still not too promising of an egg anytime soon.

LOL, man hands! 19.5 weeks though, I'm sure it will happen soon. Just when you least expect it!

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I could seriously write a book. Call it 'The Chronicles of Sunni'. Something is always happening with this girl. Every morning before I feed her I feel her crop to see if there is any food left in it so I know how much food to give her. Guess what I felt when I was feeling her crop? A SCREW!! I did some research and found that the screw HAD to come out. We spent an hour using magnets to try and guide the screw back up. It was just a little 1/2 inch screw, but it can be deadly if you leave that in there. We tried putting a very strong tiny tiny magnet in the end of a feeding tube to fish it out, and that didnt work. The screw pulled the magnet out of the tube. Then we tried massaging it out. Didn't work. Finally we tried sticking a telescoping rare earth magnet down her throat and into her crop. After the second try with that we heard a "TINK" and slowly pulled it back up. Out came the screw. Sunni is very raspy now, because we think it probably scratched up her esophagus, and she may have aspirated a little when she threw up one of the times we were using the magnet.

My naughty rooster is at fault for this. Yesterday he kept finding screws, glass, plastic, etc in the yard and he would call the girls like it was a treat! I guess one of the times I wasn't around to take the "treat" from him, Sunni must have ate it. *sigh*

 

[trsturself]

I could seriously write a book. Call it 'The Chronicles of Sunni'. Something is always happening with this girl. Every morning before I feed her I feel her crop to see if there is any food left in it so I know how much food to give her. Guess what I felt when I was feeling her crop? A SCREW!! I did some research and found that the screw HAD to come out. We spent an hour using magnets to try and guide the screw back up. It was just a little 1/2 inch screw, but it can be deadly if you leave that in there. We tried putting a very strong tiny tiny magnet in the end of a feeding tube to fish it out, and that didnt work. The screw pulled the magnet out of the tube. Then we tried massaging it out. Didn't work. Finally we tried sticking a telescoping rare earth magnet down her throat and into her crop. After the second try with that we heard a "TINK" and slowly pulled it back up. Out came the screw. Sunni is very raspy now, because we think it probably scratched up her esophagus, and she may have aspirated a little when she threw up one of the times we were using the magnet.

My naughty rooster is at fault for this. Yesterday he kept finding screws, glass, plastic, etc in the yard and he would call the girls like it was a treat! I guess one of the times I wasn't around to take the "treat" from him, Sunni must have ate it. *sigh*

Geez! That's crazy. I'm always afraid of the girls finding stuff like that.

I'm trying to find something to put their dust bath stuff in. I'm trying not to spend money so I'm looking around the house/garage to see what I can find.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Geez! That's crazy. I'm always afraid of the girls finding stuff like that.

I'm trying to find something to put their dust bath stuff in. I'm trying not to spend money so I'm looking around the house/garage to see what I can find.

Do you have any totes? You could always cut two or three of them and tape them together to make a big bucket. Just a suggestion.

 

[NotableNancy]

Holy cow ChickenMomma...that's crazy!! She sure is a handful. My main question is how do you have that many kinds of magnets around? I don't think I have any at all!

Geez! That's crazy. I'm always afraid of the girls finding stuff like that.

I'm trying to find something to put their dust bath stuff in. I'm trying not to spend money so I'm looking around the house/garage to see what I can find.

When it was super hot out we used a lid from one of our large plastic outdoor trashcans. We turned it upside down and put water in it for a makeshift pool to cool off in. Maybe that?

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Holy cow ChickenMomma...that's crazy!! She sure is a handful. My main question is how do you have that many kinds of magnets around? I don't think I have any at all!

We used refrigerator magnets and really heavy duty magnets that my dad has from when he used to build car parts in a machine shop. It was quite an experience trying to get that screw out. Sunni Sunni.... So naughty!

 

[NanaLynn]

Sunni laid her first egg!!

It weighed 1.3 ounces. She is 22 weeks and 5 days old. She also ate about 30 pellets on her own this morning. You have no idea how proud I am of this little girl.

Yay for Sunni!! Congrats. So glad to hear she is doing so much better and eating too!

That is a beautiful picture! Very creative to place the egg on Fall leaves too!

Well done... mine is still broody. I don't have the space in the coop to put the cage with her in it so if I were to leave her in the cage all night she'd be out in the run. That makes me nervous so I guess she'l just stop being broody when she's ready.
Also, Izzy my only green egg layer hasn't laid an egg for 6 days so I guess she's done for the winter even though we have a light in the coop. She seems perfectly fine, eating and drinking, so I'm hoping it's just the less light in the day that's affecting her.

Olivia was outside in the run, but our run is protected all around with hardware cloth. She still has not laid an egg since she turned broody which is 12 days so far. She also is eating and drinking and acting normal so I guess she's good. I have only brown eggs each day now.

I don't have a BCM but I have a Cuckoo Marans from Meyer and it's very interesting colored... I'll try to capture it on camera and post it. It's dark on the tips but then the middle almost has a purplish tint to it. My one RIR lays an egg just as dark as my CM but I'm sure that's a fluke because my other RIR just lays a regular brown egg.

Ooh, I what to see that egg!

Good job Daisy and Sunni!!!

Yesterday I checked each of my 6 girls hip bones. They are 19.5 weeks now. Pearl/BA, Diamond/SS and syrprisingly Daisy/CW were a good loose finger. Bianca/WR and Goldie/BO were a snug finger. Olivia the EE wasn't even a finger.

I do have man hands... but still not too promising of an egg anytime soon.

Not much longer now!

Yeah!

They'll get there.

It snowed here today. Luckily the ground is still warm enough that it didn't stick. Poor Sky (BA) got left out of the coop all night! She must have run out while I was getting the younger girls out of the nest boxes because I know she was in there when I first got there. She's lucky she didn't freeze! She's also lucky I shut up their caged in pen that surrounds the coop so a predator couldn't get to her.

It's been so wet here that the girls haven't had anywhere to take a dust bath and they are starting to show little eggs of something on them. Gave them all dust baths with some DE. We put a pile of it on the ground for them too but it snowed on it. :-/ I sprinkled it in their coop too. Hopefully it will help.

Snow? Really? Wow! Hard to believe, it is in the higher 80's here in NC. I still have peppers and eggplants growing in the garden. I hope you can take care of what's on your hens. I have a fear of mine getting mites or something, for sure not something to look forward to.

I'm glad Sky is okay, chickens are pretty tough, I've learned that the hard way.

I could seriously write a book. Call it 'The Chronicles of Sunni'. Something is always happening with this girl. Every morning before I feed her I feel her crop to see if there is any food left in it so I know how much food to give her. Guess what I felt when I was feeling her crop? A SCREW!! I did some research and found that the screw HAD to come out. We spent an hour using magnets to try and guide the screw back up. It was just a little 1/2 inch screw, but it can be deadly if you leave that in there. We tried putting a very strong tiny tiny magnet in the end of a feeding tube to fish it out, and that didnt work. The screw pulled the magnet out of the tube. Then we tried massaging it out. Didn't work. Finally we tried sticking a telescoping rare earth magnet down her throat and into her crop. After the second try with that we heard a "TINK" and slowly pulled it back up. Out came the screw. Sunni is very raspy now, because we think it probably scratched up her esophagus, and she may have aspirated a little when she threw up one of the times we were using the magnet.

My naughty rooster is at fault for this. Yesterday he kept finding screws, glass, plastic, etc in the yard and he would call the girls like it was a treat! I guess one of the times I wasn't around to take the "treat" from him, Sunni must have ate it. *sigh*

Wow! Poor Sunni! That is really crazy. I'm glad you figured it out and got it out of there. I worry about screws and nails and other objects that they might get a hold of. Oh yeah, also string too after Sunni's tongue incident. I hope she continues doing well and this did not set her back.

Geez! That's crazy. I'm always afraid of the girls finding stuff like that.

I'm trying to find something to put their dust bath stuff in. I'm trying not to spend money so I'm looking around the house/garage to see what I can find.

We used a turned over lid for a large trash can and that was not deep enough, so I just put a storage tub that was fairly deep in their run area, it is under the part of the run that is covered from rain. They love it and it is so deep they can't shake everything out of it. Here's our giant chicken, Big Mama (BO) using it.

 

[trsturself]

Yeah snow! It's supposed to be back into the 70's this week. Fall is crazy! My daughter and I had to be outdoors this morning for 1 1/2 hours in the cold while she rode a horse! Why did that have to happen the coldest day!? She just started with a high speed drill team - westernaires.org - let me know if you want to donate $8 to help her raise money.

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. The only empty bin we have is double this size, we use them to bathe them before show. I don't think they'll go in their on their own after that.
I think I can spring for the cost of one of these smaller bins. They need it. It's only going to get wetter!

 

[NotableNancy]

Does anyone have experience with fowl pox? I think a few of my girls have it

It looks like the pics I've been looking at on this site...









I think the last photo shows it pretty well. Of course it's always our favorites that are affected by things right?
Henrietta my BR has it the worst.
Pipsqueak, one RIR and maybe Izzy.

If anyone has experience, did you do anything for it?