Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[fuzzybutt love]

My BO that's laying, has no sign of feathers returning on the bare spot just below her bottom fluff. But she is the only one laying and seems to want to go broody? She stays in the nest box and keeps returning to it after I've taken her out.

They will line the nest with their belly fluff, for the babies and so their skin makes better contact to heat up the eggs. Are the eggs hot to the touch when you get there? Sounds like if you want you will get some spring babies! Depending on your flock and setup the other hens could attack the hatchlings, though. I'd wait until winter's nearly done to let her; then as the hen can no longer fit her babies under and they are a little bare yet the temps will bump up and they won't be quite so cold!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

edited out, reply below.

 

[SillyChicken]

http://annarbor.craigslist.org/grd/4256271693.html

I'd love to get them, but.. I have too many birds at this time..

Raz, This may be a type of Canarie that would fit your situation, you could sell the eggs and keep them inside.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Quote:Originally Posted by taprock Crap. Same as the new hen i bought at the start of winter. I'd know that sound anywhere......No idea at the moment of what the name of the ailment is, but she needs tylan. Half a ml squirted into the beak is what i did to fix mine, and i put a whole ml into every gallon of water for the flock to keep it from spreading. I used a needle-less syringe from rite-aid. 5 days and she'll be good as new

 

[1muttsfan]

Tap, I was reading a thread where a member told about a show rooster that died suddenly, he was her #1 breeder and a truly great bird - she had an autopsy done and they found a pea in his respiratory tract. She sounds to me more like an obstruction than an infection, unfortunately if that is true there is not much you can do.

How is the hedgehog?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

rales and inhaling stuff do sound pretty similar; I've had them inhale crumble before but it wasn't so loud. That is something that either works itself out or don't (in the case of the pea) but if it's infection this particular one needs be treated immediately. Just can't remember what it is

 

[Trefoil]

Even if its something in her respiratory tract, I would give her antibiotics. The obstruction isn't stopping her from breathing, but wouldn't it cause infection as it slowly rots (for lack of a better word)?

 

[1muttsfan]

It would likely cause aspiration pneumonia, which is foreign-body related and does not respond to antibiotics. Not that she couldn't give them, it just would not be effective against a foreign body.

I had a hen get a piece of grass stuck in her trachea once, sounded just like a little tin whistle - fortunately she was able to cough it back up.

 

[uchytil]

I have a handsome little ND buck if you're ever in need of his services.

Yeah, if you lived near me we'd get em' together! I think my window of opportunity is over unless she goes into heat again in Jan?

 

[chickwhispers]

They will line the nest with their belly fluff, for the babies and so their skin makes better contact to heat up the eggs. Are the eggs hot to the touch when you get there? Sounds like if you want you will get some spring babies!   Depending on your flock and setup the other hens could attack the hatchlings, though. I'd wait until winter's nearly done to let her; then as the hen can no longer fit her babies under and they are a little bare yet the temps will bump up and they won't be quite so cold!

I don't have any roosters would she still think she wants to go broody? Or is she trying to keep her bottom warm?