Michigan

[Olive Hill]

He has a website -- http://www.rdanderson.com/

 

[RBahmer]

Drake is eating!!!!!!!

YAAAA Good job.

 

[snowflake]

yeah for the drake

hope he continues to do well!

Olive or Hillbilly ,Ope, if you are back, Any one that has had hens for a long time.....Question...... if you have ever had vent gleet does it always come with rash or sores? I have a 4yr. old BO that has had messy vent feathers since fall, have been trying to figure it out. and hate to cull her but I know I have to. I think she is the one that was laying soft and no shell eggs last year. the stress from the fall most likely caused the problem. and she is very thin. The skin around her vent looks very healthy. so even though I thought it was vent gleet, maybe she is just old and can not recover from the fall bout of parasites we had, Have brought fecal samples in to vet twice now and they were clean both times.

every one else looks healthy. she eats and drinks and runs around but is fluffed more then normal because she is so thin. Hope to get the deed done this weekend as well as a roo that can not be trusted as he likes to attack every chance he gets

 

[babigyrl22]

Thanks guys. That egg came from one of my EE's who lays an light olive green egg. I haven't come acrossed any more that have been fertile but I assume that, in time, I will come across more.

We saw Big Boy on top of my little white bantam cochin the other day. Too bad she's almost a year and hasn't laid an egg for me YET.

::mumblegrumbles ::

 

[BobBry]

OOPS! Sorry HBH...... I don't like to use the multi quote button because it seems to take up so much space. A
lot of scrolling going on!!

GOOD FOR YOU !!!!! MORE SHOULD TOO ??!!!!

 

[taprock]

He has a website -- http://www.rdanderson.com/

Shouldn't have looked, he is old now, My son was just watching Macgyver on Netflix yesterday. I was a kid when Macgyver was on and now I feel old!

Drake is eating!!!!!!!

I used wet q tips to clean up my chick with weird feathers. Then I wrapped him in a dryer warmed wash cloth and buffed him with a cotton ball. This black colored residue came off the feathers. The chick looks a little fluffier this morning but not normal. I didn't do all of him just the worst section on his head and back.

 

[Olive Hill]

yeah for the drake

hope he continues to do well!

Olive or Hillbilly ,Ope, if you are back, Any one that has had hens for a long time.....Question...... if you have ever had vent gleet does it always come with rash or sores? I have a 4yr. old BO that has had messy vent feathers since fall, have been trying to figure it out. and hate to cull her but I know I have to. I think she is the one that was laying soft and no shell eggs last year. the stress from the fall most likely caused the problem. and she is very thin. The skin around her vent looks very healthy. so even though I thought it was vent gleet, maybe she is just old and can not recover from the fall bout of parasites we had, Have brought fecal samples in to vet twice now and they were clean both times.

every one else looks healthy. she eats and drinks and runs around but is fluffed more then normal because she is so thin. Hope to get the deed done this weekend as well as a roo that can not be trusted as he likes to attack every chance he gets

Did you take her fecal sample in or just random ones?

 

[zephyrcreek]

Babygyrl - actually that egg does NOT look fertile to me...unless my computer is not picking up something with the color. All egg yolks have a milky white spot.

If the egg is fertile it will have rings of color. There will be stripes of the milky white, and the bright yellow yolk color, and milky white again. I think my eggs will usually show 4 rings. The circle on your egg looks like the typical milky white to me.

 

[zephyrcreek]

Hillybilly Hen

Are your Delawaggers an EE del cross? I have a couple of the cutest pullets here with the smaller body, beards, and del columbian pattern. I LOVE it! They are so funny.

 

[babigyrl22]

Babygyrl - actually that egg does NOT look fertile to me...unless my computer is not picking up something with the color. All egg yolks have a milky white spot.

If the egg is fertile it will have rings of color. There will be stripes of the milky white, and the bright yellow yolk color, and milky white again. I think my eggs will usually show 4 rings. The circle on your egg looks like the typical milky white to me.

Ok. It's the first egg I've seen with a spot like that. I cooked up some eggs this morning and none of them had a spot like that. I'll take another picture if I come across another. Thanks!