Michigan

[michickenwrangler]

Hey Olive,

My partridge hen may have dropped dead, but this person has some

http://flint.craigslist.org/grd/2303747766.html


I Placed an order with McMurray Hatchery for May 30th 25 Giant partridge Cochin pullet chicks I only want 13 but the min order is 25. If any one is interested in the other 12 let me know.They will be $5.30 a chick because that is what I paid for them with shipping and vacs

If I hadn't just bought 6 Gold-laced Wyandottes at TSC last night, I would take them.

Dang impulse buys!

 

[justcelia]

Hello All,
Just wanted to post a couple of pics. Edith thinks she is a falcon and we have 3 new members of our flock. 5 day old Brahma (hopefully) pullets. Isobell, Mary and Elizabeth will join edith and Maggie in our back yard.

 

[fifelakelooper]

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Very nice birds just celia! Michigan wrangler...the cochins are so neat!! My cochin was a very good brooder/mama also. My only hatch was from her...I just stuck a bunch of eggs under her last spring when she went broody and she did great! Maybe this will be better for you since you have incubator problems. I'd buy some but I have 24 more Orpington eggs coming this week and in May...24 jersey Giants. I figure if I get lots of eggs...I may end up with a total of maybe 15- 20 chickens.

 

[Opa]

I think I would get some Poultry Drench to add to her water. It comes with an eye dropper dispenser so I would use one dropper per quart of water. TSC sells it and it is quite handy to have around. The first water I give chicks is fortified with it. Anytime I move birds, work on them, or feel they are stressed in anyway I give supplimented water.

 

[fifelakelooper]

Ok...I wrote that down and will see if they have it at the Cadillac TSC. Never heard of it...she doesn't ACT stressed but she is the only one with watery poo.

 

[dianaross77]

Olive,
I just found a link for a rabbit care book. My daughter's rabbit is going through 40oz. of water in 2 days and is excessively hungry all the time. I am worried he might be diabetic.

Just thought you might want to take a look at the illness section. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/13342/Rabbit-Care-Breeding-Book

 

[RIRJen]

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Do you have a waterbottle on the cage? You may want to switch to a bowl and see if that helps...you may have a leaky bottle. (just a thought...had that happen once to me, thought the rabbit was downing the water and turned out the bottle was leaking most of it out!) What kind of feed are you giving it? (what breed is it?) It may not have a high enough fat and protien which will make it eat a lot more to compensate.
Chickens I ask questions....rabbits I know

Been raising/showing/breeding for 20+ years and lovin' it.

OH....OLIVE....Last chance on the pet hares....

 

[shelleyd2008]

Does anyone have scooldog's address? She bought some bantam cochin eggs but it didn't have her address on the payment.

 

[dianaross77]

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Do you have a waterbottle on the cage? You may want to switch to a bowl and see if that helps...you may have a leaky bottle. (just a thought...had that happen once to me, thought the rabbit was downing the water and turned out the bottle was leaking most of it out!) What kind of feed are you giving it? (what breed is it?) It may not have a high enough fat and protien which will make it eat a lot more to compensate.
Chickens I ask questions....rabbits I know

Been raising/showing/breeding for 20+ years and lovin' it.

OH....OLIVE....Last chance on the pet hares....

He does have a water bottle but I know it isn't leaking. That would've been my first thought too. It's a dog water bottle with an nice heavy ball bearing. It's a replacement for a leaky one! I've actually watched him do it. He acts like he's dehydrated and will sit and drink for 5 minutes straight. His stomach makes weird gurgling noises because he drinks so fast. He eats MannaPro "Pro". He also gets grass hay and fruits and veggies. What worries me is that my mom (he was her rescue rabbit for a year before she gave him to us) said he's fat. But he eats the same amount of food as he did at her house and has a cage that's twice as big (28"x42" and 2 stories) and he has a tractor for the nicer months. He definitely gets more exercise than he did at her house. I fed him last night while she was here and she was shocked to see him just about take the scoop out of my hand for his pellets. We've had him for 2 years and this is new behavior, just within the last month or so and he's been on the mannapro for just about the whole time. I know that people prefer rabbits to have timothy based pellets but I can't get any. No one has any. What do you feed your rabbits?

eta: He is about 3 years old and is a lop mix. He weighs 6.5lbs.

 

[RIRJen]

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Do you have a waterbottle on the cage? You may want to switch to a bowl and see if that helps...you may have a leaky bottle. (just a thought...had that happen once to me, thought the rabbit was downing the water and turned out the bottle was leaking most of it out!) What kind of feed are you giving it? (what breed is it?) It may not have a high enough fat and protien which will make it eat a lot more to compensate.
Chickens I ask questions....rabbits I know

Been raising/showing/breeding for 20+ years and lovin' it.

OH....OLIVE....Last chance on the pet hares....

He does have a water bottle but I know it isn't leaking. That would've been my first thought too. It's a dog water bottle with an nice heavy ball bearing. It's a replacement for a leaky one! I've actually watched him do it. He acts like he's dehydrated and will sit and drink for 5 minutes straight. His stomach makes weird gurgling noises because he drinks so fast. He eats MannaPro "Pro". He also gets grass hay and fruits and veggies. What worries me is that my mom (he was her rescue rabbit for a year before she gave him to us) said he's fat. But he eats the same amount of food as he did at her house and has a cage that's twice as big (28"x42" and 2 stories) and he has a tractor for the nicer months. He definitely gets more exercise than he did at her house. I fed him last night while she was here and she was shocked to see him just about take the scoop out of my hand for his pellets. We've had him for 2 years and this is new behavior, just within the last month or so and he's been on the mannapro for just about the whole time. I know that people prefer rabbits to have timothy based pellets but I can't get any. No one has any. What do you feed your rabbits?

eta: He is about 3 years old and is a lop mix. He weighs 6.5lbs.

That feed sounds good, no problem there. (I use Kent) It actual sounds like he might need to be wormed. You can get a wormer from your vet, dosage the same as a cat. Worm once and then again a week later. (or there's kinds of wormers you use over the course of a week, depends on what your vet has) Or you can get just a basic kitten wormer from the pet store.
I had a buck who used to down his water...I always figured he was diabetic....and he did get cataract in his eyes towards the end. You might want to slip him some electolytes in his water as well. (give him a little boost while you're wormig him) '
He wouldn't happen to be an agouti colored rabbit would he?