Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

today is my birthday and it is great.

Missy you should post your final pecking order to see how this plays out

Happy birthday!

 

[NevadaRon]

Afternoon everyone! Nice to meet another new person on here, sorry I can't take your roo, we are not allowed to have roos in parts of Reno and I'm in that part.

Congrats on the new chicks Jann, very nice!

Hi Stacey, Patty isn't getting bigger at all and I do feel something like an egg now but it's not in the vent. The whole swelling has moved now to the very back side of her. I'm not sure if it's just the swelling that his hard, a tumor or an actual egg. I do not know how to even get this out if I could.

I have Patty isolated right now trying to figure out how to fix this. She's pushing like trying to get an egg out. Can an egg with shell and all get out of the vent? Is that even possible?

Sheryl I don't understand the question.

Eggs always come out the vent.

Happy Birthday Seth!

Elizabeth I just need some help from my fellow enablers to talk me into that BO roo!

 

[StevieNay]

Happy birthday Seth!

This snow is crazy, and about time! It is a nice test to see that our coop is waterproof and snow proof though. No snow inside and it didn't cave in, maybe we did all right!

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Congrats on the new chicks Jann, very nice!

Thank you Sheryl!

 

[sherylreno]

Happy Birthday Seth! How old are you now?

I guess my question is - can an egg rupture the vent and drop into the cavity of the bird? If it can't then it's a tumor or something but there isn't anymore swelling going on. She's been pushing like trying to get an egg out but there isn't an egg in the vent.

 

[NevadaRon]

I see! From what I've heard, if an egg ruptures inside the bird, it will almost certainly cause an infection and the end will come very quickly. That's why they say to puncture the shell of an egg-bound egg only as a last resort, and then do it very carefully. So that probably isn't the issue here.

 

[2seth2]

well ron we are great enablers come on a BO that is super sweet and would make great purebread BO babies you could sell them

 

[2seth2]

14

 

[laceynoelle]

Happy Birthday Seth!

 

[chicharomirinda]

Happy Birthday, Seth!

Hope the girls settle down soon, Missy! It's business as usual over here, thankfully. I think it was definitely smart for me to keep Gunda so pecking order would not need to be reestablished--at least not the top spot. The chickens did not venture out much today. Just went out on their porch and then came back inside the coop. I gave them a whole cabbage to entertain themselves with.

I definitely think you need to grab that BO roo, Ron! I'm trying my best to enable you.

glad your chick made it through the night ok, horseshowmomnv. Hopefully they will all be fine. 27 is a lot. I had 25 and boy did they grow fast. They were crammed in the brooder like sardines at the end. I was building the coop as they were growing. We got them out there at 6 weeks. What a relief!

Hi sheryl, I hope you can figure out something for Patty. I'm sure it's hard to see her sick and not know what to do for her.

stevienay, glad your coop is holding up.

Ours is too. although when it rained heavily, we had some water come in the window openings because we just have plastic stapled up over the hw cloth right now and some of the plastic came unfastened with the wind. Haven't made actual windows yet. It's on the long to-do list, though.


I'll be back in a little while some photos of the porch and ramp I made for the coop. I'm also going to try to finish naming all my chickens. Missy puts me to shame. She had names for the ones she got from me weeks before she even got them.