New Mexico

[Jemezhens]

Hi there!
Im up here in the Jemez and I've had my five week olds out all the time for a week now. (Without a heat lamp)They do great even though my old RIR and Buckeye don't let them nuzzle up. I would wait until your coop comes in though; a tote will not protect them from night predators. Good luck on you new flock! Glad to hear Rio Rancho finally got on board.

 

[FridayYet]

Hi there!
Im up here in the Jemez and I've had my five week olds out all the time for a week now. (Without a heat lamp)They do great even though my old RIR and Buckeye don't let them nuzzle up. I would wait until your coop comes in though; a tote will not protect them from night predators. Good luck on you new flock! Glad to hear Rio Rancho finally got on board.

X 2. Mine go into the brooder box in the coop at 3 weeks, and had a heat plate that they ignored after the first few nights, even though it was in the low 40's then.

 

[Garden Peas]

I am soooo excited!!! I've just come back from dragging one of my peafowl to the avian vet, and I got to see Dr. Hudgell over at Petroglyph for the first time. He was amazing! I took a pea with an eye injury to Dr. Atkinson there about two years ago, and she was quite good -- I'd see her again too. But I was so thrilled with Dr. Hudgell. I've had peas for five years, and this is the first time I've found an avian vet that is this unbelievably experienced and knowledgeable.

Yaay! I'm sooo happy!

Peafowl live 20 years, so they are like family members -- and I finally found a vet that has experience in treating them

 

[FridayYet]

Oh that's so good to hear! I was always wondering who to take a chicken to if needed. Thanks

Hope your Pea is OK!

I think one of the vets at Southwest treats chickens, but I'm not sure.

 

[Garden Peas]

Thanks, @FridayYet , it was so wonderful because he was so good and most avian vets never see (or have never treated) anything but cage birds.

Peanut is going to be okay -- I was really worried because he split his lower beak lengthwise and broke a wedge of it out. My fault, really, I hadn't noticed the top beak was in need of trimming. Dr. Hudgell said it is fairly common. He explained the full range of possible beak repairs, from trimming to stainless wire and rebuilding the beak from synthetic materials -- wow!

When he examined Peanut, he figured out that it wasn't as bad as I feared. He trimmed it up, smoothed the edges, and asked me to continue doing that every couple of weeks until the bottom beak has regrown the damaged part. Phew, what a relief. I was worried that the split lower beak would interfere with his ability to drink water, or would spread further apart and farther down, but the vet said the tissue is holding it together and it isn't far enough down to prevent or interfere with drinking. What a relief! I hatched this bird from an egg -- I sure didn't want to have anything happen to him.

And now I know how to trim everybody's beak, because he carefully showed me, yaay x2!

Apparently he does everything from poultry to emus & ostriches along with cage birds and raptors. And bird rescue work. (Dr. Atkinson does rescue avian work too -- she treated one of my peas with a ruptured eyeball two years ago, and she was quite good also.)

I had ended up at a different vet clinic a month or two ago, with a slipped tendon peachick -- the avian vet there had never seen any peas before, and didn't really know what to do. Eventually she figured out something that worked, which was good, but she was really uncertain about what to do with it. So not going back to that place. There's avian vets and avian vets

 

[Cow Chips]

Hi all! Clayton, NM here and formerly Las Cruces and Albuquerque.
I've adopted 3 Orpingtons, 1 Plymouth Rock, 1 Leghorn and we brought 3 younger Orpingtons when we moved; they're now about 8 weeks old. Total of 8 so far with 15 Guinea Keets on the way! And did I mention we've only been at it for a month? lol

 

[FridayYet]

Hi Cow chips! Jumping right into it, I see.

Welcome to the crazy world of poultry!

 

[Peep_Show]

Ahhh, Chicken Math 101 underway...

 

[Mrsmith1113]

Hi all! Just joined, I'm from Bloomfield, NM. Is there any other locals near me. By chance maybe ones that know where Big R and IFA receive their chicks from? I have 7 chicks I'm researching to figure out their breeds.

 

[Peep_Show]

The local New Mexico hatchery is Privett.