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[atmaclean]

I don't get it. She was fine then limping yesterday and today could not move at all. She was my baby girl. I had to help her out of her shell when she hatched...she truly was my baby!

I wish I knew y she was limping and then just couldn't move at all. Then she passed right after I moved her to another room so I could mop!

So sorry to read about your hen. The pictures are beautiful. Looks like such a peaceful place for them. I get very attached to my hens too.

The cockerel that is limping is still limping- no better. Just the same. But tonight when I looked at his leg again, I could feel something in his hock that was hard - not sure if it is a piece of bone or a broken bone - no swelling/heat so I am stumped. He does get around well - and quickly if needed. Still eating and drinking. I have not had time to really google search this....I've been dealing with more hatching guinea keets, moving the teenagers to new runs then I have 2 other batches of guineas that I have moved into runs! Just crazy, buy their ages are too far apart to put them together just yet.

 

[Tikkijane]

LOL....I really hadn't thought about a breed...oops!!    I would like a dual purpose one as we tend to process the extra roosters when we have a broody, (DH wants a RIR because they are "cool" in his eyes - I'd prefer something kid friendly and one with a good disposition around little kids) so, I'm pretty flexible there?!?  As for age...well young enough and/or old enough to handle a group of 10 girls...LOL 

ETA: Tikki - I have NO idea where I am to RM...LOL, I've never been there... I think the furthest I have been that way was Wilson - which is a solid 30-35 mins from us. Sorry...

Wilson is about 30 mins from us. What's your nearest biggest city? (I still don't know my way around the state very well.....)

 

[Tikkijane]

Everybody meet Nash Abby 3 days before she died Bella Rest in Peace little squirt The pet cemetery Well I have good news and bad news. The bad news, I lost my OEG Bantam early this morning. She starting limping just like Angelas chicken in the video. I gave her fishmox for 7 days and B complex. She could stand but wouldn't put any pressure on the hurt foot, she would hold it out to the side and the toes dangled. I kept her in the house for three weeks hoping she would get better. I got some scales off her leg where it turned black. I wonder if leg mites got in there. I did read that they can lose their toes and even the foot. She started breathing heavy last night so I knew it was a matter of time. Losing animals really sucks. I've been crying all day,shoot everyday as far as that goes still think about Colin my dog and the other 2 EE's. I think I might get some babies in the spring from somebody else, maybe Ideal hatchery. I think I remember somebody saying they had different colors in their EE's. I'm a muff and beard person. Think they are so cute. The good news, I have a new fur ever friend. Petfinder was my home page for a while and I got an e-mail about him. He is about 1-2 years old the vet thinks and is in good health. Having his "operation" the end of the month. Hope he will calm down after that. Loves to jump up on you and chew. He tore his new bed apart in 2 minutes time. Wants to run towards the chickens so they won't be out together for sure. He is part Australian Shepard and Collie. Hope y'all don't mind some pics to look at, been fixing up all the animals albums. Thanks for listening and caring.

So sorry. It sure is hard to lose them. I lost 2 cuckoo marans just over a week ago. My biggest annoyance right now is that the dogs keep digging them up.

 

[moomoodiddy]

tikkijane ewww u moght need to sprinkle some lime on them lol

 

[2StrayRoos]

So sorry. It sure is hard to lose them. I lost 2 cuckoo marans just over a week ago. My biggest annoyance right now is that the dogs keep digging them up.

Oh no! Mine are in boxes and are buried very deep. Sorry to hear about your lost also.

 

[BHep]

Cute ! Wild

 

[2StrayRoos]

So sorry to read about your hen. The pictures are beautiful. Looks like such a peaceful place for them. I get very attached to my hens too.

The cockerel that is limping is still limping- no better. Just the same. But tonight when I looked at his leg again, I could feel something in his hock that was hard - not sure if it is a piece of bone or a broken bone - no swelling/heat so I am stumped. He does get around well - and quickly if needed. Still eating and drinking. I have not had time to really google search this....I've been dealing with more hatching guinea keets, moving the teenagers to new runs then I have 2 other batches of guineas that I have moved into runs! Just crazy, buy their ages are too far apart to put them together just yet.

It is. Sad to see it growing though. Love your set-up. Gives me an idea for mine. The length looks the same just need to close the bottom half. Hope yours gets better. Mine did the same ate anything I gave her. Just don't know.

 

[2StrayRoos]

How old are these birds that you are losing? Sorry have been just breezing through. I may have missed if this was an injury or just sudden onset of problems...This sounds like Mareks.

http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000791_Rep813.pdf

Don't know for sure. Fine one minute limping the next. I do not know how old she was, I got her from a farm that sells chickens. Got her last Sept. with 2 others. She laid her egg in the late fall. I'm sure she was full grown. My 2 EE's I lost were 1 year old. The first one that died had laying problems, the second ? I think she grieve herself to death, from losing her sister.

 

[atmaclean]

It is. Sad to see it growing though. Love your set-up. Gives me an idea for mine. The length looks the same just need to close the bottom half. Hope yours gets better. Mine did the same ate anything I gave her. Just don't know.

That really worries me. I will try to do some researching into it tomorrow. I lost my beautiful lavender orphington rooster about a month ago and called the Rollins lab to see how I could get him to them for a necropsy. He literally fell off a perch dead while I was gone to the grocery store. Perfectly fine and feisty as usual when I left and I found him dead on the ground when we got home! Not a mark on him - perfectly normal on the outside. It was devastating....he was strikingly beautiful and, unfortunately, I had not gotten around to breeding him with my lavender orp hens Turns out, I should have refrigerated him immediately. It was too late for the lab to do an accurate necropsy so I do not know what on earth happened. I am ready now if it happens again - hopefully it never will, but in reality I know these things happen. I will know what to do and who to call.

 

[sbrooks88]

How old are these birds that you are losing?  Sorry have been just breezing through.  I may have missed if this was an injury or just sudden onset of problems...This sounds like Mareks.

http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000791_Rep813.pdf

My chick was only 8 weeks old!!! She was fine and then BAM! Gone in less than a day