North Carolina

[Fireantz iceman]

Coop...still need thornless blackberry vines?
Have your pots...!

 

[DSTchickencraze]

Does anyone have any D'uccles and/or Japanese for sale?

Prefer less than 12 weeks or so.. I am having a heck of a time finding them anywhere in the state

I have Buff Black Tailed Bantams. Not really wanting to get rid of them, but I have about 15 eggs scheduled to hatch this week.

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[dutchbunny83]

@BritneyBradshaw I have one Blue D'uccle pullet available, about 15 weeks old.

 

[BritneyBradshaw]

I have Buff Black Tailed Bantams. Not really wanting to get rid of them, but I have about 15 eggs scheduled to hatch this week.  . 

ACK! I adore them - will you be selling any of the chicks? Do you ever sell hatching eggs?

 

[DSTchickencraze]

ACK! I adore them - will you be selling any of the chicks? Do you ever sell hatching eggs?

We are not really planning on keeping any of them. I already have someone wanting some roosters from the hatch... From the hatch we are going to raise them until about 2 or 3 weeks to figure out which are roosters. I'm sure we can figure something out if you want some!


Some of the chicks are going to be Buff Black Tailed and a few are going to be a different color, because there was a golden campine bantam with them.. I should be able to tell which are which at 3 weeks if you want strictly BBT.

I love our little Japanese Bantams! They are so cute and are great with children.

They're a great little breed.

Feel free to PM me if you are interested.

Oh and to answer your question about hatching eggs. We are thinking about it at some point, especially once I get my chocolate Orpingtons.

 

[daphneysmamma]

my little serama roo nugget is very sick .. can anyone help me out here.. hes just all puffed up holding wings outward a bit from body .. pale comb and wattles .. runnyish very smelly poop.. very lethargic.. I thought maybe heat exhaustion ( this started yesterday afternoon) so I sat him in a bowl of cool water (not cold) to regulate his body temp some and forced some Gatorade and water with antibiotics and a vitamin electrolyte solution.. I been giving the fluids reg til about 1130 pm then again this morning ill go home for lunch and do more.. he will eat tiny bits from my hand but not at all if I just set his bowl down..also I did check for mites as a friend suggested I don't see any signs of mites ..

 

[BHep]

@BritneyBradshaw I have one Blue D'uccle pullet available, about 15 weeks old.

That would be a Cochin.....

 

[BHep]

my little serama roo nugget is very sick .. can anyone help me out here.. hes just all puffed up holding wings outward a bit from body .. pale comb and wattles .. runnyish very smelly poop.. very lethargic.. I thought maybe heat exhaustion ( this started yesterday afternoon) so I sat him in a bowl of cool water (not cold) to regulate his body temp some and forced some Gatorade and water with antibiotics and a vitamin electrolyte solution.. I been giving the fluids reg til about 1130 pm then again this morning ill go home for lunch and do more.. he will eat tiny bits from my hand but not at all if I just set his bowl down..also I did check for mites as a friend suggested I don't see any signs of mites ..

Sounds like you are doing all the right things. With the heat stress...if that is what it is..it will take a few days to recover.
Just offer the fluids...do not force, they aspirate very easy. Drops on the tongue ok.

 

[daphneysmamma]

also I have a friend looking guineas .. ( idk if I spelled it right ) .. she wants 12 .. anyone have any ?

 

[BHep]

So I have been living in our new home for 4 weeks now and I got a call from our old place saying I would never believe it but there are 20 baby guineas running around in the back field.

I couldn't believe it so I drove down there to look and sure enough, I counted at least 20, possibly 21-23 (so hard to count that many little moving babies).

Here is what was (and is) so hard for me to believe:

2 weeks before we moved, I discovered a rat snake stealing eggs from the guinea nest so I removed the remaining eggs and incubated them. I assumed the guinea stopped laying eggs because this was her second nest gone wrong.

Right around the time we moved, the female guinea disappeared and I didn't see her (nor did the landlady) for days. So we figured she was either broody or eaten by something. Later she was spotted with her boys foraging so it was presumed she was indeed incubating.

So how did she lay 20+ eggs in about 2 weeks?
How did that many eggs from one hen stay viable that long?
And how did she cover them all?

I just don't understand!!!!

P.S. I am positive it is only one hen. I raised them all from eggs last year and observed their behaviour and sounds and I KNOW there is only one girl!

AWESOME!!