Quote: As of now I don't know if I'm going or not. I will be growing out all my obvious colored goslings, just selling the white looking ones at first. I'm concentrating just on color.
Has anybody successfully treated a slipped tendon on a chick? I've read that it can be treated if caught within 24 hours and this little one's issues began right out of the egg three days ago. I thought he had a spraddle leg and have been hobbling him...even did the boot for his foot.
But today I realized that the tendon is actually slipped.
He is the only olive egger that successfully hatched and I'd really like him to make it (well...only if its a hen, lol).
If you did successfully treat an older slipped tendon, how did you do it?
I've got auto chicken doors that I love. The openers were a little expensive, but they run on AAA batteries & r controlled by light sensors. Chx like it too bc they get out just after dawn & r closed in just before dusk. AXT-electronic is the brand I have. I ordered them fr Germany bc I couldn't find anything comparable over here. Later I found that foy's pigeon supply carries them but price is very similar to buying direct. I rigged the mechanism with pulleys so that it would open 3 doors at once.
Pic is fr before I cut door holes in the side of the shed & closed up the wall. W my work schedule I can't always b home at dawn & dusk. Love the auto doors.
Got half the coop cleaned out today. Going slowly because Lacie isn't a huge fan. I'm on the approved visitors list for the nest, but the shovel is NOT. She doesn't like it. So when she hisses to say she's had enough, I take a break and let her settle. She was a good girl about it though and I hand fed her some bread because she wasn't going to get off the nest when I was throwing it to the chickens and I didn't want her to miss out. The cemanis also had some free range time again while I was doing the coop and I got some good pictures of them. Also, apparently the fresh clean coop and the time outside has convinced one hen to lay for me! So when I get a couple more I'm popping them in the 'bator to check if Raptor is doing his job.
LadyHawk, I want to thank you again for the sebbie egg delivery! Lacie says thanks too. You've made her a very happy goose.
I am so happy! She has that wonderfully bored look of a brooding goose!! I'm glad it worked out so well, and I was in the right place at the right time to get eggs to you! The cooler I picked up at the same time is actually starting to run like an incubator - so much so that I am likely going to use it as a hatcher tonight for a random off schedule duck egg that is sitting pipped in one of my incubators... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/970153/homemade-wine-chiller-incubator-build
The progress to date...
I am so happy! She has that wonderfully bored look of a brooding goose!! I'm glad it worked out so well, and I was in the right place at the right time to get eggs to you! The cooler I picked up at the same time is actually starting to run like an incubator - so much so that I am likely going to use it as a hatcher tonight for a random off schedule duck egg that is sitting pipped in one of my incubators... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/970153/homemade-wine-chiller-incubator-build
The progress to date...
Well, the silkie is fine this evening. No clue what happened. I put her in with the very young chicks just in case - last thing it needs is to get run over by the chicks in the pool brooder after that ordeal. And Honey's son, who still needs a name, did two little crows while I was in the workshop. I've actually never heard a chick as young as him crow and it was adorable.
The potential for rampant chicken math is mind boggling!!! I think I will limit the number of auto turning units I install. It will limit just how much I can throw in there, and once I make #1 the dedicated hatcher, I can't just casually throw another 3 dozen in there!
:lol
