NY chicken lover!!!!

3 Sebastapol goslings hatched today, 2 more pipping. at least 1 is a saddle back, the other 2 look white, but carry color.

If anyone is looking for young chicks, I have Coronations, & silkies.
 
3 Sebastapol goslings hatched today, 2 more pipping. at least 1 is a saddle back, the other 2 look white, but carry color.

If anyone is looking for young chicks, I have Coronations, & silkies.


Will you be bringing any sebastopol goslings to chickenstock to sell? All the eggs I got were whites, and I'd love to add some 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?
 
Do any of you use automatic chicken doors?  Anyone in love with their door and can recommend 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.
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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...


Looking good! You'll have to be careful, you could get yourself into some real trouble with an incubator that big :lol:
 
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.
I think you have kind of named him " Honeys Son " or Honey boy ?
 
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Looking good! You'll have to be careful, you could get yourself into some real trouble with an incubator that big :lol:

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!
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