NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

If someone wants them and needs to wait till the picnic I can bring them with the rest of your things. I could also hold them here so your DD wouldn't have to.

I have someone coming today for them. Thanks anyways.

rancher--when do you think you will be back? i'll try to get you raspberry starts sometime.

We will be back on the 11th of June. It's a long story.

Luv said she will drop them off and I'll have the bed ready so my daughter can just stick them in the ground. I really appreciate the help. We expected to be back sooner but DD will be going back to work for a week afterwards and DW wants to stay and help SIL take care of the new baby. Of course DW took no persuading to stay the extra time.

My daughter here is miffed with Gramma because she spoils Donovan so much he started to call her Mommy.

What can I say? Gramma rocks him and sings for him and feeds him and plays with him, what can we expect.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

18 hatched out of 36. Mix of my eggs and another local farm. Mine were from EE hens and 1 leghorn hen with EE and another mixed roo.

One has a bad leg that won't straighten so I don't know what to do about that.


Have to get to Nutty's to get more starter and grower this week.

Regarding the leg. I just had a hatch last week...the last little guy out, my only olive egger, had (well...still has) a bad leg. I thought it was splay leg, and hobbled him but after a day or two, I realized one hock looked different from the other. A bit more research and I've discovered he has a slipped tendon. :-( Most of the time, you cull them. But my husband and I can't bring ourselves to do it. We just can't.

I "reset" the tendon in correct position and then wrapped it with strips of that self stick bandaging stuff. I checked it pretty often and it seemed to work. But after a few hours of being unwrapped, the tendon slipped again.

So I re-wrapped it last night. But today I noticed that his foot was swollen and so was the joint. So I just unwrapped him and put him in the brooder. What will be will be. At this point, the tendon is in place. But I doubt it will stay that way. Slipped tendon is difficult to fix.

 

[Pyxis]

Regarding the leg.  I just had a hatch last week...the last little guy out, my only olive egger, had (well...still has) a bad leg.  I thought it was splay leg, and hobbled him but after a day or two, I realized one hock looked different from the other.  A bit more research and I've discovered he has a slipped tendon.  :-(  Most of the time, you cull them.  But my husband and I can't bring ourselves to do it.  We just can't.  

I "reset" the tendon in correct position and then wrapped it with strips of that self stick bandaging stuff.  I checked it pretty often and it seemed to work.  But after a few hours of being unwrapped, the tendon slipped again. 

So I re-wrapped it last night.  But today I noticed that his foot was swollen and so was the joint.  So I just unwrapped him and put him in the brooder.  What will be will be.  At this point, the tendon is in place.  But I doubt it will stay that way.  Slipped tendon is difficult to fix.  

Good luck with him. I had a silkie that hatched with slipped tendon in both hocks. It would NOT stay in place no matter how much it was wrapped. I ended up having to put it down because it wasn't eating or drinking either.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Good luck with him. I had a silkie that hatched with slipped tendon in both hocks. It would NOT stay in place no matter how much it was wrapped. I ended up having to put it down because it wasn't eating or drinking either.

So far, this one is still eating and drinking. But I am not hopeful that the tendon will stay put. :-( I had set four blue eggs (BCM X EE) and this guy was the only one to hatch...and he hatched a full day later than the rest. I really want him to make it....and I really want him to be a hen, lol.

I think I'm going to have to just hatch another round mid-Summer.

 

[Purpletie3]

I have to share ...I just got two new coops in place. One I bought a shed. I put a linoleum floor in it and made some nice roosts and covered the floor with straw and set the remainder of the straw in the corner. Looked in this afternoon and it just seemed sparse...there was a dead chicken on the bale. I got in to get it and noticed several chickens had fallen down between the straw bale and the wall and died.

So, I am completely beside myself. I had no idea they would get stuck down there much less die. I lost many of my bielfelders and sulmtalers. I learned where not to store my straw bales. I hope none of you ever experience this... it sucks and could have totally been avoided.

 

[Pyxis]

I have to share ...I just got two new coops in place. One I bought a shed. I put a linoleum floor in it and made some nice roosts and covered the floor with straw and set the remainder of the straw in the corner. Looked in this afternoon and it just seemed sparse...there was a dead chicken on the bale. I got in to get it and noticed several chickens had fallen down between the straw bale and the wall and died. 

So, I am completely beside myself. I had no idea they would get stuck down there much less die. I lost many of my bielfelders and  sulmtalers.  I learned where not to store my straw bales. I hope none of you ever experience this... it sucks and could have totally been avoided.

So sorry. You wouldn't think they'd die back there like that.

 

[Purpletie3]

So sorry. You wouldn't think they'd die back there like that.

Thanks...Just hope this never happens to anyone else.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Thanks...Just hope this never happens to anyone else. 

I'm so sorry to hear that! Who would have thought they could get stuck like that!

 

[cutipatooti]

I have to share ...I just got two new coops in place. One I bought a shed. I put a linoleum floor in it and made some nice roosts and covered the floor with straw and set the remainder of the straw in the corner. Looked in this afternoon and it just seemed sparse...there was a dead chicken on the bale. I got in to get it and noticed several chickens had fallen down between the straw bale and the wall and died. 

So, I am completely beside myself. I had no idea they would get stuck down there much less die. I lost many of my bielfelders and  sulmtalers.  I learned where not to store my straw bales. I hope none of you ever experience this... it sucks and could have totally been avoided.

Sorry for your loss and Thanks for the warning/advice. It seems there has been a lot of loss for people this spring. I had my first. Ever dead chicks in shipping, a horrible first hatch, and one that did hatch passed today ( although I was expecting it). We processed some extra roos today, always makes me cry. Saw the Hawks today too. Hope they move on before they take more of my flock. If your interested I have some sulmtalers.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

I have to share ...I just got two new coops in place. One I bought a shed. I put a linoleum floor in it and made some nice roosts and covered the floor with straw and set the remainder of the straw in the corner. Looked in this afternoon and it just seemed sparse...there was a dead chicken on the bale. I got in to get it and noticed several chickens had fallen down between the straw bale and the wall and died. 

So, I am completely beside myself. I had no idea they would get stuck down there much less die. I lost many of my bielfelders and  sulmtalers.  I learned where not to store my straw bales. I hope none of you ever experience this... it sucks and could have totally been avoided.

So sorry. What a horrible thing to walk in to. We put so much effort into keeping our birds safe and sometimes they still find a way to make it unsafe.