NY chicken lover!!!!

[featherz]

There is a huge thread on here somewhere about an eyeless chick that grew up, did just fine and is now laying eggs. It was amazing! I've had one eyed chicks that did fine, but not a completely blind one. It IS possible if you want to do the work to make sure it has food and water.

here's the thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/520492/newly-hatched-chick-no-eyes-update-1-31-12-she-layed

Here is a picture of the little guy with no eyes.

 

[stonykill]

one of my best roo's only has one good eye. He lost the other in a rooster fight. My flock is way too large to coddle to one without eyes.

 

[Framac]

No only does he/she have no eyes, but a cross beak, and I am thinking that there might be other non obvious issues.

Framac

 

[happyhensny]

Cass - All 3 Americana chicks hatched! Thanks so much!

 

[featherz]

No only does he/she have no eyes, but a cross beak, and I am thinking that there might be other non obvious issues.

Framac

Oo, that's a tougher one. =(

 

[demp4]

No only does he/she have no eyes, but a cross beak, and I am thinking that there might be other non obvious issues.

Framac

that's not good.

 

[demp4]

9 out of 15 BCM hatched 6 still in bator just in case. (I had issues candling these)

6 out of 12 Light Coronation Sussex Hatched (4 unfertile, one had hairline crack which turned into bigger crack) 1 still in bator
3 out 5 of our mutts I threw in (the 4th pipped and zipped but died????

)

2 out of 2 under my broody silkie in coop hatched and I put a couple of the sussex under her too and she took them in with no problems!!

I think I will do this everytime I get a broody hen now I think its by far the easiest hatch. They do all the work of turning and keeping the temp perfect.

I will leave these in bator until our turkeys hatch.... I have 8 hoping they hatch today or tmro ( I miscalculated the days)


This is our 5th hatch and the best yet!

 

[greymane]

Congrats, Happy and demp4!

Sorry to hear about your little one, Framac.

 

[marquisella]

My Marans have started to molt!

I wondered why they stopped laying 2 weeks ago, and today I see feathers all over...they did this to me last year as well. I think it was those 2 warm weeks and then the cold....
There is no other reason why, lights still on in coop, 21 % feed so protein is sufficient...& I have a long waiting list for chicks....&*#"8&*%"(

On the bright side, my Wyandottes, both blrw & Silver laced are laying like gangbusters! Silkies have just started laying, yippee!

Come to think of it, my Coronations have slacked off this past week as well.

Anyone else notice a change in laying?

 

[Sachasmom]

Anyone else notice a change in laying?

Yep, I had like no eggs, then a gazillion eggs and now hardly any eggs again!

I ended up having to stick the Silkie eggs in the incubator bc a fox pried up the run and killed two of them in the pen (The best hen and the Rooster, of course) So I had to move the broody Silkie. I kept telling him the coop was unsafe when he kept complaing that I was not using it, sigh. My husband is working on our taxes, I so hope we get money back this year, I'd really like to buy some of that electric poultry netting to put around the back coop until I can get an electric fence and a LGD...

Anyone know if the PO will deliver chicks to your door if you can't go pick them up? My choc Orps shipped and my car's timing belt went, so its in the shop and I am stuck here with no car! The stupid tracking is not updating either, so if I knew what day they were going to be here I could drive my husband to work...