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[marquisella]

Morning,
We got a dusting that you can still see the grass thru, hopefully that's the most we get. Gotta go let all the cheeps out. I've been keeping the ducks locked up a little longer as of late with hopes I get an egg from the runners soon and they're not laying them elsewhere in the yard. Moved mama bunny back outside yesterday since the last 2 of her kits passed the night before last. I just don't get it. But I guess that's expected with first time mama bunnies. Some get it and care for their young, some don't. Still bummed about it, I really wanted to see what color bunnies would come from her and the buck I used and I no longer have the buck. :-(

I'm getting ansy for these eggs to hatch and I still have just under 2 weeks to go! LOL Two should be lavender but the other is from my Lavender over Splash so I'm dying to see what that one turns out like. And yesterday I saw someone on FB list a "lavender splash" for sale, I didn't think there was such a thing but it seems like more and more are creating silkie colors these days that really were just odd colors thrown to begin with. Pretty soon everything will be a recognizable color regardless of what it is!

Lavender is technically "self blue" so you will get blue & splash. Your right, no such thing as a lavender splash. I also am worried that people are just breeding any colors together and calling them whatever they feel like it. I'm finally getting Porcelain eggs again, or you can call them blue-cream, or you can call them Isabelle, or "whatever" LOL I love how they look, and I thihk they will be next to get accepted into the APA.

 

[Lynzi777]

Lavender is technically "self blue" so you will get blue & splash. Your right, no such thing as a lavender splash. I also am worried that people are just breeding any colors together and calling them whatever they feel like it. I'm finally getting Porcelain eggs again, or you can call them blue-cream, or you can call them Isabelle, or "whatever" LOL I love how they look, and I thihk they will be next to get accepted into the APA.

But so like my Orpingtons, if I have a splash bred to this lavender roo and get a blue chick, I'm assuming the blue will be a "blue split" right? And I'll have to be careful with that if I hold onto that blue ad breed it to say another blue or splash?

I just love how last year those three silkie chicks I had that hatched out on Dec 25th of 2012 ended up this weird black/gray looking color that I had no idea what to call, is now being called "Silver Partridge" by breeders on FB. Really?!? And come to find out, the two chicks that hatched out that looked like lighter partridge chicks, people are calling Porcelain. I DO like the Porcelain though, I just have nothing here that would work with that coloring/breeding. Someone told me it's best to keep Porcelain with Porcelain if your are going to get into that color?

 

[Lynzi777]

Sorry to everyone for your losses! Lynzi remember the bunny I got from you well I believe he is a she as he has been in with 2 females since I got him and never a baby I even tried putting him with a different female and nothing which is fine with me that I have 4 females just means I don't have to worry about babies.

On the chicken front my freeloaders are starting to lay slowly I am getting about 2 eggs a day although that is 2 eggs from about 50 hens but some are getting older and I think I should have left the lights on but that's ok eventually the snow might melt and we might get some grass and they will actually go outside. This year I have decided to completely let them free range they hopped the fences last year and would hop back and forth this year I am just going to see what happens with leaving the gates to the fences open I have plenty of trees for safety and numerous little a frames they can go under .

Some males just have no interest in breeding. A friend of mine actually has two of those! LOL A French Lop and an English Angora that both refuse to take any interest in the females. She's tried putting both of them in with different females and they just sit there and can care less. Actually, she houses the male and female French lops together because she has never gotten babies from the two. A lot of times when other breeders are looking for rabbits they'll ask if the rabbit is "proven", meaning it has contributed (if a male) to having a litter. If the rabbit is over a year or two old and is not proven then some breeders may not take it because if it has not produced a litter at that point yet then it may never produce one.

 

[WillowWispFarm]

Oh wow, there are so many posts from when i first posted here, going to take a while to read and catch up haha.
Just wanted to pop in and say that all of my chicks have made it threw the first few days of me having them and are doing good. One of them seems to have pasty butt and I'm not sure what to do about it, I keep taking a warm paper towle and cleaning it off as best as I can but it seems to build back up. I also bought some Save-a-chick, both electroligist and probiotics (sorry about spelling mistakes) and I give them that once a day now till i change there water out again, is that alright?
I am also going to start to build my coop soon, cant wait, just waiting till the weather breaks.

 

[Xovan]

Yea they are chatty on here.

 

[JWEBB]

welp, I'm feeling really stupid right now!! The last couple hours I learned a big lesson...

probably most everyone knows this but I didn't.

Regular heating pads and chicks are not a good mix.

I was short a 250 heat lamp and used a 125 so thought I would put a heat pad in there brooder to make up the extra heat loss. Had new babies from my hatch Friday, it went pretty well except for the Orloff eggs. I had one baby Orloff. WHO do you think got stuck UNDER the heat pad? yep the Orloff. He was flat as a pancake under there this morning. Almost dead cold cold cold. I just about lost my breakfast.
I had got a new bulb and left the heat pad in there turned off ! my god! so he was stuck under a cold pad.

I got him out and put him in a small plastic tub and put that in the the egg incubator to warm him up barely breathing. He did respond in a few minutes! I dipped his beak in grogel water just mixed it really thin dipped beak quite a few times over a hour. He did poop good I was happy to see. Just now put him back in the warm brooder with all the chicks and hes all snuggled in pecking at the mash on the floor and alert.

Anyhow, one more thing on my list of what not to do. Good grief.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Oh wow, there are so many posts from when i first posted here, going to take a while to read and catch up haha.
Just wanted to pop in and say that all of my chicks have made it threw the first few days of me having them and are doing good. One of them seems to have pasty butt and I'm not sure what to do about it, I keep taking a warm paper towle and cleaning it off as best as I can but it seems to build back up. I also bought some Save-a-chick, both electroligist and probiotics (sorry about spelling mistakes) and I give them that once a day now till i change there water out again, is that alright?
I am also going to start to build my coop soon, cant wait, just waiting till the weather breaks.

If it's getting pasty butt they are probably too warm. Give them a place to get away from the heat lamp that way they can move away if they get too warm.
Probiotics are good to get them started on. If they were with mama they would be outside and exposed to plenty of bacteria already. Since they're probably in a brooder, keep up with the probiotics.
Otherwise relax and enjoy watching them!

 

[WillowWispFarm]

Ok thank you, this is there set up.
Is it okay to keep giving the probiotics all the time? and if so I mix a gallon at a time, where can i keep the extra to keep is safe?

 

[rancher hicks]

Good Morning!

Yesterday I went out to give my upper coop some apple peelings. Found my young rooster going after my buff brahma bantam rooster. They were both bloodied up but the younger was on top of the buff. My poor buff was weezy sounding. The younger in now in isolation. He would be dinner but I just don't want to kill birds myself. I cut up and cook them just fine, but me killing nope.

I noticed my skinny Del rooster all muddy. He's gotten out and into it with the EE rooster. They're both about the same size and there is no way to shut the run door due to the water and heaving of the ground. Il'll have to modify it this year when things dry out.

Looking at the Del I don't think there's enough on him to feed one person. He's not staying. As soon as I get the new chicks I'm expecting he's going.

 

[JWEBB]

Ok thank you, this is there set up.
Is it okay to keep giving the probiotics all the time? and if so I mix a gallon at a time, where can i keep the extra to keep is safe?

You can also sprinkle a little of the probiotic powder on the their food if you want. I wondered if the powder water to mix would break down too, good question!