***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Oakieridge]

My hatch, Nanakat's, Okieridge. and Mitzi's are all doing good and popping right out looking good even given the rain just had to change the humidity a bit to compensate for the rain.

Whooo hoooo!!!

Can't wait to see what hatches out of this bunch of chicks.

Cathie, that little cockrell is looking pretty decent from the photo, I'm glad the kids are enjoying him.. It's amazing that a few feathers just a bit off turns an otherwise nice bird to a bug eater.

He is a cute little guy and Jackson doesn't care if he is colored wrong or not. But he can be a pet and still eat bugs in a mobile coop which Jack is going to help Kurtis build this week.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Oh goodness no, Carl.Mine are healthy and flying and eating like crazy. It's RetiredArmyWife who's having problems with hers. I do know you sterilize everything on a regular basis.

Yes it was me. I do have a question some of you might know the answer to though. If I keep this last chicken from the hatch and it has babies some day will they risk having this? I hate to put her down since she is barely showing symptoms and is growing and healthy looking.

 

[Kassaundra]

Yes it was me. I do have a question some of you might know the answer to though. If I keep this last chicken from the hatch and it has babies some day will they risk having this? I hate to put her down since she is barely showing symptoms and is growing and healthy looking.

I'm not very familiar w/ chicken illnesses, but my thinking on the question is if a being (chicken, animal, human whatever) is exposed to a disease and overcomes it, then it builds antibodies and has proven to have stronger genetics both to pass on to it's offspring. But that is a general thing not specific others w/ more chicken specific knowledge may think differently.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

I'm not very familiar w/ chicken illnesses, but my thinking on the question is if a being (chicken, animal, human whatever) is exposed to a disease and overcomes it, then it builds antibodies and has proven to have stronger genetics both to pass on to it's offspring. But that is a general thing not specific others w/ more chicken specific knowledge may think differently.

That is what I was thinking. At this point we don't know if its a hen or roo ofcourse. I just don't want to deal with this kind of sickness again if I can help it.

 

[NanaKat]

Already fed and watered the birds, walked the dogs, had coffee on the deck with hubby and watched a pair of cardinals and the mockingbird is back checking our her favorite nesting spot. Life is good.
Plan to move the older brids from the hot tub room to the barn into the new section. Their big water tank needs new wood shavings so this is a good day for the move.

I'm going to have some extra Aussie/Cochin cross birds for POOPS. These will good brown egg layers and nice meat birds. They will be about 15 weeks old by then. Roos and a few pullets.
Will also have some pure Cochin roos and possibly a pair or trio from the eggs from Iowa. These are growing nicely. They are mixed colors....black, blue and splash and are 9 and 6 weeks old now. making them about 15 and 12 weeks old by POOPS.

 

[Tony O]

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She doesn't have any, but if you can't find any, Territorial Seeds sells them. Seems like someone on here had some hanging over their covered chicken run last year for shade. Could have been on another site that I look at some times. Anyway, maybe if they look at the picture in this link, someone may know them by another name and have some extra seeds. http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1100/400

Sorry I couldn't have been of more help.

 

[Ksane]

evening all, thought I would pop in and say hey before I fall over, read through and caught up been a chatty bunch with this weather haven't ya..

My hatch, Nanakat's, Okieridge. and Mitzi's are all doing good and popping right out looking good even given the rain just had to change the humidity a bit to compensate for the rain.

Carl, I didn't even see this post until someone quoted it! All night I worried about 'the babies' and wondering if they were starting to hatch and here you'd already posted about it and I missed it!
Hooray! Babies! Thank you!

 

[Ksane]

Yes it was me. I do have a question some of you might know the answer to though. If I keep this last chicken from the hatch and it has babies some day will they risk having this? I hate to put her down since she is barely showing symptoms and is growing and healthy looking.

It just depends on what the actual disease is, literally. And there's no way of knowing that unless you have a necropsy done (if I spelled that right). I'd venture to say there's a lot more diseases they're NOT carriers of afterwards than ones they are. But the only ones people know about and talk about are the serious ones. If you ever buy chicks from the feed store, from a friend, from a swap or auction.....you're going to run into birds that have been sick at one time or another in their life and you have no idea what that disease was and if they're carriers. So I wouldn't put that bird down on a bet if it were me. Our birds all become immune to so many things by the time they're adults, it's babies who are at risk. We can take care of that by separating our babies from the adults until they're a good 6 mo old at least.

 

[Kassaundra]

She doesn't have any, but if you can't find any, Territorial Seeds sells them. Seems like someone on here had some hanging over their covered chicken run last year for shade. Could have been on another site that I look at some times. Anyway, maybe if they look at the picture in this link, someone may know them by another name and have some extra seeds. http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1100/400

Sorry I couldn't have been of more help.

That's okay thanks for trying. After posting I did find a seed company or two that weren't out of stock now I just need to figure out how much I want them since at any of those companies it is going to cost me $10 for a pkt of seeds! (seeds + shipping)

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh this is not going to be a good day today. My lungs are not happy at all.