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[lonnyandrinda]

I promise I will post a picture...but this chick is all pale yellow with a tiny black dot on its head, a tiny black dot on its back near a shoulder and a large black spot (like dime sized) under a wing. Is this how splash birds start out or is this a paint somehow?

How old is it? I am not familiar with "paint" but my splash birds start out all or mostly all creamy yellowish-white as chicks and as they start to feather in they start to get blue and black feathers here and there.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

please tell me you did not buy those Orps at the Coweta auction....

Welllll....... you told me not to tell you...

Let's just say it doesn't end well when I have to take the kids home to bed and leave hubby at an auction by himself.

They had two batches of birds on the table and he thought he was bidding on one when he was actually bidding on the other...

ETA: so if anyone wants a "rare" color orpington boy these guys will be for sale when they are well!

There are two blue, one black, one blue-laced red, and one basque. The basque is the one in the house. I've lost 3 blue-laced reds.

 

[krazykat0373]

Quote: well, if it makes you feel any better...every one of those birds were sick....even if he had gotten the other set, would have had the same problem

 

[bardies]

Just had to rub nasty cheesy stuff out of a cockerel's eye. He was an auction purchase- remember the batch of "rare orpington" boys my hubby bought by accident??- and thank goodness I quarantined because 2 weeks later they are all sick. I've lost 4 of them already, they were malnourished and had obviously been overcrowded because several had pecking injuries and bare backs from pecking. The worst boy left is in the house and his eye was all swollen up, between last night and this morning I squeezed out about a marble's worth of cheesy infection. YUCK! Got him on vitamin water and Tylan shots, considering doing penicillian shots too but I don't want to overwhelm his system being SO thin. There isn't really any muscle for the injections, I'm having to do subcutaneous basically.

They are all eating like champs finally so hopefully I won't lose any more. Hate to lose any since we paid for them when we didn't even want them!

double Yuck! I had a friend that was bidding at a cow auction. They had a big screen up with a picture of a cow - this is what he thought he was bidding on - and so far, getting for a steal. As it turns out - it was the mounted head on the floor that was being auctioned! We always tease him that at least the feed bill would be low.

I am assuming that they have also been wormed to? Yes, extra stress, but if something is in there eating at their nutrients internally, that isn't going to help.

Good luck with him!!!

 

[bardies]

Quote: It hatched last night. So still in fuzz. The black spots were there in the down, as I recall seeing the black pinpoint of wet fluff on the shoulder. The other stuff would have been missed in the wetness and armpit area. Pretty sure that everything was there at hatch.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

well, if it makes you feel any better...every one of those birds were sick....even if he had gotten the other set, would have had the same problem

Eh, no surprise there. Did you get the other batch then? Did you lose any? That's why I tell people QUARANTINE, QUARANTINE, QUARANTINE! Even if you get birds from me or any other reputable person. Better safe than sorry, always have a quarantine plan in place for new birds. Thank goodness I hadn't mixed these guys with anything else, they haven't risked any of my other birds or breeding stock. They were going to only quarantine for 2 weeks as I really need pen space but you can bet your bottom dollar they are staying in quarantine for a full 30 days now.

double Yuck! I had a friend that was bidding at a cow auction. They had a big screen up with a picture of a cow - this is what he thought he was bidding on - and so far, getting for a steal. As it turns out - it was the mounted head on the floor that was being auctioned! We always tease him that at least the feed bill would be low.

I am assuming that they have also been wormed to? Yes, extra stress, but if something is in there eating at their nutrients internally, that isn't going to help.

Good luck with him!!!

Wormed with Wazine last Sunday, will do the second round on Tuesday with safe-guard. Don't know what else to do. At least they aren't crawling with mites or lice.

It hatched last night. So still in fuzz. The black spots were there in the down, as I recall seeing the black pinpoint of wet fluff on the shoulder. The other stuff would have been missed in the wetness and armpit area. Pretty sure that everything was there at hatch.

The only chicks I have hatched with spots at birth were exchequer leghorns. They are considered mottled. Don't know if that helps you.

 

[krazykat0373]

Quote: NO I took one look at those roos and said heck no! I bought a couple pairs of Bantam Chocolates, the best looking birds in the whole group (not sick looking) so far so good on them..all seem to be healthy, but I do quarantine 30 days when I bring in any new birds and run a seven day dose of denagard, just in case. I also throw an "expendable" bird in with them also, to see if they are carrying anything that I am not aware of.

 

[bardies]

Quote: It might help - I know that this is a mixed breed, so I kind of have an idea of what it will end up looking like. Now just to figure out what rooster fertilized that egg.... I suppose that the hen could have snuck into the silkie paint pen when I had the door open, I suppose all it takes is a moment. Of course, who knows what kinds of shenanigans go on when the kids work the pens.,..!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

NO I took one look at those roos and said heck no! I bought a couple pairs of Bantam Chocolates, the best looking birds in the whole group (not sick looking) so far so good on them..all seem to be healthy, but I do quarantine 30 days when I bring in any new birds and run a seven day dose of denagard, just in case. I also throw an "expendable" bird in with them also, to see if they are carrying anything that I am not aware of.

GOOD idea.

 

[Kyzmette]

Quote:
Absolutely I remember it! We took that road every week on the way to downtown Broken Arrow... you know... back when it was one main road with Arkansas Valley State Bank and the Five and Dime. My grandmother used to tell me how they took the same path before the road went in in their horse-drawn cart.