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[mjgigax]

A few weeks ago I bought a Blue Marans hen and a Coronation Sussex roo at Newcastle. I had them in quarantine together and the hen began to lay.

About 3 weeks ago my Showgirl hen, Ezmeralda, went broody and I knew not to try to break her. She may be a tiny little fluff ball but her determination is boundless. I put the 6 Marans/Sussex eggs under her.

Yesterday I found 3 chicks under Ezzie. Another chick had pipped but died and 2 eggs were infertile.
The chicks are soft blue and have clean legs like their Daddy. Will be interesting to see how they grow.

 

[Ksane]

Congrats Mitzi. I envy your strength.

Wasn't feeling very strong or brave at all. Did a whole lot of praying that I wouldn't kill these babies :-(

 

[clintgil]

ive been a reader for quite a while and just joined a few days ago. I had chickens when i was younger and got out of it for years. last year i decided to build a coop and get a few chickens so my kids could enjoy them. everyone ended up loving them a lot more than expected, but most of all my wife. our anniversary is coming up next month and i would like to get her a polish. romantic, i know. i would really like to find her a frizzle in black and white. im in central Oklahoma and am willing to drive an hour or so. i also love to trade and have a pair of buff silkies that started laying if anyone wants to swap any eggs. and also have a partridge colored bantam cochin roo if anyone would be interested in it. and hopefully our white bantam cochins will be laying soon. thanks, you guys are the best people on the web

 

[hotcurltr]

Are there sells or swap meets near the Cushing/Perkins/Drumright area??

Drumwright has one the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every mont. I'l check to make sure that's right, but I'm prety sure. I know it's on Sundays for sure.

 

[Kyzmette]

Mary Joe they sound gorgeous!

I swear, chickens can be so much like people. I came home to find Van Helsing, my Buff Brahma Bantam roo, hanging upside down in his pen. He and Orlando don't see eye to eye, and apparently they were playing "Who's the bigger cock" through the fence. The little football-shaped dufus took a spur-jump at Orlando, got one of his huge spurs caught in the fence about a foot up, and in trying to get out of that mess he got his other foot caught in the bottom of the fence. Then he hung there. All day. With no food or water. Now he can't walk, and he sure isn't listening to me when I tell him he just did it to himself. Or that it was a dumb*** thing to do. Hopefully he hasn't jacked his feet up permanently.

Dear Lord save me from these chickens.

 

[Loriemarler]

Mary Joe they sound gorgeous!

I swear, chickens can be so much like people. I came home to find Van Helsing, my Buff Brahma Bantam roo, hanging upside down in his pen. He and Orlando don't see eye to eye, and apparently they were playing "Who's the bigger cock" through the fence. The little football-shaped dufus took a spur-jump at Orlando, got one of his huge spurs caught in the fence about a foot up, and in trying to get out of that mess he got his other foot caught in the bottom of the fence. Then he hung there. All day. With no food or water. Now he can't walk, and he sure isn't listening to me when I tell him he just did it to himself. Or that it was a dumb*** thing to do. Hopefully he hasn't jacked his feet up permanently.

Dear Lord save me from these chickens.

I am so sorry about his poor feet but I am laughing about your conversation. I can just imagine it.

 

[ashtree]

I am so sorry about his poor feet but I am laughing about your conversation. I can just imagine it.

X2 I was truly laughing out loud! Hope he's alright tho.

 

[brandy00]

I've been after the hubby to help me convert the boys' old playhouse into my new brooder coop. I finally nagged enough and he even threw in some scrap pieces from the sawmill to put on the outside. Now if I can just sweet talk him into helping me with the run!

 

[hotcurltr]

Ok, got home with 2 JG, gave them to my broody silky who is hatching some serama eggs, they are due by the end of the week, mama doesn't mind, she popped them under her- and for once i am short large broodies- i've heard so much good about JG, couldn't believe they had them- they go through Estes hatchery, she said she ordered 3 rare breeds, so they got an order of the JG, they also have the sussex, orps, BR, RIR, EE's, bantams, ducklings, turkeys and geese next week

am running a chicky hospital, my older sgirl has been having balance issues for months, thought she had pretty well recovered, seems she goes into seizures if startled, so got home and she had another one, and i have a silky cockerel recovering from paralysis, been a long haul with him, not out of the woods as he is still mouth breathing but he is beginning to move his legs and trying to stand. And of course my cross beak silky, Rusty seems to be doing well.


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After I read your first post on SS at Orsclens, I asked hubby to get some. I have those I ordered from Welp in March and they are doing great. Anyway our Orsclens didn't have any. They did have cuckoo marans hubby said. I like them better than the other stores because you can buy sexed chicks from them. Hope they still have some ss when I go to Muskogee next week. I'M GLAD SO MANY OF YOUR SICK CHICKENS ARE DOINGF MUCH BETTER. Sorry you are having so many to deal with. I was tempted to bring you the Welsummer pullet because it just breaks my heart and stresses me so much, but today she is doing better. Almost normal. The vitamin e and sel probably helped alot. Thanks for your advice last time. How is Sonny and the girls? I keep hoping for a few fertile eggs, but hubby is over welmed w/all the chicks and eggs I have right now. I hope to visit next week, if things go right this tine.

I hatched a fully NN showgirl today!!

Congratulations

It will be awhile before I get to breed for any, but I can hardly wait. I want my NN from Kass because they are all gorgeous and she breeds for health. I've been told to get my silkies from Betsyok. A guy down the road, sort of from me raises silkiess and sizzles, but I haven't gone to look at any of them yet. I would like the best girls for my little guy so I'll have to see Betsy

This forum is really a Godsend for people like me who get way attached to their chickies. You're always there to help with a hug when we get bad news, helpful information when we need to treat sickness in the flock, tips and tricks to make life easier, and congratulations on new arrivals. And unlike many threads I've seen, you're not spiteful, snooty, trollish cows. Nobody argues or fusses or practices one-upsmanship.

Thank you all for that.

x2 You are one of the people that make us feel good. Sorry again. My little girl is doing better. She doesn't want the yogurt. I do have probios if I have to give her something. But she might break down. She takes the poly vi sol ok. And didn't have to fight her for the vita e sel
drinking and eating good. still has bouts of going in circles and backwards but mostly is getting back to normal. I'm thinking maybe injury., because the homemade lid on the feeder fell off yesterday while we were gone, and it could of hit her. I'll never know. Had a gander caught in the fence and all banged up this morning. All three hens are setting so I think some of the ganders are fighting the weaker ones. I have one, that I bought two years ago. Bought as a pair, but she turned out to be a he and has become really mean to the other gees. He might have to go. I'm to attached to the others I hand raised.

Quote: I take it you don't like the LG. I thought others were having trouble w/ the Brinsea too. Hubby is hatching our eggs in an old Brower. He put all new parts on it. He used to get really good hatches. Been praying and keeping my fingers crossed that he still knows what he is doing, since I have all these exotic eggs in it.
I still haven't gotten any farther, so maybe tom. I can catch up on the posts/
Oh, NanaKat my two babies came home this morning along with the other two juvies. I have no idea where they stayed. The buff orpinton cockeral i'm putting in the poops raffle was one of them. I intergrated all of them in one pen today. I have to quit babying them so much. Yeh, now I can put these 34 in the one brooder out. I let mamas and babies out of cages in the brooder house. I was going to put the ones inside out first, but just pooped out, but I promised the cage ones and somehow they knew as they kept pacing as I cleaned everything out for them I still have 27 inone brooder and the other 6 I bought at Orschlens in a tote. They're about a week and a half apart, but I'm going to try to put them all together. They might not be that far apart, I'll have to look. I have one silver/black Americauna(not an EE) that was premature and had a big blob w/ a scab. I had never seen anything like it. Hubby said it was the yolk, and that it hadn't been all the way absorbed. I wouldn't cull him and just kept giving poly vi sol and baby cereal. He's eating on his own now and drinking. The blob is almost gone. I'm hoping he's out of the woods now, but I know better. He still stands around alot and his little wings don't go down yet like they should, but he or she is a fighter. Glenn doesn't really like to treat them if they aren't thriving, but I do and will continue to do so. They don't all need to be used for breeding. Besides premature isn't genetic is it?

 

[bardies]

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