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[mjgigax]

My dad just sent me this pic

eeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!!!

 

[Ksane]

Kyz, a healthy weighted chicken should have nice rounded mounds coming out from away from the keel bone as well as a round stomach area. Some breeds are tall and lanky and as chicks they feel thinner.

My Gold and black double tufted Silkie/Araucana mix has a crop impacted with straw the size of a softball. I went through this several years ago with one of my Bantam Faverolles girls and had OSU treat it. They flushed it and set up surgery for later in the week but luckily she somehow ended up passing it on her own (has been fine ever since). This is the 1st time I've used straw since then :-/ and it's happended again. Most the feed stores around here seem to be out of shavings-ridiculous.
Anyway, I've been doing the mineral oil and massaging her crop thing and it's not working. I'll probably have to do surgery to open her crop and get it out. NOT looking forward to it as she's one of my favorites, her daddy is a Silkie from the 1st batch of birds I ever got 3 yrs ago. I'm so scared of losing her....but am very distrustful of the vet school. I'll call up there tomorrow and see who the vet is now. I've watched all the videos and read all the threads about it, I just wish it wasn't one of my favorites.

 

[mjgigax]

I need some advice from everybody. I keep picking up my chickies to love on them and thinking they don't weigh nearly as much as they should. On some of them, the breastbone feels painfully prominent.

What can I do to try to increase their weights? And I know a normal bird doesn't have that KFC keel, but what does a healthy chicken's breast feel like? I've never known any birds but my own. And the ones I bought at auction, which always seem skinnier, but I figure that's for a reason.

Good question.
My Showgirl pullet is very thin and I am worried about her. She is active and eats well, loves treats, so I am giving her Crumbies mixed witha raw egg yolk and some chopped corn and black sunflower seeds about every other day. She had a "cold" a few weeks ago and still occasionally has a runny nose. I adore her and sure would like to have her around for a long time.

 

[greenbeetle]

Thank you all for your help. Bought antibiotic and supplies to separate her from Atwoods, picked her up to move her and her comb and face were purple. Cuddled her for a minute and she died in my arms. Our dog is big, I'm sure she tried to play and did some internal damage.

I am so sorry you lost your austrolorp, I know you really loved her, and I am sure she knew it also.

 

[TipihlowLadies]

A true Americana would be OO, two blue egg genes (one from each parent). If they were really Ameraucana cross hens, they probably were Oo, one blue egg gene and laid blue or green eggs. So using Mendelian genetics half their offspring will get O and the other half will get o (if the sample size is large enouguh). So you should end up with half green eggs (blue +brown), and half brown eggs.

thanks for the info. I hope they lay like my EE's and not my buff's my new Americana roo is just 12 weeks old soon he will inherit the flock.

 

[Loriemarler]

I must be crazy. I just set 12 quail eggs in the incubator.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

if I recall right...olive eggers are created with chocolate brown egg roo over blue egg hen. I could be wrong.

I thought that that was how you got olive eggs....that the brown is just a coating, but with green or blue - that is the egg shell. So a brown coating over a blue egg give you 'olive'.  I could be totally wrong though.

What in the world is that? Is that two snakes or one two-headed snake???


I need some advice from everybody. I keep picking up my chickies to love on them and thinking they don't weigh nearly as much as they should. On some of them, the breastbone feels painfully prominent.

What can I do to try to increase their weights? And I know a normal bird doesn't have that KFC keel, but what does a healthy chicken's breast feel like? I've never known any birds but my own. And the ones I bought at auction, which always seem skinnier, but I figure that's for a reason.

Yes olive eggs at made two ways, the easiest is blue egg layer crossed with a dark brown layer like a marans. That gives a light olive. The harder way is blue crossed with brown, to get green, then cross back to brown again- bit you risk losing the single blue egg gene in that second generation.

As for putting weight on birds, I would do a combination of fermented feed, calf manna, and scrambled eggs on top of free choice chick crumbles or game bird feed. Also worm and dust for lice/mites regularly, you don't want parasites stealing the nutrition the chicks need!

 

[TipihlowLadies]

look what I found when I got home

 

[Loriemarler]

look what I found when I got home

How cute is that!!!!

 

[TipihlowLadies]

Yes olive eggs at made two ways, the easiest is blue egg layer crossed with a dark brown layer like a marans. That gives a light olive. The harder way is blue crossed with brown, to get green, then cross back to brown again- bit you risk losing the single blue egg gene in that second generation.

As for putting weight on birds, I would do a combination of fermented feed, calf manna, and scrambled eggs on top of free choice chick crumbles or game bird feed. Also worm and dust for lice/mites regularly, you don't want parasites stealing the nutrition the chicks need!

So what will a marans roo on ee hens produce?