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[NanaKat]

Driving home with my new babies

Unbearable amounts of cuteness!!!!

I'm obviously not doing the driving....

Too cute!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Crested cream legbar chicks. I was thinking a boy and a girl but am not really familiar with the breed. What do you guys think?

Who are they from, if you don't mind me asking? The one at the bottom of each photo is definitely female. The other is really puzzling me. It doesn't have the definitive female head stripe but it doesn't have a male head spot either. There may have been a fence hopper... or if it is pure I would not use it for breeding- you can quickly lose the autosexing breeding from ambiguous chicks. For comparison, here is a pair of mine:

No have not wormed her lately what do ear mites look like
Here is a photo her crop dose seem hard but not sure what normal is

Put her in a cage overnight and check her first thing in the morning. If her crop is functioning normally it should be empty or nearly so.

Too cute!

x2!

 

[Ksane]

No have not wormed her lately what do ear mites look like
Here is a photo her crop dose seem hard but not sure what normal is

That's a huge crop, even for a big girl. I would definitely keep her without access to food overnight and make sure her crop has emptied by morning. Impacted crop can "feel" normal yet it just won't empty or won't empty completely overnight because something is bound up in there. They twist their necks around trying to arrange their crop contents. I'm betting she's got some sort of impaction in her crop. String, hay, straw....those are the usuals.

 

[DBerryhill]

Hi everyone. Does anyone know where I can get some Americauna hatching eggs? I have found a few out of state folks but they are several states away. I was informed by my 5 year old daughter that she wantes more "puffy-cheeked" chickens and that she wants to take them to shows. It doesn't hurt my feelings that she is getting hooked on chickens early!

 

[miohippus]

That's a huge crop, even for a big girl. I would definitely keep her without access to food overnight and make sure her crop has emptied by morning. Impacted crop can "feel" normal yet it just won't empty or won't empty completely overnight because something is bound up in there. They twist their necks around trying to arrange their crop contents. I'm betting she's got some sort of impaction in her crop. String, hay, straw....those are the usuals.

i didn't get her caught up last night didn't read this till after dark we and caught her fist thing in the morning she was not totally empty still pretty full seem slightly smaller i felt it it felt like it was full of gravel my DH said she saw them eating some the other day. will gravel pass through on its own if that is what it is?

 

[Kassaundra]

i didn't get her caught up last night didn't read this till after dark we and caught her fist thing in the morning she was not totally empty still pretty full seem slightly smaller i felt it it felt like it was full of gravel my DH said she saw them eating some the other day. will gravel pass through on its own if that is what it is?

They eat rocks all the time. The rocks lodge in the gizzard and "grind" the food. If she didn't have access to food overnight the crop should be flat or almost flat, if it was still full AND she had no access to food she has a problem. Impaction, and if impaction isn't fixed it will sour.

 

[miohippus]

They eat rocks all the time. The rocks lodge in the gizzard and "grind" the food. If she didn't have access to food overnight the crop should be flat or almost flat, if it was still full AND she had no access to food she has a problem. Impaction, and if impaction isn't fixed it will sour.

i know they normally eat some gravel just wondered if for some reason she ate more that she should have if that would cause an impaction and not go thorough

 

[Kassaundra]

i know they normally eat some gravel just wondered if for some reason she ate more that she should have if that would cause an impaction and not go thorough

I have never dealt w/ an impaction problem, Mitzi has experience successfully tx even w/ surgery, and I thin Robin has had success. From the pics I've ever seen of what came from a crop after impaction surgery has always been fiberous and long, like hay, long dry grass, that sort of thing,

 

[artsyrobin]

the big thing if you suspect crop issues is to isolate with no food or water over nite so you can see what is actually going through, and of course the breath smell test

 

[miohippus]

the big thing if you suspect crop issues is to isolate with no food or water over nite so you can see what is actually going through, and of course the breath smell test

have had her isolated without food all day today seems smaller going to keep her isolated tomorrow too till she is done with the wormer dose it need to be totally empty before i let her eat again.