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[artsyrobin]

dragon is not looking good, blackening comb, lethargic, won't drink or eat...no mites, wormed, she is about 5

 

[lonnyandrinda]

dragon is not looking good, blackening comb, lethargic, won't drink or eat...no mites, wormed, she is about 5

So sorry to hear. I hope she pulls out of it. I know you are doing everything you can.

Took this picture today, just love the pattern on these double laced barnevelders. They haven't been as popular as I'd hoped on my website so I may move on to a different breed this fall but I may try to talk Lonny into letting me keep a hen or two just because I like them!




This will be one of my breeds next year- Mottled Orpingtons! I've gotten two batches from rarebreeds and they are both doing well.



And these are my first blue Langshan babies from my own birds! I had one black that hatched last week. The adults are such gentle giants!




I need to find some more Russian Orloff chicks though. I ordered 18 eggs from someone, got 20, 15 went into lockdown, 8 hatched, and they have slowly been dying one at a time, for no reason I can find. Tried treating for cocci although no other breeds in the brooder have been affected. I guess just weakened from the shipping damage. I'm down to one or two chicks.

 

[shelbydog]

@Rinda, Did you order from Cliff? I haven't lost any of mine.

 

[bardies]

dragon is not looking good, blackening comb, lethargic, won't drink or eat...no mites, wormed, she is about 5

So sorry.

 

[bardies]

So sorry to hear. I hope she pulls out of it. I know you are doing everything you can.

Took this picture today, just love the pattern on these double laced barnevelders. They haven't been as popular as I'd hoped on my website so I may move on to a different breed this fall but I may try to talk Lonny into letting me keep a hen or two just because I like them!




This will be one of my breeds next year- Mottled Orpingtons! I've gotten two batches from rarebreeds and they are both doing well.



And these are my first blue Langshan babies from my own birds! I had one black that hatched last week. The adults are such gentle giants!




I need to find some more Russian Orloff chicks though. I ordered 18 eggs from someone, got 20, 15 went into lockdown, 8 hatched, and they have slowly been dying one at a time, for no reason I can find. Tried treating for cocci although no other breeds in the brooder have been affected. I guess just weakened from the shipping damage. I'm down to one or two chicks.

Sorry to hear about the orloffs. That mottled orpinton chick is something else though! I can see why some has referred to them as penguins - at least that is what I thought I saw.... It is what I am thinking!

 

[bardies]

Great news!

I've finally had a good hatch! Out of the 12 eggs that went into lockdown, todayi s 21. One hatched on 19 (large fowl easter egger)...yikes, it was pipped as I was moving them a full day late. Then yesterday and last night, the other two large fowl hatched plus 7 silkies. Only two unhatched eggs, and there is still plenty of time for them. No problems with the chicks as far as I can see...the early one HAD a naval, but it was not clearly open, and with my latest experience...I may just be more aware of what is there normally. On the silkies, out of the paint/black pen, I've gotten 2 white(paint?), one who knows what - a mixed brownish thing...so perhaps partridge, and four black/blue dark chicks. Still pretty wet, so hard to tell. The last three chicks from there were, I believe, blue. I need to study up on my paint genes to see how such a thing could happen.

Speaking of blue - had a blue roan calf FINALLY show up on the 28th. I've been checking for it for a month. Itis beautiful! SAdly, iti s a bull. We'd really wanted a heifer out of this match. The sire that carries the blue is all the way in Montanna. Pictures later...wrong computer for that.

 

[Nuggetirl]

Welcome! I like your avitar. Our poor Husky mix doesn't get to sleep in his bed, the one in the living room, much; one of our cats thinks it belongs to him. The dog's bedroom bed is where the dog draws the line for putting up with bossy cats.

For some reason all the dogs love that bed. Even the 90lb Rhodesian Ridgeback we dogsit will try to fit in it.



@CayuseRanch sounds like you're right near me!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

@Rinda, Did you order from Cliff? I haven't lost any of mine.

No. When I posted in the FB groups that I was looking for hatching eggs, he immediately opened an auction- which quickly went way above my price range for hatching eggs. So I didn't bother contacting him. I think it went for well over $150, I stopped keeping track after that. I paid $75 for the 18 I ordered, but phew to only have one surviving chick for that... I would much rather order chicks but still looking for the right place to get them from.

I have a box of Spitzhabens coming from Greenfire Farms tomorrow! Hope they do better than the last batch they sent.

 

[Kassaundra]

So sorry to hear. I hope she pulls out of it. I know you are doing everything you can.

Took this picture today, just love the pattern on these double laced barnevelders. They haven't been as popular as I'd hoped on my website so I may move on to a different breed this fall but I may try to talk Lonny into letting me keep a hen or two just because I like them!




This will be one of my breeds next year- Mottled Orpingtons! I've gotten two batches from rarebreeds and they are both doing well.



And these are my first blue Langshan babies from my own birds! I had one black that hatched last week. The adults are such gentle giants!




I need to find some more Russian Orloff chicks though. I ordered 18 eggs from someone, got 20, 15 went into lockdown, 8 hatched, and they have slowly been dying one at a time, for no reason I can find. Tried treating for cocci although no other breeds in the brooder have been affected. I guess just weakened from the shipping damage. I'm down to one or two chicks.

I have a friend in another who hatched out 2 batches of RO eggs and had the same trouble. I believe hers were shipped eggs too.

 

[artsyrobin]

This group is for sale, Mama and three babies, looks like one of the babies is a cockerel, $20






this is papa-




Still working on thinning the herd..LOL!