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[Okla-doodle-doo]

Robin you be careful and don t slip and fall in that mud! Kass that is the most beautiful dove/pigeon I ve ever seen! Boy I would love to have a bunch of them! Hope your doing well. Are you sill doing dubai s? I guess your still doing the medical work too? You be careful in the slippery stuff too! Thanks for the ovation!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

The last several posts really made me think---WOW! These birds really are like our babies! Bumbers, rate of development, what's in their poo? We pour our heart into these things, don't we?

On that note, my Cochin eggs I ordered and hatched a week or so ago...I'm losing them one by one. They're in the brooder with a couple of my mixes and a couple slightly older (but not much bigger) lavender Orps I purchased. It's just the Cochins I'm losing. One day they look great and the next their wings are droopy. They're lethargic. It's like they just give up. I'm down to five from seven and have one of those quarantined due to how it's acting. I did switch them to large flake brooder from sand. Could this be it? Larger bird, larger appetite, eating stuff it shouldn't?

I'm making a feed store run today, so if there's something I can try, let me know. I am on Facebook too, but for some reason, I feel like this BYC is more helpful. FB tends to jump on people!

Sounds like the problems I was having with Isbars. Mine was an e coli yolk sac infection that was passed from hen to chick via the egg. Try treating with a 14 day course of Tetroxy HCA or something similar. Hope you can save some.

I leave chicks on paper towels for the first two or three days, then they go to a wire brooder. I will never go back to shavings if I can help it.

I'm using this next year in Bio 1 when we study genetics! I'll make sure to give you the credit, Rinda.

Here's a jpeg file if it helps you. I have so many people ask about some of the cream legbar genetic basics I finally just wrote them all down. I have similar charts for cresting, barring, and recessive cream. That reminds me I ought to do one for the recessive white sports, too.

I have spent the morning ankle deep in mud, i love snow, but not the mess- enjoy the okie sunshine!! so nice to see you posting!

Ick I know it! I finally stopped bathing the dogs and just locked them in the kitchen/laundry area where it's tiled!

 

[Ksane]

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It's beautiful! Anyone want a Guinea Pig? I've got 11 males 6-12 mo old and would like to place some. $10 and they're healthy. Price negotiable lol

 

[artsyrobin]

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here is a recipe we use for babies

 

[Kassaundra]

Robin you be careful and don t slip and fall in that mud! Kass that is the most beautiful dove/pigeon I ve ever seen! Boy I would love to have a bunch of them! Hope your doing well. Are you sill doing dubai s? I guess your still doing the medical work too? You be careful in the slippery stuff too! Thanks for the ovation!

Yes on the paramedic, no on the dubias. I had a catastrophic colony fail b/c of a power outage last winter, and didn't restart it.

 

[Poco Pollo]

I know this isn't a photo of my chickens, but this is how they acted when I opened the pens today : )

 

[cathiesue]

Whoever was asking if chickens can eat plastic BB's well....I have a chicken inside who is sick and so I have become very familiar with her poo and today she passed a BB. I don't know how long it took her to process it but she's been inside for three days and while it's possible she found a bb in some corner when I wasn't looking (she's had some time out to stretch her legs in the house) but I think she got it from outside when she was out there, which means it was in her system awhile. She's got some respiratory issue so it's not from the bb I dont think. Mrs. Peckers ate a plastic BB and passed it. Ugh

I think that was me asking about bb's. I've actually, accidentally, discovered a better way of keeping native birds out of the feed. About a month ago I brought home two furry bundles of joy from the shelter. Along with one lone rooster. Anyway, my plan was for these two to be indoor buddies but they are WILD to go out side so I let them. Just lately when I know the temps are going to be above freezing and one or twice when there was snow on the ground and they loved it. They still try to purr me to sleep at night. It's really funny the way that the cats and the chickens have this whole "I won't notice you if you don't notice me" thing going on. Everyone has their own personal space bubble and no one else violates it.

 

[margaret8]

I know this isn't a photo of my chickens, but this is how they acted when I opened the pens today : )

That's how my guineas acted! They free range and were kept cooped up for about 2 weeks!

 

[artsyrobin]

looking at the temps for the next week, the winter refugees are outside!!

now the massive cleanup commences- i keep telling myself, NEXT winter no refugees! 6 silkies, emily(1 legged game hen and Big Boy her companion cochin boy are all out!

 

[HeyBigRhondaq]

here is a recipe we use for babies

My sick Cochin seems to be doing better. It may have been the bedding. I put ACV in their water and switched bedding. I think I caught this one early enough. I'll try that recipe if needed, but none of them ever got pasty butt. I've been soaking their feed in the "juice" from my fermented grains I give the bigger ones. I read somewhere that it's good for their digestive tract. @lonnyandrinda, I actually thought of your isbar ordeal when I lost the second one. I am really hoping it's not such a serious thing.