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[Ksane]

This is Dexter who was suppose to be a blue ameraucana.......really curious as to what she will look like when she is an adult. I guess she is a splash but all I see are white ones when I google it. Then again I'm no expert here and don't know if they just change color as they get older or what.

Now these three live in my room. They have fresh water and food and they are eating. But they are not putting on any weight. They are just bones. I put in the save a chick stuff the guy at the feed store gave me. But what else should I do??? I don't want to lose them. And when I put them outside they huddle in a corner and don't move. The other chicks beat them up bad. My red stars and silkies pay them no mind. But the brahma and other am's are just mean!! I don't get it.

Are you talking about the one in the front? That one's a black and will lose the little bits of white. The one is back will be solid blue and is very pretty. I love that shade of blue.
All the good nutrition and warmth won't do any good if they've got health issues going on. Depending on what they were exposed to they could have any number of protozoa parasites or different weird bacteria. I'm assuming they're on medicated feed to prevent coccidia? You can treat them blind with extra food and heat and all that but short of taking them to a vet for a fecal or culture there's just no way of knowing what the real problem is. So you're stuck treating symptoms. Chickens are oppourtunists. They're going to constantly test all the other chickens to see if any show weakness. That's why the others pick on them.

 

[tgperg]

They say that nessecity is the mother or invention.  Well I needed a way to make my yogurt and didn't want the expense of buying a yogurt maker or having to store it in my small kitchen,  Every type of pan/cooker I tried got to hot, so I took my light out of my cookie tin heater and a ceramic flower pot and put a pan on top and it is the perfect temperature!  Woo Hoo.

I was wondering if i could use my incubator as a yogurt maker. It sure doesn't work well for hatching chicks.

 

[tgperg]

chicken wire won't even slow keets down. I have it over the entirety of my chain link grow out pen and can't begin to catch the keets going back and forth between the inside and outside of the pen - without 2 other people on the other side of the fence/wire to try and catch them as they slip between my fingers. Hardware cloth should work.

I second that! Hardware cloth.

 

[tgperg]

 Hi, newby here.  I am in Broken Arrow.  I only have 1 rooster, 2 hens and 2 baby chicks.  I believe the adults are Blue Cochins, not sure what are the baby chicks.

 

Welcome!

 

[tgperg]

Ya'll I had to post some information that I just dug up. Of course, I just bought and paid shipping on my first gallon so everyone jump in and tell me what all I am going to want to go clean with the stuff and what all it can/should be used for...


There is a place in Central Oklahoma where you can walk in and buy Oxine AH. I had no idea, and would not still have known had a hail mary email not finally coughed up some usable information.

35.00/gallon (and they can get the quart size and she is going to find out that price and put it in the computer)
Just call Brandy before you drive there and make sure she has what you need in stock.
405.387.3292.

I told her I was going to post this on the internet and she did not seem alarmed at all....which kinda surprised me. I personally consider those to be quite chilling words in almost any context...but she gave permission so there you have it.

Professional Animal Health
2005 South Main Street  Newcastle, OK 73065

Hours M-F 6 am - 5pm
They don't answer the phone on Wednesdays as that is surgery day.

 
Off to fetch children and play taxi.

Kelly
PS...anyone who ended up with some of those chickens from me at POOPS tell me how they are adjusting to their new homes? ....sebright roo with ? hen and dark cornish bantams? ring a bell? Poco how are the trees...any live? Coral, my girl is doing so well....did almost everyone at POOPS take home a Silkie?

*raises hand meekly* I got a silkie.

 

[Kassaundra]

I was wondering if i could use my incubator as a yogurt maker. It sure doesn't work well for hatching chicks.

Someone on the yogurt thread just did that and said it worked well.

 

[averytds]

for all the newbies.

hey folks, i have a bit of a dilemma- i have my two geese i really need homes for them- apparently they have been scaring my mother in law by hissing.... i don't have a way to transport them, so would need someone to be able to pick them up- they need a pond...

Geese that scare off MILs!!! Can't believe people weren't jumping on this?!?

Here's two of my cochins in their tractor.



And here's my poultry hack of the day. The first time it rained their food got wet. The second time it rained I'd put their food up on the platform in the back and they kicked it over and wasted it all. This big ol' grill top blew up in our yard during a storm a while back, so I wired it up for a rain guard over their feed.



Here's a shot of the roo eating feed under the rainguard. Also, I made a nest box out of a kitty litter bucket. I'm making it my personal project to shock my neighbors with my redneck stuff, I guess.

Great ideas!

Dont do it, once you start hatching it is an addiction. You will drive far and wide just to find hens that are setting so you can get your hatching fix. Then before you know it you will buy an incubator. You will start small, like the little styro jobs at tractor supply. But anyone can tell you, tho they seem harmless, they are a gateway incubator. You will be scanning craigslist late at night looking for the big cabinet models. You will move closer to people like Carl that hatchs hundreds of eggs, just so you can visit and inhale that fuzzy dust that comes out of the bator. I will put you on our watch list. Please be carefull.

Oh wait...you speaketh the truth

RetiredArmyWife - I'm glad I'm not the only one! I won't be able to keep the chicks from my planned broody experiment since there are rules about how many chickens we're allowed in the city limits and I am already more than full up on clucks. I am really just tired of trying to break broody hens out of their hormone-induced mania by taking them off the nest every 30 minutes - I figure it will be easier just to let her set on some fertile eggs.

Ya know, I don't think broodies or chicks count, so I'll bet you're still under your limit.

Kelly
PS...anyone who ended up with some of those chickens from me at POOPS tell me how they are adjusting to their new homes? ....sebright roo with ? hen and dark cornish bantams? ring a bell? Poco how are the trees...any live? Coral, my girl is doing so well....did almost everyone at POOPS take home a Silkie?

We brought home Silkies too. What color did you say he was again Betsy? Frosted or ????? I don't remember.

They say that nessecity is the mother or invention. Well I needed a way to make my yogurt and didn't want the expense of buying a yogurt maker or having to store it in my small kitchen, Every type of pan/cooker I tried got to hot, so I took my light out of my cookie tin heater and a ceramic flower pot and put a pan on top and it is the perfect temperature! Woo Hoo.

For years I made it in quart canning jars inside a cooler w/a heating pad set on low.

Anyone have any Japanese Cochin Roosters? We got one from POOPS and it was my Daughters. She had named him Jumpanese. Well he somehow got out of the run and she witnessed our Daschund getting him and killing him. She is heartbroken!! He wasn't very old. He still had a few down feathers. I can't remember who I got him from.

Hubby had a doctor appointment in the city today so we ordered and picked up 260 pounds of long cut cabbage for making kraut. Put 235 pounds up this afternoon into crocks: a 20 gal, 10 gal, 8 gal and 5 gal. Will be canning it in 4 - 6 weeks.
And set another 5 gallon with Stephanie. She is becoming an efficient canning wizard! She made some great pickles and sent me home with a jar. Hubby thinks they are wonderful also.
Tomorrow will be work in the garden day.

The kids and I have only tried it once and apparently we didn't get all the air sealed out properly.

around one edge. Our cellar maintains the perfect temp though, so may have to try again.

This is Dexter who was suppose to be a blue ameraucana.......really curious as to what she will look like when she is an adult. I guess she is a splash but all I see are white ones when I google it. Then again I'm no expert here and don't know if they just change color as they get older or what.



Now these three live in my room. They have fresh water and food and they are eating. But they are not putting on any weight. They are just bones. I put in the save a chick stuff the guy at the feed store gave me. But what else should I do??? I don't want to lose them. And when I put them outside they huddle in a corner and don't move. The other chicks beat them up bad. My red stars and silkies pay them no mind. But the brahma and other am's are just mean!! I don't get it.

+1 on what ksane said.

 

[Cjarvis]

Morning all, wanted to pop in to say hello and welcome to all the newbies. My idea of cutting the hours back a bit hasn't worked out actually ended up working more than before. This is really cutting into my chicken time.
I did get the Columbian rosecomb going. The first ones are about 8 weeks old and feathering in real well, strong on color will have to see how the rest of them develop.

Everyone have a good day, I'm off and running.

 

[Gigiintheforest]

I have never been to an auction either, and this June will be my first ever chicken gathering of any kind.

Then I won't feel like such a newbie either. I want to add a couple of cochins and speckled sussex to my flock so one of these days...

 

[BBAcres]

I'll try the mix. They are a month old.



Day 30 and I have another pip in the turkey eggs. Listened to him peep all night.