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Chicks came today! Neighbor was ecstatic with hers and coveted my little chipmunk chicks (dark Cornish). We're trying to guess at what she got in her layer mix, I might post pictures tomorrow if anyone wants to take guesses.

For now, just a picture of my little Delaware who isn't standing properly. Can this be fixed with a split/brace of some kind? I've made little bandaid braces for messed up feet and splints for splayed legs but this seems different and I'm not sure what to do (other than call the hatchery, bc they shouldn't have sent out a chick with jacked up legs).




I also had to post a quick picture of my orpington molting. This is the lady I got from @chiques chicks last year. It looks so funny the way her feathers are all coming in together.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
I only have two hens now, I had 3 originally and Tom. What did you use to treat the turkeys? Wheezy is still wheezing an she looks pretty sad today. Especially because she has red markings on her feathers from the vitamin A supplement I tried to give her. I don't know if she swallowed it.
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That's right. I lost one about 2 months before you got them. She just wandered off and spent the night outside the safely of the coop. Someone found some white feathers, so I think that was her. You will still be ok with a trio, or even a pair. My starter group was a trio of Midget Whites.

I used Oxytetracycline in their water for at least a week. The turkey still wheezed a while after that, but seem good now. TSC sells an expensive form of it. Jeffers has it for the same price, but the concentration is 10x the TSC brand's strength. It takes 5 teaspoons / gallon of the TSC stuff, but 1/2 tsp of the Agrilabs brand
 
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This time of day is so beautiful. Wish the chooks would all go to bed so I could finish work inside.
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Your pictures are stunningly beautiful! I love seeing them!

AnneInTheBurbs said:
Thanks for the offer! I think MCC may have popped some on the mail. Let me see how many I need. I don't want to be a hog!
I only have two hens now, I had 3 originally and Tom. What did you use to treat the turkeys? Wheezy is still wheezing an she looks pretty sad today. Especially because she has red markings on her feathers from the vitamin A supplement I tried to give her. I don't know if she swallowed it.
That's gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
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You are welcome to all of them in you want. All they do is sit around here collecting dust. We use maybe 4 in the spring to plant stuff in, the rest just sit around taking up space lol
 
emorems0 said:
Chicks came today! Neighbor was ecstatic with hers and coveted my little chipmunk chicks (dark Cornish). We're trying to guess at what she got in her layer mix, I might post pictures tomorrow if anyone wants to take guesses. For now, just a picture of my little Delaware who isn't standing properly. Can this be fixed with a split/brace of some kind? I've made little bandaid braces for messed up feet and splints for splayed legs but this seems different and I'm not sure what to do (other than call the hatchery, bc they shouldn't have sent out a chick with jacked up legs). I also had to post a quick picture of my orpington molting. This is the lady I got from @chiques chicks last year. It looks so funny the way her feathers are all coming in together.
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We had a turkey like that we put his legs in a rubber band and a piece of a straw to make a little brace put a old wash rag in a McDonald's cup or something and set him in it somewhere were he can't fall I set the turkey cup in my dogs bed during the day and at night he just went in the incubator. And today he is the biggest tom we have and walks just fine you can't even tell anything happened just watch my dad put him back in the cup and walked away and came back in with food and he way on the floor luckily my bed isn't very high.
 
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AnneInTheBurbs said:
I only have two hens now, I had 3 originally and Tom. What did you use to treat the turkeys? Wheezy is still wheezing an she looks pretty sad today. Especially because she has red markings on her feathers from the vitamin A supplement I tried to give her. I don't know if she swallowed it.
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That's right. I lost one about 2 months before you got them. She just wandered off and spent the night outside the safely of the coop. Someone found some white feathers, so I think that was her. You will still be ok with a trio, or even a pair. My starter group was a trio of Midget Whites.

I used Oxytetracycline in their water for at least a week. The turkey still wheezed a while after that, but seem good now. TSC sells an expensive form of it. Jeffers has it for the same price, but the concentration is 10x the TSC brand's strength. It takes 5 teaspoons / gallon of the TSC stuff, but 1/2 tsp of the Agrilabs brand
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Do you use the powdered form? It looks like it would be pretty expensive to treat for 7 days as the package recommends. 5-10 packages for 2 gallons of water, for 7 days? Which one have you used from TSC?

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A family member that lives in wellsboro and they are to be getting there first snow of 1-2 inches we are to have freezing weather tonight
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Frost expected here tonight as well!
 
Chicken Egg 17 said:
A family member that lives in wellsboro and they are to be getting there first snow of 1-2 inches we are to have freezing weather tonight
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Yuck! The S word is a dirty word around here! I just checked the local weather and it looks like it's going to be around 30° first thing in the morning when the kids are hoping on the bus. You better believe I'll be preheating the car to 1000° and hibernating in the house as much as possible tomorrow. I don't do cold!
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Do you use the powdered form? It looks like it would be pretty expensive to treat for 7 days as the package recommends. 5-10 packages for 2 gallons of water, for 7 days? Which one have you used from TSC?
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That is for a dosing system where you mix up a concentrated solution and add it to the water line. They use it commercially without really needing to because it lowers mortality and increases weight gain in bad conditions, like commercial broiler or turkey operation. That is why all water soluble (and feed additive) antibiotics are requiring a prescription next year (ask yourself if paying a vet to write a prescription will slow down this practice).

You can find several threads here on BYC about dosing of Oxytet. The most concentrated form available is agrimycin from Agri Labs. It's dose is 1/2 tsp per gallon. TSC doesn't carry that brand, they carry another brand that has only 1/10 the potency, so you need 5 tsp per gallon. Same price per once, so I guess they figure they can sell more that way. Of course, they won't sell it at all next year.
 
Hi all - I noticed one of my hens had gone broody in a strange spot underneath the coop. I got her out after only a day or two, but somehow she managed to accumulate 18 eggs down there. I figured she had just stopped laying for the winter, but turns out she was hoarding all of her eggs! Anyway, now I have 18 eggs that have been sitting outside for who-knows-how long. Any suggestions as to what to do with them? I am not going to eat them myself - but maybe scramble them up and feed them to the chickens?


 
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