Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Blarneyeggs]

Sorry to be a thread hog, you may just call me Danielle

here ya go (it's coming to me anyway)

My Wyandotte girl who is recovering from a predator attack does not look good, I thought maybe she had gangrene, but someone suggested to me what I see may be bruising. Poor thing.

On another note, we bled 35 chickens yesterday, MAN that is some hard work! But I'm getting a little better at it. Happiness is a full syringe after the first stick.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Here are the pictures I promised yesterday our first egg!! It was bigger than we expected but we're newbies lol. It was a double yolker and we cooked a sore bought egg to compare it to. It was SO awesome we're hoping to find another one today when we get home from church. We'll see what happens.

 

[PlaidBattleAxe]

Here are the pictures I promised yesterday

our first egg!! It was bigger than we expected but we're newbies lol. It was a double yolker and we cooked a sore bought egg to compare it to. It was SO awesome

we're hoping to find another one today when we get home from church. We'll see what happens.

Congrats!!! Beautiful egg color! And first egg is a double yolker? A double yolk is supposed be a sign of good luck to come, so that also being your first egg is pretty cool.

 

[chiques chicks]

If my scovy boys were not so heavy, I thought about it, but they end up hurting the smaller one's..

The scovy boys have their own bachelor pad.

FYI, eggs are being saved for you. They were glad to know they are fertile. How many do you want?

 

[Kinmera]

Sorry to be a thread hog, you may just call me Danielle

here ya go (it's coming to me anyway)

My Wyandotte girl who is recovering from a predator attack does not look good, I thought maybe she had gangrene, but someone suggested to me what I see may be bruising. Poor thing.

On another note, we bled 35 chickens yesterday, MAN that is some hard work! But I'm getting a little better at it. Happiness is a full syringe after the first stick.

Ok I'm clueless. Why are you bleeding your chicks?

 

[barbiegirl]

Wing, that baby is adorable!


If you want, I'd really appreciate it if you guys would take a second or two to vote for me in a photo contest. As crazy as it sounds, I want to win the 2nd place prize so that I can get a $25 gift card to buy whatever I want. I'm the one with the guinea keet in the lettuce. Thanks in advance!
http://www.seedsnow.com/pages/photo-contest?mc_cid=91d03fc047&mc_eid=0c473e61f2#.U8r665K9LCR

I voted! Figured out I had to add my email address to vote

 

[wingstone]

If my scovy boys were not so heavy, I thought about it, but they end up hurting the smaller one's..

The scovy boys have their own bachelor pad.

FYI, eggs are being saved for you. They were glad to know they are fertile. How many do you want?

Those eggs were very fertile, everyone developed, my stupid incubator mishaps really cut down on hatch number, and the fact that they all tried to hatch from the wrong end, a lot of them hit blood vessels trying to hatch...
Next time I will give them to a broody, I will dig out the fake ceramic eggs awhile to see home serious about sitting.

 

[wingstone]

Sorry to be a thread hog, you may just call me Danielle

here ya go (it's coming to me anyway)

My Wyandotte girl who is recovering from a predator attack does not look good, I thought maybe she had gangrene, but someone suggested to me what I see may be bruising. Poor thing.

On another note, we bled 35 chickens yesterday, MAN that is some hard work! But I'm getting a little better at it. Happiness is a full syringe after the first stick.

Ok I'm clueless. Why are you bleeding your chicks?

I am also clueless, How can anyone tend animals and a garden, and still have fingernails like that?....

 

[chippysmom327]

I voted! Figured out I had to add my email address to vote

Thank you! I need 70 more votes by Tuesday if I want 2nd place!

 

[Kinmera]

Ok i need some help/advice.....


My One White Plymouth Rock Rooster, Martin, was perfectly fine yesterday. I watched him strut around and be all active and doing rooster things like normal.


Today, when I go out to do chores - which are only done once a day on Sundays for various reasons - he's tucked into a corner of the outside pen head down - to the point I thought he was dead. He's not, but he's very listless and not moving. His tail feathers are all wet and droopy --- but he was laying in wet dirt.

I dosed him with Nutridrench - probably will shock his system.

I switched that pen to FF this week -- He's been on it for 3 days, but none of the other birds are showing adverse signs.

2 weeks ago I did add my oldest set of Juvinile WRs to that pen. 3 hens and 1 roo. I had no other place to put the roo till I freezer camp the 2 roosters in my laying flock. But I haven't even heard the 2 of them going after each other since day 1 --- and Martin won all of those fights. To be safe I put the young roo in a different pen with other young birds.

I REALLY don't wanna lose Martin -- he looks like crap from having his comb frost bit this winter so he has no points - but he's HIGHLY fertile. 15 of my 20 WR's came from him this year.

No clue what to do....