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[chippysmom327]

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....

Is he showing signs of respiratory distress? What's his crop like?

 

[chippysmom327]

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! I remember finding Chippy's first egg. I found it and then washed it, then googled how to clean eggs and read to not wash them, and threw it away. Now I know that I probably would have been fine to eat it anyways.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Congrats! I remember finding Chippy's first egg. I found it and then washed it, then googled how to clean eggs and read to not wash them, and threw it away. Now I know that I probably would have been fine to eat it anyways.

lol that's funny. We didn't wash it at all.

We were a little disappointed to come home today and not find any eggs. It's still going to be quite the waiting game now until everyone starts laying (and doing so reliably lol). We haven't left them or to free range for a few days for various reasons but should we keep them contained for a week or two now to make sure they use the nest boxes? Cloud did but she was confined at the time. I don't want to search all through the woods for hidden nests when everyone else starts.

 

[stake]

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.

Hey B:

Get some neosporine on the wyandotte's wounds...works wonders(imho)...ever get a handle on the preditor?

Catching 35 free rangeing chooks is impossible....I can imagine kaos.....I'd suggest a cold beer on your back porch...and waiting on a sunset....

 

[stake]

All:

Just a heads up on hawks...had one crash through the trees after a squirrel around 60' up a tree, missed and chased it down the trunk about 20' and flew off....I watched from my deck thinking if I wasn't sitting there maybe the chooks would've been the target???

 

[LadyBehir]

Chippy, I tried, I really did, to vote. Maybe the first time I did it it took and I didn't realize it and now it won't let me double vote? I think I'll share your vote page on one of my FB forums - you may wind up in first place, though.

 

[troyer]

Wing, they are some mixed variety, I actually forget what! I picked up a dozen eggs for $3 at the York TSC after Troyer's wife talked me into it. It is no mystery to me why he has sooooo many chickens now.

 

[Kinmera]

Is he showing signs of respiratory distress? What's his crop like?

no respiratory distress at all

His crop looked good

My daughter just went outside to play and came running in to tell me he was dead

. I'll just have to keep a close eye on the other birds -- their water is dosed with nutridrench now and I mixed medicated feed into their food just in case.

 

[fisherlady]

no respiratory distress at all

His crop looked good

My daughter just went outside to play and came running in to tell me he was dead .   I'll just have to keep a close eye on the other birds -- their water is dosed with nutridrench now and I mixed medicated feed into their food just in case.

So, so sorry! You must be heartbroken...i know how much you liked him. I hope whatever it was is isolated to just him!

 

[fisherlady]

Auroradream...congrats on the eggs!! No matter how many hundreds you collect there are none as special as 'firsts'!! You will be the designated 'deviled eggs' person at all family functions before you know it!