Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[BullChick]

Well, poop. Maybe it's just the warm weather making them warm enough that they don't need so much energy to keep warm. Thus less food. More bugs mean less food and treats too.

 

[BullChick]

My ducklings are now back with me, and loving the warm weather. Thanks to Fisherlady, I didn't have to worry about them while I was gone. She did a great job of letting them be toddlers, and have fun playing in the water and outside.
I have them in a pen right now. I will check on them often throughout the day, then put them inside a sectioned off portion of the coop tonight. Hopefully, I won't need a heat lamp. I do think they will be okay, but I'll keep checking.

 

[Lelanae]

My three babies from Dennis are doing beautifully. On nice days, I

put them in a dog cage in the run so the big girls don't bully them. Here is my son with the little queen Welsummer..Summer for short.

 

[BullChick]

Great!

 

[dheltzel]

My three babies from Dennis are doing beautifully. On nice days, I

put them in a dog cage in the run so the big girls don't bully them. Here is my son with the little queen Welsummer..Summer for short.

She has certainly learned how to rule over her human subjects. Do you give her treats as tribute?

 

[barbiegirl]

I am from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Welcome from the Poconos

 

[stake]

My three babies from Dennis are doing beautifully. On nice days, I

put them in a dog cage in the run so the big girls don't bully them. Here is my son with the little queen Welsummer..Summer for short.

I hear you...I moved seven young ones into the main coop and the alpha girl is giving all of them hell...she won't even let them roost....(well a few times the junior roos jumped up next to my only other adult chook and things were fine)..she actually is running up and down the run getting pissey with everyone.....I firmly believe girls are alot more happy with a roo around...

 

[emorems0]

What can I do for this chick? Meat chick (cornish roaster from Murray McMurray, takes 12 weeks instead of 8 and supposed to have fewer leg problems). 3 weeks old, noticed he was acting lazy do I picked him up and found he couldn't stand up. I gave him some electrolyte water via a dropper and he ate good when I put him back in the tractor in front of the food. What else should I do?

They are eating flock raiser crumbles and are in a tractor with 6 larger meaties (they are just 2 weeks older, but I think they are the standard, 8 week cornish cross). All of the other smaller cornish roasters seem to get along with the bigs just fine but this one can't really get around so he won't last long under the bigs feet... they are so competitive for food and water each morning that any weaker bird will get trampled. * I think I will move this guy to the non-meatie brooder, but I don't know how to help the leg issue.

All the other meaties stand up nice and tall

 

[kimalulu]

I was wondering if some one could explain to me...In auto sexing breeds of chickens, do the females usually have chipmunk stripes and the males have a white dot on or behind their head? I'm mostly interested in bielefelders but was wondering about CCL as well. How do you tell the difference from the males and females in sex link breeds? Thanks for the info!

Kima:

CCLs go something like this: males will have a white dot on their head....although auto sexing the white dot is often not pronounced, sometimes some breeders say well defined chipmunk pattern is female and not well defined is male...I think the other autosexing birds are somewhat similar....my two cents....

Thanks for explaining that for me. Makes sense.

 

[BullChick]

What can I do for this chick? Meat chick (cornish roaster from Murray McMurray, takes 12 weeks instead of 8 and supposed to have fewer leg problems). 3 weeks old, noticed he was acting lazy do I picked him up and found he couldn't stand up. I gave him some electrolyte water via a dropper and he ate good when I put him back in the tractor in front of the food. What else should I do?

They are eating flock raiser crumbles and are in a tractor with 6 larger meaties (they are just 2 weeks older, but I think they are the standard, 8 week cornish cross). All of the other smaller cornish roasters seem to get along with the bigs just fine but this one can't really get around so he won't last long under the bigs feet... they are so competitive for food and water each morning that any weaker bird will get trampled. * I think I will move this guy to the non-meatie brooder, but I don't know how to help the leg issue.

All the other meaties stand up nice and tall

If there are no obvious leg issues for you to act on, maybe just separating and allowing food and water within easy reach. Then, I hope that it begins to stand again soon. Other than a leg issue or disease, it could just be a vitamin deficiency.