Rocky64's chat thread: anything is welcome

[LoveThemBirds]

I would defintly consider a rooster.Love chiccks!

 

[Rocky64]

My white silkie gave me a second egg to be incubated, hopefully she lays more before Tuesday (that's when the first egg starts to lose viability). I plan to incubate the silkie eggs with some pheasant eggs, but seeing that the pheasants aren't laying yet, that doesn't look like it's gonna happen. I am not going to run the incubator (more like my mom won't let me) for just two or three eggs, so I made a deal with her; if I don't get any(or many) pheasant eggs by Monday (it takes a day or so to run the bator to make sure it's working right) I will skip buying chicks from the store and just put some of my other chickens' eggs in with the silkie eggs, so not to "waste electricity" incubating just 2-3 eggs.

 

[LoveThemBirds]

A friend of my grandparents was gonna give us a incubator,but,the thing is,we have not got it,and haven't seen any fertile eggs......Sucks to be me......

 

[Rocky64]

Not to brag, but I have 3-4 incubators in my basement, but only one has the auto-turner, so we mostly use that one. Some of the others have various problems such as temperature not being constant.

 

[Hens rule]

I have a chicken who is doing impacted crop movements. I saw on the crop page on Byc that a stuck egg can cause impacted crops. It's kind of late here but I think I should give her a Epsom salt bath. Also it feels like there's a egg stuck around her vent (butt) some of the others have that normally but this chickens is hard. What do you think I should do?

 

[Rocky64]

What is an impacted crop? I've heard that term a lot but never looked into it. I did read that for some crop problems , you could massage the crop. As for an egg bound hen, I've read that some people go in through the butt and remove parts of the egg VERY carefully, I personally wouldn't attempt it unless it was a valuable bird. I think I've read that a soak in warm water can help the hen pass an egg, but you should look up more info on here, which is what I'm assuming you are doing right now.

 

[Hens rule]

Yeah, I am. I gave her a Epsom salt warm water bath and she seems alittle better. She threw up a little but seems better now. The chicken in my picture is the one I gave the bath to.
An impacted crop is when a chicken or any bird really gordges them selfs with, straw for instance or something not suppost to be eaten. It can clog up the crop and cause no food/water to pass causing dehidration and starvation and if not treated can turn into sour crop which meens the stuff in the crop is rotting and can be toxic.
One of my red sexlinks had one and we brought her to the vet and now she's great! She had eaten eather a piece of paper plate or lots of straw. But now she's very healthy and great.

 

[LoveThemBirds]

I'm having my mom buy me a new coop,sick of my 10 hens leaving in a dump run with dirty ducks and grandpas hens and rooster.

 

[Rocky64]

I hate when my chickens want to eat inedible things like plastic. Most of the time I'm there to stop them, but I bet they get into stuff when I'm not around. I've never had a problem with a chicken having compact crop or egg bound hen, must be something in the water.

 

[Rocky64]

I think Sassy is going broody! She was looking for in a nest that's on the ground so I took an egg from the rabbit hutch( VERY popular nest) and put it in the nest Sassy was looking into. She got right on the egg, so I took her and the egg to the rabbit hutch (that's where she hatched eggs last year) and she was hesitant to get on but did after 5 minutes she did. Of course, Red came in the coop looking for a place to lay her egg, and she insisted that the rabbit hutch was the only place good enough for her egg. I locked the rabbit hutch when I put Sassy in so Red couldn't get in, and boy was Red mad; she made an angry sort of noise which started a reaction from the head rooster and that went on for a few minutes until Sassy decided that it was too loud and she got off the nest. I let Sassy out and Red jumped right on the nest to lay an egg, she's still laying the egg as I type. I hope Sassy still wants to brood, I have two silkie eggs and one if her eggs I'm saving to incubate, but would love if Sassy would hatch them for me.