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[kathyinmo]

How old are these cha-chingers? I want to vote! LOL

Hatched July 15.​

 

[kathyinmo]

Oh, wait, I found some better pictures of them.............. BRB

 

[kathyinmo]

I'm still uploading ........

 

[NellaBean]

Well #2 is definitely a rooster! LOL

I find on the iffy ones, comparing their leg thickness seems to help. Roosters seem to always have those tree trunks.....

I looked back at pix of my JerseyGiant rooster and hen for comparison. Same age rooster was more developed but same age hen was way less developed.

[eta; black one in 2nd to last pic looks kind of girly]

 

[kathyinmo]

OK, I edited it and added some.

 

[NellaBean]

The only one that doesn't look like an outright boy is the 2nd to last picture black one......one of the lavenders in the group shot of all 4 (the one on the right) doesn't look 100% boy, but even though the comb is behind, the legs look a bit thick.

 

[kathyinmo]

That is what I am thinking. I have looked at their legs sooooo much .... and I keep thinking males. Possibly the one black girl.

 

[Cetawin]

I am thinking one black girly and quite possible a lavemder girl...when I chose them I grab one of each in lavender and at least one black girl preferring two. I did my best kathy L(

 

[joletabey]

STOP THE PRESS!!!!!!!! Buttercups????

uh oh. . . . . . . . . . I am in trouble.
The wish list just got one breed longer and MAY have changed priority order.

Kathy - one black pullet for sure, the others have me totally confused. At three months old. . . . .hmmm.

 

[Serrin]

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OMG!

I just gotta get me a pair of those one of these days! Just looking at those faces! You can't help but smile, now can ya!?!?! Thanks Nella. And if you ever happen to know of anyone with hatching eggs of reasonable quality for those, what did you call them? Buttercups? Please! PLEASE, let me know. I'd love to hatch out about a half dozen or so. What a bunch of cuties!

Well, last night we attacked Evie's foot again. I was going to do this Friday night, but par for my luck, my compassionate helping hands got called away on a VFD response about a half hour before we had agreed to meet to treat Evie.

Typical!

So, DH was told in no uncertain terms that I would need his help Saturday night, come heck or high water! Evie was the perfect little patient! She laid on her back, all wrapped up in her towel, with footie sock over her head to keep her calm. She flinched real hard a number of times, and I knew at those moments that I was cutting into live, sensitive tissue.

So, in light of that, I didn't make the "X" cut in the bottom of her foot. There's also the fact that I could NOT find an adequate diagram online that illustrates tendons, muscle tissue, etc of the common chicken foot. I'm so terrified of cutting through something important, such as a tendon, that I just couldn't bring myself to cut her like that.

I wish I could tell y'all that everything went down in text book fashion. I wish I could tell you that all of the bumble is now gone and that Evie is well on the road to complete recovery. Oh how I wish I could, but I can't. Because of my fears, and my woeful lack of knowledge, I'm afraid that Evie faces an even greater risk to her health than just a simple bumble.

I packed the wounds as full as I could get them with the antibiotic ointment, [it's amazing how much you can cram in there with a loaded syringe!

] to the point that it would come squishing out through one of the other incision sites. I put on all new sterile dressings and wrap and then put her into her own little bed in the pump house.

She's resting as comfortably as I can make her. But, I know that horrible thing is still in there. Eating away at her foot. Causing her excruciating pain. Slowly killing her. And I feel completely powerless to stop it!

I have one more tool in my little bag of tricks, and I'm going to start that tonight.....Penicillin. 1/2 cc in the breast, for five days, rest for up to a week and then hit her again with another five day cycle....right? That is the formula, isn't it?

Come Monday I'm going to start hunting for a new quarry. To heck with the deer. I guess they didn't get their invitation to the party this last week, and that's fine. Didn't much feel like cutting and grinding up and wrapping all of that meat anyhow! No, my new quarry will be to find an Avian Vet for Evie. I fear this has gone way beyond anything I can handle. I'm thinking that a number of the wild raptor rehabilitation centers in the area might be a good bet to finding the person that I need!

Regardless, Evie and I are NOT going to go down without a fight! She's a tough little girl, and I love her and am determined to make her all better, no matter how far I have to drive to get her the kind of care she needs. In the mean time, I'll just keep changing the dressings, flushing out the wounds and reapplying the antibiotics. Between that and the penicillin, perhaps she can fight this thing off on her own sort of. Time will tell.

Kathy! Good Morning dear. How are you this fine day? How would you like to package up Mama and the babies up to go out on Tuesday? I'm as ready as I'll ever be!

Do you still have my mailing address? Do I need to PM it to you again? Just let me know. I'd have you send them today, but we have two appointments out at the base tomorrow, and I don't want to risk them arriving while we're away from the house!

They're so going to love it here!

I just hope the three of them can settle into considerably colder temperatures than what you're probably having down there right now. Our daytime high is forecasted for the lower to mid 40's all this week. Yup! Indian Summer is officially gone now! *sigh* Just let me know what works best for you dear lady. Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever. We can hardly wait to meet them!

Alrighty folks. Time for me to get my butt in gear, face the elements [it's raining cats and dogs right now and the wind is vicious!

] and get the flock set up for the day. One more day of shuttling the boys into the covered run and then tonight they go into their new coop. Ooooh! I so hope they like it!

Y'all have a wonderful day!