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[Cetawin]

well as long as Mama gets some chickens I think you are safe.

Well I am going to try to catnap in my recliner....have a great night. I will be glad when we have a diagnosis and know what we are dealing with. *sigh*

 

[NellaBean]

My boyfriend asked me the same thing yesterday. What are you going to do with all these chicks?

Um......let them be chickens? Grow em up and sell them? Keep the girls and eat the boys? I don't know. I have decided i really do need to start culling my own boys. I have too many and I'm tired of feeding them. I wish someone would come over here and do it so i could watch and see how it goes without having to go it alone.

My boyfriend hunts.........so I told him to come cull the roosters. He says he will only do it if he can shoot them. Sigh. Slacker.

Can you imagine a shotgun versus bantam rooster? Kablooey, feather explosion. Where'd the bird go? LOL

I wish there was a place around here that processes chickens. SIGH.


So I figured out where to put the broody compound or bungalow or whatever i want to call it.......there is a relatively flat spot in front of the garage.....i need it to be open so I can go in and out and get the riding mower in and out and wagons and stuff......but I think if i put down a few bags of gravel in a low spot (it is mostly gravel already) and then build a frame to set the coop/pen on so that it will be flat.....that should work perfectly. Also, it is under a tree, so has shade in summer, and is right next to the garage so very convenient.

 

[redfeather]

Update from me:

Startin' to think the stunted chick has a heart condition.

I noticed it's legs and beak and general skin color is much darker than the other birds. I've been feeding it pedialyte and hard boiled eggs, and it seems to be a bit lighter colored now, and slightly more active.

If it doesn't show dramatic improvement within this next week though, we might have to cull it.

It's never known anything else but to just sit around blinking sleepily, trying to balance.

Still looks like a week old chick and it's nearly 3 weeks old. Sibs are 5x its size.

 

[halo]

Every now and again I get a chicken with "failure to thrive". It just wont grow. Its the same size at 2 weeks as when it was hatched, and its hatch mates are nearly twice the size. I dont know why it happens that way, but they never make it. Something in their system just doesnt allow them to grow like they are supposed to, they dont grow feathers, either. And one day are just gone.

Can I rant here? No one will see it but us, right? I think Ive seen 6,000 threads in the last month on the same thing...my hens stopped laying, why? READ. PLEASE READ FIRST. Theres only been a bazillion threads with exactly the same thing, if you read you will save other BYC members from putting their faces inches from the monitor, yelling "will you please read first before asking the same blankety question that has been asked over and over and over and over and over!!!!!"

Thank you. I feel better now.

 

[Cetawin]

Good Morning!

halo - OMG I have been saying that a year plus....READ

redfeather...I am sorry for your little chickie...I had a little duckie like that. Struggled hatching and such, ate, drank and everything fine...but just did not grow.

Little duckie passed away at 10 days old.

 

[kathyinmo]

OMG, for the first time in ages, I slept ALL night! Asleep around 10 or so, and up at 430. Now I am stiff and have to stretch.

Brittney and baby are coming home today, hopefully. She is doing so well. I am so proud of her. Just a natural at the mothering it appears. Brings me to tears that my baby girl is a mama. It is different than when the boys had children born. Ya know what I mean?

Have you ever heard the saying ...... A son is a son, until he takes a wife. But a daughter is a daughter, for the rest of her life.

 

[Cetawin]

Yay Kathy! I have heard that phrase. My daddy told my hubby "She was mine first, she will always be mine and she will be mine in the end...but you may borrow her for your lifetime"

 

[speckledhen]

I know, I know. I see the same question about cessation of laying over and over again.


Molting = No Eggs (or severely decreased production)
Moving/rearranging locations/coops = No Eggs, temporarily

There are other more sinister causes, but these are the most common causes of no eggs posted here, it seems. Sometimes, hens just take breaks--I keep saying over and over, hens are not machines-they are living creatures, not vending machines. I just wish that would be taken into consideration. Sigh. Same things do frustrate me here on the forum, but I try (with all the tact I can pull up) to answer it over and over again. I do wish some would do research before, or at least at the point, they get chickens. Google is wonderful. Just google "hens stopped laying" and all the answers just pop up out of nowhere.

 

[Cetawin]

to the almighty GOOGLE and SEARCH BUTTON

 

[halo]

Not only that, but the days are getting shorter and shorter. If you dont have lights on them, they will slow down. Especially for people who have them just coming of laying age now, they may not lay at all for another couple of months. I wish someone could put a sticky up there with reasons why hens stop laying. Maybe people would read it before asking. Id say to add a post with all the recent threads where that has been asked, but it would be about 200 threads.