Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[Nava]

Brindle;; keep talking like that and i will let him spank you, i mean slap you

Nat;; congratulations on the peeppss

Aces;; i put the eggs under my white turken

and i love Auctions just love them

 

[Nava]

remember Shelby?? well she had a Heat Stroke, i will miss her very much

she lived in the house and i let them out and i went to do some run arounds and when i came back

it was so frikin Hot

 

[sonew123]

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oh man Nava Im sos sorry...Thats it we are cursed this week with al of us losing birds! good grief-

 

[sonew123]

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wow good luck!!! Hope you get a great one...

 

[hoppy]

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I know

Im almost tempted to put the 1 small BLRW chick in with it to see what happens but then I dont want that chick isolated from its siblings and get picked on when I go to put it back:-(

then put the blr chick in and don't plan to return it to the others, it will be the big sibling to the sussex and dels.

 

[sonew123]

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very slooowwwwwwwwww..day 22 - 1 hatched 2 days ago and 1 more split lav zipping..thats it..I have 5 turkey eggs in there due next Friday/sat and some splash cochinc dues any day too! so Im not getting excited really it is sooo scattered. I will when my call duck hatches...yah!!!!

 

[Phage]

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phage, I hope it makes it. we just amputated the broken leg from a chick, I worried I'd kill it with the anesthesia but I didn't and 1 week later, it's getting around great, they're tougher then we give them credit for.

Now you guys have me wondering.
Some of Nats chicks went to a real real nice family with 2 little girls. I had not realized that one of the chicks they took was the one that I had wondered if it had a twisted beak. I was looking for it to take a pic, and figured it had got getter. Anyways they called back after a week complaining about it so I said I would absolutely replace it.
But she did not get back to me. Apparently her DH said that it would give the wrong message to the kids to return it because it was not perfect (LOVE that guy).

However I got another call from them: another of Nat chicks had got injured. They did not know how. Could they get another bird of the same age. I got them to bring the injured bird back (unfortunately about a week now after the injury) and gave the little girl one of onthespots super fluffy gorgeous MCF that I was going to keep for myself. She was pretty happy. I said I would try and fix the injured chick.

Having seen enough racoon attacks I am pretty certain that this bird must have had its leg pulled through the chicken wire. it looked as if the hock joint had been dislocated and was now not reducible and that the hip joint was totally pulled out and disrupted. The foot was facing backwards. The chick was very active and could lurch around and is always the first to food.

Ended up splinting he legs so that its feet face face forward in the hope that the hip joint would heal. No chance. Yesterday it looked better (foot sort of facing forward sometimes ) but thigh bone (femur) is not attached to the pelvis in any functional way. It gets about fine by lurching. I have no idea if it is in pain or not but it cannot be comfortable.

To make it worse I think it is a roo but it is really hard to tell (one of Nats specials- you cant tell for sure till it crows!!).

The owner rang back to find out how it was. I explained, and she suggested just putting it to sleep. This seemed reasonable but I have not been able to bring myself to do it, and the longer I leave it the harder it gets. I cant keep it, and I cannot see that anyone would want it.

What should I do girls, What should I do??????

 

[chickenlittle32]

Phage...I wouldn't know what to do as well...I'd try to keep it if it wasn't in pain....and can get around well.That is me tho.


Kelsey, I learned my lesson with that as well. My digital thermometers weren't reading correctly and it was actually not hot enough in there...changed all the batteries and bought some water wigglers...getting much better hatches now...

 

[klf73]

Phage- What I think you have to take into consideration is will this bird be able to move once it's body gets heavier? What breed is it?

I am such an idiot. I pulled about 6 dozen eggs out of the bator yesterday to get the chicks out of the bottom and was in a hurry as I had to be somewhere to pick up some wooden crates(for brooders

) and forgot to put them back in!!! I went down about 6 hrs later and opened the bator and I about died when I saw it was empty. I don't think I lost any, they all still look good and I figure if those eggs that my broody got chased off of were ok(only lost 1) being in the 30's outside for 12 hours were ok then I shouldn't stress.... too much

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Nava- how big are turkens? what size egg? I had showgirls last year but got rid of all the banties.....they were the kids favorite, they always said they were so ugly they were cute and were the first ones the kids went to...

 

[Phage]

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I think yours eggs should be OK. I am always amazed at how robust they are (unless you REALLY REALLY want them of course!!!)
The chick is a layer cross from Nat, so not a "heavy" breed. Having said that this guy likes to eat!!! and I think is a guy. It seems that Hoppy "specializes" in hopping birds and they do OK.