Hi all! Catching up. Lots going on with you all!
I am hatching today! So far, 1 out, 1 I can see the beak, and 4 pips out of 11 that developed. I only set blue eggs
I have been trying for more blue egg layers and hopefully there will be some pullets in the mix. I am actually hatching these for my pool guy (kid really). But I seem to have gotten attached to them! I will see what they look like before I actually give them away. So far the one that hatched looks like a blue AM! I have been wanting one of them! Really the only roosters that are allowed on the blue egg layers (unless Ichabod the Marans goes unnoticed) are the black AM and the Splash AM. The hens are both splash AMs and one CCL. Maybe I should raise them a little, then give away the ones I don't want
. Chicken math strikes again!
On another note, thank you all for your help with my sick chickens. I am happy to report only three had symptoms. They were segregated from the rest of the flock and treated aggressively and they are fine now. I did treat the rest of the flock as well and no one else has shown any signs.
Not sure if I mentioned it at the same time, but I have a lame chicken as well. I think OK had a similar situation with one of his girls not too long ago. I can't remember his details, but I think she recovered after some time away from the flock.
My girl seemed to have hurt her foot. I checked the bottom and there was no heat, or hole, or foreign object, etc. She was getting around hobbling using the tips of her toes to walk. Over a week ago, when the flock exploded from the coop (as they do every morning), she was just laying on the ground unable to walk. So she has been living in my grain room in a cage with the door open with direct access to food and water, and treats every morning. She seems fine except she is unable to walk. Any ideas/suggestions? And no, she is not a BR treating me as a slave while she is faking it
I am hatching today! So far, 1 out, 1 I can see the beak, and 4 pips out of 11 that developed. I only set blue eggs
On another note, thank you all for your help with my sick chickens. I am happy to report only three had symptoms. They were segregated from the rest of the flock and treated aggressively and they are fine now. I did treat the rest of the flock as well and no one else has shown any signs.
Not sure if I mentioned it at the same time, but I have a lame chicken as well. I think OK had a similar situation with one of his girls not too long ago. I can't remember his details, but I think she recovered after some time away from the flock.
My girl seemed to have hurt her foot. I checked the bottom and there was no heat, or hole, or foreign object, etc. She was getting around hobbling using the tips of her toes to walk. Over a week ago, when the flock exploded from the coop (as they do every morning), she was just laying on the ground unable to walk. So she has been living in my grain room in a cage with the door open with direct access to food and water, and treats every morning. She seems fine except she is unable to walk. Any ideas/suggestions? And no, she is not a BR treating me as a slave while she is faking it
