Silkie thread!

[littlecritters]

Guys, help me out here!
I have a black pullet that's been sneezing for the last week and a half. She has a runny 'nose'. I started her on Aureomycin. That has always worked in the past when we had a chicken with the sniffles. Well, didn't work for this girl. Boss told me to give her Amoxicillin. I've been doing that for the last 3 days. I've split 125mg pills in half, given her half a pill twice a day. No change. Is this not the right kind of medicine to cure the cold she has? Or maybe she's not getting enough of it? Or maybe it's not just a cold? Other than the sneezing and runny nostrils, she's in good shape. Eats REALLY well and is very energetic.
Oh! When her sniffling first started, her right eye would get crusted shut over night. I cleaned it gently with warm water to open her eye. During the day, she was fine. When evening came, these little bubbles would come out of the eye and I'm guessing that's what caused the crusts. She still occasionally has some bubbles in her eye but no crusts.
I posted this on the diseases forum, but got absolutely no help there...
What do I need to give my pullet to cure her cold? Or is it a cold..?

I had the exact same situation with a cockeral I bought for my daughter in Virginia and drove home in our car. He started sneezing, had bubbly eye and it crusted shut. I used the antibiotic in Doc Brown's emergency kit and even did the Oxine nasal flush. I did the epsom salt spa bath also and nothing changed or improved. Interestingly, my daughter developed conjunctivitis (pinkeye) a few days later and out of frustration I decided to use her eye drops on the silkie. Well, after 1 drop in each eye at night and then again the next morning...it all cleared up and went away. Amazing how it disappeared...

 

[Sanna]

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I am so emailing her!!

I love the pink shirt.

I had the exact same situation with a cockeral I bought for my daughter in Virginia and drove home in our car. He started sneezing, had bubbly eye and it crusted shut. I used the antibiotic in Doc Brown's emergency kit and even did the Oxine nasal flush. I did the epsom salt spa bath also and nothing changed or improved. Interestingly, my daughter developed conjunctivitis (pinkeye) a few days later and out of frustration I decided to use her eye drops on the silkie. Well, after 1 drop in each eye at night and then again the next morning...it all cleared up and went away. Amazing how it disappeared...

Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Where can I get these eye drops?

 

[CALI CHICK]

I've experienced the determination of hens that desperately want chicks...I have 3 mixed color oegb. Teeny, teeny girls, way smaller than my silkies. I got rid of all my oegb roos long ago, as I just wanted to keep the hens as broodies, not breed them. Back before I got my silkies or wyandottes, I had a mixed flock of LF layers. The only roosters I owned were a white leghorn, a RIR, and a WCB polish, all huge LF boys. When cleaning out a brushy area next to the coops, I came across a little oegb hen, on 6 bantam eggs. I was a little amused, and thought, those won't be fertile girl, just give up. But I thought I would candle, just for the heck of it. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS FERTILE. And they hatched, and grew into medium sized birds, smaller than LF, but much bigger than their mother. I have one left as a broody. I assume the leghorn was the father, because of her flopped over comb. I have no idea where her almost crele barring/lacing came from.


Get this, she is brooding her own eggs here, top. And she mated with the HUGE SLW we have (she's about 4 lbs, he's about 12), and successfully hatched chicks from him. Like mother, like daughter

This is her mother. You can see how tiny she is compared to the silkie chicks. This tiny girl mated with a LF leghorn.

Yes, those momma hens are so pretty. Love the lacing. I should let Leo Pierre at least try! The poor guys back is probably too short to make contact though!

Oh-today I put Leo Pierre and Mysty Blue in a breeding pen alone (with a shade cloth cover to keep the sun and other chickens out). Would you believe Buffy flew on top, collapsed the cover and was making passes at Leo Pierre again?????????

beautiful mommas. Times have changed for people/chickens, the female has to be the aggressor - males don't seem to have a clue

Good point! Some males less than others!

 

[CALI CHICK]

The yellow are crossbreeds - New Hampshire daddy and SLW mommy. We also had Black Copper Marans and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes hatching with them... I was afraid the Silkies would get squished!



One of our new partridge cuties and a two week old blue! She is the smallest two week old I have seen - so much smaller than the rest hatched at the same time.

These babies are gorgeous! (And I'm jealous)

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is very exciting! I think I'll start saving them. But, it is still really cold outside. maybe that isn't a good idea? IDK!

I read a thread on here about hatching out fertile trader joes eggs... whicfh means, they must last quite a while before they go bad?

Try to gather them as close to when they are laid as possible and then either put them in an egg turner or turn them a couple times a day until you are ready to incubate. It took me 10 days to collect 6 eggs from Mysty Blues first "test hatch"....4 chicks hatched, 2 were infertile! Also keep them in a cool place. I've hatched TJ eggs before -well, actually I gave some to broody Buffy and SHE hatched them-AMAZING! They were white leghorns. You can have your TJ store call the supplyer to ask what type of chickens lay their fertile eggs. Some stores carry brown, fertile eggs but not sure of the breed.

i have read that when u sore eggs u try to keep them at 50 degrees f and trader joes sells eggs wow never been there what kind do they sell

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Thought I would show off some of the girls.

Someone went broody. My friend gave me 2 duck eggs yesterday and she is a happy little broody.




My partridge


Buff and White
Little Buff has a cross beak. I clipped a little off with dog clippers but not sure how much I should clip off.

 

[sheeshshe]

Ok, sounds good! she's been laying every other day, so tomorrow there should be another one I can't wait until the others start laying too!

BTW, I never intended to hatch anything. or get roosters. I hang out here and you guys rub off on me.

 

[Sanna]

Thought I would show off some of the girls.

Someone went broody. My friend gave me 2 duck eggs yesterday and she is a happy little broody.

I love the broodies.

They take their job SO seriously.

 

[littlecritters]

I am so emailing her!!

I love the pink shirt.


Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Where can I get these eye drops?

Believe it or not the eye drops I used on the chicken were intended for my daughter. I'm pretty sure Doc Brown has opthalmic ointment or drops on his website www.firststatevetsupply.com along with Jeffers Supply and other online pet/poultry suppliers.

 

[ChicksNherps]

BABY!

 

[littlecritters]

I dont know if this is of interest for this group.... I located a good article which talks about fertilization of eggs and mentions how sperm is stored in a special gland...
http://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2072e/

"Making the mating"
"Let’s talk a little about the biology of fertilization and oviposition. In birds, fertilization occurs in the upper region of the oviduct, known as the infundibulum. During normal copulation the male deposits several million sperm cells into the vaginal area of the female reproductive tract. These sperm are then stored in special sperm storage glands that line the inner surface of the upper and lower ends of the oviduct. As each ovum or yolk is released from the ovary, sperm cells are evacuated from the storage glands into the upper region of the oviduct, allowing fertilization to occur. Fertilization must take place before any of the albumen layers are added to the yolk.
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Sperm cells can be successfully stored for days or even weeks in the female oviduct. In domestic fowl, fertility levels will start to decline about seven days after a successful mating or insemination. Fertility may persist for as long as three weeks in chickens, but on average lasts ten to fourteen days. When switching males in a pedigree program, spermatozoa from a new mating will tend to dominate over those of the first male; however it’s best to wait two weeks before saving eggs from the new male. Turkeys have a much longer fertile period and one insemination may last as long as four weeks.

If you were following a program of artificial insemination (AI) with exhibition breeders, a general recommendation would be for inseminations every five to seven days for chickens. Most of the exhibition turkeys are produced by natural matings but if AI is used a schedule of every seven to ten days is sufficient. AI should be used sparingly in heritage turkeys. One of their virtues is the ability to mate naturally."