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[WestKnollAmy]

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So sorry about that, Joy! It was going to be a cutie, I'm sure. Here's hoping that other egg hatches out!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Tee hee, she took a dz duck eggs and a dz chicken eggs, plus I gave her one of my farm logo shirts for free advertising for me and a nice new shirt for her to wear out bumming around.
I gave her a stack of my business cards, too but that was really not a fun thing for her to get, imo. BUT it sure helps me if she gives them out!

AND Jackie, my dear, brought me 5 hens and a roo! I was so wanting a blue roo but I got a gray. Three hens are a black but not a deep black like my Fancy. And 2 Partridge hens of some sort. I don't usually care for Partridge in Silkies but these girls are really pretty! I will be putting them with my Partridge roo, Gabriel, to see what I may hatch out. He carries other colors but expresses Partridge and no telling what the girls may have mixed in so this will be a fun bunch to hatch from. I do not hatch many Silkies. I love the babies but I do not seem to have much of a market for my extras and we definitely do not eat Silkies.

I am tickled with them and wish I had room for more. The price was fabulous!

Here is a photo of them. It is darker in that room so the colors look funny since the flash went off.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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It happens. I treat as much as I can to avoid it but even with some growing up in a wire bottomed pen I treated them when I saw droopy babies. I think it was the heat though because they didn't have any change at all until I opened the brooder top and let all 40 come out as they please. Makes my nights harder because then I have to stand there and and scoop them back up off the floor and put them back in. Some can fly up onto the top and get back in themselves but a lot of the girls do not. They are having a blast running outside with the bigger chicks and the ducks. I am worrying my head off about something happening to them.

I am sure you will get them treated and be back in business in no time.

 

[Lroach711]

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It happens. I treat as much as I can to avoid it but even with some growing up in a wire bottomed pen I treated them when I saw droopy babies. I think it was the heat though because they didn't have any change at all until I opened the brooder top and let all 40 come out as they please. Makes my nights harder because then I have to stand there and and scoop them back up off the floor and put them back in. Some can fly up onto the top and get back in themselves but a lot of the girls do not. They are having a blast running outside with the bigger chicks and the ducks. I am worrying my head off about something happening to them.

I am sure you will get them treated and be back in business in no time.

I was shocked..I really didn't think they'd have it. Their stools have looked absolutely normal...but if looking at coccidia in chickens is anything like it is in puppies, my babies have a pretty heavy load

I went and got a small thing of sulmet and ordered a gallon from my work for future use. I'm thinking it could have been a combination of the heat and the coccidia that got my 2 that died. Can it hit them all of a sudden..like one day eating and drinking and acting normal and the next day dying??

One other question..could this cause them to not gain weight like they should? I have these 5 in a tractor outside (they're about 16 weeks..I did the math today finally to figure it out) and then I have 11 in our barn in one of the stalls that are 12 weeks. I swear the ones in the barn are just as big if not bigger than the ones in the tractor and they're a month younger! It's really weird.

 

[gvilledh]

I am now convinced I have got to get at least a small amount of Sulmet to keep on hand. The girls are almost five weeks old and now that they are outside so much, I am really getting paranoid. They are on medicated starter still, at least until this bag runs out. Will probably be another week or two, I think. Should they stay on the medicated starter longer or change over to the next stage of food?

 

[Joycats]

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Ah well, they went to bed with the chickens last night! So I guess whatever whimsey she has is what he will do. They are a really nice couple though. Spending lots of time in my yard now so I think he has talked her into living here!

They don't go down to the woods much, which surprises me.

Amy - I forgot to tell you that guineas loooove to look at themselves. If you have an old mirror, stand it up against the wall in the chicken coop or outside the barn (wherever you want her to spend time) and she'll find it. It's hilarious to watch them look at themselves.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Cocci can hit them all the sudden, but it is something that builds over time. Stress of some kind usually causes it to get out of control--such as high temps, no water, no feed, storms where the birds get wet, etc. If you lifted all your birds you would probably find that some are heavy and some are light. The light ones are in the most trouble and yes, it can cause stunting in growth. In my polish pen I notice one day that the birds did not finish their feed like they should by the end of the day. Even in heat young birds should be eating and excited to eat in the morning and the end of the day. I never really looked at their stools until I found a young yard bird setting under a tree not interested in eating and when I picked her up she was very light--lighter than she had been a week before.

You do not need to see blood in their stool for them to have it. Blood seems to indicate it is getting out of the birds control. Not all young birds will succumb to it in the same pen, often the weaker or stressed one. I find my pullets get hit first, before the roos. I believe my chicks were stressed by they heavy rains (they did not have a good roof on their pen) and heat. I try to keep water and food in front of them all the time.

Not sure if any of this helps but maybe someone can learn something from my experiences here.

I do hope all our birds make it through this hot summer!

 

[rebbetzin]

Ok, it iis now finally "Official" my husband's company will be relocating to Florence, South Carolina. They had a big meeting yesterday.

Now, within the next 30 days we will know if we are "invited" to go or not. If not, my husband will get a good layoff pkg, he has been with them for over 30 years. And he will begin to collect his pension, and try to find another job. Since he is 55, hopefully someone will hire him. He is not THAT old! But, with jobs the way they are.....

I would so love to leave this desert!! Though people are saying the humidity in South Carolina is awful. I am thinking it would be better for my skin!!

 

[Billyj]

Ok just a quick question. Is anyone else experiencing Easter at their house??? I swear these chickens are driving me crazy. Here an egg there an egg everywhere an egg egg.... except in the nest box.

I am just kidding kinda. I picked up 3 eggs in the yard today. I know they were 1st eggs from my girls, by gee whiz. Find a nest already!!!!!!!

 

[Jackie B.]

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Tee hee, she took a dz duck eggs and a dz chicken eggs, plus I gave her one of my farm logo shirts for free advertising for me and a nice new shirt for her to wear out bumming around.
I gave her a stack of my business cards, too but that was really not a fun thing for her to get, imo. BUT it sure helps me if she gives them out!

AND Jackie, my dear, brought me 5 hens and a roo! I was so wanting a blue roo but I got a gray. Three hens are a black but not a deep black like my Fancy. And 2 Partridge hens of some sort. I don't usually care for Partridge in Silkies but these girls are really pretty! I will be putting them with my Partridge roo, Gabriel, to see what I may hatch out. He carries other colors but expresses Partridge and no telling what the girls may have mixed in so this will be a fun bunch to hatch from. I do not hatch many Silkies. I love the babies but I do not seem to have much of a market for my extras and we definitely do not eat Silkies.

I am tickled with them and wish I had room for more. The price was fabulous!

Here is a photo of them. It is darker in that room so the colors look funny since the flash went off.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/9332_new_silkies_7-11_002.jpg

Now that's a happy lookin bunch! Verdict in the ct scan is to torn ligaments for Cleve so Amy you just let me know when we need to do more deals! Haha