Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

If I had some for chickens maybe I would. After salpingitis they are finished laying right? if she continues to get sickly I'll eventually cull. I don't have extra coop space for nursing home care.

Just old they can live here but sick no.

I think my two EE's have had this and that's why they don't lay any more. Those lash eggs are congealed pus. It's all encapsulated and sent out of the body. My EE's are 4 years old and have not laid since their first year. I think I'm ending their retirement ride this spring. Basically the infection scars off the fallopian tube. They sort of keep fighting the infection off on their own or something. You might have caught it early enough for medicine...but usually not. I think it's a little secret infection that festers and festers until the damage is done...then you start seeing the symptoms. Poor girls.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a chick that was a eggsarean birth. It was all dried out in the shell, after the Eggsarean birth it is doing great except the feathers/fluff are stuck to its body and do not fluff out. I have it in the hatcher and am afraid to move it to the brooder because of the lack of fluff.

I have used shampoo and conditioner to try and get it to fluff. It is not fluffing. Any ideas??

I am going to post this to the chick emergencies too, but I trust you guys more....

 

[Dandelioness]

Hi, Rhetts - welcome back. I may be doing cattle soon, so I'll be barraging you and Holm with questions as they occur to me. How many do you have now? I had been trying to catch up on everything since I had last been on BYC, but I had to stop somewhere in mid August. I still had over 300 pages, not posts, to get through. I had only seen when you brought home your first one.

Erlibird, sorry about your girl. I had heard that once they start forming a lash egg, it's too late and that the hen is going to stay in a lot of pain until she passes. I hope you can either fix her up (I always try to do what I can, too) or are able to discern when it's time to cull if it comes to that. Bogtown's experience with her EEs leads me to believe they may be able to live comfortably afterwards. Always a tough call.

Ralphie - I'm hoping someone with more experience with Eggsarian chicks can give you some good advice. I had one I did that to last year, the little guy never fluffed up either. I would keep him in the pocket of a sweatshirt I wore to try to get him some more body heat, and made sure he drank and ate separate from the others. He made it to Day 3, maybe someone can chime in who had better luck.

 

[holm25]

Well my grandpa bought a bull today... We dont get him till May 1st though... We named him Ole!! He is the most amazing bull! I didnt get pics of him but did of his brothers!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Well my grandpa bought a bull today... We dont get him till May 1st though... We named him Ole!! He is the most amazing bull! I didnt get pics of him but did of his brothers!!

Oh no!! Not Ole!!! Ole has come back as a Bull. I pity the cows...

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie I read a bit and it seems that the albumin has dried on your chick. They say try a soft toothe brush to start flaking up the albumin. Sounds tedious detailed work but might save her. Happens with some eggcesareans and humidity dropping too fast on the chick. Idk... Albumin is 80-90% water you'd think water would dissolve it off.

I have a friggin egg eater. I despise her right now.

So the last two days the water fount has been tipped over in the coop. Weird. But it sits in the corner semi blocking a nest box. I had just thought things were heating up in the coop-- Rog chasing hens before I opened the pop door.
The a-ha moment came when I spotted an egg in the free range nest box today. As I noted it I went down to coop first so I wouldn't crack it with my chores. Well the beast noted it as well. After chores I went to the free range nest box and found Lucy's precious egg disappeared. This dog is a huge pain in my backside. I think she's been doing this a while. I think I had a hen on the chopping block for this spring because of the dog!!!



Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rhetts]

Hi, Rhetts - welcome back. I may be doing cattle soon, so I'll be barraging you and Holm with questions as they occur to me. How many do you have now? I had been trying to catch up on everything since I had last been on BYC, but I had to stop somewhere in mid August. I still had over 300 pages, not posts, to get through. I had only seen when you brought home your first one.

We pasture my brother in laws cattle. 2 Herefords and 2 Highlands. The Herefords calved in early Feb. after a month of torturous waiting. Everyone here was so good about me asking all my newbie questions!! The Highlands are due to calf any time now. I personally own 4. A hereford/highland cross heifer, a highland who just had her first calf 2 weeks ago (my avatar!) and one bull calf angus/jersey cross for freezer if we don't use him on the heifer this fall. I am really loving the cattle!! I didn't realize how much I really like them!

Kudos to you for trying to catch up!! Lots of reading LOL!

 

[Rhetts]

Bogtown- what a stinker!! What do you think you will do or how to break her of that habit??

 

[Cebarmlds]

Ralphie I read a bit and it seems that the albumin has dried on your chick. They say try a soft toothe brush to start flaking up the albumin. Sounds tedious detailed work but might save her. Happens with some eggcesareans and humidity dropping too fast on the chick. Idk... Albumin is 80-90% water you'd think water would dissolve it off.

I have a friggin egg eater. I despise her right now.

So the last two days the water fount has been tipped over in the coop. Weird. But it sits in the corner semi blocking a nest box. I had just thought things were heating up in the coop-- Rog chasing hens before I opened the pop door.
The a-ha moment came when I spotted an egg in the free range nest box today. As I noted it I went down to coop first so I wouldn't crack it with my chores. Well the beast noted it as well. After chores I went to the free range nest box and found Lucy's precious egg disappeared. This dog is a huge pain in my backside. I think she's been doing this a while. I think I had a hen on the chopping block for this spring because of the dog!!!



Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a cute little beast!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Hi, Rhetts - welcome back.  I may be doing cattle soon, so I'll be barraging you and Holm with questions as they occur to me.  How many do you have now?  I had been trying to catch up on everything since I had last been on BYC, but I had to stop somewhere in mid August.  I still had over 300 pages, not posts, to get through.  I had only seen when you brought home your first one. 

Erlibird, sorry about your girl.  I had heard that once they start forming a lash egg, it's too late and that the hen is going to stay in a lot of pain until she passes.  I hope you can either fix her up (I always try to do what I can, too) or are able to discern when it's time to cull if it comes to that.  Bogtown's experience with her EEs leads me to believe they may be able to live comfortably afterwards.  Always a tough call. 

Ralphie - I'm hoping someone with more experience with Eggsarian chicks can give you some good advice.  I had one I did that to last year, the little guy never fluffed up either.  I would keep him in the pocket of a sweatshirt I wore to try to get him some more body heat, and made sure he drank and ate separate from the others.  He made it to Day 3, maybe someone can chime in who had better luck.   

Thanks dandiloiness
If she seems to be in pain I'll just do what needs to be done.