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HaplessRunner said:
TurnipTruck,

In addition to what Bulldogma is offering and you are looking for some diversity, I have white-based, white/red cockerel that is uncrested available. He was hatched in mid-September. I live in the very northern part of Virginia where MD-VA-WV come together. I will try to get a picture posted tomorrow. Having a backup cockerel is always a good idea.
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yup. always! if you don't have a backup, something WILL happen... it's when you have plenty of backups that nothing does. LOL Murphy's law at work.

I had 1 each of silver laced and red cochin bantams, 1 red dorking. lost ALL of them within a couple weeks of each other. the groups that I have plenty of spares? didn't lose any. and all were free ranging together. go figure.
 
Knock Kneed Hen said:
My hen broke her leg and it was a clean break. Made it easier for me that I didn't have to try to set it. I didn't do anything for the first three days. I put her in a crate to limit her movement and gave her aspirin to keep the inflammation and swelling down.

On day three I went ahead and wrapped it. I used one layer of cotton batting, then I spliced some tubing that I had. It fit over the leg and cotton wrap perfectly. I hear that you can use irrigation hose for the tubing if you can't find something.

I used a wide emery board, bent in half along the back of the leg. I extended the tip just past her foot, so that when she put weight on it, the bulk of the weight was on the splint and not on her foot. S

I kept it on her for 8 weeks. I kept checking her toes in the beginning to make sure they were warm and the right color. I unwrapped the emery board once to make sure that the tube wasn't rubbing on her leg. I changed the outer wrap a couple of times because it was nasty. Otherwise I kept my hands off her, which was REALLY hard for me. LOL I kept her in a medium sized crate in my coop. I'd take her out with supervision to allow her to sun and peck around the dirt.

Here she is inspecting my handy work!

As the saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. I prefer splinting the leg to protect it from further damage.
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KKH - great rundown of what you did! I did unwrap the leg last night and found there was a bit of swelling that could have been a problem for circulation had I not unwrapped it... but it was only day 2. I may re-splint and wrap it in the next day or two... she is in with another bird who needs to be culled but I haven't had the heart to cull - another SFH that seems to have weak ankles. (I thought that one was improving, but now I'm thinking not-so-much.) Yet - they seem to stay happier with a buddy, so the other girl will stay until little snow leopard is better. I may re-splint because both birds are unsteady and sometimes fall into each other. Mostly they both just lay down and preen each other. (So cute!)

This morning snow leopard was having a hard time keeping her balance to eat, so she sat on her little friend and all was well with the world!

 
TurnipTruck

Here are some pictures of the SFH cockerel that is available. He is friendly and eats from my hand. He is not the dominant cockerel in his grouping so personality-wise he should do well.





Let me know what you think.
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Not the greatest pictures, but here are the two I have.






One has more reddish hackles and one has more black/white in his hackles... so far...

Their dad is Mace

And mom is Alma (who is every bit as large as she looks).
 
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Hi! I would love to join this thread if that is okay. I have a pair of Swedish Flower Hens and the hen has just started laying this week!! I can't wait to start incubating the eggs!!!!
 

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