Tennessee

[Buttercup2022]

This is how I'm spending my so-called quarantine time

Aww there so cute

 

[Rebel_Farm]

Aww there so cute

Now if I can just find information on color sexing partridge colored chicks id be ecstatic lol

 

[danpeters9497]

Hi all. We've had 3 Australorp, 2 buff Orpington and 2 EEs in the brooder for going on 4 weeks. Yesterday I noticed one of the EE pecking at an Orpingtons tail feathers to the point it made it bleed. I separated the Orpington as well as her sister Orpington for company. I cleaned her and applied Neosporin. I've moved the other birds into their coop now to give them more room. I've kept a heat source with them for the nights and they have a lot more space away from the heat. My thoughts were overcrowding and/or overheating were causing the behavior. I have bought some rooster booster poultry wound spray to apply to the injured chicks tail feathers. I was mainly looking for opinions on when to reintegrate the separated pair of Orpingtons? Once fully healed? Or sooner now there is more space for them?

 

[rjohns39]

Hi all. We've had 3 Australorp, 2 buff Orpington and 2 EEs in the brooder for going on 4 weeks. Yesterday I noticed one of the EE pecking at an Orpingtons tail feathers to the point it made it bleed. I separated the Orpington as well as her sister Orpington for company. I cleaned her and applied Neosporin. I've moved the other birds into their coop now to give them more room. I've kept a heat source with them for the nights and they have a lot more space away from the heat. My thoughts were overcrowding and/or overheating were causing the behavior. I have bought some rooster booster poultry wound spray to apply to the injured chicks tail feathers. I was mainly looking for opinions on when to reintegrate the separated pair of Orpingtons? Once fully healed? Or sooner now there is more space for them?

Blu cote is your friend for these situations. But you're right, space constraints often cause these situations. If they haven't been apart for long, I'd move them back together in the roomier coop with blu coat on the one being pecked and closely supervise.

 

[danpeters9497]

Blu cote is your friend for these situations. But you're right, space constraints often cause these situations. If they haven't been apart for long, I'd move them back together in the roomier coop with blu coat on the one being pecked and closely supervise.

I had read mixed reactions on blu cote and honestly went to TSC to pick some up but went with this tea tree based rooster booster wound spray as I feared the blu cote to maybe be too harsh. I'll try this spray and to reintroduce them and observe. If it doesn't seem to do much I'll revert to my original blu cote plan.

 

[rjohns39]

I had read mixed reactions on blu cote and honestly went to TSC to pick some up but went with this tea tree based rooster booster wound spray as I feared the blu cote to maybe be too harsh. I'll try this spray and to reintroduce them and observe. If it doesn't seem to do much I'll revert to my original blu cote plan.

Best I can tell, blu cote tastes awful to birds and deters pecking. Your plan is solid.

 

[nchls school]

I live near Lexington/Jackson and would like to find some call ducklings or hatching eggs. I had two ducklings hatch from shipped eggs last night and would like a few more to be sure of having a pair for next year.

 

[danpeters9497]

Quick update for anyone wondering. My Orpington did great with the rooster booster wound spray and my small flock are doing well in the coop, no more bullying it seems. I figured I would check in to see how others play the heat or no heat in the coop. Lately here in East TN we have had weather all over the place and now my 8 week olds are out in the coop I've been using a heater at night and shutting it off in the day. I was planning on not regularly heating the coop and chose my breeds with cold tolerance in mind. But when/how should I remove the heat source? Transition it somehow or just remove it all together and let my chicks go 'cold turkey' from it.

 

[rjohns39]

They should be fully feathered at 8 weeks, if so, then I'd probably remove the heat all together. Keep in mind that I don't provide heat at all during the winter.

 

[danpeters9497]

They should be fully feathered at 8 weeks, if so, then I'd probably remove the heat all together. Keep in mind that I don't provide heat at all during the winter.

Yeah I was planning on not providing heat. I've used the brooder/heat plate to acclimate them to the outside because I worried I was rushing them out with a few cold nights still. But they are out every day at this point so I figured it was getting about time to remove the heat. Just was doubting myself because of these frosts.