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[kkidsmom]

Can you tell the sex by the wingtip? If so how? Picture examples would be great. thanks.

 

[yinepu]

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Lol.. give me time.. I'll have eggs before the end of the year

Pretty!

I keep needing more coops...

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I love their looks.. and from what I read about their personality it's an added plus

Anyone know what the sickness/ disease is that makes a "plug" of plaque ( Like what forms in your arteries that causes a heart attack) in the Trachea right where the voice box or " Crow Box" is? It's suffocated 27 birds, but I finally got rid of it. Im just curious as to what it was!

look up canker ..also called trichomoniasis or roup... it's common in pigeons.. but chickens can get it too.. it's caused by a parasite. Once a bird has it it becomes a carrier so it can pass it to the other birds. They can live with the parasite without any issues.. but if they become stressed it can flare up.
It can be in the mouth or in the throat can be in the lungs.. gut and ears too.. looks like a plug of cheesy waxy goop..

 

[yinepu]

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between Amazon and eBay you can get the tools you need.. I have most of mine now

 

[yinepu]

Can you tell the sex by the wingtip? If so how? Picture examples would be great. thanks.

do you mean feather sexing for day old chicks?

 

[Texasmja]

Lol.. give me time.. I'll have eggs before the end of the year


I love their looks.. and from what I read about their personality it's an added plus

Are these the breeder birds that your stock is from? I can't wait to see your chicks.

 

[yinepu]

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My husband sent me those pics and said the eggs were from two breeders that had birds out of Skyline and Greenfire bloodlines. I'll have to ask him if they are the breeder birds.. but I don't see why he would send me pics that weren't

 

[showbarnmom]

For the person looking for laying Americauns
http://austin.craigslist.org/grq/3648202984.html

 

[kkidsmom]

Maybe?

do you mean feather sexing for day old chicks?

 

[chickletteSarge]

yea i need my sumatras sexed too! lol who knows how to vent sex?!?!?!

 

[MCraft-NPoultry]

I don't think it was a parasite. I tried and tried to look for something, but this is all I could find.
Btw I highly recommend this website! http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/examfinding/765 They died pretty quick though..... Definately couldn't live with it, but they were all bantams so they're tinier so it probably suffocated them quicker.When they got it they would have changes in their chirps, squeaks, or crowing ( or no crow at all .) Then They would cough a lot and They would start hunching up and sitting in one spot then the day they would die they would be full of energy, standing up and normal then they would start gaping and stretching their neck out straight up ( standing up ) then after about an hour and a Half they'd eventually suffocate.