The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Sally Sunshine]

Another update! I think these guys see their shadows or something!! HOLY WOW!

3 out and they rolled everyone else all around so I cant see some pips now... lil stinkers!

 

[Gardeningmama]

Hmm..Mstricer's got me a little worried. Below 0 in Ohio?? Storm on the way?? My Barred Cochin eggs were mailed yesterday morning at a post office in Ohio. I received the official Click-n-Ship notice. Oddly, there is ZERO activity when I click the link. Only says Electronic Shipping Info Received. No estimated date of arrival, or where they are , where they've been, like normal. Really nervous!! Do you think they're sitting in a frozen warehouse in Ohio?

 

[mstricer]

Hmm..Mstricer's got me a little worried. Below 0 in Ohio?? Storm on the way?? My Barred Cochin eggs were mailed yesterday morning at a post office in Ohio. I received the official Click-n-Ship notice. Oddly, there is ZERO activity when I click the link. Only says Electronic Shipping Info Received. No estimated date of arrival, or where they are , where they've been, like normal. Really nervous!! Do you think they're sitting in a frozen warehouse in Ohio?

My bad it isn't below 0*

its below FREEZING which is 32*. I have the hardest time talking, now typing

I know what I want to say. But the snow storm is for real. I also have eggs coming from Texas and Florida. Where are your eggs coming from. I didn't watch the weather when I ordered my eggs. I usually don't buy eggs when there is a storm coming. But I wanted these eggs bad. (Silkied Feathered AM's).

 

[noahsmom]

Hmm..Mstricer's got me a little worried. Below 0 in Ohio?? Storm on the way?? My Barred Cochin eggs were mailed yesterday morning at a post office in Ohio. I received the official Click-n-Ship notice. Oddly, there is ZERO activity when I click the link. Only says Electronic Shipping Info Received. No estimated date of arrival, or where they are , where they've been, like normal. Really nervous!! Do you think they're sitting in a frozen warehouse in Ohio?

I'm worried too, Mine were shipped yesterday from PA and my others were shipped yesterday from GA. They both did depart from the P.O., but no other word as of yet. Everything that comes from up north always hits the P.O in grove city ohio then is shipped to my P.O.
As far as the click n ship notice I would give it a little more time, I've had shipments do this before, Then I checked back a while later and it had updated everything.

 

[Cynthia12]

duh....that was easy...never scrolled down to the bottom... MERCI and THANKS

And

 

[JoyfulPromise]

WHEW!!! What a morning! We have a new hen! A rescued SLW who is currently suffering from a mild prolapsed vent. Saw the ad on Freecycle this morning. Lady just wanted someone to put her down humanely, didn't know at all what to do - called it prolapsed uterus!!! They even didn't care if she ended up being someone's dinner!

We picked her up and when my sister told the lady that she might be able to help the hen get better, the lady said that was up to us if we wanted to deal with it, she didn't want the hen back!

I don't think it is a pure SLW, maybe just hatchery quality, the lacing on her body is not defined at all. The prolapse was not as bad as we thought, only out a little bit (maybe about 1/2-1 inch) and she had a ball of white crusty urates on the feathers below the vent. We washed her off as best we could, dried her, and then(after reading several threads on here about prolapsed vent) we put honey on the prolapsed bulge, waited a few minutes, and then gently pushed it back in. It went in fine, and looked normal...until she pooped and it came back out. So, we did it again, and held a gauze pad with witch hazel on it against her vent for a minute or two. She started clucking calmly and my sister said she felt an egg in there (the lady said she had laid an egg yesterday too!). So we have her in a large tub for now with lattice covering it. We will watch to see if she lays the egg, and then perhaps repeat the treatment as necessary. She seems to have a nice calm temperament, and is pretty perky and healthy looking other than her vent problem. We will see, but I have a feeling she will recover just fine!

Here are a couple pictures of our new patient...


(my sister took these and was trying to avoid showing her problem area)

 

[mstricer]

It will be alright. Mine are coming from warm states to our still chilled weather, I'm going to just let mine sit for a few days, then put in incubator earlylike the Silkied Feathered AM's in on friday so won't include them in the hatch.

 

[mstricer]

WHEW!!! What a morning! We have a new hen! A rescued SLW who is currently suffering from a mild prolapsed vent. Saw the ad on Freecycle this morning. Lady just wanted someone to put her down humanely, didn't know at all what to do - called it prolapsed uterus!!! They even didn't care if she ended up being someone's dinner!

We picked her up and when my sister told the lady that she might be able to help the hen get better, the lady said that was up to us if we wanted to deal with it, she didn't want the hen back!

I don't think it is a pure SLW, maybe just hatchery quality, the lacing on her body is not defined at all. The prolapse was not as bad as we thought, only out a little bit (maybe about 1/2-1 inch) and she had a ball of white crusty urates on the feathers below the vent. We washed her off as best we could, dried her, and then(after reading several threads on here about prolapsed vent) we put honey on the prolapsed bulge, waited a few minutes, and then gently pushed it back in. It went in fine, and looked normal...until she pooped and it came back out. So, we did it again, and held a gauze pad with witch hazel on it against her vent for a minute or two. She started clucking calmly and my sister said she felt an egg in there (the lady said she had laid an egg yesterday too!). So we have her in a large tub for now with lattice covering it. We will watch to see if she lays the egg, and then perhaps repeat the treatment as necessary. She seems to have a nice calm temperament, and is pretty perky and healthy looking other than her vent problem. We will see, but I have a feeling she will recover just fine!

Here are a couple pictures of our new patient...


(my sister took these and was trying to avoid showing her problem area)

She's pretty

 

[Cynthia12]

If I want to comment on another post, I use the quote button and write my comment. Helpful in this forum when many posts are flying around.

If you press the multi, you can string several quotes together that are related, or each one is a different topic.

Reply will take you to an empty box to make a comment, or start something new . I prefer to scroll down to the comment box my self. but either wayworks.

Heads up there are two formats this forum may subject you to-- I haven't figured out how it decides which I must work with. ONe I find easy the other drives me nuts. But it works.

I made up a song.
On the twelfth day of chickmas my good hens gave to me:
12 mottled Cochins
11 little silkies
10 Anconas
9 peeping red stars
8 ameracauna
7 laying polish
6 Swedish flower
FIIIIVVEEEE SILVERRRRR PHEONIXXXX
4 appenzellers
3 Austrolorps
2 lavender Orpingtons
AND A FEW THOUSAND CHICKEN COOPS

I wonder what tune would go well with that??

 

[Cynthia12]

WHEW!!! What a morning! We have a new hen! A rescued SLW who is currently suffering from a mild prolapsed vent. Saw the ad on Freecycle this morning. Lady just wanted someone to put her down humanely, didn't know at all what to do - called it prolapsed uterus!!! They even didn't care if she ended up being someone's dinner!

We picked her up and when my sister told the lady that she might be able to help the hen get better, the lady said that was up to us if we wanted to deal with it, she didn't want the hen back!

I don't think it is a pure SLW, maybe just hatchery quality, the lacing on her body is not defined at all. The prolapse was not as bad as we thought, only out a little bit (maybe about 1/2-1 inch) and she had a ball of white crusty urates on the feathers below the vent. We washed her off as best we could, dried her, and then(after reading several threads on here about prolapsed vent) we put honey on the prolapsed bulge, waited a few minutes, and then gently pushed it back in. It went in fine, and looked normal...until she pooped and it came back out. So, we did it again, and held a gauze pad with witch hazel on it against her vent for a minute or two. She started clucking calmly and my sister said she felt an egg in there (the lady said she had laid an egg yesterday too!). So we have her in a large tub for now with lattice covering it. We will watch to see if she lays the egg, and then perhaps repeat the treatment as necessary. She seems to have a nice calm temperament, and is pretty perky and healthy looking other than her vent problem. We will see, but I have a feeling she will recover just fine!

Here are a couple pictures of our new patient...


(my sister took these and was trying to avoid showing her problem area)

Aww, what a lucky girl! I think you are lucky as well, she is very pretty. Glad she came to you guys!