The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ronott1]

I TELL YOU! WAY TO TURN A GOOD DAY BAD!

I had found this morning instead of our planned 3 hour delay for school today we ended up not having any school. So, my mom told me we could go down to our breeders and bring him all our extra roos, which I had planned on also taking eggy our silkie to him as well.....he was beating up marshie all too much.

so the other day I decided to take eggy to my breeder who was not open sunday, so I planned on taking him today. what made me decide to get rid of him was the fact that he was over mating his girl and was pulling feathers out way too much. eggy tried mating with marshe and she was trying to get away, so Cadbury came after eggy to get him off of her, protecting his girls from eggy's dumb brains.

so when we went down to the coop we drove up to it and my mom had said for me to stay in the car so I didn't get my shoes all dirty and I could tell her which roos I would take. that's when she had noticed Cadbury. when I saw him I was thinking, wow he sure was rolling in the mud! then I realized he had blood caked all over his hackles! the back of his comb was chopped off by who knows what.....but I knew it was eggy. I stormed over to eggy and grabbed him by the tail with so much force I just walked to the box and threw him in. I screamed I hate eggy.....I wasn't trying to be mean to him, its just Cadbury is my pride and joy and he had hurt him! I just broke down after that and couldn't see my baby in the state he was in....of course the blood made everything look worse that it actually is...I think. then my mom told me to just keep one of the 5 roos from my new years hatch, which I was sole fully keeping 2 and temporarily keeping one to sell to another local BYCer here. well, she just shoved all the other roos into the box except for my two I wanted, leven and milkshake. then all she said was I told you so.....uh, sorry but you told me what? nothing. I had told her I needed to get rid of my roos...she never told me.... LOL

anyways, I was ticked at eggy. wouldn't even look at him. im just mad that Cadbury can now not be entered into our state fair. ANGRY you have no idea. I am still crying as im typing this because I couldn't stand to loom at him In such a state. im sorry.



sorry the gross pictures, but it was what I had seen.....im so upset!


looked back in the coop after I got back from my breeders and it looks like a murder scene with blood speckled on the feeder, shavings, doorway, and nest boxes.

Bad Rooster!

The comb missing a piece is not that big of a point deduction. You can still show him at the Fair!

 

[bantambury]

No. But then I knew those roosters would be safe the following year, since they had nothing sticking out for the others to grab on to!

They were also thinned out a lot more. I had about one rooster per six hens, but went to one roo per 10 hens instead.

well, don't have to worry too much about frostbite! LOL

 

[bantambury]

Bad Rooster!

The comb missing a piece is not that big of a point deduction. You can still show him at the Fair!

its the whole back of his comb though.....used to be this:


he is missing an entire point! the back point! I don't think the fair is a go for him. too many nice roos there and they all have their combs.

I sware I hate eggy now. glad he is not here. I couldn't dare to look at him any longer!

 

[ronott1]

its the whole back of his comb though.....used to be this:


he is missing an entire point! the back point! I don't think the fair is a go for him. too many nice roos there and they all have their combs.

I sware I hate eggy now. glad he is not here. I couldn't dare to look at him any longer!

It is still just a couple of points off. You can still get some nice ribbons.

 

[Kismet]

Oh Bantambury, the blood is terrible, there is always so much of it.

You can see why they docked combs for cock fighting (barbarous sport). My cocks have been fighting, too. I noticed bloody footprints in the snow and then on further investigation, found blood all over the roosts. I have separated those two cocks now, and I am hoping the injured one recovers enough to breed - he's a really nice Marans (with a much diminished comb from frostbite). The leghorn hens have blood on the back of their necks - that was a fright, until I realized that Henry was holding them down with bloody feet. At least I know that those hens have fertilized eggs.

 

[chicken pickin]

I just can't believe the emus are hatching!!!!!!!!

Do hatching Emus need a steady high humidity to hatch? I keep getting nervous when the lid opens.

EEK... You took it out of the bator. Your making me so nervous lol

 

[bantambury]

It is still just a couple of points off. You can still get some nice ribbons.

ok, thanks ron.

Is it just the last point, or the entire back of the comb from that point on?

If it's just the point, not many people are going to fault you much for that.

its the last point going into the butt of the comb if you know what I mean....

 

[Marthab1953]

Do hatching Emus need a steady high humidity to hatch? I keep getting nervous when the lid opens.

EEK... You took it out of the bator. Your making me so nervous lol

Me too! I noticed that.

 

[bantambury]

Oh Bantambury, the blood is terrible, there is always so much of it.

You can see why they docked combs for cock fighting (barbarous sport). My cocks have been fighting, too. I noticed bloody footprints in the snow and then on further investigation, found blood all over the roosts. I have separated those two cocks now, and I am hoping the injured one recovers enough to breed - he's a really nice Marans (with a much diminished comb from frostbite). The leghorn hens have blood on the back of their necks - that was a fright, until I realized that Henry was holding them down with bloody feet. At least I know that those hens have fertilized eggs.

yeah....the birds combs bleed so often! it just upsets me seeing Cadbury like that....especially because of his size compared to a silkie rooster, he is largely outsized. I feel so bad. I shoulve known that day I sad Cadbury chasing eggy off would've meant I should've put eggy in the quarantine pen until u got rid of him!

well, the ruined comb doesn't mess up breeding that's for sure! its not a birth defect, so its not like the babies will get a jacked comb either.

 

[bantambury]

Okay, so it's just the point then? The butt of the comb is still intact?

hard to explain, but heres what I mean:

it looks like part of the butt and that small point are gone when I look at Cadbury. so I drew you the visualization of what he lost of his comb