The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[chickiemomy]

x 2 - great pics of the bandaging/treatment procedure - good example for us newbies to see! thx

 

[Bulldogma]

LM -
Thank you for sharing that!! I'll be very curious to see what happens and if she gets better without surgery!

 

[mzstre]

Hello, all!

Thanks, Leah's Mom, for posting the link to this thread. I'm starting from the beginning and reading through.

 

[Elliemae 77]

Welcome Mzstre!


Final update on chicks....9 total...5 Orps, and 4 mutts. Still working on pics.....gotta try to figure out how to get them from my phone to the computer

 

[Sally8]

Sorry Delisha

Yay Mumsy

LM, I would think it to be from a comb injury. One of my hens with a floppy comb just got s chunk torn when she tried to pull away from my rooster that wasn't quit done yet. They bleed a lot.

I also think it could be from a comb injury. Before I separated the turkeys from the chickens, I found where blood had dripped down the roost, not just a little drop. A lot of blood. I would see Rosie the turkey roosting with 3 feet of empty space on both sides. I always thought she must just need her space. A hormonal turkey.

 

[Leahs Mom]

PS, the after pick of the foot almost looked like the bubble of swelling had opened up, and there is a hole, did anything come out, or is it just the way it looked?

MB

Well..that wasn't an "after photo", Mela. One of the feet was the left and one was the right! One had the dark spot on it and the other was just swollen. It was all today.

Hello, all!

Thanks, Leah's Mom, for posting the link to this thread. I'm starting from the beginning and reading through.

You're welcome!

Glad you came over! I told you if all of you came over here we'd have the double-best group of folks on BYC!

 

[Bulldogma]

Hello, all!

Thanks, Leah's Mom, for posting the link to this thread. I'm starting from the beginning and reading through.

Welcome Mzstre!

 

[Leahs Mom]

I think I wrote the wrong hatch day on my calander. First Johnny baby pipped, zipped, and EXPLODED out of the shell. Alert and eyes wide open. This baby sat there and stared at me for the longest time. Really cool. Then husband turned on the vacuum (yep, he vacuums for me) The chick did a back flip at the noise! Look at the big peepers on this cheeper! Named it Flip.

I'm SO EXCITED to hear this! Especially after knowing how well you take care during brooding. So encouraging!

 

[aoxa]

Del, I am so sorry about your hatch I have never had a temp spike in my Genesis. I have a hydrometer/thermometer that will tell me if there was (it has memory) so I can say with confidence it is a good choice. My other older Hovabator had many spikes. It was terrible...

My cat did sit on my genesis and turn the temps down to 94 overnight. Thankfully it didn't hurt anything.

Mumsy, I am so glad you have chicks hatching! So cute!

LM: Good work! My hen is doing much better. I peeled back some of her dried scab and it;s all fresh skin underneath. She looks awesome. The one foot that was hurting her, I did a bit of work on it at the beginning of the week, and she has improved so much. She is getting lonely. I need to get her back outside! I'm a little worried about acclimation now though. Since she's been in the basement since I started treating her. She still can't walk 100%, one foot is a little sore. She had a really bad case of this though. Not anything mild.

I finished 4 breeding pens. Just need to make the doors for the other four and I am done! The Houdans are separated.

 

[delisha]

Mumsy..glad your hatch is going better...

The one Silkie was smaller than the tip on my baby finger..very strange

I checked all the rest of my egg and most are toast, however I have some internal pips that still might make it. I will know by tomorrow. I am sure it is the combination of the incubator and the condition of the eggs/hen/time of year. I was hoping to show Silkies this year, but there is next year for silkies too. I have not order the incubator yet. I need a turner and the one Mumsy ordered does not have one...The DH said for me to save my money and just buy a professional one at the end of the year...not sure what I am going to do.

LM..great job on the feet of that hen. You are going to find drops of blood in the coop now and than. It looks like it was a down ward drop and not something flung or cast off. I would think it was from a hen who layed her egg in that box.

Chippendale,
It has been years since I had geese. If you have predator problems, a hen on a nest is an easy target. They don't get off. If she is playing in hay she is a hen. If she is letting you touch her I would think it is a hen. If you want to have some goslings, an A frame that you can enclose at night might be enough. The eggs are good to cook with and some like to eat them. They are very firm texture, and I personally do not like them. She is about the right age to start to lay eggs.(6- 8 months)

Glad you are giving your birds more room and giving them more activities..that will really help

Thank you all for the empathy and sympathy for this disheartening hatch. It is a first for me in many thing. First fail in a hatch, first Silkies, first bantams. I have no idea why they were so tiny. I have never run across that before. At least it lets me know why I seen so much liquid in the eggs. Those eggs were 3/4 liquid. Those chicks were fully formed. Simply weird. I do not think I could have done anything to change the outcome. But I am not certain.