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[casportpony]

Thank you for posting pics, castport. Do this ASAP. Please, don't wait.

X2, don't delay!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If any of you ever have one with curled toes, this is the type of "shoe" that I use:

Photo by BYC's KsKingBee

-Kathy

 

[chickadoodles]

Beer your rooster is georgous! Mine was till Biscuit got a hold of him and he lost all his tail feathers and now he only spurts one or two feathers back there.

Quote: I am watching him very carefully when I have to go out there. Most of the time DH gets their eggs.

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Hobble their legs together ASAP. There are pics of how to do it on the forums here.
Thanks, I did and took the band aid off one and had to put another one on the other chick.
Thanks Kathy.

 

[chickadoodles]

If any of you ever have one with curled toes, this is the type of "shoe" that I use:

Photo by BYC's KsKingBee

-Kathy

That is great Kathy, is that a band aid?

 

[vehve]

Nice roo, Beer. A and thanks for the input on spurs, guys.

Good pics on leg fixing aids, Kathy.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It is so peaceful here. 5 roos gone this morning - the 2 old roos in with the girls and the 3 young ones in the bachelor pad that can't control themselves. Those 3 were not very meaty but for ambiance they had to go.

There's 8 juvenile males left, plus whatever I hatched from chika's lovely eggs and my sexed feedstore leghorns that ended up being males. If I end up with a buckeye roo I'll be keeping that. My 2 year old cornish roo was a gorgeous carcass but I didn't like his personality so he had to go (he was too much of a coward and skittish although he never came after me). I have 3 cornish females left so I can still use those genes in my meat bird program. If I don't get a buckeye roo I do have a jubilee orp that looks like he's going to be massive, and he will likely end up as my alpha roo although he's very slow to grow.

 

[Alaskan]

My first broody hen that is a in her first year did a crash on me! She hatched 4 two of which are spraddle legged so she abandoned the nest and the two chicks that could not walk.
Now I have two more for the brooder and a dozen in the hatcher! UGH!!!!

That is ultra upsetting!

My last hatch of chicks had 1 spraddle leg... I taped it up, but it isn't better. I have decided that I just need to kill it today... I tried taping it up twice, trying to see if a better angle would help more.. whatever.... anyway, nope...

I also have one quail that just hatched that is all kinda of floppy.... I am not sure why it isn't getting its act together properly.... I will give it until this afternoon... then he gets to be better, or be a Muscovy yummy.

Deb, I meant if you bump into it and chip it, then the grey would show through if only the surface is painted, of course some paints might migrate deeper into it. The bottom is closed, so no way to get a light in there without drilling in the bottom, although I was playing with the same idea in my head. I might think of something to put in there, but it actually looks pretty cool as it is. With the oak top my thought was to use it as a storage space at first, but it would look pretty messy with the glass top.

I might still use the oak top for something else, just haven't figured out what yet. And I would maybe want to pour something else out of concrete still, something pretty small to contrast the sofa table. I just don't know what.

The oak top would make a great cutting board... or slice it in half, and then put the flat sides against the wall... for wall shelves.

As to a small concrete something.. LAMP, you need to make a lamp

 

[chickadoodles]

SCG I hope one of your Buckeye will be a cockerel. They are so sweet!

Alaskan one is better and I re-taped the other one I will give it a couple days in hopes it will be ok. I also added vitamins to their water.

Here are a couple of the eggs I got from Porters that have bad air cells and I hoped you all might be able to tell me if you think they are salvageable.


I keep rotating them. They did sit straight up for the first 4 days.

 

[Alaskan]

totally hatchable......

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Alaskan! That makes me very happy! I have not dealt with shipping eggs much.