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[superchemicalgirl]

Good thing lunch is over!

Poor girl...

No kidding. I don't like to admit this but I also have sausage fingers. That thing is probably an inch wide.

 

[Alaskan]

Crazy... Especially because hadn't you gotten stuff out before? Long time back? Or is this the first time that she ever scabbed?

 

[drumstick diva]

I'll come back when it's over

 

[1kluckychik]

We have a cream legbar hen who was laying an egg a day from last May until December. She had a rough moult.
She has not laid an egg since Dec.
Anybody have ideas?

 

[ronott1]

We have a cream legbar hen who was laying an egg a day from last May until December. She had a rough moult.
She has not laid an egg since Dec.
Anybody have ideas?

I am patient with ones that do that. My UofA blues stopped laying from May to November last year. They stared back up and are laying regularly again.

Chickens do that sometimes and if they are not over 4 years old, just give them good care and time. They will start up again.

 

[1kluckychik]

I am patient with ones that do that. My UofA blues stopped laying from May to November last year. They stared back up and are laying regularly again.

Chickens do that sometimes and if they are not over 4 years old, just give them good care and time. They will start up again.

Ty.
We also have a male cream legbar who fathered several chicks last year. This year he is not fertilizing. 2 totally seperate bloodlines. We are puzzled

 

[Alaskan]

I dunno. Things like that are odd.

I -DO- think that nutrition is helpful, so some nutritional yeast sprinkled on the feed is great.

However, my fancy Black Ameraucana was doing an OK job over all the whatever breeds he was over, but he was getting ZERO fertility on the two female Ams under him.... After two months of the Leghorns and Dominiques getting fertilized by that rooster, FINALLY, I got a few fertile eggs from the Am girls, and then one more month and the fertility over the Am girls was pretty good.

(All those girls, and the one rooster were together in a pen)


Anyway, I have no idea why that happened.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

If I remember correctly, we got a superficial scab off one of the feet and the other foot didn't really have anything that could be described as an organized scab so we couldn't pick it off and dig like we usually do on a bumble.

This time was much different - huge scab removal with giant gaping holes.


How about some snickers ice cream bars?

Is that enough to bring Miss Diva back?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Ty.
We also have a male cream legbar who fathered several chicks last year. This year he is not fertilizing. 2 totally seperate bloodlines. We are puzzled

How many hens is he over? How old is he? Are the hens he is over fairly dominant? It could be his fertility that is changing, but it could also be tied to the hens - if possible I would put him over different hens and see how that works out, as well as introducing a new roo (if you have one) to the hens this one is currently over to see if a) the CL fertilizes his new girls and b) the CL's current girls are fertilized by their new mate....this will help narrow which side of the equation the issue is coming from and would help in possible "fixes" that may help.

 

[1kluckychik]

How many hens is he over?  How old is he?  Are the hens he is over fairly dominant?  It could be his fertility that is changing, but it could also be tied to the hens - if possible I would put him over different hens and see how that works out, as well as introducing a new roo (if you have one) to the hens this one is currently over to see if a) the CL fertilizes his new girls and b) the CL's current girls are fertilized by their new mate....this will help narrow which side of the equation the issue is coming from and would help in possible "fixes" that may help.

He is about 2 years old. He is the problem. I swapped out the hens and he wasnt fertilizing those either. The hens I swapped are now fertile from a 3 year old Isbar male