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[microchick]

Thanks guys. No word yet this morning.

About Welly's and their eggs. My almost 4 year old girls are still giving me eggs. They have lost most of their spots and have been replaced with what looks like a fine mist overlay on the dark egg. The only thing I don't like about the eggs is they are one step away from impossible when it comes to candling. I usually wind up in a closet with the door closed in hopes of getting just a glimmer of development at 10 days. After that, it's just a black blob.

 

[bruceha2000]

My 1 Welly that is laying sometimes puts spots on her eggs, sometimes not. Guess she can't make up her mind.

Actually getting some rain today. Not sure what it will add up to and since I don't have a rain gauge I guess I'll never know. But it should add some water to the pond. Lucky tadpoles and frogs!

 

[ronott1]

Yep... breed them to my rose comb leghorn. . It would be better if I could put them under an ameraucana... so not mess up the dark brown so much... but I just sold my standard Ams. Wonder if my bantam Am could do the job.

It would depend on which type you got. The Crele and partridge are smaller than the black. The black can be dual purpose

 

[microchick]

Had a bad surprise this morning. Have my 4 7 week olds in the outside grow out pen. Went out this morning and one of the little pullets was dead. Just like that. Examined the others and one was fluffed up and crying. When I picked her up I noticed she is also thin. Doesn't add up to Marek's at this point so must be I hope some other sort of infection. Brought them in. Dosed her with TerraVet and put Corrid in their water. Gave them scrambled egg with rooster booster in it and treated the others with terramycin. Turned on the heat lamp. Now we wait and see. Little fluffed pullet named Jefe gobbled egg so I'll give them more tonight. Hopefully whatever it is she will survive. No other symptoms. No drainage, no swellings, nada so Idunno.

I just hate it when then do this! Dying with symptoms that you can hang your hat on is one thing.But just kicking off and falling over is quite another. Mysteries tend to give me a headache.

 

[ronott1]

Had a bad surprise this morning. Have my 4 7 week olds in the outside grow out pen. Went out this morning and one of the little pullets was dead. Just like that. Examined the others and one was fluffed up and crying. When I picked her up I noticed she is also thin. Doesn't add up to Marek's at this point so must be I hope some other sort of infection. Brought them in. Dosed her with TerraVet and put Corrid in their water. Gave them scrambled egg with rooster booster in it and treated the others with terramycin. Turned on the heat lamp. Now we wait and see. Little fluffed pullet named Jefe gobbled egg so I'll give them more tonight. Hopefully whatever it is she will survive. No other symptoms. No drainage, no swellings, nada so Idunno.

I just hate it when then do this! Dying with symptoms that you can hang your hat on is one thing.But just kicking off and falling over is quite another. Mysteries tend to give me a headache.

At that age it is usually coccidiosis.



They die very quickly with it too

 

[bruceha2000]

You just can't catch a break with your chickens Micro!

 

[microchick]

Guess I'd better give her a bolus of corrid also. Geesh, it does seem that way doesn't it?

 

[Peep_Show]

The SFH's I used to have were not big eaters, but not great layers either, and were quite flighty.

Swedish Flower Hens and the Fifty-Five Flowery look to be different birds, albeit from the same origin country. The FFF are a bit more, well, leghorn-y in build, kind of long and range-y compared to the SFH's compactness. I'm hoping the FFF will lay well. We'll see, I hope!

 

[Peep_Show]

Woke up this morning sore and achy. Egads, what now? Oh, yeah. That flu shot yesterday. Not as bad as some; not as easy as others.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all Sun is out here they say rain will hit tomorrow my
dilemma with the ameracauna rooster being lavender I was told peeps all black the 5 hatched from him where all black even bred to another lavender my reading on raising a
bc marans but admit might be hard to have one as good with girls as mine is