my best friend is a vet in orem she looked into decrowing felt mortality would be too high
i thought goats ate anything can u bor ro'wone and see
Mine are still jumping on each other. I have just moved them to the garage and set them up in a new bigger brooder so will see if they chill out! I had a friend that had her roo caponized, then he died, she said he suffered from failure to thrive syndrome. I guess it is such their nature to crow that is what they live for, the crowing shows their vitality and can do very poorly when caponized. I had checked into that myself because I would like to have roosters that are not noisy but after finding that out I gave up on the idea, it seems almost cruel if that is they way they react to it.....but that is just my view on the deal.
Cynthia, glad your wheatens are getting alongMine are still jumping on each other. I have just moved them to the garage and set them up in a new bigger brooder so will see if they chill out!
Weird things happened in my coop this morning....My olive egger LaVerne, has laid about ten days in a row now, she is really an egg machine this last bit......there were two olive eggs out there sitting together this morning.....now I cannot believe this happened, because I cleaned the nests out about an hour before, there were no eggs, then I go out and find two. I was wondering at first if somebody else started, but the Ameraucanas and the Australorp are the only two breeds that are close to starting?? So these two eggs are pretty identical in hue and shape and size. She really must have laid two together.....I had this happen one other time, the first day my EE Roodee laid she laid a tiny one and a larger one together. Pretty weird!
Thank you! I've been spending time with them, and they're VERY social compared to any of my other breeds that I've raised. It surprised me, but they're sweet, and a lot of fun.
Lucky you, two eggs at once. That has never happened for me.
Speaking of failure to thrive..Red, my cute little black is giving up! It is so much smaller than the silkies that just hatched. It was doing so well for a while, even better after you saw her. I am so sad. I can tell she isn't going to make it. I guess I just can't feed her enough, I even give her some egg every other day. I have now noticed, that the ones that come as really small babies from a pullet egg, just don't make it. Arrggh! Wish they wouldn't send such tiny eggs..even the Silkie eggs will come with extra tiny eggs. The babies do well for a while, then don't make it.
Will cross fingers she might pull through. Cynthia---Speaking of little guys, my little Blue Am, that you sent with Red for me..."Tiny tot" lol......she is one that made it through, and I named her Dorothy after my Grandma. She is soooooooooooo sweet. When I hold her, and I go to set her down, she does not put her legs down to stand, she stays on her belly, so I set her down on her belly and she just sits there looking up at me like "aren't ya gonna hold me some more mom!" She is by far the most social and sweet girl I have out there. She does not even flinch when I pick her up, and she runs for me when I go out, she does not bother anybody out there, just minds her own business. Wish I could clone her and have a dozen She is the bestest, loving her lots, it is really cool that she has no fear of humans or qualms about being touched whatsoever.
