Utah!

[Mimichicks]

I will only have one chick hatch. I will need to head to IFA so it will have some friends, lol.

 

[RedIII]

Chicken food isn't toxic to quail, but they do need a higher protein level when they are babies. The kind I use is 30% protein. They are on that until the point of lay. I don't know about buttons, but my coturnix are on 20% after that. In a pinch I've given them 16 or 18% chicken crumbles if I'm out of gamebird food.

I'm a few pages behind, so this may have been talked about more, but: From what I understand, it's the antibiotics in the medicated chick starter that is toxic to turkey poults.

Cynthia, I have the Leghorn EE's, and a few extra B/B/S Marans from her. Any ways to tell on the Leghorns what gender besides the usual? Can they be feather/wing sexed do you know? I remember you had a lot of girls

I hope I can be so lucky!

When I first got mine from Cynthia, I was sure for a while that he was a she. So sometimes they can surprise you!

 

[RedIII]

Uh, something a little Wierd here. The boys came in from setting new bedding in the coop and were freaking out about one of the chickens missing its legs. So I go out there and, sure enough, Joel's Easter Egger that we've had for a couple of years is missing both feet below the joint (the "knee"). For the few who've seen that chicken, it's his chicken that was hatched with the twisted up foot (appropriately named "Gimpy") that Joel insisted on saving. We can't figure out what happened to her feet-- all the other chickens' feet look just fine--no signs of frostbite or anything. The stumps look a little yellowed and like the legs have been that way for at least a few days. It would seem everyone thought Gimpy was just loving dust bathing and snuggling down into the bedding. We can't even find the actual feet.

Oddly, Gimpy seems happy enough. My first instinct was to put the poor chicken down, but Joel is adamant that we not do that. Gimpy does seem quite content and is flapping her way around the coop just fine, though not going out into the run. We put a lower waterer in the door of the coop where she could easily reach and the food is low enough for her to reach. I thought about bringing her inside, but I think she would be quite miserable without her chicken friends and she would have to be locked in the back room with the lizards (which could be rather hazardous to the lizards!) because of the cats.

I now have a double amputee chicken and no idea what to do with her. I'm a pretty practical person, but this is Joel's favorite chicken and I can't bring myself to insist on putting her down when she actually seems so content. Wierd situation.

Oh, I think I'm going to be sick. If there's one thing I just cannot stand, it's mutilation (or perceived mutilation) of any kind!

 

[thebirdguy]

Only if he wants to build a bigger coop! Then he can have all he wants

he is actually the one that wants icelandics lol

Well... I will have some little icees for Easter and at Chickenstock...

I am actually building a new incubator this week.. have to get it finished by Saturday so my DW can set the turkey eggs on Wednesday while I am gone all next week to Kansas City for work. I'm kinda excited about this bator.. been planning it since last summer.. It will hold 300 eggs without stacking!! I'm going to give it a full blown test run or Easter.. plan on setting about 8 dozen turkeys, couple dozen marans, every wheaten ameracauna I get, 10 dozen or so from my sexlink project pen, and then fill it up the rest of the way with Icelandics.. I'll post some pictures when I get finished and then some more after it's full of eggs..

 

[RedIII]

Well... I will have some little icees for Easter and at Chickenstock...

I am actually building a new incubator this week.. have to get it finished by Saturday so my DW can set the turkey eggs on Wednesday while I am gone all next week to Kansas City for work. I'm kinda excited about this bator.. been planning it since last summer.. It will hold 300 eggs without stacking!! I'm going to give it a full blown test run or Easter.. plan on setting about 8 dozen turkeys, couple dozen marans, every wheaten ameracauna I get, 10 dozen or so from my sexlink project pen, and then fill it up the rest of the way with Icelandics.. I'll post some pictures when I get finished and then some more after it's full of eggs..

My Icelandics are teasing me. Now that it's getting close to collection time for eggs, the egg well has dried up. I want to add to my breeding flock, waaaaaaah!

 

[sundancenbare]

Only if he wants to build a bigger coop! Then he can have all he wants

he is actually the one that wants icelandics lol

He'll be like Ed. We have chuckers and quail that think they are chickens. They are loose in the yard but always go back in the coop at night to roost with the chickens

 

[corvidae]

Went out to the coop before I left for work and found Gimpy in the nesting box, which is a good 3 feet off the ground. I know chickens can at least kind of fly (depending on the breed), but for some reason I didn't think she could make it up there. Tough chicken, that one. Is it possible the other chickens did this to her? I can't imagine why they would have after 2 years, but it's driving me crazy to not be able to figure out how this happened. Joel snuggled with her for a while and she seemed very happy. It really bugs me that we can't even find the feet. I kept looking at the other chickens and thinking, "Oh, ew, please tell me you didn't eat the feet!"

On a different note, the Welsummer eggs seem to have stopped. In fact, none of the girls have laid an egg in the past couple of days. We'll see if there are more dark brown eggs when they start up again.

 

[Cynthia12]

I will only have one chick hatch. I will need to head to IFA so it will have some friends, lol.

Good plan!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm a few pages behind, so this may have been talked about more, but: From what I understand, it's the antibiotics in the medicated chick starter that is toxic to turkey poults.


When I first got mine from Cynthia, I was sure for a while that he was a she. So sometimes they can surprise you!

Now wait. You got a roo? Did you get two? I thought you had one laying..oh dear. Foggy old brain, was it Sphinx that has one? I think Dalooras has one..or two? I have a friend here that has one. Then some went to people I didn't know.

 

[Cynthia12]

My Icelandics are teasing me. Now that it's getting close to collection time for eggs, the egg well has dried up. I want to add to my breeding flock, waaaaaaah!

Come to me my dear! I will have ... crossing fingers, blue, barred rocks at Easter time. And, welsummers. And, right now, I have three of your eggs that seem to be doing fine.
I will have some different OE's and some EE's soon too. Lock down this weekend for them.