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[La Casa de Pollo]

So a typical Saturday morning at my house, my former head hen (she has been taken down a notch or 2 as the new members are adults and shaking things up) got a bath in the bathtub (had to do a check on her feet since she is a recent bumblefoot sufferer. She is molting so she laid a very soft shelled egg and it was smeared everywhere on her so she got a spa day. Her feet are completley healed! I started with Tricide Neo soaks about 5 weeks ago, 3 soaks the first week, 2 the next and once a week after. They are entirely healed and healthy and clear!
Then I went on to do the monthly chicken health checks.....The Brahma rooster was a mess. He is missing a outside claw not sure how that happened, let's just say he was NOT a member of the fluffy butt club. I wish I could have got a picture of the beast finally caught and held but I was very happy that once I had him secured and in the bathtub he was a complete angel. Imagine my at least 18 lbs rooster just standing between my knees getting his feet administered to with no drama whatsoever.
Does anyone with feathered feet birds know....is it normal for the feathered portion of the feet to look red and angry almost all the time?
                                                                                                       Sherri

Every marans Roo I have had gets the red angry feet. The hens constantly peck at them. Never had any infections or injury or limping though, they just have that red appearance, more so in the winter.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I have a question... who was it that goes to Arizona for the winter? does anyone know what part? My parents decided that they were going to pack up their RV and move to Bouse AZ for the winter... (yeah, I'm not happy about the decision tbh...). But if said person was in the same park, I'd tell them to get to know them

Sundance (Diana). Can't recall what part though. I know she got birds from a breeder in the Queen Creek area when she was there so it could be close to that area.

 

[newmarch2014]

Every marans Roo I have had gets the red angry feet. The hens constantly peck at them. Never had any infections or injury or limping though, they just have that red appearance, more so in the winter.

Thanks much! That makes me feel better. The Brahma pullet does not seem to have the problem at all....rooster strange evidently?

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ace that SLW is gorgeous!

Brad, congrats on the new egger!

@Sterling18-- I am still getting fertile eggs, the last person to get some just had a good hatch. They are supposed to be less fertile this time of year so not sure if they would still be 100 percent but there were no clears the last few hatches so I think they are still good to go so long as I can collect them before they get too cold. I am in Logan...there's blue/black/splash Marans out there, some eggs that would yield some nice olive eggers, and then some eggs that would be silkies/showgirls/ either frizzled, silkied or smooth. The silkie/showgirl pen is not separated out so the SQ birds are in with the Pet quality birds so the chicks could be varying degrees of quality until Spring when I separate them. The silkies have been turning out awesome from all these birds, but the showgirls are turning out about 1/3 I keep and 2/3 not big enough hairdos or the right toe spacing from the pet/SQ mixed up so I need to pull some of the hens out there that aren't giving me the traits I need. Still darn cute pets though . My Ameraucana roo is starting to mate my wheaten hens but they just started and I doubt they are fertile yet. You could try. He has some frizzles going in for frizzled olive eggers in the spring and SBELS if I can track down a leghorn hen or two. ( I posted some pics a ways back if you wanted to sort through my posts.) Can't wait for Spring....

Someone is coming up from pleasant grove on Tuesday to buy birds if you needed eggs sent down south.

If anybody sells a leghorn pullet between now and Spring holler! Doesn't have to be perfect, just a great layer for my SBEL project. And from a healthy flock. If I can't find any I'll put my SBEL's in there to make second generation, the eggs would be deeper blue but the egg production would be less. I prefer the leghorn to get the white birds with polka dots though. The second generation gets wheaten colors mixed in there I get golds and buffs with gray in there, much like the EE store birds, they are not as cute to me.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Thanks much! That makes me feel better. The Brahma pullet does not seem to have the problem at all....rooster strange evidently?

Yup my hens don't get it either. I've always wondered about that, I am glad you shared too so I won't worry as much

Sorry for all the multiple posts, I've been busy this week so catching up on the thread Hope everybody is staying warm !

 

[the-bird-man]

The injustice of it all! Mine was at least a day old on March 6th and still no eggs!   HaHa. I will be excited to get one out of her finally, she has ate enough food for 10 regular size chickens I swear. 

oh man the little stinker. maybe she is hiding eggs? my girl has been red in the face and squatting and all for well over a month but then last week she got even redder and then i saw her lay the egg. i have not noticed mine eating a ton of food tho but i could be wrong. but yeah she is a big girl for sure. she is sweet. hope you get your eggs from her soon.

 

[acemario]

@La Casa de Pollo, nice running into you at The Peanuts, by the way! Like I said, your chicks are growing out very nicely. I have one black frizzled, one white with black spots and puffy cheeks, one black with white around the face, and a all black roo. Then my SS turned out to be a roo as well.

 

[rcstanley]

Ok, not exactly chicken related, but I'm hoping someone here will know. At the poultry show last month, I remember seeing in the auction cages some pigeons that were white except for an area of iridescent feathers across their shoulders. Anyone know what breed they were? They were really cool.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ace--Your puffy cheek one might look like my cute OE girl, that is awesome. You will have to show pics when you have time!

So funny to see you there! I was actually working, --we are private contractors for the movie companies and 20th Century Fox hired us to audit Peanuts. That is why I left after the trailers were over. We have to make sure the theater is playing the right trailers they are supposed to with each show, then make sure their box office sales reports at the end of the night match the number of people we count in the theater at each show. We have over 30 showings this weekend, been living in my car and the theater! Smell of popcorn--gag. LOL What did you think of the show? Bet your little girl loved it. I still have not had time to watch the whole thing all the way through! The movie was playing on 2 screens in Providence alone, been quite a few people. Next show 9:30 so I stopped at home to check on my boys

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

@RJSorensen, I keep meaning to tell you the sebrights you gave me have laid eggs nearly every day since they've been out in the main coop. Big hens have not really bothered them at all it is quite surprising! One stays in the coop most of the day, acts a little nervous and one runs around the run all day and is much more fearless. And get this---one of those girls crows just like a boy, not the loud sound but the same gaggy-stretching neck out standing up real tall and making a teeny tiny cockle doodle doo. She mimics the male posture exactly when she does it...the first time we saw her doing it I could not believe it! I am determined to get it on video, I have tried several times but she stops when I get my phone out to record. I have heard of this happening, but she is my first female I have ever seen do it.