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[Totalcolour]

Does anyone know anyone with Blue laced red Wyandotte eggs for sale in Washington?

Stumpfarmer raises them - she may have eggs. (In Lacey)

 

[RainyDayChicken]

Does anyone know anyone with Blue laced red Wyandotte eggs for sale in Washington?

You may want to try Raincreekpottery in Port Orchard. She has BLRW. The lady's name is Pam.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Does anyone know anyone with Blue laced red Wyandotte eggs for sale in Washington?

Stumpfarmer raises them - she may have eggs. (In Lacey)

Not right now, both of the hens are in moult. I'm just now getting eggs from the others who started moult much earlier.

I'd post pics of Anni Frid, who looks ridiculous with her whole neck in pinfethers, but it would be wrong to make fun of the ailing.

 

[Hinotori]

Anyone else having a very heavy molt this year? My girls have been dropping most of their feathers all at once. It looks like something killed some birds in my pens. I could stuff a few pillows with what is on the ground under the roosts in the big coop.

 

[LittleLaneFarm]

Anyone else having a very heavy molt this year? My girls have been dropping most of their feathers all at once. It looks like something killed some birds in my pens. I could stuff a few pillows with what is on the ground under the roosts in the big coop.

None of my hens are molting, but my rooster has been for weeks now

 

[rapunzel162]

Yes Ive noticed my babies molting a LOT this fall. It seems more than normal. Im wondering if we are not going to have a severe winter this year. Best of luck to you.

 

[Zgoatlady]

I am distraught. For the past few months, my chicks have been dying. Just one, here, and one there. I had 17, now I have eight. There isn't a sign of illness, no predators. They will all be fine one day, and one dead in the morning. Just far enough apart in time that just as I think we are over whatever it is, we lose another one.

At first I thought it was just death from not being hardy. I prefer to lose those that aren't strong, but this is just too much. I'm afraid to get anymore until we figure out what this is. We had a necropsy done one time (at considerable cost), and nothing bad showed up. I'm baffled.

I'm actually thinking that they might be getting crushed. They all go to the same feeder the Muscovies use (even thought they have their own feeder) and the Muscovies are pretty big. I just can't think of anything else.

Do you have male ducks with the hens? I've heard if they breed with the hens it will kill them.

 

[PheasantsFirst]

Anyone else having a very heavy molt this year? My girls have been dropping most of their feathers all at once. It looks like something killed some birds in my pens. I could stuff a few pillows with what is on the ground under the roosts in the big coop.

me too!

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: The Muscovies are pretty big, they are still juveniles and not sexually mature. (In all the years we have had Muscovies, I've never seen one try to mate with any other breed, not even the Harlequins. I think it's because there are enough females to go round. I have seen one of my Roos mounting the ducks though.)

We haven't had any losses in the last couple of weeks, so keeping fingers crossed that we have resolved the problem.

 

[AletaG]

The Muscovies are pretty big, they are still juveniles and not sexually mature.
We haven't had any losses in the last couple of weeks, so keeping fingers crossed that we have resolved the problem.

Random seeming losses are always distressing. good luck!