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[Illia]

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Oh to have space for breeding... It is a dream to be able to have enough space to get a fun breeding program going, but for the moment we are urban farmers

If you get some fertile BCM eggs, or you Illia (!) We would probably like some in the not too distant future!

Sure.

I know there are a lot of Urban people around, and I'd love to help their dreams by offering Marans, Ameraucanas, and Araucanas.

- Also, I'll have some Araucana x Marans Olive Eggers available soon too. - Rumpless, Tufted, Feather-shanked Olive Eggers.

 

[Illia]

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We need pics.

My Blue Wheaten cockerels are starting to get a bit bossy. . . They're shoving and pecking around the Araucana chicks.

Pretty soon I'm going to introduce all of my latest Cree Marans and Heidi's Ameraucanas to the rest of the flock, leaving the Araucanas to another week or two of peace. Also, they're so small. . . They need to grow to a "strong" size to live with the adults. They'll naturally be a smaller breed, but they need to be safe. My Araucanas and Marans are my most precious of breeds.

My Olive Eggers will first be available around September on forth, but I'm not sure how many people will want eggs or chicks that late in the year.

 

[ReiMiraa]

ok i will post this in the other thread too,...

One of my chickens who just started laying a few weeks ago started limping. this is a buff bantm brahma ... i checked it and its main toenail on one foot is totally bent back and the toe tip is swollen.

what can i do? i do not know how this happened... its one of my favorite one because it follows me around everywhere.

i do not think there are any vets in the area that deal with poultry...

 

[LaSombra]

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Oh to have space for breeding... It is a dream to be able to have enough space to get a fun breeding program going, but for the moment we are urban farmers

If you get some fertile BCM eggs, or you Illia (!) We would probably like some in the not too distant future!

well, in about 5 months, we should start having some eggs from these girls... I don't have a huge amount of space set aside for the chickens yet, but I do have two separate coops/runs now so I can put the roosters I want for breeding in with the girls I want. I'll be able to tell the girls' eggs since they'll be, of course, blue or chocolate colored

If I have any blue ameraucana roos, I'll keep one of them in there also. I still can't tell any difference in them yet. I have 4, though. 1 or 2 is bound to be a boy.

 

[spectrejazz]

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Ouch! I have done that, and it hurts. Well it seems to me that you could either let it be and hope for the best, in dry weather or a covered run it should heal nicely, or bring her in and give her a nice warm bath (I have done this a few times to clean bums, as well) and scrub those feet. Once scrubbed you can snip that toenail off, if it is truly disconnected, and bandage it with gauze covered with some waterproof tape all the way up her toe. She won't like that just about the same as she doesn't like the swollen toe, but it will heal. Don't wrap to tight or too loose. Vague, I know, but you don't want it falling off with scratching, but you also don't want to damage her circulation. I would say err on the tight side of whatever you are thinking and then redo if there is a problem. Good luck, and hopefully some others will have advice, too.

 

[ReiMiraa]

i got pics of it....

i think they are thumbnail images but if you click on it it should enlarge.....

i found the hen this morning on the roost and couldn't get down. it slept on the roost on one foot all night... and couldn't get down with one foot... so i set it down next to food and water...
i took these pics this morning.. i won't be able to tend to the chicken till this afternoon after classes (college student)..... but while i am in town i could buy supplies to help it. should i buy at the feed store some of that no bleed powder? would i have to remove the nail completely? would it grow back???
click to enlarge pic's...

 

[Chieftain]

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I've read in a couple of places, Styorey's Guide being one, that mineral oil is very good for softening up a rooster spur and the surrounding socket, which can enable you to work the spur out of it's socket without damage to the surrounding tissue.

Your situation is obviously not the same, but I wonder if that mineral oil on her foot might not help sooth it a bit? It might help that inflammation if nothing else.

I'm no vet, and that is just a suggestion if you think it may help...Good luck, and please let us know what you end up doing on this, because I'll betcha this kind of injury is not uncommon. Please keep us posted....

 

[kelleyranch]

I am new chickens and would really like to know if anyone would be willing to allow my husband and I to come look at their coop. We are getting chickens Thursday and I am still a little nervous!!! I would like to see a coop "in action". I am in Spanaway. If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear.

 

[Nyrial]

Yes please do. Is that the one you got from me?

Try Vetrap (I think that's the brand name?) it sticks to itself, and you can wrap it tighter without cutting off circulation. I don't think you would need a poultry vet, any should be able to help with that.

 

[ReiMiraa]

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Yeah its the one i got from you. follows me around like a puppy. its cute, lays a small cream/pink egg. we named it BB. bantm brahma though it is almost as big at my standard light brahma.... just a hair shorter, but alot bigger than the two milli roosters...

i noticed it limping when it came to me as i got out of the car....