What did you do with your flock today?

[TropicalBabies]

@Gammas Bearded Babies good catch. I do coco oil and massage. Works like a charm ♡. Feather plucking her breast feathers can be a broody thing ♡♡♡

 

[BlueBaby]

My first baby is coming!!! Eeeekkk My one and only Bantam Cochin….

I just finished my hatch of 6 shipped Bielefelder hatching egg's that made it to lockdown. All 6 have hatched and I ended up with 5 pullet's and 1 cockerel. This one is my first pullet chick that hatched yesterday.

 

[PopoMyers]

Oh! That IS good news that it's going back by itself. Now we just need it to stay in more permanently! Keep doing what you're doing, it's super important the tissue doesn't dry out and keep checking for any necrosis. Pepper may still a stitch but hopefully not. You're doing a fabulous job with her!

Thank you for the encouragement. She laid an egg this morning, despite being in low light. Had a little blood on it, but the prolapse is smaller, almost back in all the way. Yay! Urates are still leaking out. She is acting normal, making more poop in larger sizes. I will still keep her separated from the rest for 2 weeks after stopping the meloxicam, so that residues will be gone. Eggs are getting sold even before they're laid! For future reference, dose is 0.5-1 mg/kg. once or twice a day. I've been more aggressive with her, 2x day, 2.5 mg. I am using my own meds, so I think I will be eating her eggs until egg withdrawal time of 2 weeks is done. Does anyone know what to use to get those sticky, super glue urates off of butt feathers? Soaking and rubbing is not working quite so well. No fluffy butt.

 

[Shetland lover]

but glad u gettin those blood suckers!!!

Oh this is beautiful! Luv it!


So have yall ever had a girl go broody and have crop issues.ay same time?
I noticed Bambi's crop was plucked clean from being broody...I'm trying to break her from it. Day 3
Then I noticed a hard mass where her crop is. I massaged it last night but still hard this morning. She's acting like normal broody otherwise.
I'm gonna go bring her in to the ICU in garage and monitor her water intake and poop and give her a docusate sodium 100mg per the article on BYC I just read.
But I wanted to see if this is par for the course for a broody in storing up so she can stay on nest.
Not hatching eggs at this time so no babies for gamma! God made it very clear and I thank @PopoMyers for sharing that voice of encouragement the other day which only reiterated what I had heard Him saying.
Thanks yall!

When Pru and Penelope go broody they generally have empty crops. One of the reasons you're supposed to break them is because they can lose so much weight from not eating. You can give her olive or coconut oil then try gently massaging again, too.

 

[Shetland lover]

O, go ahead and tell Stan! Such beautiful babies deserve a compliment and I bet his ladies will deflate his head quick enough!

Trouble is, they're letting him get away with murder! Even Ferdy just gives him a bit of a stink eye and leaves it at that!

 

[Shetland lover]

I'm unfamiliar with what you're giving her so no ideas there. But I think it'd be the same as parrots in needing to withhold feed until the crop clears. Lots of water though. And the oil really helps lubricate and move the food through. Probiotics will help digestion...so will papaya. Papaya actually contains digestive enzymes. And of course massaging the lump after getting the water, oil, etc stuff into her.
Hopefully you already have it on the way to all better. But do remove all feed til your sure.

Docusate Sodium is an hydrating agent. It's used as an oral stool softener in humans so I can see how using it may help with an impacted crop.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Congratulations!! It is going to be a long couple (up to 24) hours!!

Oh for sure! The Cemani’s haven’t piped yet so I’m still waiting patiently on them. This is the progress so far.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

I just finished my hatch of 6 shipped Bielefelder hatching egg's that made it to lockdown. All 6 have hatched and I ended up with 5 pullet's and 1 cockerel. This one is my first pullet chick that hatched yesterday.

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Oh that is so awesome!!! I’m waiting patiently on the Ayam Cemani’s to decide to pip. They are also shipped eggs. I had a terrible accident but 4 survived that and made it to lockdown. Now it’s a waiting game. And that is really good numbers with the pullets vs the cockerels!

 

[BlueBaby]

Oh that is so awesome!!! I’m waiting patiently on the Ayam Cemani’s to decide to pip. They are also shipped eggs. I had a terrible accident but 4 survived that and made it to lockdown. Now it’s a waiting game. And that is really good numbers with the pullets vs the cockerels!

Good luck with your hatch! I got mine from Omega Hill's Farm over in Mississippi. With all the rough weather we have been having, I'm surprised any of the shipped one's hatched. I live in Arizona, so I tried to pick a place in the south to order them from.

 

[Shetland lover]

@Shetland lover I am somewhere inbetween flabbergasted and stunned that you have 2 rooster so close and calm sitting on a roost between 2 girls like it is just another Wednesday. I mean total drama free Just seems so right... strange even.

Ferdy is such a gentle boy, I don't think it's ever entered his head to fight Stan so far! The only time he gets even slightly upset is if Stan spends too long on top of one of the girls