What did you do with your flock today?

[ChicksnMore]

Can I make you drool again? Made this one for our church Mexico mission team auction. Now that that's done, came home to find Pepper made some really smelly poo. Is that what broody poo smells like, almost like cat poo? It's getting smaller, yay! I think she's liking the special food, not having to wait to eat, getting a break from the boys. Not liking her butt washed daily, being wet, having someone doing things to her back end all the time. We might get snow overnight.

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Thats amazing! Absolutely beautiful Did you ever take cooking classes or just learned from experience?

Well, the little Cochin is still in the shell but breathing and the other one is still only piped BUT I hear another one tapping on a shell. I’m trying to remain calm because none are even out of the shell yet and anything can happen.

Feels like forever sometimes when they hatch eh?

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

@PopoMyers OMGeeze that looks amazing!!! Drool city Herr!
So glad Pepper is improving!
@kurby22 those babies are absolutely gorgeous! I would go nuts at a show like that! The only show I've ever been to in my life remotely similar was a cat show and of course I came home with a Persian that never liked me and I adored her!!!
I better live vicariously through you going to the shows!!!
Bambi spent the night in with the others and I went down to check her crop...still got something in there but nowhere near as bad as the last 2 days. I get the feeling she may have eaten the nesting materials which are I believe aspen from Eaton.
Gave her another docusate sodium 100mg as well as coconut oil and water and massaged...sure hope this passes asap!
Oh and how do yall break your broody girls?
Someone said I won't have any luck until they are standing on a wire cage? I don't get that part.

 

[ChicksnMore]

@PopoMyers OMGeeze that looks amazing!!! Drool city Herr!
So glad Pepper is improving!
@kurby22 those babies are absolutely gorgeous! I would go nuts at a show like that! The only show I've ever been to in my life remotely similar was a cat show and of course I came home with a Persian that never liked me and I adored her!!!
I better live vicariously through you going to the shows!!!
Bambi spent the night in with the others and I went down to check her crop...still got something in there but nowhere near as bad as the last 2 days. I get the feeling she may have eaten the nesting materials which are I believe aspen from Eaton.
Gave her another docusate sodium 100mg as well as coconut oil and water and massaged...sure hope this passes asap!
Oh and how do yall break your broody girls?
Someone said I won't have any luck until they are standing on a wire cage? I don't get that part.

If they're brooding an empty nest, I usually put them in a parrot cage on the porch for a day. It doesn't have a wire floor but it works well. Mine usually pop out of broodiness quickly from just that. Once in a while it'll take a couple days. The parrot cage is big and open...think it's 2 1/2-3'x4' and 5 1/2-6' tall and it's in a high traffic area. I line it with flat newspaper instead of normal bedding.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

If they're brooding an empty nest, I usually put them in a parrot cage on the porch for a day. It doesn't have a wire floor but it works well. Mine usually pop out of broodiness quickly from just that. Once in a while it'll take a couple days. The parrot cage is big and open...think it's 2 1/2-3'x4' and 5 1/2-6' tall and it's in a high traffic area. I line it with flat newspaper instead of normal bedding.

Ok so I guess the idea is to make it uncomfortable.
I've got an ice pack under her cuz I read that would help cool her down but she's happily just hatchin the ice now.

Oh and she just and definitely looks like she ate the nesting materials...so hard and still got little more in her crop.
Should she go the whole day again with no food and just water and coconut oil?

 

[ChicksnMore]

Ok so I guess the idea is to make it uncomfortable.
I've got an ice pack under her cuz I read that would help cool her down but she's happily just hatchin the ice now.

Oh and she just and definitely looks like she ate the nesting materials...so hard and still got little more in her crop.
Should she go the whole day again with no food and just water and coconut oil?

I would. Letting her eat will slow how long the bad stuff takes to clear and increases the chance it won't clear. The only exception I know of is papaya which can help it clear... usually home made from fresh papaya puree and massage is used for that.

Maybe @Shetland lover can give you a better answer for how long a chicken can go with just oil and water. With parrots if it hasn't cleared in 24 hours it's usually a bad sign but still not a lost cause. Think chickens can handle the bad bacteria that can start growing in the crop impaction better than parrots do.

Editing to add that wood beddings probably not a high risk for bad bacteria. I wouldn't think it is at any rate.

Hope she's doing good!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Thats amazing! Absolutely beautiful Did you ever take cooking classes or just learned from experience?

Feels like forever sometimes when they hatch eh?

For sure. I feel like I’m stuck in time. I check the clock and it’s moving but they aren’t. Lol

 

[FBMcrazy8]

So on top of everything….I got some horrible news today. My friend who’s Call ducks I’m helping her hatch, lost 3/4 breeding pens. She lost so many and completely devastated. So once these guys I have hatch and are ready to go into the brooder, I’m cleaning it up and getting some more Call eggs for her. At least it’s during breeding season and she has their babies. But to go through all of that is so hard. My husband and I had volunteered to help her build a new enclosure for them when we picked up these guys I have in now. The weasel got into their barn where she had them. My heart is just breaking for her right now. You all don’t have to pray for these hatches but I would appreciate at least positive thoughts for these guys!

 

[BlueBaby]

Your adults are gorgeous... I think it won't be too hard to find someone who wants him.

Yes, but what if I want to end up keeping him, and let Hawkeye go? Or start a second flock? I have these from several states now to try to be able to broaden the gene pool that I have going.

 

[BlueBaby]

They are marked similarly to Welsummers.

If I remember right, the German's used the Welsummers in part of the breeding program towards these.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

MY FIRST ONE HATCHED!!! Not even the one who pipped first. It still has some yolk attached to it but so far it’s the only one out of its shell. It’s lively and chirping away.