WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[gabrielle1976]

Omg her leg is jacked up ,,, Im trying to get pics up as we speak and Im hopeing its still one of the legs thing you can fix but to my newb eyes it looks pretty bad being less then a day old I hope I can mold her joints muscles and such to a better postion please tell me you can help. Pictures soon.

introduceing Butter . Any ideas what color she is , she is so precious.
She is a doll and worh any time and effort as long as she isnt in pain.
Notice how her left? leg goes completly diffrent way.
It twists under her


thats her other foot up by her head

 

[202roosterlane]

CRAZYPET LADY!!!!! Bahahhahahaha I sold her alllllll of my blue polish. OOOOps. Okay she does not have any laying yet but soon because I re-homed the roo to meet the Devil for being the meanest chicken on earth and wanting to spur my eyes out! But soon she has a BUNCH of hens that will be laying.

 

[emvickrey]

If it where me I would cull. I'm no pro but I don't think you can do anything for that. If it was just a foot issue you could boot her but with her legs going in the wrong directions IDK. I've been able to fix a few that had leg issues but not as bad as that. I just held the chick with the legs in the right direction for several hours at a time and would make it stand with it's feet flat on a table or my desk and hold it there, Kinda like therapy. A warm water soak I did before I worked with it. I held a very warm wash cloth on it's legs. But i've had a few that bad and I culled as soon as I knew it wouldn't fix it's self. It's sad but part of raising chicks. I had to cull nearly a whole batch of quail this past week. I have no idea other than too high humidity of what went wrong. I have 1 lone chick that made it.

Omg her leg is jacked up ,,, Im trying to get pics up as we speak and Im hopeing its still one of the legs thing you can fix but to my newb eyes it looks pretty bad being less then a day old I hope I can mold her joints muscles and such to a better postion please tell me you can help. Pictures soon.

introduceing Butter . Any ideas what color she is , she is so precious.
She is a doll and worh any time and effort as long as she isnt in pain.
Notice how her left? leg goes completly diffrent way.
It twists under her


thats her other foot up by her head

 

[HenThymes]

Here they are Beth!!

 

[tdhenson86]

Can it use that leg? Was it somehow broken?

 

[Daloorashens]

Okay... another random question.... How late in the year do you all incubate?? I have some friends on the UT thread that are setting eggs this weekend, but because of how early it can get cold here sometimes, I wouldn't want to do that unless I had a broody because I wouldn't want them in the house that long...

Gabrielle, so sorry about the chick.. not a lot of experience with doing my own incubating, but have had lots of chicks under broodies, and to me, if it looks like it won't survive naturally without a lot of help ( a little is ok) then it's probably best not to keep it...

 

[emvickrey]

I used to hatch all I could in the winter and pick out a few for keepers and sell the rest. Not this year. I'll stop adding eggs on the 14th and I'll only hatch out a handful of silkies compared to what I usually do. I'm wanting to add to just a few pens and I need to replace a roo I just lost a few weeks ago that was irreplaceable but i'm gonna do my best to get close anyway. I've already got some lavenders growing out. I want to add a couple buffs and a couple paints. The first lavender that hatched is a cockerel and a handsome devil he is already and I have 2 more that are too young to tell. I just some eggs from bargain to hatch and get the black roo I need. I've got a very pretty partridge chick that I need to sell.

 

[tdhenson86]

Okay... another random question.... How late in the year do you all incubate?? I have some friends on the UT thread that are setting eggs this weekend, but because of how early it can get cold here sometimes, I wouldn't want to do that unless I had a broody because I wouldn't want them in the house that long...

Gabrielle, so sorry about the chick.. not a lot of experience with doing my own incubating, but have had lots of chicks under broodies, and to me, if it looks like it won't survive naturally without a lot of help ( a little is ok) then it's probably best not to keep it...

I usually don't incubate any eggs after the first or second week of August. If they're set that week, they'll hatch around September 1st. That gives us about a month and a half to two months before our first snow here in Michigan. That's usually long enough for our chicks to grow up enough to survive our winters.

 

[sonew123]

I hatch nothing after July 1st...or very close to it...my birds have to be full grown an fattened to survive temps of up to -40... It was that three days in a row the winter before last!

 

[farmerChef]

I dont usually hatch durng the summer because its so hot and humid down here, the eggs could just about incubate with out help if i left them outside . Most of my hatching was done by broody the past few months. In fact, ive got some silkied/frizzled serama (from CPL) under a hen what hatch today! Checked her last night, and she and one chick from one of the 2 eggs from my hens, looks like a mottled