WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[crazypetlady]

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.

Haa ha Pauletta your so FUNNY.

I have her blue polish that she kindly brought all the way from AR to IN. And I just got a trio of buff laced frizzled polish that are laying but the 2 frizzled hens were in with a frizzled roo as well as the smooth one I got them, so I better wait until they have been alone with the smooth roo awhile.
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[crazypetlady]

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 keep saying I'm going to turn my bator off. We have a strange house with lots of little rooms we have a heated room off our garage that looks like they used to store garden equipment or a mud room but we have another mud room too. So I can brood as many chicks as I hatch in there and I have 7 empty grow out pens in the garage right now. We also have barn sales until Nov. here.

I swear I'm turning off the bator soon. As soon as I can find the instructions

 

[reesepoultry]

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!

I hear ya. The same thing goes on here. But I am still hatching. Hoping that don't happen. But I will probably loose a lot of the starteds to the cold this winter. I am thinking it is gonna be bad this year since last year wasn't so bad.

 

[reesepoultry]

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

I hate to say this, But I would cull it. The leg is too messed up to fix. I could never fix one that messed up and they end up dying since they can't walk. Sorry it is hard to do.

 

[farmerChef]

Haa ha Pauletta your so FUNNY.
I have her blue polish that she kindly brought all the way from AR to IN. And I just got a trio of buff laced frizzled polish that are laying but the 2 frizzled hens were in with a frizzled roo as well as the smooth one I got them, so I better wait until they have been alone with the smooth roo awhile.
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I need some of those, are they LF? I hae 3 BLP in the brooder hoping for a pair, trio would be awesome.

 

[BHep]

Here they are Beth!!

I just LOVE the NNs.

 

[Chasity]

Omg her leg is jacked up ,,, Im trying to get pics up as we speak and Im hoping 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

If all bones and soft tissues are attached where they should be, you can decide if it is worth all of the time it would take to do one straitening at a time, and then to take more hands on time than you would with the rest. Below is a chick that we did both feet, and then a band around the hips later to straiten her wonky walk. She would not have been able to keep up with the flock if we had not done this, nor support her weight, or perch. The other bird to the left was the smallest from that hatching and kept her company. I don't have a current pic, but she is about 9 weeks now and I have to really look over and compare feet to find her when people are looking in the run that she is in. She will stay with my egg laying flock as a pet when she comes of age. From what I can tell; the earlier the better. If the bird is still surviving and you don't have the time to take care of her/him. Find out if you can get it to me, and I will try to straiten the legs. Only if the bird is happy otherwise. I will be sure that the bird can get along with a group, and have a quality of life, or it is just not to do. These are always hard decisions to make when you care.

 

[crossgirl]

Oh, that poor little baby!! I hope you can do something.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Okay autosexers --


Girls??




Boys??

 

[KYTinpusher]

If they are sexlinks, they all look like boys to me.