Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[delisha]

Quote: Add some of your hubbys beer to the crust..it makes the best pizza crust.
I have Maran chicks..I think I have one female and the rest males..sheesh I am just keeping females. They are loud chicks but not as loud as the Americauna chick.

 

[delisha]

 

[vickiw]

Afternoon everyone!!! Huge Hi to all the newbies and the returners I don't recognize

(little less than a year here myself)

Hope you have a safe trip Angie!

Jim~sorry

I missed your "big bird" egg pic. Have to go back and see if I can find it. Too much chatter with all the tree tapping and egg hatching, interesting stuff but no personal input so I have just been lurking an learning

SERIOUS QUESTION ALERT~
background...this is about my little hen, Crockpot. She is one of my battery rescues that wasn't too healthy when I got her last May. Never has layed really well. No shell, rubber shell, thin shell, thicker shell, regular shell, no egg for a couple days then the cycle would start over. A little better for a while after the molt "break" this winter, a few more good eggs, but now? she is also the one that I have been fighting to get her back end, belly and tail feathers to grow back with only recent minor success, tried everything (a fluff feather here and there) on the outside and upped her protein tho the feathers on her back finally filled in except for what must be a roo damage spot on the base of one wing. They were all pretty much the same size when I got them (they were supposed to be 18 months old but I don't really trust the guy's word that had them) anyway, I call Crockpot little because she is now clearly smaller than the other 2 still surviving who are both fat and happy.
PROBLEM~yesterday I found an egg with a bloody shell. Wasn't a lot and it was Crockpot's so I just figured somebody (AKA Soup) pulled out another one of her little scraggly butt feathers again. Today, there was a warm, very bloody egg. I scooped up Crockpot and there was a little blood dripping from her vent. I checked close, no prolapse so I blotted her bottom and removed what I couldn't tell was either expelled tissue or a clot, not sure. Just went and checked her again and she was still bleeding but just a tiny bit there appeared to be another "clot or tissue chunk"??? Going back out to see if I can clean her up better so she isn't picked on (I really don't have any place to isolate her right now-my new brooder box is under construction as we speak). She seems so far to be fine otherwise.
EXPERT OPINIONS/THOUGHTS??? Do you think there is anything I can do for her, other than watch? Of course I have no intention of letting her suffer needlessly but would like to do what I could to save her, I just have no clue as to exactly what could have went wrong other than I am comfortable that it is not disease related unless is there any chance it could be a very old, smoldering case of cocci? And if that were true, wouldn't the new chick have gotten it last fall? (Mom brooded her right in the coop, in a cage at first but then right with everybody else. BTW-there was no sign of any internal egg break the day before and she laid an otherwise normal egg yesterday save the small amount of blood on the outside.

Any feedback from you much more knowledgeable folk will be greatly appreciated

EDIT~~~~~forgot to add that this is the hen that has suffered from a "leaky vent" aka vent gleet??? since I got her (sometimes worse but most of the time the past few months it's been pretty light). Treated her with everything under the sun known to cure gleet to no avail but since, until now, she was otherwise happy and healthy I just soaked her butt when she needed it, and watched her. She had actually been "leaking" a lot less in the past few weeks and was hoping she had finally healed up.

...............vickijusthappyIwasabletogiveCrockpot1goodveryspoiledyearatthe"spa".............................

 

[delisha]

Sorry you are having problems with your girl..when they have these type of issues it never goes away. It just progresses until the poor things can't do it anymore. She is still trying to lay for you and your good care is a testament of her gallant efforts to continue to do so. I would use beta dine and flush her well. Than some type of lubricant. The bleeding can be from anything. Lack of moisture and non elastic egg tube. When an egg is descending it is probably tearing tissues. If the bleeding does not stop she will become weak and simply go to sleep. Sometimes that is not a bad way to go.

 

[JustJohn]

Add some of your hubbys beer to the crust..it makes the best pizza crust.
I have Maran chicks..I think I have one female and the rest males..sheesh I am just keeping females. They are loud chicks but not as loud as the Americauna chick.

my americauna chicks were screamers too by comparison.

 

[judge]

Quote: Oh boy! Wonder if my Ameraucana's will hatch? Can't wait. Well if they do there is only 2

 

[Hurley]

Hurley what are the brown/grayish eggs on bottom left? Interesting colored egg.

Those are my olive eggs. They look brown with the heavy bloom they carry, but look olive if you wash them and wash the bloom off. They are hens from a Marans x Ameracauna breeding. They look a little more green than actual in this picture. Currently they look darker and lighter brown (until you wash them). When you crack them, the inside of the shell is as blue as the eggs next to them. These eggs are the OE girls crossed to an Iowa Blue this year, thinking that he will lighten up the brown a bit, so 50% of the pullets should lay a mid-range green egg and the other half a medium brown egg, I am guessing.

 

[kristip]

Pretty eggs Hurley! Pizza is yummy. Made some home made pizza yesterday. I enjoy a pesto with feta and veggies.yum.
Anyway...we ran to Madison for shopping for two hours and the incubator has settled down. Back to 99/100 temps and 25 humidity. Looking good. Now to wait...my friend is getting so excited for chicks in her backyard!

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Oh great... Ameracauna chicks are whiners? Just what I need more of in my house...

I have eggs set in one Bator so far. I got it up to temp and stayed nicely. I pulled out my crappy hatcher to get eggs in until I can get my good Bator. The crappy hatcher has no fan and is having a harder time getting to the right temp. But I have had these eggs sitting way longer than they should have, so it's better they're in some kind of incubator! Crossing my fingers I can get the other ones temp to regulate soon!

i also never mentioned, my Wheaten maran Roo that was acting weird is still around. But he sure looks like sh!t. I did gather 7 marans eggs and pop them in the Brinsea last week. It's a bit early, but I candled today and it looks like 5 of 7 are growing. It's so hard to candle marans eggs though!

My broody momma still has her 2 little baby Wheaties. They sure are cute! She also seems to be a very good momma. We have a boy and a girl from her. I love auto sexing marans!

i had a weird call today. I had a woman call and ask if I could hatch out some more black copper marans for her. She bought some from me last year and would really like more of their "genotype." I told her I bought the eggs from GA. So we're deciding whether she just orders the eggs herself and tries her hand at hatching, or if I should do it for her. She also said she heritage turkeys. Ok...? One in particular is a rare black type. She said that momma went and got groovy with some wild turkeys apparently, because momma hatched 11 poults in the woods in Jan! She said said they're very neat and very healthy. If I'd like one I can have one. I told her "I don't know. If it comes here its going to get eaten." She said "we'll that's what they're for!" She said her are already living with her chickens and are doing well. So I don't know, do I get a free heritage turkey to grow out and eat? Of course it's name would be something like Butterball, or Sandwich, or Succotash...

I'm thinking I might do some meaties. (After all my spring hatching s done) if I did them I'd like to keep them outside the whole time since they're so gross (I hear). I don't think I want the usual Cornish crosses because I hear they get so fat so quick and then ave hear attacks, or break their legs from the weight. So then would I look at those ranger type birds? Or any other advice? Deli, I think you'd have some into to add here...

I had better send this off. Hubby was puking and pooping last night. Better today. But woke up the 3 yr old to find him covered from head to toe in all sorts of bodily fluids. I had to hose him off in the shower, where he roceeded to have a bout of squirts in my hand. Now he has been keeping up the poo issue and having severe cramps like his brother. But since he can't talk (reminder he's the one with autism) he can't tell me what's wrong. He also doesn't nderstand the consoling words I say to him in his distress. It is sooooooo hard with him sick. I can't even give him the brat diet because he doesn't eat banana, applesauce, rice, or toast. He eats so few things, won't drink clear soda, or broth, or Gatorade. But if I keep giving him juice, he will have the squirts worse. I guess I'm going to google Unks suggestion of scalded milk to stop the squirts. We'll see. But with amount of clean up I did, and am still doing, I dont know how I won't get this...

 

[chikenscratch]

Delish....I am trying your suggestions

and the I am making cranberry preserves too