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[carcar80]

Hi guys.

Trying to figure out who ransacked my yard today..

*ahem*.. @RoboDuck? Any ideas?

 

[ChickDancer]

I've been told that you may have to assist water fowl more so than chickens. Should I leave the rest alone? Or see if they've pipped internally? Or just leave the house to avoid temptation?

You can candle them, but otherwise leave them alone for now. I did end up helping two of mine out, the same way you help chickens. Tear a little shell off, look for blood. If it bleeds, put it back, leave it alone. But I only helped mine after they had all pipped EXTERNALLY and were approaching the 24-hour mark.

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

So, I'm pondering the 63 chicks that I currently have and am really wondering - DO I NEED THIS MANY CHICKENS!?  Do I really need a bunch of breeding trios, etc?  Why?  Am I really going to sell eggs and chicks?  Maybe I need to just cut back to a good laying flock and maybe two breeding sets plus meat birds?  Why am I going through all this trouble for Silver Gray Dorkings?  It's not like they are stellar layers or fast growing - I just like the idea of the history of the breed.  Is that worth the trouble I'm going through to have them? 

I'm in a chicken downer right now.

I have faith that you will work out what's best for you

 

[ChickDancer]

Okay, I finally gave in, grabbed needle and thread, and sewed Phoenix's head as best as I could. The wound is too big to actually have the skin touch, but I pulled it together as much as I could get it.

Thanks to my oh-so-wonderful nieces and nephews (probably more the nieces, and yes you detect heavy sarcasm), I wasn't able to change his bandage properly last night or this morning. Out of FOUR rolls of the self-adhesive bandage wrap, three have disappeared. I had only one, and I have now used it up. I tried to reuse the wrapping, but it doesn't stick to itself very well after that first time. These kids are notorous thieves. If they want it, they take it, period. And their fricking mother gives NO punishment of ANY sort for ANYTHING they do wrong. No kidding.

So anyway, Phoenix's bandaging came off, and the ligaments to his neck muscle dried out and came off of the skull. Now only one side is attached, and it's causing his head to flop sideways from that side having tension, and the other side not pulling on it at all.

I put it back on as best as I could (I'm thinking about trying the super-glue method), and then pulled the skin up over the muscle ligament and sewed it as tight as I could to hold it there. Then I wrapped his head in a way that kinda forces it to sit properly, and set him back in the towel-lined laundry basket with his head propped up by folds of fabric.

I'm going to ask about ligament reattachment on the emergency forum. I hope it can. If not, he'll have to be put down. He's survived 6 days now with half of his scalp missing. It's going to really suck to lose him NOW.

 

[carcar80]

Oh. Mah. God. I had no idea it was that severe. And I'm not sure how you can fix that long-term. I am so sorry you're having to deal with this.

 

[carcar80]

I wish you lived closer. I have a scrub tech/chicken friend who would probably love to take a look.

 

[Missyktsm]

Well I now have 3 two week old buckeyes YAY! I also came home with 3 EEs lol. However, it could have been waaayyy worse. This guy has tons of chicks right now. I'm very proud of myself for only coming home with 6.

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What!? A roaring chicken? I want one!!! Who sells them?

Yes, a roaring chicken! I found mine from a CL add for a guy in Stockbridge... Here's a link to the add for you http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/grd/4397074919.html . He has several more. Some are 6 weeks old and some are 2 weeks. He has a VERY nice set-up and the chicks all seemed clean and healthy. The only thing that was a little off for me was that the parent stock is not on the premisses to view. Apparently, there's a guy in South Georgia that he gets all of his chicks from. He said the man hatches hundreds of chicks but needed an outlet to sell in the Atlanta area market so they started working together to sell the chicks up here. Very nice man, very clean environment. Oh, he also sold me some plastic vegetable crates for $1 each. They're perfect little nesting boxes.

Who on this thread has EE's that they hatch? I dont want olive eggers. I want lt blue or lt green eggers with the slate colored legs

. See the above statement. This man has a good many Ameraucana/EEs.

 

[ChickDancer]

Well I now have 3 two week old buckeyes YAY! I also came home with 3 EEs lol. However, it could have been waaayyy worse. This guy has tons of chicks right now. I'm very proud of myself for only coming home with 6.
Yes, a roaring chicken! I found mine from a CL add for a guy in Stockbridge... Here's a link to the add for you http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/grd/4397074919.html . He has several more. Some are 6 weeks old and some are 2 weeks. He has a VERY nice set-up and the chicks all seemed clean and healthy. The only thing that was a little off for me was that the parent stock is not on the premisses to view. Apparently, there's a guy in South Georgia that he gets all of his chicks from. He said the man hatches hundreds of chicks but needed an outlet to sell in the Atlanta area market so they started working together to sell the chicks up here. Very nice man, very clean environment. Oh, he also sold me some plastic vegetable crates for $1 each. They're perfect little nesting boxes.
. See the above statement. This man has a good many Ameraucana/EEs.

Did you see my reply to you in the BIN/Auction thread? About sizzles?

 

[ChickDancer]

I wish you lived closer. I have a scrub tech/chicken friend who would probably love to take a look.

Actually, ask him two questions for me. One, can I actually use superglue to temporarily reattach the ligament? And two, if I do find some way to temporarily reattach it to the skull, will the ligament eventually grow new tissue to connect itself to the bone?

 

[carcar80]

Well, I can tell you superglue won't work. Ligament has to be anchored or sutured in place. It doesn't have the blood supply to regenerate a firm attachment.