i never had to say we needed to get some food out of a chickens mouth. i have a young chick who just ate all her food at once. finally found a use for shish-ka-bobs... taking food out of chickens mouths who cant eat it all at once.
we ran out of eggs during a bake day and my mom sent me over to the hens... waited a half hour before i got an egg. i do run over to the coop when im short a couple eggs... wait a minute! i hardly sell my eggs so i have plenty.
lol. i already have my "third batch" chicks from tsc. adorable little... biggish cuties... have to have 3 bins for them... small banties, bantams, large fowl. sigh... might talk my folks into taking me to a swap meet... im hatching out some of my eggs but the result doesnt look good... i craked...
ive only lost 1 buff orp fom mcmurray. lost two brown leghorns in transit. the chicks that i am loosing are the ideal hatchery ones. i think its the cold. cause same lie you i purchased some chicks from tsc and they are doing fine. having a salmonella outbreack tied to the business must not be...
i read up on corridosis. they dont have blood in their droppings at all. they are five days old. if they where hatched and shipped tuesday. its like one a day. i really hope its not mareks.
i have an order coming in from murray mcmurray hatchery. already in route. cant change it :(. im purchaseing a doz. silkie eggs locally though im awful at hatching thought that might be the easier route. decided on that after i lost 3 of my 6 silkie. but its not just silkies the newest one is...
okay so i got in some chicks from ideal poultry. they where delayed because of the snow storm so we got them in a day late. since then i have lost 8 chicks, of those 1 silkie, 1 golden sex link and 1 breed that i am not sure of became very lethargic refuse to eat/ drink. they act like they are...
i currently have 11 but getting in two orders so by the 20 of march i will have 63. ( i had an original order not go through so i had to order half of them one day at one hatchery and then go to another hatchery and buy the rest.... fun!)