Rural Gardening: Splayed leg chick, 0 by sarahssizzles

sarahssizzles wrote:
Hey Tamara;

Life is generally good here. Our Monsoons have finally come and the temps been under 100 for the last two days. Good thing as I lost 3 birds to the heat, including that beautiful buff Ahnold. It was very strange, he was just dead one morning. I have my suspicions that he may have had a visit from a big racer snake that I found in the yard a few days later. He looked like he was trying to burrow into a corner when I found him. Between the heat & the scare…??? .I also lost 4 chicks to “piling” during a wind storm. Of course, two of them were blues! Now I have to go separate them all into smaller groups when ever it looks like we will get weather! Chickens are such …CHICKENS!

Thanks for the advise. I’ve got everything except the Selenium which I’ll pick up tomorrow. I’ve got her in the nursery on shavings with the babies but, I will move her into her own box with rubber shelf liner and see if that helps until I can work out the wire flooring. I wonder if that “egg carton” stuff would work. It’s that white plastic stuff they use to cover lights that has all the small grid squares. I use it in my coolers to keep stuff out of the melted ice water and have a piece that will fit into that box as I use old ice chests/coolers to raise my chicks in. They keep out drafts, are insulated, easy to clean & can be found cheap at yard sales.

Hey, congrats on your Frizzles! I have my first Blue Splash Sizzles this time and at least three blues & blacks that I consider are the type I’m breeding for. Got a lot of Frizzled Silkies (AKA Frilkies) from this third generation. Also got some VERY strange and different stuff…but, that’s why I “play” the way I do. I enjoy the suprizes!

Thanks again for the advise!
SS