performance Poultry

[kenya]

QR_BBPOST No everyone was fine...just went up to check the incubator (in the same room) and it was just laying there under the heat lamp...

Ahh that's too bad but sometimes it happens, no visible reason they just die. Heartbreaking

[Killerbunny]

Darn sorry about the baby. Just had one of my turkey poults die (not from PP) so it happens.

[Robbie]

I'm just thrilled with my Performance Poultry chicks, they are all healthy and doing great. I see no signs of crooked toes, or twisted beaks or anything like that.

[Poultryprincess]

WaupoosCowgirl....so is it dead or was it just sleeping. Sorry but I wasn't sure what you meant. (*o*)

[ross]

Yep Andy the wonderful Webb . If it breathes it dies just the nature of the beasts . Nothin a supplier can do if it was alive when a person gets it . Stress is a -itch . I lost 2 chicks in 3 days out of a 13 hatched & being raised by a broody must be her fault . Luck All

[WaupoosCowgirl]

It is an x-chicken (sorry I am a Monty Python fan) yes I know, I don't blame anybody. When you have livestock you've got dead stock...My 5 year old daughter said it best "at least you didn't name it yet"

[Ontario Chick]

QR_BBPOST It is an x-chicken (sorry I am a Monty Python fan) yes I know, I don't blame anybody. When you have livestock you've got dead stock...My 5 year old daughter said it best "at least you didn't name it yet"

Very sensible attitude, both of you it's really amazing to me that any man/woman is brave enough to run a Hatchery.
Just imagining trying to hatch chicks to match a specific numbers and breeds to order, gives me the heeby jeebies.

[windwalkingwolf]

I got my PP chicks on Friday, thanks to chicken taxi (KricklewoodFarms). 7 Embden goslings, all fabulously healthy, 5 Ancona pullets, about 5 days old...It's been so long since I had a mediterranean breed that I'd forgotten how long and lean-looking they were compared to my own round fuzzbutts, and I worried at first that they were underweight. Until I saw them zipping (and flying, the little buggers, already have made the top of the waterer) around just so excited lol, and then memory kicked in. Also got 5 Silver Dorking, about 4 days old, also very active and healthy, and oddly enough more food-oriented than the Anconas--can't keep them out of the dish, and they are the first to yell if it's empty. Also got 10 Spitzhaubens. Not particularly happy with the shape those chicks are in. They were also about 4 days old, but some were sick and very tiny. Seven had pasty butt, 4 were severe-- plugged up from one end to the other; two died on Saturday and I culled a third in the wee hours of Sunday. The fourth finally had a good big late Sunday, poor thing, and is much more comfortable so hopefully the toxins weren't too much for it and it will pull through. I believe it will, he's eating and drinking well, socializing with the other chicks. Peed me off that I lost three. I wonder if they weren't mailed to him as day-olds and got chilled/dehydrated sitting a little too long in the postal works. I guess that's the price you pay for hard-to-find breeds unless you've got big $$ to source them and pick them up. Anyway, except for the ones so constipated there was no saving them, the rest I'm very pleased with.
Jaye, with pasty butt there's a progression of events--most people think their butts get dirty, seal shut and then they can't p00p, but it's the other way around--they get chilled and don't drink because water makes them feel colder, or they get dehydrated some other way, like not drinking soon enough or often enough for whatever reason. Then they get constiptated. Pasty-butt seems like diarrhea, but it's not--it's mostly urates from the kidneys and mucous from intestines that are trying to move p00p out but failing, and it gets stuck to the vent. They need lots of hydration, anything they'll drink. I wet their food with water or fermented liquid just in case they're avoiding the waterer. I have no idea if acv will loosen up or not, anyone know? I think Ross drinks the stuff--Ross, does ACV make you regular if you've eaten too much cheese? :D
Anyway, I would definitely buy from them again, but perhaps buy a few extra to cover possible losses. I haven't read anything negative about PP on FB, but I've been horrendously busy so have been avoiding that time-suck for the most part. I bought some Jersey Giants from PP last year, they are horrible birds, but that's not Jason's fault. He doesn't breed or even hatch everything he sells, many breeds he sources eggs and chicks elsewheres, I suspected he sourced his Giants from Cackle, and I bought them anyway...so all you can do is try what he has to offer, and if you don't like it, try something else or go elsewhere. I ordered 27 hatchery birds, got 20 healthy ones and still have 24 of what I ordered, I consider it more than fair trade for me being too broke and lazy to travel south and do all the legwork and paperwork myself lol

[Jaye]

Thanks for the explanation on what causes pasty butt, WWW. I didn't know that. I guess the ACV "cure" I keep reading about here and there is just one of those things that may or may not be helpful. Adding electrolytes to their water would probably be more effective against constipation, I would think.

[ross]

U bet Jan " I put that on everything "
Not as a cure Jaye but as a helpful preventive for many things .The raw non pasteurized one with the "mother" in it . Luck is an attitude .