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I understand and can sympathies with the concept of survival of the fittest, but at the same point, i know there are times to help things along, and babies are one of those things i will help along. I had to force feed a turkey for a bit and that was a great learning experience, i think i can force feed anything now lol.

 

Like mentioned already, you have to physically put the food in there though. you can use any number of foods, but even boiled egg yolks mashed with honey, and maybe a bit of starter would be a good paste. prepare food, and have slightly above room temp if you can, but definitely not chilled. pick a tool of some sort, something like a Popsicle stick works well, or the blunt end of a toothpick even better. take a manageable sized glob or your prepared food paste, pry beak open with nail of one hand, you can hold it open by letting it bit the tip of your finger. that should give you plenty of room to tuck the glob of food in at the back of its beak. quickly close beak. watch for shaking. some birds will swallow without a problem, others will open their mouth and shake their head to spit the food out. if that happens, hold beak closed.you should see the food slip eventually. if you can get a couple of good meals in to it, hopefully it will come around! fingers crossed for you! give it a go, hopefully it will make it through for you..

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Thanks!  I love that chick, too.  My Aracaunas are very spaced out.  I have 3 pullets that have just started laying - all rumpless, and one has one tuft.  Then I have two that are 13 weeks old - one is rumpless, and the other one has three or four feathers sticking out behind him/her - looks so funny!  Then I have this baby - and about 25 eggs in the bator.  I hope to eventually get a nice flock of rumpless and tufted Araucanas. It's definitely a work in progress.
 

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Wow Carol, I love that chick! I too definitely want to see what he or she grows up to be :D



 

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I'm just curious about the white earlobe thing. I've read and been told that a lot of the bluest layers are white lobed which is against standard. how white is white? I noticed one of my hens has a mother of pearl cast to hear earlobes, not white, but not red either?

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I think my rooster is wanting the pullets to start laying as badly as I do! I was in the back yard putting fresh leaves in their coop. Had the back door of the coop propped open and he jumped up there and started clucking to them the way he does when he has found a nice treat in the grass. The girls came around to see what he was calling them for. Then he jumped up into the nest box and started clucking for them to join him. It was really cool to watch! He is such a good boy! He wants babies too.

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I'm just curious about the white earlobe thing. I've read and been told that a lot of the bluest layers are white lobed which is against standard. how white is white? I noticed one of my hens has a mother of pearl cast to hear earlobes, not white, but not red either?


 

I don't know if that white lobes thing is true, really. My deepest layers had bright red earlobes, but my bluest Araucana layer has a pearly cast to hers. Red outsides and a weird dirty yellowish pinkish on the inner lobe. The white lobed ones I had honestly had a more greenish tinge.

 

 

 

Terrible news - Woke up this morning to find us in a windstorm with the power out, power was out for over 4 hours and the temp in the bator went down to the low 60's. I don't know if there's any life in there but I'm still letting it go, gonna candle it quickly tonight just to see if I have ANY movement.

 

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I am sorry Illia...sad.png  I hope the eggs are still going.  Good luck on the candling.  I so hope those babies are still kicking.  fl.gif

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Illia,

 

Your heart must of dropped when that happened. Good luck with the candling

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Hang in there Illia, and let us know how it looks.

 

Lanae

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Цыпля́т по о́сени счита́ют. - (Don't count your chicks before autumn) - especially if their Araucana
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Цыпля́т по о́сени счита́ют. - (Don't count your chicks before autumn) - especially if their Araucana
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Illia,

Oh I'm so sorry, hope they're okay.  I use a battery back up for mine.  It's one of those you buy for computers and it will run the incubator 8 hours or more when the power goes down.  

 

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Traditional Serama's, True Araucanas's. Barred Hollands, Guineas, Black Spanish and Blue SlateTurkeys, a male Mute Swan (Barry), Llama's, 2 Brahman type cows, Exotic colored Ponies, MFT's, Gaited Mule, 4 dogs, 1 barn cat and my African Grey Parrot.

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Well, good and bad news!

 

Bad news - Candled 'em all and only have 3 that didn't end up with bloodrings, etc before the power outage incident. 3 left now.

 

Good news - All my other eggs are alive, so I'm assuming my Araucanas are too. Here's a big cheers and even bigger fl.gif for all three to hatch!

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