5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[chicken pickin]

who did your get your silkies from? if love to look into them! they look very nice compared to mine....especially the foot feathering and crest!

I got them from BYC member mbrobbins. The chicks are gorgeous! I couldn't be happier with them. She has a listing open.

 

[chicknnugget]

This is called "cross beak." There are several threads on this site about it. Only time will tell how severe it will be.

I thought that crossed beak chicks start out mildly crossed and then with age tend to cross worse. Do not stress too much though, I had a severely cross beaked hen who was just fine. I had a 1/2 Gal. milk jug w/ a hole cut in it that I keep full along with the hanging type feeders. She eat out of both, but I wanedt to be sure she had a nice deep dish incase she was not able to fill up at the hangers. It was sad to watch her try to pic up small treats off the ground however, so I would feed her small treats from my cupped hands. For about every 8 pecks she would have one successful peck. She was great at getting fat fluffy chucks of bread off the ground, and no other bird EVER tried to steal her food! She was a great layer and momma. I did get rid of her because she was quite mean to all new birds which was causing problems for my small flock. That bird never let her beak get in her way. Hopefully she will have a long and happy hen life. I do have a few pics. of her on my homepage, but she looks bad due to her molting, Good luck with your baby!

 

[kara1015]

awe! I have a feathered leg chipmunk one also! was that from a green egg or cream? they are so cute!

Green.

 

[chickengirl1193]

Green.

so my cream eggs were probably the chipmunk stripes with clean legs. next hatch I'm going to separate the different eggs!

 

[Nonyah Biz]

my broody henhuahua waiting on eggs to hatch
she slept under bator..and new mamna cleaning her baby

 

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

Rosanne Barr has been sitting for 22 days. And the first chick,

 

[Nonyah Biz]

Rosanne Barr has been sitting for 22 days. And the first chick,

awwww congrats

 

[Gardeningmama]

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Awww..you just painted the cutest picture of her for me. So sad she had to go. I hope her new owners care for her as much as you did!

 

[mspj]

Real quick question...

The baby I had to help, and that had it's umbilical still attached...should I leave it in the incubator until the piece that is there falls off? It's a round dried up ball, but still attached to its bum. I was worried the other chicks might peck at it, pulling it off and making it bleed? Baby is active and getting around just fine, and peeping really loudly...I hate that its all alone, but don't want to put it with its siblings too early, causing harm to come to it.

The one I had to assist is the same way. I placed a shoe box in the brooder to keep it separated from the others, I had one more hatch after the assisted one so I have those 2 together in the shoe box, they are doing great together.

 

[chicknnugget]

I am having a hard time catching up on all the posts, great pics of your cutie! I would put the shoe on a little more, but thats just me.

Love Hawks story pls. cont. to keep us all up to date with her progress!