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[chicapee]

Can I trim this beak? Clippers or file? Or just leave it?

Wow that is pretty long, it may interfere with eating. I think you can trim up the beak. I think I would use a dog pedi paws thing. It might freak out a bit but it shouldn't hurt it.

 

[chicapee]

this is one of the two new chicks. My last one like this in the past died. Anything I can do for it or is it a cull?

Do you have nutri drench. That might help.

 

[FridayYet]

If you don't have nutri-drench, sav a chik or baby vitamins, you can still take a hard boiled egg yolk and crumble it up with a bit of water and a drop of honey and feed it with a dropper.

good luck.

 

[WalnutHill]

Is one of these the one that got "help" while you were gone?

Yes, but I don't know which one...I had a divider in the hatcher tray, but they were not separated in the brooder.

 

[WalnutHill]

Can I trim this beak? Clippers or file? Or just leave it?

I'd use a fingernail emery board to rasp it. Wrap the chick snugly in a towel, use a Q-Tip (stick section) to open the beak. File from rear to front. You may need to break it up between a couple of sessions. Work slowly to avoid heating the beak.

 

[bantam brood 17]

Update on my hatch egg no 3 hatched no problem

, so thats 3/3 , will post pics when daughter gets up and helps me as I,m not good on technical stuff

 

[sideWing]

I'd use a fingernail emery board to rasp it.  Wrap the chick snugly in a towel, use a Q-Tip (stick section) to open the beak.  File from rear to front.  You may need to break it up between a couple of sessions.  Work slowly to avoid heating the beak.

Thank you!

 

[WalnutHill]

this is one of the two new chicks. My last one like this in the past died. Anything I can do for it or is it a cull?

I have a poult in the same condition. I gave it some fluid and made sure it's under the light.

 

[WalnutHill]

The pipped egg ended up being dead in shell, the incubator had been open for quite a while during zipping it seems. So I lost one of my 3 project birds. One of the purebreds was dead in shell a couple of days, and one is sprawled.

 

[FridayYet]

The pipped egg ended up being dead in shell, the incubator had been open for quite a while during zipping it seems.  So I lost one of my 3 project birds.  One of the purebreds was dead in shell a couple of days, and one is sprawled.

Sorry to hear that. Hope it's a good lesson to those who opened the incubator so much.