"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[Sally Sunshine]

Came home to find this baby hatched in the bator... I addressed the curled toe on one foot and he is walking around great but it looks like the yolk dodnt absorb all the way... Will that absorb or shrivel up??

Iodine or betadine the navel, keep it separate feed and give the saveachick as soon as it is able, offer it often as you can
put it on a soft surface so it doesnt rip umbilical open. It may live if you can get it to drink, and when it does eat try feeding some scrambled egg YOLK chopped into bits

Good Luck!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-w-friends-helpful-notes-links-informational-post-links


Navels, Umbilical, Yolk Sack and Abdomen Issues:

NAVELS She HATCHED! But what's with her butt? post #25012
Umbilical Gunk aka Strings post #25012
Help I have a BLEEDER! NAVEL looks like a Vagina? begin (this is gonna be a long one) post #5159
Yolk Sac problems:

• https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1052862/yolk-sac-problems-graphic-pictures#post_16341493
• https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1000154/peachick-necropsy-pictures-graphic

THIS IS NOT PASTY BUTT its Umbilical post #4077

Homemade Electrolyte Recipe for weak/ill chicks post #3876 USING SPONGE WEDGES post #4473
Chick and Chicken Vitamins HAVE SOME ON HAND post #61039

Eggs UNHATCHED at end of Incubation

Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching - Click HERE
I HAVE EGGS LEFT UNHATCHED NOW WHAT? post #25223


ORTHOPEDIC & POULTRY PODIATRY links:

Treatments for Leg Problems in Chickens & other Poultry

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry
CURLY TOES Spraddle Leg TENDON Leg ISSUES post #42573
DUCKS can have Spraddle leg too! post #15184 post #15355
BONES STICKING OUT legs freom BATOR Mesh! COVER IT B4 Lockdown!! post #67787
RED HOCKS, HIGH HUMIDITY post #464
Wry Neck post #60013

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[butterfliesdoku]

Ok people, had two golden laced Wyandotte and one CCL hatch, and one died (probably one glw who pipped in middle of shell) identify breed?

think the one on the right is a glw but haven't had that breed before. What's the one on left? Here it is again next to my CCL girl

Might need a clearer picture but it looks like a CCL cockerel.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[harrellkd]

@harrellkd
sorry you had such a difficult hatch. I had a bad one this month too. Ended up with 2 living chicks from 22 fertile eggs.

Really stinks doesn't it? Hopefully I'll have better luck with this Brinsea. The other one was a styrofoam bator. Do you have more in now?

 

[trailrider330]

Subscribing!!!

8 eggs under broody due April 27
8 eggs in incubator due April 28

 

[tao chick]

After looking closely, I realize one stripy chick is Welsummer cross. The other is CCL cross. The other CCL egg must have produced a barred-looking chick.
12/20 chicks - 5 pips - 3 questionable.
The fridgerbator incubates well. MacGyverbator hatches well.
May and June will be tweaking the coops, breeding groups, incubators, and gardens. My next possible hatch will be end of summer.

Chicks keeping me up last night mean I'm trucking tired. My coffee is made so I'll recharge and catch up later.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I noticed a lot of people in here are saying they use starter/grower constantly. Although this won't harm your chickens, if it has amprolium or any other anti coccidiosis in it, there can be serious delayed health effect for hatched eggs or anything that eats the eggs. If you talk to the manufactures they will advise not to use the meat or eggs for 3 weeks after feeding.
The warning not on the bag as they assume you only feed to babies.
The duck feed however is fine.

I hadn't thought of that but at the same time, doesn't that only apply to medicated feed? I assume they wouldn't put anti cocci stuff in non medicated feed since if you wanted medicated you would buy it... ?? Medicated is only supposed to be 8 weeks anyways max, whether you go to layer or not. Mine switched at 7 weeks then were unmedicated until 15 weeks then layer until 17 weeks until I found out in between that time that it's bad to start layer too early and could order some. I think I switched back to layer after the first egg but then back to starter/grower. I heard if they get treats and scraps it lowers the protein of layer and also heard all flock is essentially the same but marketed differently. Though I did find a higher protein layer feed yesterday that I'm gonna try.

I could be wrong but some of them resemble welsummer chicks.

Eye liner and chipmunk stripes on the back

Too many breeds look like that as chicks. 

Though I have some chicks I hatched that have eye liner and chipmunk stripes and have no welsummer in my flock. Mine that look like that are EE's. My daughter is better at breed identification than I am... To me I have a really hard time labeling a breed when chicks.

That's true that a lot of breeds look like that, which is why I was having such difficulty naming them, and apparently everyone is too :/ guess I'll have to ask haha

 

[butterfliesdoku]

Final count for the Bielefelder and Legbar eggs is:
Legbar 4 males, 2 females.
Bielefelder 3 males, 2 females.
Legbar eggs 6/6 hatched and Bielefelders 5/12 hatched.
Both local eggs.
I did only get 1 chick out of my shipped Gamefowl eggs, it is eating with some help, still can't stand up right though and has a cross beak. If it survives will have to be pet only

 

[jnr005]

Up to 27 hatched! 16 eggs to go. Plus 5 silkies due in 2 days!