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    Have I splinted this right? - 2wk old chick with dislocation

    The second wrap worked like a charm! I wrapped it's leg up against its body in such a way that it tugged slightly toward the other leg and kept it immobilized until it shook off its wrap last night. When I found it its leg was much straighter and no longer bowing in as much. It was limping...
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    Have I splinted this right? - 2wk old chick with dislocation

    I had to redo it. It's wrapped against its body instead now. It has adjusted well and is eating and drinking fine. It's figured out hobbling along on one foot, but I've still got it isolated. The joint isn't as swollen anymore, but the leg still turns the wrong way. I kinda made it like an arm...
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    Have I splinted this right? - 2wk old chick with dislocation

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    Have I splinted this right? - 2wk old chick with dislocation

    Hey everyone. Of my 3 chicks left, when I woke up this morning one appeared to have a broken leg. On closer inspection it was walking on it and moving it fine, but it collapsed and twisted the joint where scales meet feathers inward and the foot outward. It's been getting about alright, but...
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    Not looking hopeful for one of my babies.

    Poor baby didn't make it. :( Thanks
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    Not looking hopeful for one of my babies.

    So the little one made it through the day. My partner decided that feeding it yolk from a fresh egg would help and did that twice. It did seem to help. By the time I got home it was able to try to evade me when I picked it up, but still very weakly. I made a watered down mash to feed it. It was...
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    Not looking hopeful for one of my babies.

    Thanks! I read the thing and will try some of it when I get home. Partner checked on it at lunch and it's still hanging in there. It's it now in quarantine and I made it a fluffy nest put of a wash rag and tucked it in since it cent cold. I put a heat light on it to keep it warm but shaded the...
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    Not looking hopeful for one of my babies.

    One has looked troubled since it hatched. When it hatched it just laid around panting for way longer than the others. I was less energetic too when it did start walking around. Not it can't stand or even roll over anymore. It is breathing slowly and shallow and it feels cold to the touch. I...
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    Twin egg ready to hatch, advice please?

    I can send the pics, but it might be a few days. I know the one wasn't ready, what I'm saying is I think it died a few days before the one that pipped and I think the one that pipped accidentally did the yolk crushing.
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    Twin egg ready to hatch, advice please?

    The twins didn't make it. I came home this evening to assist the hatched since one pipped on its own, but it was too late. Both chicks were fully developed and ready. The one that pipped had no active membrane blood vessels and absorbed it's yolk. They both were in hatching position, but...
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    My chicks hatched!!! And a question

    I will when I get home. I don't know if both embryos grew. Only that it had two yolks because it's the size of all the other double yolker I had. It was actually the biggest one. I get one about every other day so I'm pretty sure it's one hen making them all. I have one duck that does it too. I...
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    My chicks hatched!!! And a question

    ***UPDATE*** I now have 2 healthy hatchlings, one normal egg unzipping, one normal egg pipped, and my twins pipped! Out of 11 normal eggs and 1 double yolk that went into my home made incubator :D so excited!!
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    My chicks hatched!!! And a question

    Probably more I'll advised lol. It was an experiment. I didn't want to buy the expensive incubator and the partner did. I convinced him to let me try it on the cheap first. I put in 12 eggs (one double yolker for kicks to see what happened) and so far 2 healthy hatchlings, one more normal one...
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    My chicks hatched!!! And a question

    Yes I do know thays too cold, but controlling g the temp in my redneck incubator is a bit of an art. That thermometer will change readings depending on which direction it's facing and whether or not it's directly under the light. It's definitely getting upgraded. Everyone is hatching and no one...
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    Twin egg ready to hatch, advice please?

    Really? Wow. I considered myself lucky that even one of my normal eggs hatched. My partner checked the eggs at lunch. The pipped twin seems to be ok and it's blood vessels that were visible receeded. The twin on the air side has not externally pipped and I don't know if it has internally. He...
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    Heart rate of chicken embryo

    Oooo interesting. I don't know but I'm curious to find out!
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    Twin egg ready to hatch, advice please?

    Thanks! I looked at the walkthrough but not the twin hatch. I didn't know if there was any special consideration for twins other than they'll need help. When I wetted the membrane this morning there was slight veining so I expect when I get home this evening it will be about ready. It can...
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    Twin egg ready to hatch, advice please?

    So when I set all my eggs in the home made incubator I kind of put in a variety just to see what happened. I seriously didn't expect even one hatch. I had planned at the end if they didn't hatch I would dissolve the shell and make a morbid gift of preserved fetal chickens for a friend (she likes...
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    My chicks hatched!!! And a question

    Sorry I've disappeared lately. So much going on since the partner and I started our business. All our hens are laying, we butchered our excess roos for the first time, and I tried out a low tech home made incubator. The Temps and humidity got messed up A Lot! I thought we'd have none hatch, so...
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    Can you feel the nearly ready to lay egg in the oviduct?

    I've read 16 - 24 weeks. I was prepared for 6 months but hoping for sooner. If it's a poo I feel sorry for the poor thing... That would be one ENORMOUS chicken poo. The only other think I could consider was the gullet, because I know that is pretty firm but I wouldn't think it would be so near...
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