My mother gave me a couple of "microfiber' washclothes for them, and sprinkled the boton of the cage with chick food.
The others seem to be doing okay. No one is picking on IttyBittyChickie and he was good and onery this morning. (Somehow made iot from the opposite side of the brooder to the...
Okay.
I need to get more paper towels then, I just used up the few i had making a spot between the food and the water for my little band-aid girl.
(Be a girl! Be a girl!)
I really didn't want to get involved. i spent an hour telling myself not to mess with the chick, that chicks die all the time and it wouldn't be my fault.
But it was so determined to eat and drink... it rolled to the food dish!
So out it came and I tried the band-aid trick... but it still...
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Sounds like some of my cousins.... Getting pregnant is good, having a tiny baby and everyone's attention is good...
Then they abandon the baby on a relative and go out to get knocked up again...
We have no broody ladies.... I want Silkies!
I doubt the motivation is anything like...
Akk.
I have no idea what my humidity is... I've just been making sure the water wells are still full.
We're hoping to get a humidity guage soon, hopefully for the next hatch.
Thanks for the info though.... I'm gonna get babies!
Despite all of my mistakes, 16 of our 18 eggs show signs of having chick in them at the 3 week candling, and they should hatch the 29th.
What is lockdown? When do i take out the turner and... oh jeeze.
Why didn;t I learn this stuff BEFORE we started!
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Sounds like some of my cousins.... Getting pregnant is good, having a tiny baby and everyone's attention is good...
Then they abandon the baby on a relative and go out to get knocked up again...
We have no broody ladies.... I want Silkies!
At eight days.
Saw what looked like veins in all of them, but their air cells look pretty big... is this normal?
I don't have a humidity gauge, so i;ve just been adding water occasionally.
On a similar vein to post 1
Mom: "Mmm... your yogurt looks good. Wait, is there a feather in there"
Me: "Yeah, Domino didn't finish his yogurt today." *lick spoon*