➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[RUNuts]

I am not old!

Neither are these movies. Really! You gotta watch the classics.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder?
Murder by Death?
Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn and Terri Garr?

 

[Cyprus]

@Cyprus see above.

She has had 10mL of fluids already. Should I stop for the day? That doesn't feel like enough.

 

[Kiki]

Any idea how much water she should have by the end of the day?

I am going to guess about 30.
If you look at this book it shows how much a certain age and weight bird should consume in a day.
https://www.nap.edu/read/2114/chapter/4#21

I calculate that she weighs close to 500 grams.
A 500 gram chick should eat about 350 grams of feed per week.
which equals 50 grams per day.
Right?

I am not sure.

 

[Kiki]

She has had 10mL of fluids already. Should I stop for the day? That doesn't feel like enough.

Give her a little while.
See if she starts eating an drinking on her own over the next hour.
I do not think you should stop for the day but give her a little time.

 

[Cyprus]

Give her a little while.
See if she starts eating an drinking on her own over the next hour.
I do not think you should stop for the day but give her a little time.

Okay. So far she has been observed to have eaten 1/2 Tbsp of feed mash which is probably about 1/10 or less of what she should eat in a day.

 

[Kiki]

If this isn't the coolest page ever!
https://www.nap.edu/read/2114/chapter/15


pages.
https://www.nap.edu/read/2114/chapter/14

 

[Cyprus]

If this isn't the coolest page ever!
https://www.nap.edu/read/2114/chapter/15


pages.
https://www.nap.edu/read/2114/chapter/14

Still researching chicken nutrition are you? I was just looking into some of that yesterday.

 

[casportpony]

The tube is from a water bottle

Held to the syringe with electrical tape

Excellent!

 

[Cyprus]

Excellent!

Thank you!

 

[casportpony]

She has had 10mL of fluids already. Should I stop for the day? That doesn't feel like enough.

She needs no less than 23 ml per pound day, probably not more than 90 ml per pound per day.