2015 Peafowl Hatching Support Group - Eggs and Chicks!

[melissaasalts]

The reason people say you have to ship 8 or more is usually because of warmth reasons. Shipping 2 chicks isn't warm enough to keep them alive. Where do you live?

I live in lakeside ca (San Diego)

 

[DylansMom]

I live in lakeside ca (San Diego)

Well.....you couldn't really get much farther away from me. @casportpony is in CA as well, I don't know if she would try shipping chicks or not, but you could always ask.

 

[DylansMom]

The reason people say you have to ship 8 or more is usually because of warmth reasons. Shipping 2 chicks isn't warm enough to keep them alive. Where do you live?

I've had 3 shipped to me before, there are little warmer packs that can be used. Mine were shipped from fairly close by though.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: There is a guy in Elk Grove, CA that will ship six at a time. He's listed on the UPA site under US breeders, so try calling him maybe?

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

@Kedreeva ...what happened to ChickCam???

 

[Kedreeva]

@Kedreeva ...what happened to ChickCam???

The weekend MOSTLY since I'm running it off of my laptop and I have no other computer, I can either run ChickCam OR play on my computer on my day off... so I chose computer.

But, I also turned it off because I had this just terrible little araucana chick (out of 15 eggs, only 1 made it to hatch and it was just the worst, sickly little chick you've ever seen, I have a hard time imagining the parents were at all healthy... every other chick from other breeders that hatched alongside this one are /fantastic/ chicks, bouncy and healthy and energetic...), and I turned off the camera overnight just in case it passed... which it did. Guess that will teach me to order from eBay instead of trading people here.

Then I forgot to turn it back on before I left for work, so I'll get it up and running again today, promise!

 

[Kedreeva]

There were no pictures it was just something the person mentioned having done successfully in the past. On the UPA forum it is DCT, "the friendly poultry othropedist" or something like that. If I were to try it I would be doing exactly what Kathy has done in the pics. and I think it onlt took a couple days, like splayed leg and crooked toes, gives the bones a chance to harden in the correct position and stretches out the ligaments and tendons. I hope it works, I had a hen hatch one with a pretty crooked neck and I didn't realize until it was a week old that there was a problem, she survived just fine until 2 yrs. old, then she wouldn't come in for the night and a fox got her.

I don't have foam, and the cardboard let this little one turn its head too much, so right now we're working with paper towel...



Every time it tries to move around, it flops over onto its back (since its head twists around, on top of the neck curving). So, I wrapped the neck, and bundled it up the rest of its body for the day. It's sitting on a warm pad next to me on the couch, sleeping and occasionally making small "are you there?" peeps at me. Since I have the rest of today and all of tomorrow off, we'll work on and off with stretching its neck and getting some water and food (or at least liquid vitamins) into it.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[casportpony]

Fingers crossed for you!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Kedreeva , just had a thought... be very careful if you try to give it water, 'cause the brace might put too much pressure on the esophagus and cause it to aspirate instead.

 

[Kedreeva]

the brace wasnt very tight so it was able to take a couple drops at a time but I think there was more wrong than the wry neck because it started seizing about an hour and a half ago. I didn't want to put it through that, so I just gently culled it. I hope yours has better luck!