7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[Ravynscroft]

So you picked the couch tonight, huh?

 

[bamadude]

Help

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I told her no.
BOO YAW

you called baby?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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I'm going for thoroughness??

I completely forgot to post pics!

The baby in questions...I don't think he has wry neck but I could be wrong. The neck felt tight on the inside curve and the vertebrae feel...wrong. There seemed to be a bit of swelling but that's gone away now. It reminded me of the odd lamb who was a triple or a quad where room was tight and their hip had issues.

I believe I have a wry neck on a young Silkie X rooster. I have Poul-vite vitamins; a poultry vitamin water soluble premix. If he gets a consistently super large dose he's fine. I got him back to normal after his last episode and put him back with the rest of the chickens. He regresses on the normal vitamin dose in the regular chicken water. It's so unfortunate.

I figure his entire sibling line is a now a write-off.

Lambs get the same thing...which is interesting. I've had the odd lamb show thiamine deficiency and stargaze. They expire very fast if not caught...in hours apparently. I culled the lambs and the lines they were off of once they were ready to slaughter.

If the chick has wry neck or just can't cut it...I'd rather he expire sooner than later. I don't mean to sound harsh but I don't want him to suffer if he doesn't have quality of life.

Two brooders? NICE!!!

I start mine inside in a box (I didn't have the rabbit cage ready) then to the cage either inside or in the coop in the brooder. Depends if it's -30 or not...lol!

I just told my hubby tonight that the 10 eggs I set are all developing...lol.

And he's still ok (so far) of the eggs I plan to buy; White and silver laced Wyandottes, maybe some Icelandic, Vorwerk and some hybrid BLACKS !!! Mmmm...black.

PICTURES!!!

The baby wrapped up.



Affected baby top left with the leg out.



The cuties!!!
(Affected chick on the far right.)

 

[bamadude]

you called baby?   

Yea. Can I hold $20

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So, first birth of the new wasnt a duck but the ducks came shortly after.

I thought at first it was a puppy. But I just noticed it is a piglet!

(Oops)

Your babies are very cute!

 

[SenuaGifts]

I raise muscoveys, let me know if I can help anyway.

I have only just started raising Muscovy, but I am hooked. I know the eggs take over a month to hatch, 35 days I think. They also come is a variety of colors, but are most common in varying patterns of black and white. I personally have two black/white and one chocolate (not the eating kind, lol). For be quieter than mallard derived duck breeds they are quite outspoken, their hissing is almost comical. I bought half grown birds for my first bunch so I haven't hatched any eggs as of yet, but their are tons of websites. Here is one I found.

http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/dennis_p_smith/

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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I will check her out!

I haven't gotten around to checking out Canadian threads/people other than the ones I've accidently run into, which has been nice.

 

[bamadude]

I will check her out!  

I haven't gotten around to checking out Canadian threads/people other than the ones I've accidently run into, which has been nice.

Follow @hennible too. She is a dear friend. She has horrible taste in music though.

 

[yummychocolate3]

I got 3 hours sleep. At 5 chicks now.

I got more sleep last night. The chicks that hatched were quieter and the chicks in the brooder were under a brooder panel(Brinses) so they slept.

Got a total of 6 New Year's baby chicks! Jan 1, 2016 "Eve" hatched right after 12am (midnight) 2nd chick hatched at 4 am 3rd/4th chick hatched at 11 am 5th/6th chick hatched at 11:30 am

What great pictures!

thank you! It took 94 shots to get 2 good pics! Those chicks were hyper I had to keep throwing them to the back to get them to face forward