Air sac determines sex.

[Ladybird CA]

It died. I thought it would be fine because was just sitting there like it was soaking its feet. After helping my son with his homework saw the chick gasping in the water. Immediately did CPR not realizing I didn’t close the lid so now the other chicks might die too.

Hate the lessons we have to learn keeping animals.

 

[Roosterfeather]

There is no guy "that brings the chicks", they come through the mail and are picked up at the P.O. it's a good way to hurt thrm

Oh my, Okay

 

[Roosterfeather]

It died. I thought it would be fine because was just sitting there like it was soaking its feet. After helping my son with his homework saw the chick gasping in the water. Immediately did CPR not realizing I didn’t close the lid so now the other chicks might die too.
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Hate the lessons we have to learn keeping animals.

I'm so sorry! I feel so bad for you and your little baby

 

[Ladybird CA]

Thank you

 

[Ladybird CA]

One is chirping loud. We won’t be able to sleep with that so I’m going to put leg bands on the others then all in the brooder with the 5 chicks until I can move those chicks with the silkies tomorrow, after the chick that’s slowly zipping hatches.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

sorry about the loss of the chick. That is always sad. I did not quite understand what accord. What it in the incubator and it got into the water?

 

[Ladybird CA]

Thank you. Yes, I lost the hardware cloth and thought the tray the chick was in would be tall enough to keep it in. So I’m on the hunt for hatching bags. I have 3 collected from various grocery or store items but will need more.

 

[TexasBlues]

Please don't do uncomfortable things to chicks like hanging them from the neck / feet.
The possibility of damaging them is high. And it could be very traumatizing.

When a chicken is more mature they can be carried by the legs when necessary (like a struggling cockerel on the way to slaughter), but their bones are thicker and they are all-around more developed. Even that is not without risk, just a judgment call for the safety of the handler.

Made me think of the way all of you guys hatchery chicks are getting vaccinated.

 

[Ladybird CA]

TexasBlues you’re one of the most logical people I know. Reminds me of my uncle who helped me with my homework a lot. He has 2 masters, one in mechanical engineering and I forget the other one.

I wonder if the best avian vet can tell us how to do CPR on a chick though. With adults it’s 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths I think every 2 minutes until the heart restarts and child it’s 15 to 2. With the chick I was doing something between a child CPR and the guy bringing the puppy back to life in 101 Dalmatians.

Picked these guys up 3 and a half hours away yesterday. My baby was with me and I made sure to ask for the earliest appointment so he was sleeping there except for a feeding and diaper change. The way back he was more alert so I made more stops but it was a good trip. Now to decide which 5 I’ll keep before I bring all the chicks to the market tomorrow. Except the silkies I want to keep longer. Buff and birchen cochin bantams, bantam Easter Egger and light Brahma bantams. One of the EE maybe a dark Cornish which I’m happy about. I told Performance Poultry I’m good with any type of bantam. I’m going to try heat rope this winter.

Took me a minute to realize newspaper can cause spraddled legs so I added another puppy pad. $30 for 150 at Walmart, not bad.

9 out of 14 hatched. I don’t think I’ll use this 22 year old hovabator as a hatcher anymore just incubator unless I run out of hatchers but that won’t be happening this year. I promised DH I won’t buy anymore eggs or chicks this year but I’m going to breed one of those silkie chicks to the silkie and satin silkie.

 

[Ladybird CA]

We sold 11 chicks including the 5 two week olds. Still have 2 polish, one centered air cell and the one with a leg band side air cell. 2 EE/Polish crosses but one has a blue leg band and I don’t have any record of which egg it is the last EE cross doesn’t have a leg band, don’t know which egg that one came out of either.

The May 8 eggs go in lockdown tomorrow.

Me and my son at the sale today