April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[gmjarvi]

In lieu of making a thread over in the emergencies area, I'm just going to ask here because it's not really a big emergency and I don't want to bog that forum down.

I have some friends that are first timers. They ordered their chicks from their feed store, so they were shipped to the store and that's where they picked them up. They have one runty chick that pretty much immediately had pasty butt and now has a prolapsed vent. They've been giving water, pedialyte, mashed food, yogurt, and a little bit of olive oil through a dropper. She is not pooping, but has passed urates and clear liquid. They said her crop is super full/swollen. I advised to let her work on emptying her crop and work on getting her vent less swollen so they can fix the prolapse. They went to get some preparation H, and I know sugar paste is another popular treatment.

Am I missing anything?

They are super worried about their little Rosie ❤

 

[Anime2lover]

Oh thanks. She is. She used to be my best friend but right now she wants nothing to do with me. I miss my very friendly friend. I hope she won’t forget me.

Hope you get your friend back.

 

[kelseyk]

I will try to grab some more recent pictures of them sometime today. The only one I have is the one I posted earlier from when I moved them to the brooder.

@smfarman

I finally remembered to take some pics of my Sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington crosses. They are 2 weeks old today. Only 1 of them really had any white on its feathers.

 

[smfarman]

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I finally remembered to take some pics of my Sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington crosses. They are 2 weeks old today. Only 1 of them really had any white on its feathers.

Thank you, very nice looking Saphire Gems I'll have take some pics of my Plymouth blue rocks, they look a lot a like

 

[barn206]

Just an update
Unfortunately I lost 2 chick which was all my fault. 2 drowned because I fail to put rocks/ marbles in the water jug. I should of known better... I knew the 2 last ones were small but I removed all from the incubator in one shot. The incubator was getting pretty tight as they hatched. Next time I’ll do things a little different. I also realized that as they were hatching, I shouldn’t of added water for humidity upkeep. The humidity rose as the chicks hatched. Live n learn I guess.
on the good side, I have 11 healthy chicks now and they are doing great!

 

[Mablethechicken]

Mine should lay brown eggs. Where did you get your chick from?

My pet chicken! It was a pinkish light brown egg. Still unsure what breed at two weeks. Wing feathers coming in white and gray.

 

[Mablethechicken]

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I finally remembered to take some pics of my Sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington crosses. They are 2 weeks old today. Only 1 of them really had any white on its feathers.

I wonder if my one mystery egg chick is some kind of Orpington?? She hatched with black and yellowish markings like a jersey giant or australorp but her feathers are coming in like the picture above. Dark in the back and the longer ones are white. At first pure white and not starting to get specks of gray on them.

 

[Mablethechicken]

I wonder if my one mystery egg chick is some kind of Orpington?? She hatched with black and yellowish markings like a jersey giant or australorp but her feathers are coming in like the picture above. Dark in the back and the longer ones are white. At first pure white and not starting to get specks of gray on them.

Ok so the black one is the one from the light brown/pinkish egg. The yellow one came from a lighter kind of tinted egg. Both mysteries. The gray one is a Maran but I don’t know what kind. She hatched from a dark brown egg with some speckling. they are all two weeks today. Any ideas?

The last three pictures I just attached for fun. They are of my two EEs.

 

[kelseyk]

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Ok so the black one is the one from the light brown/pinkish egg. The yellow one came from a lighter kind of tinted egg. Both mysteries. The gray one is a Maran but I don’t know what kind. She hatched from a dark brown egg with some speckling. they are all two weeks today. Any ideas?

The last three pictures I just attached for fun. They are of my two EEs.

The face colors are different than mine on your black one. My guess on that one is an Australorp. I remember my Australorps getting white wing feathers around that time. Google Australorp chicks2 weeks and some of the pics look a lot like your chick. I have loved my Australorps! I am going to guess that your 2nd chick - the yellow one - is possibly a Buff Orpington. My roo is a Buff Orpington and an absolute sweetheart. And possibly a blue or blue copper marans? I don't have any adult Marans...yet. I've got some 4 week old black copper marans though and will be hatching out some Wheaten marans May/June. So I know that your marans is not black copper.

 

[Mablethechicken]

The face colors are different than mine on your black one. My guess on that one is an Australorp. I remember my Australorps getting white wing feathers around that time. Google Australorp chicks2 weeks and some of the pics look a lot like your chick. I have loved my Australorps! I am going to guess that your 2nd chick - the yellow one - is possibly a Buff Orpington. My roo is a Buff Orpington and an absolute sweetheart. And possibly a blue or blue copper marans? I don't have any adult Marans...yet. I've got some 4 week old black copper marans though and will be hatching out some Wheaten marans May/June. So I know that your marans is not black copper.

Thank you so much!! I think you might be correct about all of that. I’ll definitely check out some australorp 2 week pics. Excited to see how the top turns out as well. We were hoping for 1 rooster and I was also hoping it would be a less aggressive breed if we got one. Fingers crossed! Can’t wait to see what color the Marans turns out! Time will tell. I’ll be sure to post an update later.