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Oh I like the pellets idea!I actually use the puppy wee pads underneath equine pine pellets. The pads make for super easy clean up!
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Oh I like the pellets idea!I actually use the puppy wee pads underneath equine pine pellets. The pads make for super easy clean up!
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I mixed some nutridench with water and put it on a qtip and she drank a little bit. But yes you’re right, she is extra sleepy. Hoping she’s still alive when I wake up tomorrowSince the chick lost a lot of blood it's probably going to be extra sleepy compared to the other chicks. If you have a multivitamin you can offer it for a little boost I would do that too. Just make sure if you give it by dropper or syringe to only put little droplets on the side of its beak and allow it to drink on it's own because they aspirate quite easily if forced.
I mixed some nutridench with water and put it on a qtip and she drank a little bit. But yes you’re right, she is extra sleepy. Hoping she’s still alive when I wake up tomorrow
Yes at first I was going to just trust the whole humidity being higher thing was going to fix it but I figured I’d better be sure. Hopefully it works out ok I guess I can get more of an idea on day 14They look good for day 10 to me. Silkie eggs are small so the air cells are also smaller. Weighing works best when you start from day one but you can still get an idea of how quickly they're losing weight the way you're doing it.
Okay. Another question do you all hate me yet?
Today my Welsummer x CCL went broody. She turns 1 next week! I’m not exactly convinced she’ll commit 100% because she’s so young. She was raised by a broody (not biologically related) so maybe some broody dust was passed down. She sure acted like (and sounded like) a t-Rex today. I had to do the pit viper head hold with a stick to actually grab my breakfast out from under her.
she’s currently sitting on a group of 10 golf balls (now that I removed our breakfast eggs) that I put down about a month ago. But in any case- lets say I decide to throw my husband for another loop and order more eggs... will she set for more than 21 days? Like 26 days? Or if I decide to transfer some of my current incubator batch scheduled to hatch on 4/16- will she be okay with only setting 14 days?
Any advice welcome!
That's why you research. There are several pics that show what air cells should look likdWow thank you SO much that is amazing I will do it the same way you have done. Next time I candle I’m going to start marking the air cells.
Hello yes I also do have my own eggs from my girls right in the yard but my first hatch def could’ve been better and I’m not familiar with just looking at air cells yet.
An article would be amazingggg! Ya it was hard for me even with the diagrams last time.
I had one like this and I pushed up on it and it went in. The chick was perfectly fine.Here are some pics. One of him resting and the other trying to show what I’m talking about. View attachment 2072185View attachment 2072186