August Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

I know my chicks aren't due to hatch til Thursday but I couldn't resist getting these two beauty's

is the apricot one a polish? they are beauties...oh my gosh there is something wrong with me....I get so happy seeing the pictures of new babies!!

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: my peachick is due Thurs! they are so hard to hatch...I might need some hand holding if something goes wrong! I have one that is a little over a week old...she's my girl...or boy...I love her so!!

 

[familypendragon]

I'm in Burleson Texas about 5 miles south of fort worth...we get icy

Oh we get a little, but not like the real winters I had growing up in Illinois, LOL!

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: I just don't want any little ones that are young and vulnerable to any cold

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: I just don't want any little ones that are young and vulnerable to any cold
do you have any eggs due? did you set the new ones?

 

[jammyjammy2112]

my silkie hatche one chick yesterday and one more piped its just day 21 today will they be ok they would be 4 months by december will they be warm enough irish winter can be really unpridictable last winter was wet and about 11 degrease during the day until abot april it got ery cold about 5 degrease during the day 2 winters ago it was -2 during the day and -20 at night in december very unpridictable

 

[Heidisgran]

my silkie hatche one chick yesterday and one more piped its just day 21 today will they be ok they would be 4 months by december will they be warm enough irish winter can be really unpridictable last winter was wet and about 11 degrease during the day until abot april it got ery cold about 5 degrease during the day 2 winters ago it was -2 during the day and -20 at night in december very unpridictable

you may need to consult with someone from your region....I personally think 4 months is quit large enough to handle the weather...barely pullets anymore!

 

[jammyjammy2112]

thats good

 

[sweetappleacres]

is the apricot one a polish? they are beauties...oh my gosh there is something wrong with me....I get so happy seeing the pictures of new babies!!

No they're both silkies; the lighter is a porcelain and the darker a self blue

 

[familypendragon]

Familypendragon and Heidisgran,

Found it! Here is the article I read about incubating eggs with detached or damaged air cells. It begins talking about it at about 1/3 of the way down the page.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/704328/diary-notes-air-cell-detatched-shipped-eggs

That has some of the same info from the other article but even more detail - and then I followed the links to this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/39604/some-causes-of-early-chick-mortality, and now I am having google disease. Where you are sure your suffering from whatever horrible thing you find on Dr Google. The chicks from this batch of Welsummer hatched eggs all died but one. The ones that hatched and died all had labored breathing, chirping and death. The one had green liquid bubbling out of its mouth. The last one to die with the yolk sack that would never absorb had white poop come out right before she started gasping and died. So now I am freaking myself out. :/ And the lone survivor doesn't look well to me now. Won't eat, won't drink and chirps non stop, sleep standing up and wakes every few seconds. Gah!

b) Pullorum

It is an acute infectious and fatal bacterial disease of chicks characterized by ruffled feather, white diarrhea, labor breathing, chirping and death.