Blooie's Blankie Fort

[Blooie]

Holy cow what an adventure with your chick! I'm so glad she is ok now.

I hate you are having trouble with the air sacs. Sounds like the PO is tossing the boxes. When you get more....just leave the eggs upright and not turned for the first 7 days. That will help them a lot.


Alex
My Pet Chicken

She's doing great! I let the shipped eggs sit 24 hours before I put them in the incubator, and then waited at least 3 days before I started moving them. I don't turn them a lot - I have the Brinsea Octagon so just roll the whole incubator one turn. Issue here is it just takes so long to get stuff to us......and if you check tracking once it hits Casper it's considered the "destination" even though it's a sorting facility, then they have to be sorted again in Lovell. Living rural has it's drawbacks. <sigh> So far all but 4 of the ones Nate sent from Colorado are developing.

 

[Blooie]

Oops, meant to post this and forgot! Took this today, and I apologize for the skinny view - had the camera held wrong. <sigh> I'm old, and easily confused. Toward the end of the video Sweet Pea and Yokel come out for a visit...look how great they look! One week old today!

 

[nate1the1great1]

Looks like Katie won't get her Silkie or her Bantams. Those and the Nankin are still totally clear. The question-marked Cochen moved into the "embryo but large floating air cell" category. Still don't know about the Australorps - just can't see into them. Easter Egger is the strongest of the lot. It's also the only one that has the air cell reattached. Had a real doozy of a late afternoon/evening. [COLOR=333333]I thought sure that I'd lost my first chick under MHP. Went out to check on them and one was running around all over the run! Good grief, how did she get out??? Ken was helping me catch her and there was another one behind the dust bath bin....cold, stiffening, no life signs at all. So we caught the first one, put her back, and then dealt with the minuscule little gap we missed but they found. I was ready to wrap the "dead" one when she gasped in my hand. So I started rubbing her little chest - none too gently and she took another breath. I stuffed her into the incubator with the unhatched eggs until Ken finished rigging the emergency heating pad set up for her. [/COLOR] In the incubator. No breath sounds, no movement, I had to force her legs under her. Out of the incubator and into a little basket sitting on a heating pad, which was then pulled up over the top of the basket as well. Excuse my excited yelling at Ken...he was in the back of the house coming back to the front so he missed what I said the first time!

Dang it, the rooster must be on break then. Stupid silkie... The austrolorps are something... Hopefully they are fertile for you.. I can't get a gosh darn one. If you want, next year I will have something cool that I can send to you, that the grandkids would love. Cough cough frizzle Cochins, Apeenzellers, Yokohamas, sultans...

 

[Blooie]

Dang it, the rooster must be on break then. Stupid silkie... The austrolorps are something... Hopefully they are fertile for you.. I can't get a gosh darn one. If you want, next year I will have something cool that I can send to you, that the grandkids would love. Cough cough frizzle Cochins, Apeenzellers, Yokohamas, sultans...

Oh my goodness, Nate....thank you but that's certainly not necessary! We are perfectly happy with what we got from you and if some don't hatch, so be it! Grampa ordered Katie some Silkies and we got her a couple of Bantam chicks, so she's happy. The Cochin looks like it's going well, and so does the NN, so she has the start of what she's calling her "silly birds" flock. One of Australorps looks good, and the EE and the LH are fine too. So all in all it should be a good hatch and I'm content.

So relax....Friday is Day 14 and I'll let you know how it's going!

 

[Jessimom]

I'm glad that it seems you have such a nice assortment developing well. You do a much better job at candling!!! I didn't candle any of my day 10 eggs (they are day 12 now). I do have some on day 6 and others on day 2. I'll try to be better at candling those....

I locked down 27 (out of 35) eggs on Tuesday, one hatched last night/early morning and 2 more hatched in the last hour. We have at least 7 more pips!!!

Go chickies go!!!!

 

[kekstrom]

Oops, meant to post this and forgot! Took this today, and I apologize for the skinny view - had the camera held wrong. <sigh> I'm old, and easily confused. Toward the end of the video Sweet Pea and Yokel come out for a visit...look how great they look! One week old today!

Quite a lot has happened in the last 5 days since I have checked in! New babies and even one raised from the 'trash bag'.... er... the dead. And they look so happy and healthy! Can you remind me of the breeds of each of these chickies?

ps. Love hearing your ladies in the background.

 

[Blooie]

Thanks! It was an ordeal, but she got through it and seems to be no worse for the wear! I have a couple of Easter Eggers...one is the yellow chick with dark spots and the other is the brown one. The three little yellowish/greyish/whitish ones with the "masks" are White Orpingtons. One of those is the one who was revived. There are 2 little Bantams of unknown heritage, Then we have Sweet Pea. The egg was marked Cream Legbar but a couple of folks who have them have said they don't recall any chicks of that color. And first out of the egg was Yokel, who is an Olive Egger.

 

[chickendreams24]

Just a short time later.... And finally: Longest 3 hours I can remember!! Gave her some Nutri-Drench, then some sugar water. Shortly after this last video, we took her back out before her peeping made me regret helping her! Loud, piercing....just annoying and and welcome as all get-out! Took the dim flashlight out there so we didn't wake up the whole crew, but she peeped all the way! I crouched in the pen, opened my hand and she literally zipped out of my hand and back under the cave. The peeping stopped, replaced but that little trilling sound they make....oh, and there were some protesting peeps from her buddies who had been nice and comfortable before she forced her way in. This morning I couldn't tell which of the 3 little White Orpingtons it was except for the small amount of feather damage. I had to look closely to pick her out. Man, these little guys have the strongest survival instincts! She was literally being wrapped in a white garbage bag to put in the trash when she made a little, almost imperceptible mouth movement, like she was trying to gasp.

Thanks! It was an ordeal, but she got through it and seems to be no worse for the wear! I have a couple of Easter Eggers...one is the yellow chick with dark spots and the other is the brown one. The three little yellowish/greyish/whitish ones with the "masks" are White Orpingtons. One of those is the one who was revived. There are 2 little Bantams of unknown heritage, Then we have Sweet Pea. The egg was marked Cream Legbar but a couple of folks who have them have said they don't recall any chicks of that color. And first out of the egg was Yokel, who is an Olive Egger.

Well Blooie I wish you were closer because I have a lovely white English Orpington cockeral in need of a home. Or well he looks all white to me there's a small chance according to the breeder that he could be a mauve splash and he's from a chocolate line. Which I didn't know could happen. The breeder got two white cockerals in the same hatch and I got one of them. Secondly we had a chick that we actually had the same thing happen with. DH2B found it out from under a broody still damp and stuff as a board, not breathing not moving or anything. On a complete whim he ran the little one inside and tossed it in the running bator. I found him hovering over the incubator just to hear the story. Thankfully he went out right after work on a whim. 10 minutes passed and he was discouraged thinking the baby was dead I took over vigil 15-20 minutes in the baby stirred almost imperceptibly. 22 minutes I saw its chest rise and fall. I called DH2B into the room and together we watched the little miracle continue to breath slowly and it got up after a while and the same night got put back under Mommy. After fully drying and heating up in the bator.that baby almost got laid aside for burial too. What amazing things chicks are.

 

[FlyWheel]

Life is a lot more tenacious than most people give it credit for. I'm glad your babies are still doing well, Chick Whisperer.

 

[Feather duster]

Update:
Well the chicks are 10 days old and growing like weeds. Still have 21 chicks, have not suffered any losses as of yet. I put electrolytes, A C V, and a couple of times I added some liquid vitamin B to their water. Now I just put A C V in their water daily and electrolytes once a week. Have not even had one case of pasty butt so far. They drink water like its going out of style. I have them on vertical nipples, they took to those with out any trouble at all. I hope to change over to horizontal nipples before long, because there're not so drippy, If you remember I ordered 24 Black Australorps eggs and received 35. Five arrived with slight cracks in them so I did not set those, and then there was four that were not fertile. Twenty six went into lock down with 21 hatching. Well I have three mystery chicks. So I guess the extra eggs were what ever they had to throw in with the order. I'll see if I can get a couple of pictures of all the chicks. So if anyone has a guess as to what the three chicks are I would welcome it.

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