California - Northern

[MrsMoonCat]

I want to know also! It was like her gizzard couldn't handle chick feed.

I am so sorry to hear that I have been grinding up my chick starter into really fine pieces for my really small chicks and quail babies. I had noticed some of my feed would have chunks in it that were way too big for tiny babies. I usually give it to them the first 3 or 4 days.

 

[ronott1]

Well the little chick I posted about yesterday died during the night. I gave her coconut oil, and then she started to act better so I gave her moistened chick starter. When I found her this morning she had chick feed stuck in her throat just like yesterday.

I am sorry you lost the chick!

Maybe it's organs did not start up correctly. I posted Necropsy information for you in an earlier post but wanted to express my sympathy too.

 

[liz9910]

Babies!!!!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Babies!!!!

cute. congratulations

 

[MrsMoonCat]

Babies!!!!

They are adorable! Mama looks proud

 

[ronott1]

Babies!!!!

What a good Mom!

 

[ronott1]

Blue Egg Layer update:

Today is day 23--Just verified with my Records. They knocked over the Hygometer I was using, so I could not see the humidity level but the water tanks looked low in the Genesis. I added water using plastic tubing through the vent hole an hour an a half ago.

Just now saw the sixth egg with a pip knock a piece of shell out! Still hatching on day 23...After this one hatches I will check the last three eggs.

 

[tommysgirl]

Congrats on babies!

So sorry re the loss of the little chick :-(

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Blue Egg Layer update:

Today is day 23--Just verified with my Records. They knocked over the Hygometer I was using, so I could not see the humidity level but the water tanks looked low in the Genesis. I added water using plastic tubing through the vent hole an hour an a half ago.

Just now saw the sixth egg with a pip knock a piece of shell out! Still hatching on day 23...After this one hatches I will check the last three eggs.

awsome Ron. Are you going to be able to keep a Rooster anywhere? I may want to raise some of these myself.

 

[ronott1]

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I hope so! I want to keep two but I don't know for sure which. I depends on how well the others hatch. Heritage RIRs, Bresse(a lot of us seem to have them though) Blue Egg layers, Basque and Asturian Paints are possible.

I pullet the last three eggs out and found one still alive in the first one. The membrane started bleeding so I poked a little hole in the other two and got the eggs back into the hatcher. Crazy hatch for sure!