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Has she been laying eggs? Have there been any of those odd egg, paper looking things in the nest box?
She is the age for reproductive cancer and that is where they get the mass from it. I had to cull one like yours in December. She was just under 2 years old.
If you can get some fluid out then you can sometimes tell if it is internal laying. Egg Yolk peritonitis is supposed to be fatal in 2 or 3 days and she has been sick longer.
CAHFS at UCD will euthanize and necropsy for free--if she seems to be suffering too much.
Hoping for her to recover!
I do not vaccinate as well. I do not do anything except Vitamins , ACV good food and changing off pine shavings. In my open coop I clean top of sand weeklySorry to just pop in with questions. I don't feel like I have a lot to add to this thread sometimes.
These are my questions:
- When do you cull eggs that appear clear or blood ringed? Day 7? Is it different for darker eggs?
- I didn't get my chicks vaccinated for Merak's (I tend to take a light handed approach to vaccines for my kids and cats and planned on doing that with chicks). Anyway, I was just reading about Trousers, who died of Merak's and the devastation and lasting consequences it has (as far as the property and needing to keep a closed flock, etc.) Anyhow, I just want to make sure I have all the information as far as keeping my girls healthy. I kind of feel like I failed them, not giving them the vaccine.
- Rats, I had another question. Can't remember.
I have this happen as well on the last chicks do to everyone not keeping a calander and hatching when they want.My hatch is over!!!I have 6, fat, healthy chicks and the 1 Icelandic chick that pipped early, zipped 3/4 the way, and then was shrink wrapped. I determined not to open the incubator until the hatch was done. I waited until several hours after the last of the 6 hatched before putting the 6 in the incubator and helping the shrink wrapped one. I carefully removed some of the shell making sure that her beak was out, wrapped the unhatched part in a warm, wet paper towel and left for her a couple hours. I did that through the evening hoping that she would be able to free herself. She was peeping and struggling but late last night I finally removed the rest of the shell. She is alive, moving, and peeping up a storm in the incubator this morning but she is still wet looking. Any advice at this point?
The poor little orpington chick did not make it. It was the second to pip and zipped 3/4 the way but then stopped. There was no movement at all for over 12 hours so when I removed the chicks, I took the orp egg out. It was a huge chick and its head was down below the zip line. Maybe it didn't have room to move because it was so big? I also think that my high humidity during the first 18 days may have played a part in its demise.
The little black Marans/Marans mix chick does have one problem. 2 of its toes on one foot are fused/webbed. I'm planning on doing surgery later today to separate them. Has anyone had experience with this? Any advise???
So, I started with 10 eggs. 8 went into lockdown and 7 hatched. (Hopefully, Snemma the Icelandic will survive.) So, my hatch rate was 70%, correct? This is not the best pic and I'll take some better ones later today.
Thank you, Jason! She had her first spa bath in a bowl earlier this morning. I keep waiting for her to dry off but she is still wet looking. I put her back in the incubator but should I move her to the brooder? Should I put her in a box or something to keep her separate from the rowdy 6? When they were in the incubator with her and she was still in her egg, they fought over who was going to sit on top of her! Poor little thing has had a tough start to life!
I would do what Ron says. Or you can put here with another chick in a seperate brooder if you have one. I pulled a crele pendesenca rooster chick and put her with him.
