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[Ali707]

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Close-up of chicks (6 weeks old)



When they get a little older, we will have to whittle our number down to just six hens.

That is lovely. My first coop was that same basic design. Although your rockwork is lovely. I didn't need to do that since mine was level and I cut some corners on materials, but this is very pretty and the walk in design is awesome.

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These chooks are made for walkin'.....

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and me resting by the new black penedesenca run currently under construction

LOOK at all that SPACE!!!! I am so jealous.

Weight Watchers really does work! I can see my toes again!

leave them for a bit on WIRE if you can to see if the toes uncurl. If they do not uncurl after 3-4 days, you'll have to make booties and or hobbles and or cups. If I'm worried they are too weak, ill leave them in the bator, but give them sugar and vitamin water and sometimes put food in it ( expect to clean that however, that can get... interesting)

they flip over when they have yolk bellies and they are weak, sometimes its just that. If they are still having trouble after 36 hours of sleeping you need to watch it. Before that they can just need a LOT of sleep and time.


I seem to have one with this same problem. The legs are weak and the belly is now a little squishy today. Some of the other bellies have felt this way too, but this one is really the only one with issues of sleeping constantly and not really walking, sort of scooting around. I gave it some vitamins last night and a bit of sugar water this morning. And put it in a cup. What does putting them in the cup help?

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She is such a good chicken mommy, and thanks for the welcome. I'm here trying to learn so I can teach and support her. I know nothing.

This is the best place to learn a pile. And this is the best thread on the whole forum!

Jason,

I just hatched 9 of your Crele Pene eggs. I am soooo excited!!!! I will get pictures once they dry out and I know the boy/girl ratio. Yipppeeee. Thanks for the awesome eggs!!!

Hey! I was there the day those came in the mail for you! lol and the ones I picked up from you are finished pretty much I would say. I will give some stats in a separate post!

Oh my goodness, the difference in having the 6 week olds out of the house is HEAVEN. The girls are loving the coop (which still needs finishing... and now to get working on the big run...). For my first chickens, I had no idea how entertaining Tiny Chicken Television could be. Even the neighbors have been coming over to watch reruns in the evenings. Can't wait for eggs!

Mine just hatched this weekend and I want them out of the house already!

 

[BCollie]

How are the chicks doing today? I can't believe you got them on a Sunday from the Post Office, how did that work?

There's a lady working there on Sunday, she called me and said to ring the buzzer on the back entrance. I went in, signed for the chicks, and then left!
They are all running, peeping, eating, drinking...

I do have a couple questions for everyone, though. What is chick poop supposed to look like? Since they're on paper towels(covering sand) for the first few days, I can see their poops really well, and it looks like a few chicks have really runny poo.

Also, a couple of them got some poop stuck on their little butts overnight, how do I take care of that?

 

[BCollie]

Here's a couple more chick pictures, as promised...

Light Brahma number 1





Light Brahma number 2



I'm going to TRY to take pictures of them every day, to document their growth. (well, of the 8 I'll be keeping until they feather out, not the 7 RIRs I also have pics of)

 

[Ali707]

Kind of a busy weekend with trying to start building my coop. I wish I had a friend that was knowledgeable and handy with this kind of thing so I didn't have to struggle through. It is kind of fun, but now that I am on a time limit, I am a little stressed. Weekends only building is slow going.

I didn't get a pile of pictures yet. I will try more tonight.

I also have to do an official count. Today is day 22 and I had 2 hatch over night. No more pips in what is left. The smell in the bator is KILLING ME!

I believe I set 36 at lockdown and of those 2 looked to be early quitters. I have one Polish that hasn't pipped, One CL, One Welsummer and about 9 or so of the shipped Wheaten Ameracaunas that haven't even pipped.

Amazing the vitality difference between the hatched and shipped eggs. The 3 Wheatens that did hatch, they all had goo stringing behind them and the one chick I am having issues with is the third Wheaten to hatch yesterday and it was pretty weak to begin with. I had to finish zipping the shell and pull the top off.

The Polish also had issues a little. They all pipped half way down the shell and start out really pretty weak but then perk up pretty good after a day.

I didn't really intervene in any other chicks.

I will start posting pics to see if you can help me identify what I have. Deann should be the best able to help because she is the one I got everything form but the WA's.



This is a blue something..... lol. I can't remember what I had in there now. I have to go look at my list.


Sorry for the distance of the picture, but I was sticking my camera down in the brooder and just snapping pics. The Polish chick there on the left is probably a boy. He runs out, was pecking my phone, fairly fearless, I think he might be a gold laced polish, but not sure.

I am pretty sure I have at LEAST one Cream Legbar boy. PetRock? You still need a boy?

 

[ronott1]

There's a lady working there on Sunday, she called me and said to ring the buzzer on the back entrance. I went in, signed for the chicks, and then left!
They are all running, peeping, eating, drinking...

I do have a couple questions for everyone, though. What is chick poop supposed to look like? Since they're on paper towels(covering sand) for the first few days, I can see their poops really well, and it looks like a few chicks have really runny poo.

Also, a couple of them got some poop stuck on their little butts overnight, how do I take care of that?

At first it is green and runny but turns to normal quickly.

That is pasty butt and you carefully clean it off with a q tip. Be careful--you can easily hurt the vent.

Give them a little plain yogurt--gets their digestion fired up correctly. Stress causes pasty butt and it is always stressful when they are shipped.

 

[chiqita]

The legs are true to ameracaunas. Slate. I got the eggs from a breeder in Modesto. I love having chicks. I truly need to live on a farm. I purchased blue and lavendar ameraucana hatching eggs, but i think only the lav hatched. Since I am not a breeder, I'm just making the best deductions I can. One egg hatched out a black chick, but it had an abdominal wall hernia with intestines bulging out, and it did not survive. Maybe that was a blue?

For most breeds, blue/black/splash is the same color gene and blue will hatch out all of those colors, not just blue. I do not know if Ams are an exception.

There's a lady working there on Sunday, she called me and said to ring the buzzer on the back entrance. I went in, signed for the chicks, and then left!
They are all running, peeping, eating, drinking...

I do have a couple questions for everyone, though. What is chick poop supposed to look like? Since they're on paper towels(covering sand) for the first few days, I can see their poops really well, and it looks like a few chicks have really runny poo.

Also, a couple of them got some poop stuck on their little butts overnight, how do I take care of that?

Beginnings of poopy butt from stress. was there little bottoms with warm water and a qtip, and try and get them to eat some yogurt. I hate poopy butt, its my bane. NONE of my chickens will eat yogurt.

About cups:
Cups force the legs to stay under them if they are splayed, and force them to try and stand to see OUT of the cup and strenghten the muscles. I have good luck with cups if they are the right height, and I can put them back in when they escape.

I will look at those links. I'm still not sure what to do about this chick, I'm not naming it yet!

 

[chickee]

The legs are true to ameracaunas. Slate. I got the eggs from a breeder in Modesto. I love having chicks. I truly need to live on a farm. I purchased blue and lavendar ameraucana hatching eggs, but i think only the lav hatched. Since I am not a breeder, I'm just making the best deductions I can. One egg hatched out a black chick, but it had an abdominal wall hernia with intestines bulging out, and it did not survive. Maybe that was a blue?

Chicks look like lavenders and the black chick that died was most likely a black split to lavender. To improve feather quality (a problem with lavenders) black Ameraucanas are used. That way you get a percentage of black and lavender chicks, plus the proper color of lavender, and black without color leakage in the hackles.

 

[Ali707]

For most breeds, blue/black/splash is the same color gene and blue will hatch out all of those colors, not just blue. I do not know if Ams are an exception.
Beginnings of poopy butt from stress. was there little bottoms with warm water and a qtip, and try and get them to eat some yogurt. I hate poopy butt, its my bane. NONE of my chickens will eat yogurt.

About cups:
Cups force the legs to stay under them if they are splayed, and force them to try and stand to see OUT of the cup and strenghten the muscles. I have good luck with cups if they are the right height, and I can put them back in when they escape.

I will look at those links. I'm still not sure what to do about this chick, I'm not naming it yet!

So then I guess a clear cup defeats the purpose! lol It can see out just sitting there. I just don't know about that belly though. It looks uncomfortable for sure. How can I tell the difference between just a normal yolk belly and something that is not right?

 

[BCollie]

What is "plain" yogurt? Like vanilla? Greek? I'm vegan, so I don't know anything about yogurts! Lol!

 

[BCollie]

Oh, and can you elaborate on how to clean their little butts? First time chick owner here, I have no idea what I'm doing