How are you keeping them from pooping on your floor???A couple of snapshots.
Now this is the kind of sleeping chick that gets your heart thumping.
Our week old goslings cruising in the living room with DH.
snacking on chopped lettuce here.
it's amazing how quickly they grow.
And tomorrow the rest of the crew is supposed to arrive
The goslings are so smart and so personable........................I could have just them!
I'm dying. The first chick is so cute.A couple of snapshots.
Now this is the kind of sleeping chick that gets your heart thumping.
Our week old goslings cruising in the living room with DH.
And tomorrow the rest of the crew is supposed to arrive
The goslings are so smart and so personable........................I could have just them!
Thanks for the ideas.A bator really shouldn't smell that bad. Clean it out really...really good before hatching again. I would add a tiny bit of bleach to the water in the humidity tray. Not so much that it smells strongly of bleach..just a few drops. Maybe add a tiny amount again when adding water during lock down too. It sounds like you has some issues with bacteria and that can cause sticky chicks, rough navels, unabsorbed yolks, and death of chicks. My foam bator rarely smells...other than a faint smell of eggs or a wet egg/chick smell during hatching. You shouldn't have condensation during incubation or hatching either. Make sure your vents are wide open..the extra humidity is hard on the electronics, causes ideal conditions for bacterial growth and most likely lower your hatch rate too.
I hope your next hatch is less stressful
Trisha
The head is dark enough to be a CL pullet, but the body is too gray:I agree. I will tape legs or toes, but they have to improve to normal in the first couple days. I haven't had to tape a leg or foot in YEARS, then my last hatch I had 2 with a slight splayed leg. I taped them and 2 days later removed the tape, they've been fine since.
I have babied some special chicks and even 1 cockerel that I found out later was partially blind. Having to cull them at that point after all the care I have given was so hard, but necessary. Some of them went through some terrible circumstances too - the one cockerel got his head pecked up really badly. (before I realized he was partially blind)
All my chicks go on vitamins for the first week or two, then it's up to them after that. I would treat for cocci if I ever had it, but so far, I haven't needed to.
None of them look like a welsummer. The 2nd one could be a female Cream Legbar.
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I'm not!They were only running around for about 15 minutes while we played with them. This afternoon they are going out to the outside shed from the house brooders. I like to keep my babies indoors about a week so I can watch them closely. After I put them back, I had to clean up about 20 spots, LOL. We are in the middle of remodeling the house. As soon as I finish all my painting, the carpet is all being removed and replaced. You wouldn't even believe how old the carpet is, believe me, you couldn't make it worse with a little goose poop, LOL
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There is a pair of brown Chinese and a trio of blue Americans. Currently in transit to me (supposed to be here tomorrow) is a pair of brown Africans and sixteen ducklings, four each of Cayuga, Silky, Welsh Harlequin & Silver Appleyard. I forgot how much I enjoyed waterfowl, it's been close to 20 years since I had any. The two Cayuga that I hatched out a couple of months ago were the gateway drug, LOL
PetRock - I have my Oxine and I am not certain of the mixing ratio. Mine has all the directions smudged out. Looks like it got wet or something and I can't read most of it.... since you are the Oxine advocate, do you know the mixing ratio?
ETA:: OHHHH you mean add bleach to the water during the hatch! I get it! I will try that. Thanks!
Not PetRock, but we're both Deb/Debi. I put 1/4 teas in a gallon of water. I use that as the water in my incubators for hatching. I put 1/4 teas in a quart of water and that's what I use when I'm disinfecting my incubators. 1/4 teas equals about 12 drops (I forget exactly, but I measured it out once)
Well it was a little discouraging to see that. It is just a bummer because I had the largest losses on the shipped eggs. I think 9 didn't hatch of the ones that went in to lockdown. I had to dispense with the last shipped egg to hatch last night too and it was not my idea of a good time. It just wasn't getting better it was actually getting worse. SO, I believe I have two viable Wheaten Ameracauna's to hatch out of 15 total shipped eggs. Let's hope one is a girl.
My numbers were 45 eggs, 6 clears, three early quitters. 9 no hatchers.... 27 hatched, one culled. Total 26 babies that I have no idea what to do with.....lol.
Deann breeds Cream Legbar x Crele Penes--That very well could be one of those. The ones I hatched were all pullets so I do not have a picture of the Cockerels.Well, Ron - then I have no idea other than it's certainly NOT a wellie.
Bottom chick here is a welsummer.
