California - Northern

[SilkiesForEver]

Does anyone know the name of a wild bird who is a dark brown/olive color, with a yellow breast and yellow "eyeliner"? I found one sitting behind the wheel of our truck, not moving. He let me scoop him up and hold him for awhile without complaint. He even closed his eyes to rest!

I think his wings are the problem. I have him in a carrier, hoping to give him some water.

Did I do the right thing by picking him up and giving him shelter? We have some pretty fierce cats around here and I would feel terrible if I saw a clump of feathers, know that I could have helped him.

 

[casportpony]

Does anyone know the name of a wild bird who is a dark brown/olive color, with a yellow breast and yellow "eyeliner"? I found one sitting behind the wheel of our truck, not moving. He let me scoop him up and hold him for awhile without complaint. He even closed his eyes to rest!

I think his wings are the problem. I have him in a carrier, hoping to give him some water.

Did I do the right thing by picking him up and giving him shelter? We have some pretty fierce cats around here and I would feel terrible if I saw a clump of feathers, know that I could have helped him.

Call wildlife rescue. Do not force feed or water him.

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

Does anyone know the name of a wild bird who is a dark brown/olive color, with a yellow breast and yellow "eyeliner"? I found one sitting behind the wheel of our truck, not moving. He let me scoop him up and hold him for awhile without complaint. He even closed his eyes to rest!

I think his wings are the problem. I have him in a carrier, hoping to give him some water.

Did I do the right thing by picking him up and giving him shelter? We have some pretty fierce cats around here and I would feel terrible if I saw a clump of feathers, know that I could have helped him.

Might be a meadow lark.

 

[Kaylish]

As long as the Broody and the chicks have a dry place, they will be fine here in the winter. Chico is not a very cold place either.


It is not a good idea to add eggs daily to a broody. You can collect and store the eggs and then add them at the same time. Broodies usually leave the nest two days after the chicks start to hatch so the eggs need to hatch close to the same time.

Eggs that have been incubating for 24 hours will go back into a suspended state when pulled. You would then have the normal two weeks to put them back for incubation.

Have fun!

Wonderful! That's what I was hoping.

 

[tommysgirl]

Chicks are growing like weeds (ok some are, some aren't, the size discrepancy among the splash chicks is kinda nutty considering they're only a week apart in age; they are my biggest and my smallest chicks, including the ones that are week YOUNGER than the small splash chicks). Feathering in also ranges from nearly feathered to nothing but fuzz. Can't wait to figure out which ones are hens (*fingers crossed* for the lone black chick!).

I hope you get your black girl!

 

[Happy Chooks]

LOL! I had two Pita Pinta pullets who decided to go broody. None of my original hens have ever gone broody but 2 of their white legged daughters went broody at the same time. I gave each of them 3 Pita Pinta eggs from Zorro's flock. We've named the first girl Vivaz and she hatched all 3 of her eggs. They are the ones in the following pics. The second Pita Pinta was a wonderful sitter but 3 days before hatch day, I moved her with her eggs into a large dog kennel. I have been doing that with all of my broodies and it has worked well. This time, though, I guess she didn't like the kennel and was not sitting on the eggs when I checked on her in the morning. All 3 eggs were stone cold and she boogied out of the kennel without even a backward glance. I candled them and there was no movement. I thought about firing up an incubator just in case but decided to put the eggs underneath a PP/CL broody pullet who had been sitting in a wine box nest box for around 10 days. I put her in the kennel with the eggs and thankfully, she stuck with them. 2 chicks hatched yesterday and today the 3rd one is peeping & pipping! She is one happy mama chicken!

Adorable!

 

[HighStreetCoop]

I hope you get your black girl!

Thanks! I hope so, too. So bizarre how the other two just got lighter and lighter, cause they LOOKED like the black one when they showed up.

 

[casportpony]

Just wanted to share... have two Guinea eggs that pipped internally two days ago, but no external pips yet, so I decided to pip for them.

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

Just wanted to share... have two Guinea eggs that pipped internally two days ago, but no external pips yet, so I decided to pip for them.

-Kathy

eggs usually internally pip up to three days before they externally pip.

If the egg does not hatch soon enough after the external pip, the membrane dries out and the chick can get stuck.

It is kind of like child birth--the more interventions during labor the more likely that the birth will be Cesarean.

Watch them carefully now.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Both are looking a little shrink wrapped, so I think I made the right call.

-Kathy