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[lawatt]

Congratulations on the puppies!

Sorry about the chicks. I love the EcoGlows because you can leave them on when it is hot. You do have to check to make sure it is still on but so far mine have been great. I have had to use the light when I had more than three hatches at a time.

ron
Shipping seems to be iffy when it is hot or cold. It was over 95 here today and in Redding it was over 100. Depending where the shipment went, they could have been both hot and cold.

Same as always, give them baby vitamins(a drop a couple of times a day) without iron or give them the Rooster booster for chicks. The ones you have that are alive are not safe from dying for 2 or 3 more days.

Ron

if the postal tracker gismo can be trusted, they went from GA to FL to CA/Oakland, then up to Petaluma & then Penngrove. it's not that hot here in the bay area, but who knows about FL...

i've given them chick starter and water with ACV, and a nice warm heat lamp, and they're gobbling everything in sight. the isbar seems a bit weak, but the CL looks completely unfazed by the whole experience. i'll photograph them once they seem a bit stronger/more settled.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: That is great!

I would get the vitamins for the isbar. They often need B vitamins when stressed. With mine, they would look good, perk up eat and drink and them would be dead the next day. It is very sad to find dead chicks like that.


ACV may be good for sterilizing and acidifying water but is not a vitamin or an electrolyte. Sick chicks and chickens need those. I do not think it hurts them, but the research I have read shows no benefit.


Ron

 

[egg-lady]

Last month I found on CL straight run of chicks for sale. and now I am finding majority are roos. That is always my luck, LOL. so I am going to have sell them on CL or FB. when my daughter gets home I want to figure how to post pics with her phone. Or easier have her do it for me my Lav girls are doing good, 2 girls and 1 roo. from Miss Molly. and my other birchen and Icelanic and others I think are roos. maybe 1 or 2 hens from each breed. then my sizzles for my friends are the cutest little things. now off to work so i can support my habbit or hobby, lOLL

 

[lawatt]

That is great!

I would get the vitamins for the isbar. They often need B vitamins when stressed. With mine, they would look good, perk up eat and drink and them would be dead the next day. It is very sad to find dead chicks like that.


ACV may be good for sterilizing and acidifying water but is not a vitamin or an electrolyte. Sick chicks and chickens need those. I do not think it hurts them, but the research I have read shows no benefit.


Ron

thanks Ron -- will pick up some vitamins on my way home from school (I didn't think ACV was a vitamin, but it does help to keep the water clean!)

 

[Wishing4Wings]

so i lost a puppy today. so sad. he looked like a premie compared to the others and just never really thrived. there were multiple ties and she delivered her puppies early so I'm thinking he was just born too early. still so hard to lose them when they are so darn cute!

Sorry about your little pup. Hope the others are doing well. Would love to see picture updates as they grow.

Also, good luck with your broody. Growing up, we only raised one clutch ourselves when the mama died. Definitely a lot less work when the hen takes care of them!

thanks -- had a 50% result here, the splash isbar and one cream legbar have arrived okay and seem to be eating and drinking, but the other two ( a black isbar & another CL) are dead. perhaps sending chicks such a long distance (from Georgia) just isn't a good idea.

and PapaBrooder, so sorry to read about your chicks and pup!

Major bummer about the chicks. Sorry. Hope the isbar is a pullet. Pictures soon?

That is great!

I would get the vitamins for the isbar. They often need B vitamins when stressed. With mine, they would look good, perk up eat and drink and them would be dead the next day. It is very sad to find dead chicks like that.


ACV may be good for sterilizing and acidifying water but is not a vitamin or an electrolyte. Sick chicks and chickens need those. I do not think it hurts them, but the research I have read shows no benefit.


Ron

Was wondering about the ACV. Started using it in the big plastic waterer to cut down on the slime. (We have well water.) Do you think it makes a difference if the vinegar has the "mother" in it? My favorite use for ACV is for dipping cold dungeness crab! Yuuummmy.

 

[chiqita]

pappa:
So sorry about your puppies and chicks! chicks are just fragile things, I have to remind myself whenever I loose some that its still a better % then in the wild.
lawatt:
So sorry about your babies. I'm also afraid to ship chicks, I know they are supposed to be fine when they are little like that but it freaks me out, this is why I became an incubating addict.

Ron,
The thing that is supposed to be god about ACV is the mother. Besides just being an acid. It is a good for keeping the bacteria in the gut healthy and that helps fight infection, etc. Sort of like yougert. YYMV about how well it works, but that's why I think its good. I think its good if you are dong medicated feed for sure.

I had a drama today. One of the broodies went to poo and got lost. She tried to go to her old nest and found a new mother with chicks there. She went crazy and attacked the chicks, killed one, took a quarter sized piece of skin off another, and tried to break the neck of the Icelandics babies. Luckily I had just gone down to take some pics so I grabbed her before the mother chick pecked the broodys eyes out.

The little one that was hurt is shocky, I put neosporan and blu kote on the wound, but that's a BIG missing piece on a 3 day old chick. I don't know if it will make it. And of course, the icelandic eggs got cold while Catalina was out on her rampage.

I was shaky for a while afterwards, I thought Catalina might go for me at one point, she was like the hulk chicken. As soon as she got her eggs she calmed down and started to purr and ate out of my hand. Speedy the rooster was trying to figure out who to defend, luckily he didn't run in while I was hauling catalina out.

I have never seen a hen do that. Do you think it has something to do with her being the head chicken? She was sitting WITH the other hen just 5 days ago, I moved her to cover these other eggs since she had only been sitting for a week.

Deb, I got some more of what I think are Iowa blue eggs today from the egg swap, but no broodies to stick em under so they go in the bator. Hopefully from 2 batches Ill get some girls. Ill ask what they are a bit later, but they look the same!

Ok, I want a CALM chicken week now, with no surprises! In fact I want EVERYONE to have a calm chicken week!

Edit: Also, if anyone is looking for thermomoters, Amazon has infrared thermometer as their 1 PM hourly special.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Was wondering about the ACV. Started using it in the big plastic waterer to cut down on the slime. (We have well water.) Do you think it makes a difference if the vinegar has the "mother" in it? My favorite use for ACV is for dipping cold dungeness crab! Yuuummmy.

You want to use the ACV with the "mother" in it.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

thanks -- had a 50% result here, the splash isbar and one cream legbar have arrived okay and seem to be eating and drinking, but the other two ( a black isbar & another CL) are dead. perhaps sending chicks such a long distance (from Georgia) just isn't a good idea.

and PapaBrooder, so sorry to read about your chicks and pup!

sorry about that. it is rough sending them in this heat.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Well here they are.After a long 4 month wait.

 

[debs_flock]

Good luck with them Jason, looks like a white chicken

Deb