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Chiqita! I have watched this and had it happen with mine too. They often perk up for a couple of weeks but yes, when you pick them up you will feel a big loss in mass around the keel bone.
It is awful to go through and I am sure you will make the best decision for her regarding euthanizing.
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.
Broody Haven over there! heheWhat happens when you don't watch your silkies closely...
Spring at my house
her turkey eggs didn't make it, so she has chicks under her now, and a few eggs she stole that may hatch today and tomorrow.
Floppy comb, now with pips! She will only eat if you hold fodder up to her and she tries to attack it, we have had to hand feed her and Liva Drusa ( above) for 30 days now! They were sharing eggs until I moved LD last night with her chicks.
Why I am not currently trading turkey eggs ( pumpkins has 12 eggs and a few chicken she will not let me take) Stuffing is currently a 9-5 broodie lovingly sitting on some old Mango seeds not sitting at night but not laying. She decided she was going to get up before I got her picture, ill post some later .
And Behind door #3!
Ester, who only started laying this month, little Icelandic. She gets kicked off her eggs once a day by Catalina, who likes to lay where people will sit on her eggs. She currently has some favorell and FCBM eggs I got in the WYGS march.
And now onto the silkie cave, where if one hen sees someone sitting, you have BROODIES GONE WILD!!!
Pandcake the flattest chicken I ever saw, who was willing to be moved to another spot to have her own nest. SMART pancake.
These 3... not so willing ( we will try to move one out tomorrow at least!) Sparkles didn't even START laying, she just saw the excitement and decided it was for her. They have been stealing every egg layed for a week or 2 before I caught them, so this hatch is gonna be a mess!
I'm going to try y super stealth technique to move sparkles onto my next egg shipment assuming it gets here soon.
And! In the abandoned nesting boxes,
Looks like a lot of eggs right? clearly she needs help! Smokey stepped in because really, who can see eggs and NOT sit on them?
( I use some sand in this coop, and they get dreads when they sandbath, eat fodder, then sleep under the shelf. If she weren't broody I'd give her a bath)
That gives me as of this morning, not counting Stuffing, NINE broodies. Moral of the story, DON'T LET SILKIES OR TURKEYS SEE EGGS!
Haha and I'm pregnant and excited some of my too big pants fit lol
