Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[RumAndCoconuts]

Keep us posted on the little one. It always breaks my heart to lose one at hatch.,,or any time they've taken breath, they are so precious.

 

[ochochicas]

@Sally Sunshine

I helped this chick out today that was malpositioned, pipping about a little below the midline of the egg on the narrow end. It pipped last night. I peeled a little shell back to make sure it could breath. In the morning there was no progress, so I helped. One out there was a little smudging on the washcloth on the floor of the incubator, but it wasn't free flowing. I hope I did the right thing. I won't know how she is doing til I get home this evening from work.

How is your little baby doing? I had one with the same problem last weekend. It was so weak by the time I got it out of the membrane that it didn't want to move or try to stand up. I left it in the incubator for an extra 24 hours to let it rest and for the remaining membranes to dry up. Still no improvement. Finally I took her out and put her in a bowl in the brooder so the other chicks would not be able to run her over. She was having breathing problems and was "clicking" like she had aspirated fluid. I didn't give her much hope of surviving. Every time I checked the chicks I expected her to be gone. I mixed up some electrolytes and vitamins and fed them to her with drops from a syringe. She was too weak to stand, but took the liquid if I held her up. After two days she was standing on her own and wanted to be with the other chicks. She learned how to walk and on day 3 I was putting food in her mouth so she would eat. Finally on day 4 she was eating a bit on her own. She'll be a week old tomorrow and I think she is going to make it! She lost a lot of weight during the first 4 days, but is now back up to her hatch weight this evening. Based on her coloring I think she's a pullet and also and olive egger! I'm so glad she made it. I hope your little on has the same luck. Keep us posted!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

How is your little baby doing? I had one with the same problem last weekend. It was so weak by the time I got it out of the membrane that it didn't want to move or try to stand up. I left it in the incubator for an extra 24 hours to let it rest and for the remaining membranes to dry up. Still no improvement. Finally I took her out and put her in a bowl in the brooder so the other chicks would not be able to run her over. She was having breathing problems and was "clicking" like she had aspirated fluid. I didn't give her much hope of surviving. Every time I checked the chicks I expected her to be gone. I mixed up some electrolytes and vitamins and fed them to her with drops from a syringe. She was too weak to stand, but took the liquid if I held her up. After two days she was standing on her own and wanted to be with the other chicks. She learned how to walk and on day 3 I was putting food in her mouth so she would eat. Finally on day 4 she was eating a bit on her own. She'll be a week old tomorrow and I think she is going to make it! She lost a lot of weight during the first 4 days, but is now back up to her hatch weight this evening. Based on her coloring I think she's a pullet and also and olive egger! I'm so glad she made it. I hope your little on has the same luck. Keep us posted!

I think she is a pullet. I can see a dark chipmunk stripe characteristics of the female crested cream legbars, but she is not fluffled out, so she still could have a head spot and be a cockerel.

She is hanging in there. She is still very tired. She tries to stand every now and then, but is doing a lot of sleeping. Her yolk is completely absorbed, but her belly still looks translucent and yellow from the yolk. Is this normal? It's kinda bizarre. She still has a stump of an umbilical cord, but it drying up. No more blood. I think I should've just removed some of the shell and let her sit another 12 hours to get stronger before freeing her.

I have another pip and it's in the right end. I saw it around 5 when I came home from work today. I opened up the pip a tiny bit to make sure it could breathe, then put it back. I'm going to try to be disciplined and not mess with it for 24 hours.

The other four eggs are not cheeping and no pips. I candled one of the duck eggs that are due a week after the chicks. It is vigorously paddling about!

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: When mine needed to be helped, I seem to remember the belly looking big and translucent. Once they dry and fluff up it should look normal. My chicks didn't dry completely until I took them out of the incubator. Probably my humidity was too high, but I'd rather have it too high than too low. This was my first hatch in an incubator, so I'm not the best for giving advice on what is "normal". If I were you I'd just let her sit until the other one hatches and then go from there.

 

[Peep_Show]

Well, Ethel the CCLxRIR supposed-to-be-female-if-chipmunky-when-hatched crowed this morning. Sigh.....

 

[ronott1]

Well, Ethel the CCLxRIR supposed-to-be-female-if-chipmunky-when-hatched crowed this morning. Sigh.....

I am sorry!

The hens need to be barred and the Rooster not barred to make a sexlink.

 

[rebrascora]

Your chick always looked like a roo with that big comb but I'm disappointed for you that it's been confirmed by him finding his voice.
Both of my CCL x RIRs chicks are still looking like pullets and coming up to 13 weeks now, so I think I've been very lucky..... in fact of that broody's clutch of 9 eggs, 8 hatched and only one is a cockerel and he's a pure bred cream legbar.
Sadly, the bad news is that I have developed Mareks in my flock and one of the CCLxRIR pullets mentioned above is showing symptoms. At the moment, she is mildly lame but is actually much better than she was a week ago and is holding her own in the flock and free ranging with the others, so I'm hoping she might pull through.
I really love the look and personality of this hybrid although at 13 weeks there is still a long way to go before I know what the finished bird will be like. I will get around to taking and posting photos eventually... when I have a spare moment from tending the sick and the lame

 

[ChicKat]

Your chick always looked like a roo with that big comb but I'm disappointed for you that it's been confirmed by him finding his voice.
Both of my CCL x RIRs chicks are still looking like pullets and coming up to 13 weeks now, so I think I've been very lucky..... in fact of that broody's clutch of 9 eggs, 8 hatched and only one is a cockerel and he's a pure bred cream legbar.
Sadly, the bad news is that I have developed Mareks in my flock and one of the CCLxRIR pullets mentioned above is showing symptoms. At the moment, she is mildly lame but is actually much better than she was a week ago and is holding her own in the flock and free ranging with the others, so I'm hoping she might pull through.
I really love the look and personality of this hybrid although at 13 weeks there is still a long way to go before I know what the finished bird will be like. I will get around to taking and posting photos eventually... when I have a spare moment from tending the sick and the lame

Hope your pullet will pull through.

 

[Peep_Show]

So sorry to hear about the possible Mareks. By any chance do you have any pics to post of your CCLxRIR cross?

Not sure of Ethel's fate at this point, just that he can't stay here too much longer.....especially since that batch of chicks hasn't been put in the coop yet and are in the back bedroom.

 

[DeborahSfbay]

Sadly I just lost my CCL Rooster to a hawk last week. While I still may get another CCL I've been toying with the idea of getting Black Copper Marans Rooster for my small flock. From reading I understand the BCM Roo over a CCL hen will produce a sex link chick at birth? Can someone confirm this and tell me how easy it would be to determine the sex from this combination? Any pictures of chicks would be very helpful. I have a BCM hen and I like her personality, I'd hope the Roo would be similar. I also understand the combination produces "olive" eggs?

I'm in the San Francisco bay area (Union City) so if there is anyone local who has a youngish CCL or BCM roo they are selling or rehoming could you send me a private message?


Thanks,
Deborah