Quote: Thanks bellah1- i had a lot of fun here yesterday after Sally brought me over here, kicking and screamingI was having a really really really bad day, and you guys helped turn it around!!!
I'm back, but i hope she does not bring out that yardstick again.......
Good Morning All !!!!Good Morning Friends !
in the end, I am thinking you need to run lower humidity for sure,Quote:calibration was done on thermometers and Hygros?
I have not calibrated, but I had 2 hygros and 3 thermometers in the bator. The hygros in the bator read the same, but different than the hygro on the top of the genesis. The thermometers read the same.
sounds like they are functioning but I would still calibrate one and just see what you get, it could send you into a fit frenzy though! What kind are you using, please don't tell me those fish tank floater theremometers please! I use the acurites from amazon, spot on and show highs and lows and change fairly fast when adjusting temps. and they are cheap
Quote: you know I tend to wear mine more than anything
they are tough little creatures but so weak at times too! I have some little chicks I worked with this past weekend from my broody I will go pull them and quote to show you
Quote: you know I tend to wear mine more than anything
they are tough little creatures but so weak at times too! I have some little chicks I worked with this past weekend from my broody I will go pull them and quote to show you
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]LOL yeah, DH does the same, I always have to make sure he has a lid of some sort. you know those "spill-proof"cups? Yeah, they don't work[/FONT]
I am patiently waiting for those pics....I hope they don't scare me like the ones you posted yesterday!!!!!
Soooo Where was I all day? IT was NOT a fun day!
After bathing clipping and washing 3 of the 5 dogs I
I went out to check on Black Betty , chicks and unhatched eggs.
FOUND an ICE COLD egg in the middle of the floor and the other like soooo...... abandoned on the nest, she was laying in the middle of the floor with her 2 chicks!
BAD BLACK BETTY! BAD BAD BAD!!! LESSON LEARNED, STEAL your broody's good eggs, leave some fakes and then REPLACE WHEN YOU HAVE ENOUGH ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
DO NOT LET MOTHER NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE! MOTHER nature can be cruel for sure! So if you can help mother nature just a tad DO IT!
I grabbed them both after snapping that pic and RAN into the house and quickly ripped that sucker out of the shell while holding her under the warm work lamp.
SO cold in my hands, I have turned/candled enough eggs to know these chicks were in BAD shape. The other egg had no external pip, no noise, so let it under the lamp while
I stimulated the other chick and rubbed her with a towel and tried to get her warm again through heat and stimunlation. she was BLUE and I am not talking blue cochin blue.
poor thing : ( I felt so bad for not taking them from black betty last night! I second guessed myself again! ugggggg
I opened the egg and saw it had internally pipped, but there was absolutely NO movement.
I assumed it was gone. so I kept it under the lamp while I worked on getting the other warm and stimulated.
I let it sit for almost 45 minutes and finally I said, you know what, you may have a chick that has a tad more yolk to absorb,
But you also have a hypothermic chick in there, best way to warm her up is to get her to open from that ball position.
So thinking in the back of my head she is already dead, I took off the membrane with only a tad of blood, I thought because she was dead,
THANK GOD no blood, and helped her head out to open her body up for heat.
I kept her like that for 30. minutes and rubbed her also gently and she started to breath faintly!
I SCREAMED at the top of my lungs for DH to come and tell me I wasn't loosing it!
SHE WAS moving! very little but she was alive! She would move her head occationally!
I WAS AMAZED, so this was not a case of sitting on hands and waiting for me.
This was get them warm and keep them stimulated. so for HOURS I sat with them and rubbed them and talked to them.
This was while I was rubbing the first one......
This is how she looked when I realized she didn't have any yolk yet.
I think the cold stopped the process.....
a few hrs later........
a few more hrs later.....
and she finally is trying to walk around with the other one! she seems to have curled toes and spraddle legs from weakness....
But we can work with that!
and a few moments ago........ certainly not out of the woods yet.
see umbilical now.......
The first one has a case of droopy neck?????? she is very active but see how she hangs her head? she does pick it up but not stand tall with it..... suggestions?
So this is where my day lead me........ ugggggg
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LOOK WHAT WAS STARING AT ME FROM THE BATOR!
WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!!!! I FORGOT I put one of Black Betty rejects was put in with the others at lockdown!
gardeningmama these are what your gonna be hatching!
Floppy and Huntchback Frozen egg chickies Update.....
Floppy hasn't flopped since about 2 pm today YAY!! I will take the foot pad off tomorrow and see if toes stay straight. Eating drinking and being a great chick.
Hunchback is fine, but should be named crooked neck as the neck isn't drooped she moves it fine when she wants to but she always goes back to that tuck side position. weird.
I hold her and make her look the otherway and she does it fine and even will fall asleep in my hands like so.
CAPTION THIS!
