Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[familypendragon]

First of all dont freak - most of what you described can be caused by many things including humidity, delayed hatching caused by low temps.


Contact the supplier - see if he/she has chicks dropping dead but I highly doubt it. 


Your lone chick sounds like it is suffering from anxiety of being alone. Get it a friend

I WISH it was alone - it was in with 16 other hatchlings from my own eggs and 7 shipped cochin chicks I just delivered all my my mutt hatchlings to my best friend this morning. Dear god I hope they aren't infected with something from being in the same brooder I just took the possible sick one out. He won't drink water, won't open his eyes Just stands hunched over and falls asleep every few seconds then chirps and stands back up.

 

[familypendragon]

I just left a voice mail for a number I found online for the state's region 1 pullorum epidemiologist http://tvmdl.tamu.edu/products-services/testing/texas-pullorum-typhoid-program/

 

[ozexpat]

if the chicks were together there should be symptoms in the other chicks quite rapidly - my money is still on with it being something else but good luck.

 

[ozexpat]

14/18=78% hatch

Our best hatch ever in the Philippines!!

non-shipped eggs - gotta love them

 

[familypendragon]

if the chicks were together there should be symptoms in the other chicks quite rapidly - my money is still on with it being something else but good luck.

That chick just keeled over and died

 

[ozexpat]

That chick just keeled over and died

how long was it with the other chicks?

did they hatch together in same incubator?

 

[familypendragon]

how long was it with the other chicks?

did they hatch together in same incubator?

14 of the chicks were 3 days older and from a previous hatch. 2 were from the same hatch but my own eggs. They were in there together for 1 night and part of today.

 

[cochins1088]

Was reading the air cell parts of the first page and then I followed the links to this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/39604/some-causes-of-early-chick-mortality, and now I am having google disease. Where you are sure your suffering from whatever horrible thing you find on Dr Google. The chicks from this batch of Welsummer hatched eggs all died but one. The ones that hatched and died all had labored breathing, chirping and death. The one had green liquid bubbling out of its mouth. The last one to die with the yolk sack that would never absorb had white poop come out right before she started gasping and died. So now I am freaking myself out.

And the lone survivor doesn't look well to me now. Won't eat, won't drink and chirps non stop, sleep standing up and wakes every few seconds. Gah!

b) Pullorum

It is an acute infectious and fatal bacterial disease of chicks characterized by ruffled feather, white diarrhea, labor breathing, chirping and death.

The one with green liquid bubbling from it's mouth, was it still in the shell when this happened? And was it green, or could it have been yellow? When a chick ruptures its yolk sac, often times you will see a yellow liquid foam from its mouth. It really freaked me out the first time I saw it.

14/18=78% hatch

Our best hatch ever in the Philippines!!

non-shipped eggs - gotta love them

Yay! Congratulations!

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Agreed.

 

[cochins1088]

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I truly hope that you get this all figured out.

Did you try contacting the seller yet?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Here is my struggling hatchling. It doesn't look any smaller still today

I just tried again to give her sugar water and got a couple drops in her but she doesn't want it clearly.

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I just had a brahma hatch last week that didn't absorb all and she is fine now it slowly over a week went down ALOT it just a tiny dark thing now. I used vetericin umbilical gel