What I really came on to say (before I was forced to get snarky with Oz), is that i just had a horrible hatch of silkies. Why are silkies so difficult for me?!
I have a friend who ordered some silkie chicks and I set them for her along with three of my own ameraucana eggs. They all went into the hatcher together but the ameraucanas hatched a day early. When they did, the humidity in the hatcher spiked. When I noticed the spike in humidity, I took steps to remove the hatching ameraucanas to a warm brooder and bring the humidity down, but it took like four hours before I got the humidity back down. The next day, I had one silkie pip. nothing else. I candled them and most were already internally pipped so I left them. 6 hours later, nothing. so I candled again and the same ones were still just internally pipped. so I made a little hole in the tops so that they could get enough oxygen. a few hours later, lots of chirping, no action. Now we're past due. I picked an egg at random and opened the hole enogh to peak in. Stuck chick. So I took the top off, daubed the membrane with surfactant and unstuck the chick. Did this with all the eggs. Long story short, I ended up assisting all 12 of them and lost one to too much moisture in the egg. I had to give three of them some lasix to get rid of fluid in the lungs, the lasix worked. I now have one who lost a fair amount of blood coming out of the egg (sliced a vessel with its toe). I betadined the vessels and then tied them off but the chick lost about a half a teaspoon of blood before I could tie it off. Now the chick is alive, but won't open its eyes. Its walking and talking but seems a little on the mushy side. Any suggestions on what I can do to help? I was thinking b-comp or red cell or electrolytes. Something I could give sub-q would be best, wouldn't it? I wouldn't be worrying so much about it, but its a lavender and I haven't had a lavender yet. I really want to present this beautiful lavender silkie chick to my friend.
I have a friend who ordered some silkie chicks and I set them for her along with three of my own ameraucana eggs. They all went into the hatcher together but the ameraucanas hatched a day early. When they did, the humidity in the hatcher spiked. When I noticed the spike in humidity, I took steps to remove the hatching ameraucanas to a warm brooder and bring the humidity down, but it took like four hours before I got the humidity back down. The next day, I had one silkie pip. nothing else. I candled them and most were already internally pipped so I left them. 6 hours later, nothing. so I candled again and the same ones were still just internally pipped. so I made a little hole in the tops so that they could get enough oxygen. a few hours later, lots of chirping, no action. Now we're past due. I picked an egg at random and opened the hole enogh to peak in. Stuck chick. So I took the top off, daubed the membrane with surfactant and unstuck the chick. Did this with all the eggs. Long story short, I ended up assisting all 12 of them and lost one to too much moisture in the egg. I had to give three of them some lasix to get rid of fluid in the lungs, the lasix worked. I now have one who lost a fair amount of blood coming out of the egg (sliced a vessel with its toe). I betadined the vessels and then tied them off but the chick lost about a half a teaspoon of blood before I could tie it off. Now the chick is alive, but won't open its eyes. Its walking and talking but seems a little on the mushy side. Any suggestions on what I can do to help? I was thinking b-comp or red cell or electrolytes. Something I could give sub-q would be best, wouldn't it? I wouldn't be worrying so much about it, but its a lavender and I haven't had a lavender yet. I really want to present this beautiful lavender silkie chick to my friend.
