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WOW I am glad you got them back! what is the issue that your not having luck? hatching chicks out? meaning eggs not fert well? I would give them the chicken booster probotics I posted a while back, I tested it and I am amazed! let me see if DH has images of the babies outside. I will post then and link you up with the product and its decent priced toook, today started out as a crappy day. then i really stepped in it and fell in up to my neck. then it ended well.
i fell asleep last night with my computer on my lap... trying to find out what is wrong with a chicken's legs for someone else. i never thought i would say this, and it kind of ticks me off at myself.
i was woken up by my brother, his help had called in sick and he needed me to run his route (at 6 am).
my truck is loaded with feed, so i asked my DW to take me to his house.... she does not wake up well, if you have ever seen the movie "throw momma from the train", well she is a lot like momma at 6 am.
i put water in the truck, checked the toilet paper and smell good levels, and took off for a day of cleaning porta potties. talk about a crappy day. 4 hose jams, 230 miles with no one to talk to and no radio. on the stop before the furthest stop away the truck started leaking diesel fuel, it was dripping down the motor and the fumes were coming into the cab. i found a parts store and bought a hose clamp a pair of pliers and a screw driver and fixed the leak, after i had a huge headache from the fumes.
on the way back i had a stop and an amish friend's house, this spring i had given him my golden sebrites because i wasn't having any luck with them. i had a $75 in just the pair, and i really hated to see them go. when i pulled in he asked me if i wanted to see them, so i went back to look at them. walking back he told me he hadn't had much luck with them either. he had tried putting her eggs under a broody hen and they kept quitting near hatch time - same problem i was having with the incubator. finally she sat on 3 eggs and hatched all 3. about 6 weeks later he put her and the chicks back with the rooster, she was starting to lay again. well the rooster killed 2 of the chicks. he said he was working on another project, and if i wanted them back to take them; he was just planning on putting them in a mixed run. so i took them back, their feathers are a little ruffled from the trip ill try to get pics tomorrow of the little one, i am pretty sure its a pullet. they are hen feathered though so im not sure just yet. anyways, here is an old pic of the rooster, the hen is hiding in the back.:
he is so tiny, the wire behind him is spaced weird, about 1 1/2 inches so it makes him look taller.