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

[chicksooner]

Thanks Sumi! I've dealt with injured beaks in the past, however, I've never dealt with something like this.

Here's the best picture of a chick's beat that I could find. Ignore the "egg tooth" arrow.


See the area where the top beak meets the nostrils? That's where my chick's beak is partially broken. If it were to fully break, nearly her entire top beak would be gone. I try to be as gentle as possible when I handle her. She's been trying to eat, so that's good sign.

They are both very active this morning.

Don't count on broody taking them. Hopefully your chicks beak will heal quick. It is a good sign that they are active and trying to eat.

 

[TweetyNPetey]

Good luck with the babies, Coch!

 

[Roxannemc]

really gorgous birds an nice cow pattern

Chicken show pictures!!!! First, SHEEP. With JACKETS! ^^^ This hen got first place, and was from the same breeder who gave me two of my chickens. This one looks just like my Mary Ann! He was BIG. HUGE sleeping leghorn. XDD *insert snoring sounds* Amazing feather patterns! Amazing COW patterns! XD

 

[Roxannemc]

They say dont count your chickens. it can go either way!

Left my house 3 weeks ago.. collected eggs before i left but was getting low yields.. molting.Last week to my suprise found out 2 hens had gone broddy and now hav e13 baby chicks waiting for me when i get home ! So how it goes If you want them they dont come..dont expect or want them.bamb here
e they areGuess they have their own ideas!

 

[sumi]

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That's a bad spot. Mine chick's broke in a similar spot and the beak was tilted upwards slightly, but still attached, so we left it. She grew a "new" beak under the original broken one, which came off a few weeks later. The new beak was soft at first, but soon hardened up and though it looked a bit odd it functioned well and she had no problem eating. I wish I'd taken pics of it.

Give her wet food, that should make eating easier for her. I'll see if I can find anything else that may help.

 

[cochins1088]

That's a bad spot. Mine chick's broke in a similar spot and the beak was tilted upwards slightly, but still attached, so we left it. She grew a "new" beak under the original broken one, which came off a few weeks later. The new beak was soft at first, but soon hardened up and though it looked a bit odd it functioned well and she had no problem eating. I wish I'd taken pics of it.

Give her wet food, that should make eating easier for her. I'll see if I can find anything else that may help.

Thanks Sumi. That's interesting that your chick was able to grow a "new" beak.

They say dont count your chickens. it can go either way!

Left my house 3 weeks ago.. collected eggs before i left but was getting low yields.. molting.Last week to my suprise found out 2 hens had gone broddy and now hav e13 baby chicks waiting for me when i get home ! So how it goes If you want them they dont come..dont expect or want them.bamb here
e they areGuess they have their own ideas!

Awesome! That must have been a fun surprise.

When will you get to see them?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

really gorgous birds an nice cow pattern
Quote: sweet!

 

[familypendragon]

Busy day! Picked up a splash Isbar pullet from my friend Heather of The Old Farm House. At least I HOPE its a pullet about at the POL... when I got "her" home she was doing the chirp that my roos do to point out the treats to the ladies... and she was alone with her food. Many people are having trouble sexing the Isbars correctly till they are laying. I bought 2 pairs a few months ago and recently realized only one chicken was a pullet. My other friend that I got them from also had come to realize nearly all of hers were actually roos. So now I think I have a splash pullet, black pullet, and three blue roos. I also hatched one that looks like a splash baby. I built a new coop for her today so she didn't have to do quarantine in my living room And I have 3 hatched and all the rest pipped from the current batch of eggs. The last I assisted during zip. He'd been trying all day to zip and then I saw yellow foam coming from the egg. I took the top off and cleaned him up. He was covered with yellow slime but seems OK. Naval was closed and belly full so maybe that was just extra albumin?? It wasn't an unusually large egg and the chick looks normal size... so no clue. Bathed him, checked naval, applied iodine just to be safe and put him back in the bator to dry off.

 

[familypendragon]

Busy day! Picked up a splash Isbar pullet from my friend Heather of The Old Farm House. At least I HOPE its a pullet about at the POL... when I got "her" home she was doing the chirp that my roos do to point out the treats to the ladies... and she was alone with her food. Many people are having trouble sexing the Isbars correctly till they are laying. I bought 2 pairs a few months ago and recently realized only one chicken was a pullet. My other friend that I got them from also had come to realize nearly all of hers were actually roos. So now I think I have a splash pullet, black pullet, and three blue roos. I also hatched one that looks like a splash baby. I built a new coop for her today so she didn't have to do quarantine in my living room And I have 3 hatched and all the rest pipped from the current batch of eggs. The last I assisted during zip. He'd been trying all day to zip and then I saw yellow foam coming from the egg. I took the top off and cleaned him up. He was covered with yellow slime but seems OK. Naval was closed and belly full so maybe that was just extra albumin?? It wasn't an unusually large egg and the chick looks normal size... so no clue. Bathed him, checked naval, applied iodine just to be safe and put him back in the bator to dry off.

Um ,make that 4 hatched - one more completely zipped in the time it took me to type that

 

[cochins1088]

Busy day! Picked up a splash Isbar pullet from my friend Heather of The Old Farm House. At least I HOPE its a pullet about at the POL... when I got "her" home she was doing the chirp that my roos do to point out the treats to the ladies... and she was alone with her food. Many people are having trouble sexing the Isbars correctly till they are laying. I bought 2 pairs a few months ago and recently realized only one chicken was a pullet. My other friend that I got them from also had come to realize nearly all of hers were actually roos. So now I think I have a splash pullet, black pullet, and three blue roos. I also hatched one that looks like a splash baby. I built a new coop for her today so she didn't have to do quarantine in my living room

And I have 3 hatched and all the rest pipped from the current batch of eggs. The last I assisted during zip. He'd been trying all day to zip and then I saw yellow foam coming from the egg. I took the top off and cleaned him up. He was covered with yellow slime but seems OK. Naval was closed and belly full so maybe that was just extra albumin?? It wasn't an unusually large egg and the chick looks normal size... so no clue. Bathed him, checked naval, applied iodine just to be safe and put him back in the bator to dry off.

Yellow foam around the mouth and yellow slime means that he had ruptured his yolk sac. Keep an eye on him; watch for bacterial infection. Good move with the iodine. Hopefully the little guy with be ok.