Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Lol
Alaskan I'll airmail Ya some duck eggs just as long as you eat them

 

[minihorse927]

What causes a chick to fully form and have no eyes?

 

[Alaskan]

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Yeah, I am incubating every single Ameraucana egg that my flock lays (so 4 eggs in the incubator this year to date)

 

[Alaskan]

What causes a chick to fully form and have no eyes?

I had one like that last year.....

when I researched the most likely cause was not enough turning. I am not sure how that would have applied to me though... so answer is I am not sure

(actually mine was missing just one eye... live relatively fine for about 4 or so months, then started having problems breathing and died)

 

[hennible]

seems genetic....

 

[minihorse927]

I had one like that last year.....

when I researched the most likely cause was not enough turning.   I am not sure how that would have applied to me though... so answer is I am not sure    (actually mine was missing just one eye... live relatively fine for about 4 or so months, then started having problems breathing and died)

this one failed to hatch but otherwise was a normal fully formed chick. It's eyes were sealed shut (no eyelids or anything, solid skin) and I pried the skin apart and there was absolutely no eye. Creepy. The others are 100% normal.

 

[hennible]

There's a thread about a duck like that... It hatched and lived
Samantha the blind duck...

 

[minihorse927]

There's a thread about a duck like that... It hatched and lived
Samantha the blind duck...

creepy. Have to check that out.

 

[Beer can]

Does anyone have problems hatching with broody hens, or just incubators? The more I read about incubating the less I want to try it, no eyeballs!
Hopefully future broodies, and if their screw it up its out of my hands.

 

[minihorse927]

Does anyone have problems hatching with broody hens, or just incubators? The more I read about incubating the less I want to try it, no eyeballs!
Hopefully future broodies, and if their screw it up its out of my hands.

out of 4+ years of incubators and thousands of chicks, this is a first. Definitely not commonplace. Broodies have their own set of issues. Just had one kill the only chick she was brooding for unknown reasons. She'd cared for it for over a week and one day BAM, grabbed it by the feet and threw it across the brooding pen. Then wanted nothing to do with it.