EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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:he He keeps moving around & shifting everything. For goodness sakes, laddie.... Hold still!

You have any idea how hard it is to bandage the rear end of a breakdancing chicken??

At least he's no longer bleeding.
 
Akrnaf2 said:
Quote: If you pluck it you will disturb the blood clot! Wash it with some warm water soap, and then disinfectant with some disinfectant and then spread on it antibiotic ointment and cover it with some gauze and then cover it
Plucking is what is recommended in veterinary text books, and I have done this to several and have not had any issues with bleeding. Plucking the feathers will allow for proper cleansing of the wound.

-Kathy
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sharing Cheap Tent Chick brooder? may keep that dust contained a bit

NatureFrog said:
I meant to post this sooner, but the 60 chicks currently inhabiting my living room have kept me busy the past two weeks, LOL! Due to the unusually cold weather in February (for Louisiana at least) I decided to accept 'packing peanuts' in my chick order, thinking I'd probably end up with 4 or 5 extra chicks... Was I ever WRONG, LOL!! My order of 40 chicks was split between two shipping dates and arrived with a grand total of 20 packing peanuts. I was grateful for the extra warmth and healthy chicks, but it left me in serious need of extra brooder space. They'll be in the house the first 8 weeks while I build the coop, but my little 4'x2'x2' brooder was barely big enough to hold them for the first couple of days.

The solution? Two $12 6'Wx5'Dx3'T 'junior dome tents' by Ozark Trail Outfitters...that's 60 square feet of brooder space for $24 and they fold up into tubes 14" long x 3" in diameter. They're flame resistant, have waterproof floors/lower walls, ripstop upper walls, and have large screened vents in the top and door for fresh air exchange and viewing. One bag of pine shavings covered the floor ~3". The brooder light is attached to a chain that is securely fastened in two places inside and outside the brooder. A 100-watt red bulb hung 10" from the top easily maintained a 95-degree area under the light. It's week 2 now and I'm down to 75-watt bulbs in both tents. I moved the chicks in as soon as they were ready to go on pine shavings. The door unzips in both directions from the TOP, so I can easily unzip just the top to reach in and change water/food, reach chicks, etc...

The Buff Orps and Easter Eggers are in one tent, the Barred Hollands and Welsummers are in the second, and the 'red packing peanuts' are in the regular brooder.

Here are a few (ok, more than a few) pics:
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