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

[Lucky Lemon]

Morning all, sorry to be MIA this week. Came back from vacation and my dad had surgery on Wednesday that did not go as expected. He is okay, but still in ICU, and unfortunately had to have his leg amputated. I expect several more stressful months ahead.

In other news, on Monday, my daughter and I heard a teeny tiny peep coming from our run and much to our surprise found a newly hatched chick in the adult feeder. It apparently hatched without the broody that abandoned her clutch two days earlier. It fell out of the coop and down about 4 feet where it landed in the feeder. Had been pecked a good bit, but somehow survived. We brought it and other eggs in the house to hopefully hatch it a friend. So, even though I was done with chicks in the house, I now have TWO chicks in my bedroom. They are noisy little things.

Hope I didn't miss too much excitement here.

 

[kwhites634]

Morning all, sorry to be MIA this week. Came back from vacation and my dad had surgery on Wednesday that did not go as expected. He is okay, but still in ICU, and unfortunately had to have his leg amputated. I expect several more stressful months ahead.

In other news, on Monday, my daughter and I heard a teeny tiny peep coming from our run and much to our surprise found a newly hatched chick in the adult feeder. It apparently hatched without the broody that abandoned her clutch two days earlier. It fell out of the coop and down about 4 feet where it landed in the feeder. Had been pecked a good bit, but somehow survived. We brought it and other eggs in the house to hopefully hatch it a friend. So, even though I was done with chicks in the house, I now have TWO chicks in my bedroom. They are noisy little things.

Hope I didn't miss too much excitement here.

Shame about the leg. Could the knee be saved?

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Unfortunately no, it's above mid-thigh. They saved the hip joint though.

 

[BantyChooks]

Unfortunately no, it's above mid-thigh. They saved the hip joint though.

 

[room onthebroom]

Morning all, sorry to be MIA this week. Came back from vacation and my dad had surgery on Wednesday that did not go as expected. He is okay, but still in ICU, and unfortunately had to have his leg amputated. I expect several more stressful months ahead.

In other news, on Monday, my daughter and I heard a teeny tiny peep coming from our run and much to our surprise found a newly hatched chick in the adult feeder. It apparently hatched without the broody that abandoned her clutch two days earlier. It fell out of the coop and down about 4 feet where it landed in the feeder. Had been pecked a good bit, but somehow survived. We brought it and other eggs in the house to hopefully hatch it a friend. So, even though I was done with chicks in the house, I now have TWO chicks in my bedroom. They are noisy little things.

Hope I didn't miss too much excitement here.

Sorry about your dads leg!

I love the bowl in your avatar. Please place the new baby chicks in that bowl & over night them to me immediately. I'll reimburse you for postage.

 

[kwhites634]

Unfortunately no, it's above mid-thigh. They saved the hip joint though.

That's rough! My thoughts are with you.

 

[Cynthia12]

She's quick like a bunny

Wait, is.. he.. a she? LOL!

 

[Phage]

They always came in different colors!
No recycling here, the situation is that some young cats are driven from there to here by the bigger ones, the find it nice to live here and they start to reproduce, when it arive to the spot that they are annoying me AKA make my yard their territory and try to stay permanently they get my taxi drive!

At our old place we were the only place without a cat so our back yard was the cat public toilet - that is until our friend who works at the zoo gave us some lion scat to put put around the perimeter.

Never saw another cat in the garden again.

 

[Akrnaf2]

At our old place we were the only place without a cat so our back yard was the cat public toilet - that is until our friend who works at the zoo gave us some lion scat to put put around the perimeter.

Never saw another cat in the garden again.

I know that method!
In the zoological center where I have done my research it was a common practice to give lions/tigers scat to farmer that had wilde boars problems on their fruits orcheds. They used to spread it, and apparently it kept the wild boars out.

 

[kajira]

I have a duck question - my daughter found one of our female ducks, in the wading pool, with it's legs completely splayed behind it. She brought it inside, after I told her not too, so I looked at it. It can't walk. It's legs are stiff. I was able to get the legs up under it, and it's feet curled, and then it's head started twitching like it had a neurological condition or a broken back or something weird????

I know they can have niacin deficiency, but I've never seen something like this in an adult duck who's already in their prime. None of the other ducks are acting like this.

Thoughts??? I texted my vet, but I feel really dumb having the vet come out to look at a duck.