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

[kajira]

I am guessing my suggestion is one you do not want to hear...


It could be a teaching moment as to "why we do not touch hatching eggs"... depending on her age..

( I know that sounds like something an old grouchy guy would say, I can't believe I sound that way)

the egg was kicked out of the nest, by the mom's, outside. I love my silkies, but it was shrink wrapped, and had she not brought the egg inside for help, the baby would have died in the shell, anyways.

She's aware it might die. She understands that, it's not her first egg rodeo. She just hopes it's okay because she likes babies. lol

Do you have any baby vitamins like that liquid vitamin to give babies after they've been real sick? I wonder what ingredients are in neutral transmission what could be used to give them instead.

I have gummi vitamins - all my kids atm are old enough to chew

 

[BantyChooks]

I am guessing my suggestion is one you do not want to hear...


It could be a teaching moment as to "why we do not touch hatching eggs"... depending on her age..

( I know that sounds like something an old grouchy guy would say, I can't believe I sound that way)

Probably because you are an old grouchy guy, eh

 

[BantyChooks]

I am slowly warming up to your beliefs.
(I can NOT believe I just said that)

Shhh... Don't ever agree with Ralphie. It makes him get a big head.

 

[Kiki]

Shhh... Don't ever agree with Ralphie. It makes him get a big head.

Big heads need weekly spraying, don't they?

 

[BantyChooks]

Big heads need weekly spraying, don't they?

Yep. TSSSSS.

 

[BullChick]

I have this baby chick my daughter rescued as it was hatching yesterday. I put it half-hatched in the brooder with my other chick (who's still tiny.) and it hasn't been able to walk, since it hatched. It's legs and wings are fine, but it cannot hold up it's head. It will eat/drink if you hold it near the food dish. So it's got a strong will to live, it just acts like something is wrong with it's neck. It can move it's head, just not hold it up?

any suggestions? Or just leave it and see if it recovers?

Polyvitasol is what Dax was probably referring to.
Chances are, it just needs a few days. Wrap it in a washcloth, and stick it in your shirt.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Don't have any, and I'm officially on bedrest, and cannot go anywhere ATM to get some. I lost a big chunk of my mucus plug yesterday (TMI) and am contracting. I'm actually waiting for my OB to call me back to see what our plan is, because until 24 weeks, I'm not viable and they won't do any interventions that I know of, besides IV fluids and bedrest.

I just don't know if I have to go see her, or wait until the 2nd for my apt and just be on bedrest until my follow up apt

Not trying to be difficult about the chick, but my husband's not going to drive 45 minutes for a chick, to get a cheap bottle of nutridrench. He'd just roll his eyes and say "well, hatch a different one." lol that's about his level of caring over baby chicks.

Oh, please rest! I'll pray for you!

If you have some gadorade for electrolytes and polyvisol without iron (baby vitamins) that could work for the little chick in a pinch

I think for me it's 20 Birds because I can get that in one big coop

Argh, my last count was about 65 chickens. I've managed to butcher about 5 roos and sell 6 hens and a roo since then. Ideally, I'd like to get down under 40 but that's going to be hard. I need to weed out the silkie cockerels and lavender ameraucana cockerels. That SHOULD get me close enough lol

 

[BullChick]

@kajira Go to Chewy.Com They have three kinds of vitamins for your chick. Order now, and it should be to you by tomorrow morning.
Look at "bird vitamins".

 

[kajira]

Polyvitasol is what Dax was probably referring to.
Chances are, it just needs a few days. Wrap it in a washcloth, and stick it in your shirt.

Can't put it in my shirt while on bedrest, but it's under a heat lamp with another baby chick (just 1 silkie chick) so not likely to injure it. Abbie said she just checked on it again and it was standinig up - so it apparently just needed a day or so to recover from hatching. I usually don't pay close attention directly to the babies after they hatch in the incubator, but if I remember correctly, they are pretty floppy the first few hours after hatching.

 

[kajira]

Oh, please rest! I'll pray for you!

If you have some gadorade for electrolytes and polyvisol without iron (baby vitamins) that could work for the little chick in a pinch



Argh, my last count was about 65 chickens. I've managed to butcher about 5 roos and sell 6 hens and a roo since then. Ideally, I'd like to get down under 40 but that's going to be hard. I need to weed out the silkie cockerels and lavender ameraucana cockerels. That SHOULD get me close enough lol

lots of cock!

I'll be around later tonight, off to drive 6+ hours to go see my docto r:/