Hands on hatching and help

[jenniferlamar70]

Do you have any antibiotics

Do you mean like for illness or ointments?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Quick update on the buff chick we named tweety. She looks like she is doing better blessedly. Not out of the woods by any means but she has started to try to walk and she can even hold her head up for a second. She is also doing small chirps every so often. I'm hoping this means she will actually start to get better.

 

[slordaz]

Last hatch spent 3 days working on one chick now she thinks she's a parrot wants to ride around on my shoulder, glad to hear she's coming along though

 

[ShanandGem]

Quick update on the buff chick we named tweety. She looks like she is doing better blessedly. Not out of the woods by any means but she has started to try to walk and she can even hold her head up for a second. She is also doing small chirps every so often. I'm hoping this means she will actually start to get better.

Hope things continue to improve for you!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Last hatch spent 3 days working on one chick now she thinks she's a parrot wants to ride around on my shoulder, glad to hear she's coming along though

I'll take clingy as long as she gets better lol. She is so precious..

Hope things continue to improve for you!

Thank you so much me too.

 

[ShanandGem]

Sweetness at one day old.

Speaking of clingy...
I have a barnyard mix chick that I had to pull from my Ameraucana tractor as she was being bullied (she was just that little bit smaller and was starting to be a target). I thought I could throw her back in with her brother and his 3 Orpington buddies but they bullied her too. So now she's in a wire box beside the Ameraucana tractor during the day and in a cat carrier in the main coop at night until I figure out what on earth to do with her. She can see the other chicks but they can't get at her. I have apparently become some sort of savior figure to her and she wants to be with me all the time. Several times a day I have to go get her and we walk around the property, looking at the other chickens, the horses. She perches on the edge of my red feed wagon when I am mixing up feed and organizing things. She loves to be petted like a dog and never leaves my side.
Still don't know where I'm going to put her but at the moment she is preferring me to chickens lol. When we walk around and see the other chickens in their tractors she gets tense and buries her face in my arm.

 

[slordaz]

Sweetness at one day old.

Speaking of clingy...
I have a barnyard mix chick that I had to pull from my Ameraucana tractor as she was being bullied (she was just that little bit smaller and was starting to be a target). I thought I could throw her back in with her brother and his 3 Orpington buddies but they bullied her too. So now she's in a wire box beside the Ameraucana tractor during the day and in a cat carrier in the main coop at night until I figure out what on earth to do with her. She can see the other chicks but they can't get at her. I have apparently become some sort of savior figure to her and she wants to be with me all the time. Several times a day I have to go get her and we walk around the property, looking at the other chickens, the horses. She perches on the edge of my red feed wagon when I am mixing up feed and organizing things. She loves to be petted like a dog and never leaves my side.
Still don't know where I'm going to put her but at the moment she is preferring me to chickens lol. When we walk around and see the other chickens in their tractors she gets tense and buries her face in my arm.

mine did well when I went and got a few that were 5-7 days younger she learned to socialize with them and when they were big enough to put in with the others they didnt seem to pick on here as she'd caught up and had her own set of friends equally numbered
chicken math is gonna catch up to me even with the issues of predators, lost a lot of my year and a half old flock but another month or so and the spring chicks will start laying and got 3 broodies sitting on eggs I didn't catch for around 5 days , and know dang well the others helped em but not sure how many eggs they got under them lol and they won't let me peek

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Sweetness at one day old. Speaking of clingy... I have a barnyard mix chick that I had to pull from my Ameraucana tractor as she was being bullied (she was just that little bit smaller and was starting to be a target). I thought I could throw her back in with her brother and his 3 Orpington buddies but they bullied her too. So now she's in a wire box beside the Ameraucana tractor during the day and in a cat carrier in the main coop at night until I figure out what on earth to do with her. She can see the other chicks but they can't get at her. I have apparently become some sort of savior figure to her and she wants to be with me all the time. Several times a day I have to go get her and we walk around the property, looking at the other chickens, the horses. She perches on the edge of my red feed wagon when I am mixing up feed and organizing things. She loves to be petted like a dog and never leaves my side. Still don't know where I'm going to put her but at the moment she is preferring me to chickens lol. When we walk around and see the other chickens in their tractors she gets tense and buries her face in my arm.

Yeah it will be hard to introduce her by herself. Integration can be so challenging. I would also get a few chicks that are about a week younger and put them together. That way when they are ready to integrate with tour flock she isn't singled out and she will have buddies.

mine did well when I went and got a few that were 5-7 days younger she learned to socialize with them and when they were big enough to put in with the others they didnt seem to pick on here as she'd caught up and had her own set of friends equally numbered chicken math is gonna catch up to me even with the issues of predators, lost a lot of my year and a half old flock but another month or so and the spring chicks will start laying and got 3 broodies sitting on eggs I didn't catch for around 5 days , and know dang well the others helped em but not sure how many eggs they got under them lol and they won't let me peek

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[ShanandGem]

Yeah it will be hard to introduce her by herself. Integration can be so challenging. I would also get a few chicks that are about a week younger and put them together. That way when they are ready to integrate with tour flock she isn't singled out and she will have buddies.

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Sorry, she isn't a runt, she is smaller than the Ameraucanas and bigger than the other group I tried to put her with. Up until a week or two ago both groups were together, so when I had to pull her from the Ameraucanas I didn't think it would be an issue to go in with the others.
I need more chicks like I need a hole in the head lol. She can be a 'people' chicken until I get the run put on my big coop, then I will have space to integrate her with her parents with proper fencing and no crowding issues. I just had a 'lightbulb' moment on how to solve all my chicken keeping space issues.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Sorry, she isn't a runt, she is smaller than the Ameraucanas and bigger than the other group I tried to put her with.  Up until a week or two ago both groups were together, so when I had to pull her from the Ameraucanas I didn't think it would be an issue to go in with the others.
I need more chicks like I need a hole in the head lol.  She can be a 'people' chicken until I get the run put on my big coop, then I will have space to integrate her with her parents with proper fencing and no crowding issues.  I just had a 'lightbulb' moment on how to solve all my chicken keeping space issues.

I hear you there. I have 2 more pens to build and I need to expand my personal coop plus the bantam coop. I most definitely do not need more chickens lol