Hatch date May 17! anybody else?

[Paintedhorsegirl]

I took the little chick that I help out of the incubator this morning and put her in with the other chick but still cant seem to stand quite right..I will give it more time and see but there is something wrong with the feet for sure.
What do you think caused both chicks to have messed up feet, do you think it was the incubation or a bad trait passed down...?

 

[hokankai]

Not sure about the cause, but try giving it some poly vi sol. Another member on here had a chick with a curled foot that opened up after having some poly vi sol.

 

[Paintedhorsegirl]

what is poly vi sol? and where do i find it?

 

[Paintedhorsegirl]

I was just looking it up, so its a liquid childrens vitamin? I do have regular bird electrolytes/vitamins in the drinking water but the birds not interested in drinking yet. But the poli vi sol is suppost to be better? I have to go run erronds in a bit, I will stop by rite aid to see if they have some
Thanx for the advice, much appreciated

 

[In His Service]

Get the poly vi sol without iron.

 

[MamacitaGallina]

Yeah we're pretty excited. We have 9 out and in the brooder now. I did a snatch and grab at 5:30am even though most of them we're not dry completely. The humidity may be too high but I don't want to mess with it since the others have hatched ok. Three more are popping now. We went to get some mealworms and crickets yesterday then spent about an hour and a half on youtube finding out how to have worm and cricket farms too.
I've taken many pictures but don't know if I can upload them directly from my phone. The pics aren't great but they are ours.
And people weren't kidding about not getting anything done on hatching day!
I like that feather dusted idea, even if our lone chuck of last night has buddies now. There ought to be some clever trick of providing a mommy substitue for the chicks, just to lower stress. That's all for now.

 

[empireranch]

Here's our first one.

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Orpington mix - I think buff and lavender? Mom is a BLRW I did see another fuzzy in there, looks to be a buff.

 

[Paintedhorsegirl]

Ok so I was getting ready to discard eggs that didnt hatch,some sank so removed them the others were low floaters, therefore thats suppost to mean they are developed..So now what do i do, should I open one to see if they are still alive or what do i do? Maybe I will just leave them another day before chucking them

 

[Paintedhorsegirl]

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Congrats and cute pic

 

[vnploveschickens]

Hi PaintedGirl, Give them another day just to see. You never know.
How is the 2nd chickie doing? Be patient.

Good luck! Keep us updated!

Val