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[BirdBoy88]

Hey

i just got back home and look in the bator and there are so many chicks moving around..lol and 2 more pheasant chicks hatch

the first pheasant chick and one of the bobwhite chicks wont walk? they crawl while there legs are to the side of them?

oh and a coturnix chick hatch to

 

[nhnanna]

I had to help this one out of the shell too. For some reason I had alot of dry membranes and it was taking it a real long time to get out so I put wet tissue on the membrane to loosen it up a bit even though I have read a million times not to help them. I just couldn't help myself. I could see that it was getting weak from trying to get out and it couldn't. I finally just got it moist enough to peel it off and let it do the rest by itself.
I send good luck your way that it will be ok.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I've found that the ones I help tend to have leg/toe problems... they seem to NEED the pushing and squeezing to get out of the shell in order to have everything working fine. I try not to help anymore, but sometimes curled toes just happen. I had one button that almost died... laying on its side, gasping, stretching... somehow it snapped out of it, and started crawling around. Not standing up, but walking on its haunches. It is perfectly fine, now, and has fathered children. Sometimes they just need a couple of extra days to literally get their feet under them. Putting the eggs on the rubber shelf liner so that they can walk on that when they hatch seems to help.

 

[nhnanna]

Ya, I get the rubber shelf liner at the family dollar up here. I use that in the hatcher and then I put paper towels over pine shavings for the first few days until they start tearing them up........

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

That's promising - thank you! It's in the brooder with non-slip liner then paper towels over that. Think it would help if I took the paper towels out? Except then it's so messy...but if it will help?

 

[Mrs MIA]

It might...
I just bought a couple of rolls of the stuff and cut it out to size. Then, when it's soiled (every day, it seems), I take out the dirty and throw it in the laundry after rinsing it off and put a new one in. Don't put them in the dryer... just let them hang dry... they'll shrink and melt a little!
I don't use paper towels on anyone except the wire-caged critters.

You might try it.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I've never tried washing it...I always just throw it away

!

Will run down now and take out the paper towels and hope for the best. Thank you!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

You're welcome. It's icky, but just like a baby diaper, I swish it in the tub with hot water, soaking sometimes, until all the poopies dissolve off, then wash it. Hubby thinks I'm crazy, but it works. But like I said, DON'T dry it...

Just let it drip dry, and make sure it's dry before using again.

 

[BirdBoy88]

I'm confused...lol

but right now only things are hatching are the coturnix eggs some more will hatch most likely later tonight or tomorrow of all the eggs

i have paper towel in my brooder with the quails could that be the reason the pheasant and bobwhite chick can't walk? because they can't grip the paper towel to stand up?

and same here i never thought you could clean the liners.... what a great way to save

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I always use the paper towels over the liner and never had a problem. This poor little chick has curled feet from being the egg too long - I'm sure that's the problem. I took up the paper towels and it is trying SO hard...but those feet just won't uncurl.