Just an example of how bad one can screw up. I just killed my sweet chick, my baby, the only chick of our pet hen Chloe who was killed by a dog. She hatched on day 24 and we were so excited, she was so sweet and pretty, and tiny. Well, we gave her her stuffed animal, and a heat light, and put her in a mail tub. She was fine. I thought it might be a bit hot, but I was going to get a thermometer today, she seemed lively enough. We decided to get her some siblings, that it would be best. So we went to the feed mill today and got what they said were days old chicks. They were Golden Comets and a lot bigger than our baby. So I think they were probably older than what was portrayed. Anyway, she didn't like her new sibs very much, but we left them alone b/c eventually they did huddle together on her stuffed animal. They were shoving and peeping and acting like chicks do. But when I came back from the store, I was gone an hour, I decided to take a nap for an hour and leave the babies alone, I thought I might be stressing them checking on them all the time. Well, DS did go to check on them.
Baby was dead, rigor mortis had not set in yet so she had just died. He said he thought it was too much heat from the heat light, and the stress from the new babies was too much. We have turned off all the heat lights and are not sure just what to do, i can't find a cooler bulb and we are very reluctant to turn the lights back on. We had to buy six, according to the law, so we have three GCs and three very pretty straight run banty chicks who are older, two weeks or so. These six babies will now be constant reminders of Chloe's baby that I killed, and that really we had no idea what we were doing and I feel like this is all my fault, I am just sick about it. Sorry for the ranting but I just cannot quit thinking about this. And what about the other babies....
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Baby was dead, rigor mortis had not set in yet so she had just died. He said he thought it was too much heat from the heat light, and the stress from the new babies was too much. We have turned off all the heat lights and are not sure just what to do, i can't find a cooler bulb and we are very reluctant to turn the lights back on. We had to buy six, according to the law, so we have three GCs and three very pretty straight run banty chicks who are older, two weeks or so. These six babies will now be constant reminders of Chloe's baby that I killed, and that really we had no idea what we were doing and I feel like this is all my fault, I am just sick about it. Sorry for the ranting but I just cannot quit thinking about this. And what about the other babies....
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