INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[sourland]

like milk n butta

Add eggs, coffee and English muffins and those are all of my 'staples'.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I'll do some AVC in the water! What ratio?

Ambe

quick lesson on pasty butt.....

Pasty butt can come from incubation stress, or its worse when you get chicks shipped. It can also be caused by keeping the chicks too warm and they dont have a place to get out of the heat, so be sure your heat is at a corner only in the brooder and the other end is cool, or they might even need more protein in their feed. Are you feeding chick food? They do well with a momma hen because they get good bacteria in their gutts from peckin at mommas poo and at the ground believe it or not. This is why I like to use those pre/pro biotic vits I posted again a few posts before. post #10400

We always have to monitor our chicks for the first week daily, I dont do so much after that unless I see issues the first week. Serama are tough cause they have that uptilted butt and their poo automatically gets hung all there. You have to be careful as I am sure you know since yours are a few days old now, not to mistake the butt hole with the umbilical and tear a slit open at the umbilical. If I cant gently pick it off their bum I run their tush under warm drizzle of water under the sink and dry them off with a paper towel and fluff them up. if I have to cut some feathers off I will. Never put a red or bloody chick back with other chicks, use blue coat spray or keep them separate.

You can get a little plain yogurt, mixed in their chick starter and even mash up a hard boiled egg yolk for them too. but again I suggest the either the acv or like I do the pre/pro vits the first 2 weeks and then switch to the acv.....



ACV= apple cider vinegar WITH MOTHER
Mix 1 oz (2 Tbs) of ACV per gallon of water or free-choice at 50:50 with water in a plastic waterer or pan. ACV will corrode metal waterers. EDIT (with the free choice and chicks, I would remove when these symptoms disappear and add to water)

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Where can I get to those in store?

I would think TSC or your local feed store would have something like it? no sure, I always get mine at jeffersonline

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Mornin M'lord Joey hows the chicklets?

Good morning, M'Lady!

The chicklets are doing fabulous! Big balls of fuzz flitting all over the brooder... lol! The review I read was accurate... with the Sweeter Heater, the chicks are so quiet it makes you think something is wrong. Barely a peep, but I don't think they could possibly be any healthier. I think they're content and feel safer with something to scoot under for safety. Will be looking for a new home/homes for them soon.

 

[scflock]

I would think TSC or your local feed store would have something like it? no sure, I always get mine at jeffersonline

I use sav-a-chick probiotics from TSC

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Good morning

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good morning, M'Lady!

The chicklets are doing fabulous! Big balls of fuzz flitting all over the brooder... lol! The review I read was accurate... with the Sweeter Heater, the chicks are so quiet it makes you think something is wrong. Barely a peep, but I don't think they could possibly be any healthier. I think they're content and feel safer with something to scoot under for safety. Will be looking for a new home/homes for them soon.

you have a new home for them!

its all ready prepared?

I use sav-a-chick probiotics from TSC

thank you ma puce

Good morning

mornin CH!

how is the bator temp?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

you have a new home for them! its all ready prepared?

thank you ma puce

mornin CH!   how is the bator temp?

eggs where steel chill so I turned it up two more dagrees

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey, Sal isn't as bad as bubbs....

yea it is, my ex called me that nuff said sweets?

 

[ambe0487]

Ambe quick lesson on pasty butt..... Pasty butt can come from incubation stress, or its worse when you get chicks shipped. It can also be caused by keeping the chicks too warm and they dont have a place to get out of the heat, so be sure your heat is at a corner only in the brooder and the other end is cool, or they might even need more protein in their feed. Are you feeding chick food? They do well with a momma hen because they get good bacteria in their gutts from peckin at mommas poo and at the ground believe it or not. This is why I like to use those pre/pro biotic vits I posted again a few posts before. post #10400 We always have to monitor our chicks for the first week daily, I dont do so much after that unless I see issues the first week. Serama are tough cause they have that uptilted butt and their poo automatically gets hung all there. You have to be careful as I am sure you know since yours are a few days old now, not to mistake the butt hole with the umbilical and tear a slit open at the umbilical. If I cant gently pick it off their bum I run their tush under warm drizzle of water under the sink and dry them off with a paper towel and fluff them up. if I have to cut some feathers off I will. Never put a red or bloody chick back with other chicks, use blue coat spray or keep them separate. You can get a little plain yogurt, mixed in their chick starter and even mash up a hard boiled egg yolk for them too. but again I suggest the either the acv or like I do the pre/pro vits the first 2 weeks and then switch to the acv..... ACV= apple cider vinegar WITH MOTHER Mix 1 oz (2 Tbs) of ACV per gallon of water or free-choice at 50:50 with water in a plastic waterer or pan. ACV will corrode metal waterers.

This is what I had picked up at my local farm store and put in their water this morning.

I have Braggs. Should I use Braggs instead of the poultry vits I picked up? Here is my broader (I am cleaning it today). Crazy how dirty it can get in 2 days! I have the heat lamp in one corner and food I the other. They seem to like being down at the heated side unless they are eating.

And I am doing no medicated chick starter