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

[Sally Sunshine]

HELP! My cat just grabbed a chick from under the door! Gashed her skin open about the size of a quarter! What do I do!?! She is 4 weeks old and super sweet!!

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HELP My chicken has been scalped! Hawk12 post #72054
This is the one I was thinking of.....
ANOTHER:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/healing-a-severely-injured-baby-chick

I have found its best to NOT close up wounds unless you can insert drain tubes, and who can do that? not me so I let them open and just keep up with oral antibiotics and Veterycin spray

So far I immediately peroxided it and then polysporin. I have fish mox- I'm going to put her on a five day course just to be sure. She is so sweet.

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I'll weigh her and separate it from there

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BJ I put this all in one post, please keep me updated and tag in pics updates etc. hope everything goes well for you

Thank you for the info from hawk12, it really made me feel better

So far, wounded chick is doing ok. Wouldn't know she was injured from her actions. Given fish mix once today. Giving again at dark. I love her, and most of my chickens are livestock not pets.

Hope she makes it. Getting 5 Dom pullets, 3 white leghorn pullets, 3 EE pullets, and 4-6(depending on the hatch) of blue and splash amerecuanas straight run, all in the next two weeks! Oh and I'm on day 14 on my bator lol!!

Wounded chick seems ok...what do you think?

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

So they look smaller than the images I posted? sorta look small but again your pics were small and not clear from the side view to see depth.

The pics I looked at were big enough to fill a 22" monitor, and they looked small to me. If you right click on the pic (link) and select Open link in a new tab or window, you get to see the full-size pics. If they fit the screen, you can left click the pic and zoom in on the spot you clicked on.

 

[Hawk12]

Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I've posted but I have a question for those of you that hatch shipped eggs. How do you set the eggs for lockdown...laying down or upright in egg cartons? And has it been successful?

 

[lozerface79]

awwwwww      make sure you check fertility after you pull clears.


So they look smaller than the images I posted?  sorta look small but again your pics were small and not clear from the side view to see depth. 

They looked okay to me but i think it was ur that said they looked small so im taking pics tonight when i do a follow up candle just to be sure and see what you guys think.

 

[mlm Mike]

Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I've posted but I have a question for those of you that hatch shipped eggs. How do you set the eggs for lockdown...laying down or upright in egg cartons? And has it been successful?

Were the air calls good or not? If air cells were fine, incubate/hatch as normal. If air cells were not ok then incubate upright, hatch in cartons, upright

 

[Hawk12]

Were the air calls good or not? If air cells were fine, incubate/hatch as normal. If air cells were not ok then incubate upright, hatch in cartons, upright

The air cells were great in some but terrible in others at first. Day 14 candling showed they all had stabilized in the eggs that are left.

 

[Pensmaster]

Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I've posted but I have a question for those of you that hatch shipped eggs. How do you set the eggs for lockdown...laying down or upright in egg cartons? And has it been successful?

I used egg cartons and it was successful for me.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

They looked okay to me but i think it was ur that said they looked small so im taking pics tonight when i do a follow up candle just to be sure and see what you guys think.

It was I... guilty as charged.

When I mark my air cells, I set the pointed end of the eggs in a pocket formed in a soft towel, and use my rubber sealed candler in the center of the round end to rotate the eggs while tracing the edge of the air cells with a pencil. It gives an extremely accurate outline of he air cells, but this method would obviously be more difficult to do with a flashlight of cell phone...

 

[rIrs roost]

I got a bator yesterday from my friend @Sally Sunshine whoops sorry. Y'all already know. Crs is kicking in.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Any that started with bad air cells I would incubate and hatch upright.


Here is some info on hatching shipped eggs:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...chat-meet-new-friends/53800_100#post_16540512