Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC EASTER HATCH. Post pics of your chicks!

[SteveH]

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I would ask for help in the emergency/health section.

 

[ChooksChick]

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I would ask for help in the emergency/health section.

I would definitely try my old favorite: baby parrot formula. It's the best thing for these weaklings, because you can mix it more and more pasty as their ability to eat improves. It's got protein, probiotics, electrolytes, etc. Good luck!

 

[SteveH]

Well, at least one chick seemed totally unaffected by not being turned for nearly the entire incubation; it zipped and popped in just a few minutes, and noon tomorrow is 21 days. The egg beside it, however, zipped about 1/4 way and has made no progress for about 8 hours.

 

[Rathbone]

Keep us updated SteveH. I am betting they will be okay. Amazing things these little lives.

 

[SteveH]

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I have 4 out [1 needed help], 1 pipped, all from yesterday/last night; and 6 doing nothing yet, at 21 days plus a half hour.

 

[Rathbone]

Woot Woot! Looks like they will be okay Steve.

 

[SteveH]

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It wasn't great, but I have 4 fuzzies and a crusty. [The crusty chick is OK, but was seriously gooey and stuck in the membane]

I had to be gone a few hours, and came home to one partially zipped but stuck; the still air incubator had spiked to 102.8 due to the room temp going to 87 in the dead air corner where the bators sit. I had closed the door to that room to keep the cool air in, but had not turned the window air conditioner low enough to handle the near 90 outside temps added to the two bators running in a corner. [The forced air bator sitting right next to it held its temps OK.]

One chick pipped at the wrong end and was dead when when I got home, one was an early quitter and barely recognizable as a chick, and four died without pipping or absorbing the yolks.

I have 14 more going to lockdown today. I've added a thermostat that will not let the wafer turn on if the bator is over 100 at mid-egg level, and running the air conditioner cooler.

 

[Rathbone]

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I am sorry about the losses...but will celebrate the fuzzies and crusty

I am genuinely happy for the successes.

 

[ChooksChick]

SteveH: Ohhhhh....you are going to end up calling that one Crusty, aren't you? It's going to have to get a new name FAST if you're ever going to get past this!

I'm glad you had some hatch, and I'm sorry it wasn't more. I'm nearly done with my hack-of-doom and can nearly get through a day without coughing myself to tears- how are you doing?

 

[thebirdguy]

Day old pheasants with a 5 day old FBCM