Mille Cochin Info

[jd08]

Iris the blue mottled from Jamie Matt's to add type an blue into my mille fleu

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[ChknObsessedANG]

Iris the blue mottled from Jamie Matt's to add type an blue into my mille fleur pen

Hey! I have a blue mottled cochin hen named Iris too!! HAHAHA! She is pretty!!

 

[NosiphoChooks]

So I have just completed first hatch of the year and have 8 chicks running around! 5milles and 3 blue milles so adorable. I will get photos tomorrow. I also had 2 wild type chicks hatch so im not sure what they will be! Another 5 under a broody due to hatch tomorrow too. I have had one casualty who hopefully is on the mend. Checked a broody bootes bantam out in the garden this morning and she had hatched 3 out of 5 chicks. Saw the 4th had pipped and just assumed it would be put by the time I got home from work. Well I got home and went to check and momma hen had abandoned the poor thing. The other chicks had dropped down a little ledge and she had followed them to keep them warm. I peeked through the pip and saw no movement. I even peeled a bit more shell off to make sure but saw no movement and it didny respond to a gentle touch. Was sad but thought for a first time broody 3 out of 5 isnt bad! Was cleaning out the cage and had the dead chick in with the poop etc. When out of the corner of my eye swore I saw the beak move. The egg was freezing cold and I thought it might be a reflex or something but I had to be sure. So I hoped that if it was alive it had finished absorbing and started gently peeling back the shell. Took the little chick out the remnants of shell and was sure he was dead. So wet and cold and could not see it breathing. Then saw the tinyest little twitch of its leg. I quickly ean back to the house and even from the warmth of my hands I could seen it starting to very slowly twitch. I stuck him straight in the incubator and checked a couple of hours later and he was very weak byt flopping around. I could not believe it! After some glucose and water he seems to be on the mend. I cannot believe how he came back from the brink I have never been so surprised!

Lucky

 

[mindylee]

So I have just completed first hatch of the year and have 8 chicks running around! 5milles and 3 blue milles so adorable. I will get photos tomorrow. I also had 2 wild type chicks hatch so im not sure what they will be! Another 5 under a broody due to hatch tomorrow too. I have had one casualty who hopefully is on the mend. Checked a broody bootes bantam out in the garden this morning and she had hatched 3 out of 5 chicks. Saw the 4th had pipped and just assumed it would be put by the time I got home from work. Well I got home and went to check and momma hen had abandoned the poor thing. The other chicks had dropped down a little ledge and she had followed them to keep them warm. I peeked through the pip and saw no movement. I even peeled a bit more shell off to make sure but saw no movement and it didny respond to a gentle touch. Was sad but thought for a first time broody 3 out of 5 isnt bad! Was cleaning out the cage and had the dead chick in with the poop etc. When out of the corner of my eye swore I saw the beak move. The egg was freezing cold and I thought it might be a reflex or something but I had to be sure. So I hoped that if it was alive it had finished absorbing and started gently peeling back the shell. Took the little chick out the remnants of shell and was sure he was dead. So wet and cold and could not see it breathing. Then saw the tinyest little twitch of its leg. I quickly ean back to the house and even from the warmth of my hands I could seen it starting to very slowly twitch. I stuck him straight in the incubator and checked a couple of hours later and he was very weak byt flopping around. I could not believe it! After some glucose and water he seems to be on the mend. I cannot believe how he came back from the brink I have never been so surprised!

Lucky

Congrats on the save!
I had one do the same here. It was born, stuck outside in brooder in December. Other chicks beat it up. Found cold and dead. Saw a twitch, tossed in bator and now have a beautiful calico frizzle pullet.

Its amazing how fragile and yet strong baby chicks can be.

 

[ki4got]

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I've got a Lucky too... except that I got him at about 3-4 months old (silver/buff split Columbian). the day I got him, as I was unpacking and putting them in their new pen, he decided to take off. landed on the ground and the free range roos immediately gave chase to this new guy. not knowing about the pond, he decided to take a shortcut and went bloop into the center (end of January). so I hurriedly finished unpacking so I wouldn't lose anyone else (not knowing he'd gone bloop) and grabbed the net and went in search. found him at the center of the pond (really a large above ground kiddie pool, about 6 across) where the tank heater keeps it thawed (free rangers go on the ice when it's frozen enough or drink from the edges when the sun's hit it and thawed some.) by this time it's been more than 5 minutes since he got out, maybe closer to 10.

I dragged him out of the water, and he's dead. eyes open, no pain response, no nothing. on a whim, I took him right inside and filled a small bucket with the hottest water our heater can do and plopped him in, holding his head out of the water. I kept checking his eyes, touching one now and then for pain response but still nothing. took him out and refilled the bucket since thewater had cooled so quickly (3-4 minutes maybe?) and plopped him back in. noticed his head was much colder than the rest of him, so this time I held his head just under water but enough to keep his beak dry.

after a few more minutes, I picked his head out, and noticed his pupils 'twitching'. rapidly constrict and dilate in/out. ok... refreshed the water again and put him back in. another couple minutes (felt like hours) and he 'spazzed' hard and started breathing but nothing else. by this time his body was probably as warm as I could get it without worry of him now drowning in hot water, so I wrapped him in a towel and set him on my chair. I had other things to do, like get the horses out of the back of the car (eating the grain I brought home).

when I finally came back in, he was still soggy, wrapped in the towel, but warm, breathing normally and his eyes were closed. when I picked him up off my chair he woke up and looked around some. so I got the blow dryer out and dried him off some more, then wrapped him in another dry towel and put him in a tote, where he lived for the next couple weeks or so.

at first, he couldn't stand, but after a couple days started eating better and drinking easier. within a week he was standing, somewhat unbalanced. started shuffling around like someone who's had brain damage and lots of PT... at this point, his 2 week quarantine was over, I put him in a crate with another couple younger pullets to make him more active. 2 weeks later he went back outside with his flockmates into the community cochin coop. jump ahead 3 months, if I hadn't banded him I wouldn't be able to tell him from his brother...

 

[mindylee]

Awwww poor lil guy!
Thats him on the cochin thread "lucky"? Right?

 

[ki4got]

Awwww poor lil guy!
Thats him on the cochin thread "lucky"? Right?

Yup... even if I never breed him, I can't see ever selling him unless someone else will love him.

 

[NosiphoChooks]

Wow ki4got that really is a survival story! What a lucky roo. Well my little one went from strength to strength and was out of the chicken itu in my kitchen and under a broody with lots of other chicks the next day! So many mfc I couldn't tell now which one he is! I now have 14 blue mfc and normal mfc chicks in the garden. Another 29 eggs in the incubator and 20 under my buff Orpington who went broody today! Here are two funny pics I took earlier.

oh no blackie what have you done with all the chicks?

I see there they are!

 

[County Boy]

SInce I've set so many eggs from Nigus in the past few weeks I've switched him with Harry. Hopefully we can get some nece chicks from both boys. Can't wait to watch these chicks mature and see how differently they look. First eggs will hatch Wednesday.


And the Peppermint daughters Mint and Spearmint. First egg today from one of these 2 fine ladies!! To small to try and hatch unfortunately.

 

[Fancy Feathers]