Need hatch buddies for or close to the 18th!

[cmom]

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[bustermommy]

So cute!!!

One of my EE chicks is making me convinced it is a boy because it keeps jumping up and down over and over. If I didn't have a lid on their brooder, I think he'd have been out about 20 times already. He does reach the top every time. I'm not quite sure if he bangs his head, but I wouldn't be surprised. My granddaughter wants to name him either hoppy or jumpy, but I think I have enough chickens with stupid names (Flappy, Skanky, NoToes. Geesh, enough, really.)

They are growing so fast, it's hard to believe they just hatched last week.

 

[jen85]

I now have 7 little ones and 6 more that should hatch

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[RoRoinGA]

The Lemon Cuckoo chicks have arrived! Got 10 so far and more are pipping!

 

[Cynthia12]

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Wow! Must see fluffed up babies!

 

[RoRoinGA]

14 Healthy chicks, wonderful! Here ya go...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Now those are pretty. Bet you had fun going in to take a peek every now and again here on Thanksgiving Day. Congrats. They are darling..love the color..will have to look up lemon Cuckoo chickens to see the colors when grown.

 

[RoRoinGA]

They are pretty, decided on the lemons to add to my flock because of the color. From shipped eggs 14 out of 20 is a great hatch. One of the chicks is got that splayed leg, so I am giving him a little physical therapy to see if it helps. After 13 eggs hatched, and I didnt have anymore pips I started to clean up the incubator. I was checking the eggs that were left and as I grabbed 1, it peeped at me. No pips on it so I decided to intervene. I opened him up very carefully at the top where his beak was, them wrapped him in a paper towel, still in his egg and put him back in the bator. An hour later I checked and he had not made any progress at all so I pulled away some more shell and wrapped him again, put him back and hoped for the best. In the morning when I woke up, he was walking around. I really thought he was a goner. Rocky, as I call him, so far is doing great. He is still in the bator, cause when I put him in the brooder with his family, he seemed to be shivering. So I cleaned out the bator, put in food and water and a soft washcloth for him to sleep on and left him in there last night. I checked this morning and he looks good, Hopefully he can go back with the rest today.

 

[jen85]

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How do you do physical therapy? I have one with a splayed leg too and I tryed using a bandaid like someone had posted as a way to fix it but it hasn't helped. He hops around to eat and drink really well.

 

[Cynthia12]

I love....love...electrical tape! Band aids just didn't stay on very well for me. I use the small size, and still cut it in half to make it not so wide. You straighten the legs to where they look normal, wrap some tape around one, pull the tape to the other leg, wrap it around that one, and back to either the middle or to the other leg, according to how much tape you have left. The tape stays on well, and I've never had a problem with it making the skin sore. Just had one problem..and that was not making the tape go far enough out from the toes..barely out. I had one that I had put the tape just below the toe, it got swollen..hurried and took it off the next day.. it did fine. They have such rubbery little legs and feet..it usually doesn't take long for the legs to get fixed. Sometimes just a day, but I go for two, just to make sure. The tape comes off easily, unless you have feathered feet, then it pulls some of the feathers, and you have to go slow..I usually have my DH help me hold the chick while I'm doing it. Good luck!