New Hatchlings...(Tiny Has Grown Up Now....Update)

[jeremy]

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Yes, I'm sure logic is the reason behind your hatching...

L0L. Either way they are sweet looking little babies!

Can't wait to make a thread about my own incubation journey.

Here's to sending good vibes to Tiny.

 

[joletabey]

Did we make it through the night?

 

[speckledhen]

When I got up, I expected to hear that she'd passed during the night, but instead, I woke to a chick just singing in the livingroom. DH was holding the dark blue mayo jar top with mashed egg and yogurt in it and she was eating and singing her heart out. She was so hungry! Reminded me of Scott's L'il Bit, who would eat and sing when we fed her away from the other hoodlums who ran over her all the time. Obviously, the contrast between the egg and the dark blue surface should have been obvious, but she's peck and hit the bottom and peck and miss and peck and miss, so we had to put a pile of egg in front of her face. There is very definitely a vision issue here, but at least, not being completely blind, maybe she can compensate. If she can do that and learn to drink, she may make it, but the other issue is that as the others get huge and we need to raise the feed and water, she won't be able to keep up. So, we'll take this one day at a time. If she was completely blind, we'd have already euthanized her, but we'll give it some time and see what happens.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yay! She's eating!!! Maybe when she's older, she can be buddies with your handicapped rooster.

I noticed a couple weeks ago that a cockeral I hatched has vision issues. (he's now 16 weeks old) I never noticed it before, but when he walks he sticks his feet out high (like he's stepping over something) and when he pecks, he doesn't always hit what he's pecking at. But he's always found food and water fine. I just thought he couldn't roost because he doesn't have a tail, but apparently he doesn't roost because he doesn't see all that well. (stupid me!)

 

[Serrin]

She's SINGING!?!?!?

WOW! That Tiny!! She's such a little fighter!!

I'd love to see a pic of Tom sitting there with this little angel perched in his lap, eating out of a mayonnaise jar lid!

It's gotta be priceless!

**Sigh** I really do wish you lived closer to me Cyn. I could give you guys a break from all of the sick chick nursing duties and let y'all get back to the rest of the flock. I know it's not easy caring for a "special needs" baby. It's draining both physically and emotionally.

I admire you and Tom and commend you both for going that extra mile for little Tiny. I'm sure that if s/he makes it, s/he won't disappoint you. And who knows....Maybe the Great Spirit sent Tiny along to be a companion for Zane someday. It would be nice to see him have a little friend to keep him company through the long days and nights.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

<---- tears of joy - eating and singing

Not trying to get too excited but

Bestest vibes and love going to Tiny

She is a sweet little Thumbelina.

 

[speckledhen]

I really want her to live, I really do, or we wouldn't be spending so much time with her, but unless she decides to eat and drink what is in the brooder, I can't see her being here much longer. She is so cheerful when she is pecking at the egg/yogurt concoction, but she doesn't seem to really see the crumble (maybe being the same color as the shavings?). She'll stand in the jar lid on top of crumble while others are eating all around her feet and act completely oblivious. If she doesn't copy the others, I have to think she is not going to be able to survive. It is the cutest thing you ever saw, though, her pecking (missing alot of the time) and singing her heart out like a little robin.

 

[speckledhen]

She was chirping her head off and DH took her from the brooder, put her in a bowl with egg mashed with crumble and a bottle cap of water. She couldn't see the water so I added a sprinkle of Avia Charge to it and she would peck at it, getting a drop of water in the process. She can't see the crumble or plain water very well.

 

[Serrin]

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Oh Cyn!! I don't doubt that for a second! I don't think anyone here would ever doubt how much you want her to live. But I also understand that there's only so much you can do. At some point you have to let nature take its course. Hopefully in a few more days she'll get the hang of all of this baby chicken business and be able to fend for herself.

I wonder....how much of her disability in eating and drinking on her own, do you think is related to her eyesight (or lack thereof) and how much of this might be an inability to learn what all of the other chicks do instinctively? I mean, is there a possibility that she is, for lack of a better term, developmentally disabled?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]