No Brooders, No Problem

[Chickie Momma]

I hate to add to bad news friends...
I candled my egg last night before bed and saw a horrible cloud. Due to that I opened the egg. The chick was dead. My guess it died when I saw the vessels shrink back on Day #18. It still had a tiny abdominal opening and quite a sizeable yolk sac. Otherwise was perfectly formed.

On a happy note my broody EE hen Helen is still sitting on a clutch of silkie eggs. 3 are due to hatch between Wed and Thurs. Keep them in your thoughts. My broody momma silkie (Daisy) is still sitting on her egg due on March 7th. I am ready for their arrival!

 

[Beckie G]

I don't know. A lot feed there chicks yogert and swear by it! In my little experience with silkies they tend to be a bit more fragile and pron to sickness then other breeds. At least for the first week. I would not over think it by the results of just one chick. These things happen. Sorry to hear it tho..:-( this has been so fun to follow and I think you have inspired many to try new things and each can learn from each other. I don't think I would consider myself a "prepper" but I'm fascinated with learning alternative ways of doing things if we had no power or other resources. We learn by trial and error.
Our culture tends to lose our selfs in all this incredible technology he have, that's great but we have seemed to have lost the basics.
Now I think there may be easier and better ways of doing this. But we should learn anyway the more we try the more we will understand.
I was thinking about other women trying this and was thinking that younger active women may not be able to maintain temps as well as say, a sweet elderly grandma that may have conditions that limit there mobility and tend to stay wraped up in a warm home. Just an idea.
Don't know that this is really a thread for a man to be expressing his opinion but there it is.
Again sorry about your loss It has been a roller coster for you and I wish we had happier news.

I haven't heard anything bad about yogurt as of yet and I feed all my girls and boys yogurt, fruit and oatmeal for breakfast everyday, never had a problem and my chickens are super healthy and lay almost every day without fail. I still don't understand why she fed it to her that day. I just figured she knew what she was doing.

The last two days I thought her attitude toward her baby was kinda strange..seemed as if she was stepping on her almost deliberately, but then I thought maybe that's just how chickens are.

You are right i have been over thinking things, there's probably nothing i could have done for her.

I will be trying this again when she's ready to lay, only a bit differently.

This thread is for everybody and anybody definitely not gender specific. I'm happy to have all advice as i am very new to this and at times could use some guidance

. Most of what I have learned has been from some really great people in this forum including yourself and some trial and error.

I will definitely stick with this thread and let everyone know when buttcheek lays as she is with her boys again where she seems most happiest.

 

[Beckie G]

I hate to add to bad news friends...
I candled my egg last night before bed and saw a horrible cloud. Due to that I opened the egg. The chick was dead. My guess it died when I saw the vessels shrink back on Day #18. It still had a tiny abdominal opening and quite a sizeable yolk sac. Otherwise was perfectly formed.

On a happy note my broody EE hen Helen is still sitting on a clutch of silkie eggs. 3 are due to hatch between Wed and Thurs. Keep them in your thoughts. My broody momma silkie (Daisy) is still sitting on her egg due on March 7th. I am ready for their arrival!

Really sorry to hear that, today just seems to be one of those days. Maybe we should do a boobie hatch-a-long when things settle down!? Just something to think about.

Keep us updated on the eggs and post some pics when they hatch

 

[BellChell123]

So sorry to hear that! Let us know how Helen's eggs do!

 

[Chickie Momma]

Will do!

 

[Chickie Momma]

We have one white silkie babie freshly hatched! Very noisy...went to check and all I heard was cheep cheep

my RIR STEPPED on the other one just after it got its beak out of the shell. Poor baby. I was gone all day so it probably
tried to hatch much earlier in the day because it was dried. So, I moved my broody mama and the new baby into the brooder
in my livingroom for now.

 

[BellChell123]

STEPPED on it??? Poor baby! How is it doing? We once had a goat step on her 5 min. old baby and it's leg was broken!

 

[Chickie Momma]

Its head got stepped on and it died but the nosey chick is doing very well. There is food and water and heat in the brooder. Have 4 more babies due in the next 2 wks.

 

[Chickie Momma]

NEWSFLASH: The unmarked egg hatched today The chick had some umbilical bleeding that I had to stop, buit is drying off under momma Helen now. I will give it some sugar water to help it out a little. It is a little weak, but is peeping now and then. FYI the egg that hatched successfully yesterday was an egg that was refrigerated for over a week.

Will post pics later...

 

[chickencrazy999]

Aww I'm so sorry to hear that Beckie

Hope fully she may go broody again and hatch a few more.