So much happiness!
Happy hatchday! Welcome to life bby bird!
You can look at the yolk to know if it's fertile but I guess if it's the only one, it would be pointless. I hope the little one makes it.Ok here's a long update on my latest hatch. Cookies if you read it all.
1 black Ameraucana bantam, 1 blue Ameraucana bantam, 1 black silkie (with a vaulted skull!), and 7 coturnix quail of various colors running happily around the brooder together! (I think I may have already posted pics here yesterday or I would again!) ((After checking, nope! I didn't! So have some more chicky-pics!))
And my styrobator has turned into a nursery for the "special needs kids"..
The cornish bantam chick has obvious neurologic problems. It's head shakes and it can't stand up without toppling over for more than a minute. It's hanging in there, though and seems to be getting slightly better with time so I don't have the heart to put it down until I find out if it's basic functions (eating/drinking/etc) are affected. It sure is cute.
Then there are two quail with curled toes. I managed to make shoes for them just with tape, and it's working really well! I suspect they'll be ready to join the others soon. I know if I put them in now, though, they'll be picked on.
Normal pharaoh with barely-curled toes, in the middle, pre-shoes:
Adorable Tuxedo with very curly toes, pre-shoes:
...Then there's this poor little "thing".. The one I helped zipped a bit and noticed a malformed beak so I would left it to hatch or not.. the tough little booger hatched. And the poor thing is pretty severely deformed. It's head is a bit small, it has NO EYES so obviously blind (thankfully it seems it can hear), it has an "underbite" (I snipped a bit to correct) and slightly scissored beak, it's toes are curled (tape shoes!), and it's right wing is a bit gimpy. I know I should kill the thing, but I figure as long as he's got the will to live, I'll do the best I can for him. So right now he's got his shoes on, in a small Play-doh tub to help him learn to stand up-right. I keep getting him out and holding him hopefully to console him (he wants desperately to be with the other babies but even the gimpy ones pick on him).
Here's Frankenchicky:
(that's not a bare eye socket, just a bit of dried membrane stuck)
And I just set one lonely little egg in the Brinsea tonight lol. My new Salmon Faverolle bantam trio gave me one pretty pink egg the day I brought them home (Saturday) and not a single one since. So assuming they're not going to give me anymore for awhile, I set the one to test fertiliIy.
