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[JLaw]

So I tried massaging my little girls crop for about a half hour I think I felt some stuff in there but not really sure. I put her by her self with just water that has save a chick and some poly vi sol but no food hope I worked something loose. She is going crazy chirping jumping at the cage door flapping wings. I see she's pooed some. I'm useing bath towels ATM for her. I think her crop may look a little smaller but not sure. When I got home wife said all she did today was lay there (the chick but wife prob did the same lol). I woke them up moving stuff around and she went back to pecking shavings while others went to food and drink.

 

[Gramma Chick]

So I tried massaging my little girls crop for about a half hour I think I felt some stuff in there but not really sure. I put her by her self with just water that has save a chick and some poly vi sol but no food hope I worked something loose. She is going crazy chirping jumping at the cage door flapping wings. I see she's pooed some. I'm useing bath towels ATM for her. I think her crop may look a little smaller but not sure. When I got home wife said all she did today was lay there (the chick but wife prob did the same lol). I woke them up moving stuff around and she went back to pecking shavings while others went to food and drink.

She sounds confused ..Take all chips ( meant shavings) out from her cage ..Bath towels ATM ? Automatic Teller ?
If she is going crazy when you separate her she might be lonesome ..put another chick in with her .

 

[JLaw]

She sounds confused ..Take all chips out from her cage ..Bath towels ATM ? Automatic Teller ?
If she is going crazy when you separate her she might be lonesome ..put another chick in with her .

atm at the moment. I think she has impacted crop everyone says single her out. looks like it went down even more today. I'm going to get her out here in a few and see how it feels. not sure if she's used the new water dispenser or not in there. They have been using a little plastic one she has a 2 gal tin one.I was worried about the small bantam jumping in it and drowning in the big one little guy looks like he could fit in it too easily so I left the small water dispenser in with all the other birds.

 

[Cooped Up Chick]

Welcome Serenity Lane! I'm pretty new myself, and finding this a great source of information!

*edited so it showed who I was welcoming lol

 

[JLaw]

I took one of the little reds and put in with her seemed to calm her down. not sure if she is drinking out of this new water dispenser think I may have to take the other one out of the other brooder and see if she runs right to it.

 

[mderby48]

I took one of the little reds and put in with her seemed to calm her down. not sure if she is drinking out of this new water dispenser think I may have to take the other one out of the other brooder and  see if she runs right to it.

did you try dipping her beak in the water?

 

[vmdanielsen]

I took one of the little reds and put in with her seemed to calm her down. not sure if she is drinking out of this new water dispenser think I may have to take the other one out of the other brooder and see if she runs right to it.

If she is eating shavings, why not remove all the shavings and lay down newspaper? Then she has her own waterer and her friends. The less stress now the better. I would continue to massage her crop.

 

[blzzrdqueen]

GENERALLY the reason chicks grow to large is humidity in bator too high durring incubation, not enough evap. as we know the chicks are composed of the eggs contents, so if not enough evap. the chicks grow too large. to put those eggs into early lockdown with its high level of humidity will not help things. because they are large in the shell, it does not mean that they will hatch early. put them into lockdown all at regular time. honestly when i have had chicks that grew too large in the shell they generally failed to hatch as they didn't have room enough to move around to pip. my best advise in the future is to monitor the evaporation and see that the air sac gets as large as it should at the appropriate times durring incubation. look online or possibly even here in BYC for diagrams of the right size air sac in future hatches. best of luck, and i hope they all hatch, please keep us posted.

The air cells are perfect and right where they need to be, and have grown considerably in the last day or so. My humidity has been steady at 30% with NO water in the bater at all throughout the whole incubation.

 

[stonykill]

If she is eating shavings, why not remove all the shavings and lay down newspaper? Then she has her own waterer and her friends. The less stress now the better. I would continue to massage her crop.

yes. That is what you should do.

 

[Lapeerian]

Been emailing with the lady from Cobblestone Valley Farm (the organic dairy and pasture poulty farm). They don't do custom butcher because of NYS regulations, but did give me contact info for a place in Greene, NY that does processing. knk poultry is 607 965 8361