***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[miohippus]

Ok here is a pic of my small chick. It is 4 weeks old and a kind of silvery blue.


Here is another bantam I don't know what it is. In stuck between a welsummer or OEGB

they both could be OEGB. I have one was my first chickens she is very tiny.

 

[miohippus]

Managed to get the pictures loaded and resized!

Chocolate Muscovies, got our first eggs this weekend there were 11 stashed in the coop!





Our new goats, 3 does and 1 buck, all Alpines from very good milk lines.








This picture was saying goodbye to our nearly11yo Aussie mix Izzie, she was in a lot of pain and not eating anymore due to cancer in her jaw. We will miss her.

I love my goats!!, sorry about your dog.

 

[miohippus]

You think that pic is adorable you should see him run w/ his little naked arms out like he is flying!!!!! Now that is adorable. Also he is grooming is nonexistent feathers

sound cute he looks cuter in the new photo with his eyes open than in the first one.

 

[bardies]

OMGOMGOMG!!!! Here is the longer story shorter.... Had a single pip that didn't progress - it was on the wrong side of the egg. Took it out since none of the other eggs had pipped and I needed to add water anyway. Helping it, a little dried, but not bad. Progressed around assuming that the air cell was also on the wrong side. I am not sure that it was and thought about candleing to see - especially if I ran into trouble. Went almost all the way around just getting shell and not breaking the membrane. No blood. Then I hit a spot where egg white came out - Now that's scary!

I did a little more around the beak, and put on Neosporin to help with any infection and to keep moist longer than water.

This whole time, I had heard the pipped beak cheap. But I also heard more quite peeps too - but just figured that those were the ones still in the hatcher. I put the egg back and was looking at it and saw a 'toe' cheap.

HOLY CHICKEN! I have twin chicks!

They are back iin the bator - although I do not have one just for them. Today is day 21, so the pair is a little early.

Any advice? This is totally new territory. I remember seeing something on the internet (video) but they were doing so many things 'wrong' that I could tell that this person was not very experienced.

I am concerned that the white will dry and glue everything up. Kass, you had an early hatch ... what is the white supposed to do? I know that the yolk gets absorbed....but the white?

Promise to post pics when I can find camera and get something taken safely and where it shows anything besides plastic window.

 

[Kassaundra]

OMGOMGOMG!!!! Here is the longer story shorter.... Had a single pip that didn't progress - it was on the wrong side of the egg. Took it out since none of the other eggs had pipped and I needed to add water anyway. Helping it, a little dried, but not bad. Progressed around assuming that the air cell was also on the wrong side. I am not sure that it was and thought about candleing to see - especially if I ran into trouble. Went almost all the way around just getting shell and not breaking the membrane. No blood. Then I hit a spot where egg white came out - Now that's scary!

I did a little more around the beak, and put on Neosporin to help with any infection and to keep moist longer than water.

This whole time, I had heard the pipped beak cheap. But I also heard more quite peeps too - but just figured that those were the ones still in the hatcher. I put the egg back and was looking at it and saw a 'toe' cheap.

HOLY CHICKEN! I have twin chicks!

They are back iin the bator - although I do not have one just for them. Today is day 21, so the pair is a little early.

Any advice? This is totally new territory. I remember seeing something on the internet (video) but they were doing so many things 'wrong' that I could tell that this person was not very experienced.

I am concerned that the white will dry and glue everything up. Kass, you had an early hatch ... what is the white supposed to do? I know that the yolk gets absorbed....but the white?

Promise to post pics when I can find camera and get something taken safely and where it shows anything besides plastic window.

I had a few w/ liquidy white, that stuff dried like super glue. I had to wash it off the chicks that survived. Some of it I never could get off like on the head it was just to glued and they were to squirmy and fragile, that just had to wear off. I wish I had thought of a greasy ointment like triple antibiotic, or coconut oil, or even olive oil. I didn't know what to do w/ the white so I left it.

 

[Kassaundra]

I had a few w/ liquidy white, that stuff dried like super glue. I had to wash it off the chicks that survived. Some of it I never could get off like on the head it was just to glued and they were to squirmy and fragile, that just had to wear off. I wish I had thought of a greasy ointment like triple antibiotic, or coconut oil, or even olive oil. I didn't know what to do w/ the white so I left it.

Also don't give up on them if they seem to take forever to get strong enough, I had 6 who ended staying 2 ish days in the incubator after everyone else left, thought for sure they would die, they were weak enough that I put them on folded paper towels b/c they kept sticking to the incubator tray, and I would have to go in every few hours and turn them to the other side (flip them gently like a pancake), they will look like there is no way they can make it, but given some time they can.

I am talking about hatched chicks here

 

[bardies]

Thanks Kass!

Here are pics - you might need to use your imagination.


The first beak is the big on on the top. The second beak is the little white spot at the bottom.

 

[bardies]

Here is some video (maybe). Sorry it is sideways. Hard to remember that video can not be flipped like photos.

 

[bardies]

Did just watch another twin chick video (twin chick chapter 2). This one is NOT the one I had watched where the person did a bunch of stuff I would not have done. Except for using a knife where as I use tweezers, this lady did an awesome job. She even had a little chick 'crib bumper' for the third chick to protect and support it while the older fluffed ones were running about.

 

[Kassaundra]

@bardies , that is cool. All my assisted hatches have been in shrink wrapped conditions. The pics do not appear shrink wrapped. I think if it were a normal (not twin) hatch I would be more hand off as long as it didn't dry out. W/ yours being twins, they may not have the space to peck their way out. I would keep an eye for stalling progress, drying, or distress and be ready to intervene in any of those instances.