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[bardies]

Picture of my blue calf: I'll post the chicks once they dry a bit more.
I have one egg left - silkie - that I can not see through at all. It is not dark colored. I really wonder if there is even an airsack in it. No sound, no pips. Any ideas? Its still in the bator just in case.

 

[brandy00]

I set 40 eggs in the bator this morning! 18 from my mixed flock (Spitzhauben roo over polish and production red hens) and 22 auction eggs (bantam polish frizzles and a few non-frizzle bantam polish). I'm really hoping to get a few frizzle girls out of this hatch! All the aircells looked good in my shipped eggs. I let them rest for 24 hours and I'm not going to start turning them til tomorrow to be safe. All 8 babies that I hatched right before Easter and the 3 pullets the kids got at Orscheln are all doing great. Luckily one of my neighbors wants a few when they get a little bigger. If this hatch goes well I'm going to have chickens everywhere. It's a good thing the DH is just as chicken crazy as I am.

 

[artsyrobin]

Picture of my blue calf: I'll post the chicks once they dry a bit more.
I have one egg left - silkie - that I can not see through at all. It is not dark colored. I really wonder if there is even an airsack in it. No sound, no pips. Any ideas? Its still in the bator just in case.

What a beautiful calf!

I am waiting on one lone egg to hatch too, just giving it a few extra days, looks like its at about day 17- part of the time was under the broody, so am giving in those days just in case it didn't get the right temp and all

 

[brandy00]

Picture of my blue calf: I'll post the chicks once they dry a bit more.
I have one egg left - silkie - that I can not see through at all. It is not dark colored. I really wonder if there is even an airsack in it. No sound, no pips. Any ideas? Its still in the bator just in case.

What a pretty baby!

 

[NanaKat]

These are the lemon orps and gold laced cochins that woman has eggs at $25/dozen.

Looking at those feet...I don't think these are Gold Laced Cochin. No feathers on the toes.

dragon is not looking good, blackening comb, lethargic, won't drink or eat...no mites, wormed, she is about 5

You posted later that she was at least eating and drinking....good news....hope she continues to improve.

Quote: Agreed! and he looks like he will be a BIG boy!

Missed getting on yesterday...we worked heifers and took 6 to the vet for cow shots. then spent some time in the garden. Ate our first lettuce from the garden for dinner. Im going to start canning the asparagus tomorrow.

My beloved Columbian Wyandotte Beau was really active yesterday dancing for his girls in the pen but was lethargic this morning. He had gone to roost early last night so I didn't get a good look at him. I picked him up this morning and he has lost weight, but his crop was pendulous again and his breath was sour. His has lost some weight.
He had a few mites, so I bathed him, tube flushed his crop and started him on tube feedings. Pellets and conditioning feed ground to powder in the coffee grinder, then mixed with Pedialyte, ACV, hard boiled egg, olive oil, applesauce, honey, PolyViSol and yogurt in the small blender. Makes three feedings for one day.
I'm wanting to get the weight back on him so that's why I'm tubing him. This also insures he gets at least 30 ml of water and keeps the feedings to a manageable size to allow the crop to shrink back to normal. This happened last year too. No pellets or whole grain for a minimum of three weeks. Then begin giving him paste form food slowly adding chopped fruits with tiny seeds like tomatoes, strawberry, blackberry or blue berry. Finally adding back pellets to the food mix.
This cock bird has been at death's door four times in the past 5 years...he is like a cat with nine lives. I told him he can't leave me until I have a cockerel that looks just like him. And yes, Diana, we had that conversation in the bathroom sitting on the floor with him wrapped in a towel in my lap while I was blow drying him.

Eggs in the hatcher are due May 2 but already have two out and 4 more piped....one is Beau's eggs.

 

[ashtree]

Picture of my blue calf: I'll post the chicks once they dry a bit more.
I have one egg left - silkie - that I can not see through at all. It is not dark colored. I really wonder if there is even an airsack in it. No sound, no pips. Any ideas? Its still in the bator just in case.

Wow! He is beautiful

 

[artsyrobin]

@NanaKat can you explain how you tube feed him? I have a silkie i may need to do that

 

[greenbeetle]

What do you all feed your birds, I have a pen with 4 older laying hens, but there are 12 three to four month old pullets in with them. So do you feed them laying crubmle/pellets or chick starter, they all eat out of the same feeder. How long do you keep them on chick starter. I have my babies on medicated chick starter, but I read once they are about 6-8 weeks old to feed them gambird starter. Please let me know what you all feed. Sorry for all the questions. Thanks

 

[mjgigax]

For those that raise bantam cochins.... I got 2 chicks I picked up 2 weeks ago,they are at that feathered wings/baby fuzz body stage. Single comb is tiny and colorless. Sounds like I got 2 girls, right?

Picture of my blue calf: I'll post the chicks once they dry a bit more.
I have one egg left - silkie - that I can not see through at all. It is not dark colored. I really wonder if there is even an airsack in it. No sound, no pips. Any ideas? Its still in the bator just in case.

What a pretty baby! Baby cows are about as cute as ducklings.

 

[Kyzmette]

Looking at those feet...I don't think these are Gold Laced Cochin.  No feathers on the toes.

That's why I post here. I liked the way the lemon orps look, but I don't know anything about cochins, and they didn't look puffy enough to me.