Please help me get some answers!

[FeatheredObsessions]

Sounds like you have all your info and are doing things right to me. I fear on the word powdered just cause you can actually get it too small but with the other info you have posted I have a feeling powered was just the term you used.

 

[KansasKid]

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It isn't a true powder, but it is blended fine with the occasional to big to eat piece of food.
Since the other ones have passed i have changed the food, water, and bedding (another dish towel) just to be a little bit safer. I was thinking of putting a clean dime in the lid with the water to try and get him drinking better from that. But if he doesn't i am still continuing with the syringe and water droplets. I had a couple thermometers in their including a meat thermometer (i know

) but it gives me a fairly accurate reading and i used the end to poke around in the feed and encouraged it to eat a little earlier. Since then i have seen it go to the food and peck around on it on its own. Praying that it survives.

thanks for all the help! I'll check back later and give an update on the situation...

 

[FeatheredObsessions]

Well there is your problem! Meat Therm. ...... you scared the littles things to death

 

[Valley quail breeder]

Try to never help one out of shell as tempting as it is usually they will die unfortunately let nature take its course if it hatches or not...I use Purina Game Bird Startena 30% its already fine enough don't need to grind it up and use the red chick waterers so they don't drown keep temp around 100 degrees first week than decrease 5 degrees every week after, than remove heat once they feather out. Good luck, VQB

 

[KansasKid]

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Ya thats why i had anticipated at least one dying. And actually out of the different birds that required me to help them out i have had a decent percentage of them survive, and i know thats just the way it goes but incubating them in a machine isn't exactly natural and since i'm hatching out only a few birds at a time i find it hard not to help it out and let it have a chance even know the majority of them don't survive. I just use container lids for water for the first couple of days and then when they get bigger i use the quart chick waterer then the gallon. The other quail pipped and zipped perfectly on their own. Out of the 5 that hatched there was just 2 that pipped and stopped (the dark stripped one had turned funny after he internally pipped probably trying to zip, and the blond one which just happens to be the only one still alive just gave up probably from getting to tired, and no my humidity was high so no shrink wrapping)

Really hoping this little blond one pulls through. Looks to be doing ok right now (knock on wood).

update later

 

[JJMR794]

They Need Real Gamebird Starter... Not That Duless Stuff

 

[lebedkat]

Hope your chick is OK

 

[KansasKid]

Died around 7 this morning.
It was eating on its own and i made sure that it drank once in a while giving it 3/4 droplets from the insulin syringe at a time. It was straight water to, electrolytes are gone. i don't know???

 

[Chinchilla2]

Sorry to hear that, Kansas, I know you did your best. Even after removing the electrolytes and vitamin supplements, they were still in the chick's system. It just may have had a higher tolerance than the others and that is why it lasted as long as it did. Another thing may have been the dishtowel you were using as bedding and I am sorry I didn't catch that earlier. They peck at it, pulling up fibers, which can then clog their system. I used a rubberized non-slip shelf liner material that I picked up at the local WallyWorld. It was called Easy Liner or something of the sort. Looked a little lacy with holes and lumpy bumps. Worked great since they couldn't peck it half to death, a little soak in the sink and it was clean, and the holes allowed for the birds to have something to grip into to prevent straddle-leg.

Do not despair. Get some more eggs and try again.

 

[KansasKid]

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Thanks, i haven't ever had a problem with the towel but being as small as they are it is a possibility.
i have eggs due the 5th and 6th so we will so how that goes.