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- Apr 28, 2011
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I've only been giving lil man the Duramycin- no other chicks. I've done that twice a day since he hatched to hopefully ward off any infection from having to cut off his ruptured yolk sac and having to push his intestines back in, and tying his abdomen back together with a string! There were a lot of ways bacteria could get to him because of all of that. I didn't have it as his main source though. I would let him sip on 3-5ml's in the morning and again in the evening before I went to bed. I fed him the boiled egg yolk for the 1st 2 days (little amounts) and didnt feed that to him last night because I think he eats enough of the chick start now. Anyways, I will give him some yogurt today. How much do you think? I just worry about stopping the duramycin as I wont know if he gets an infection till he starts acting different and then it might be too late for the antibiotics :-/ Then again since it hasnt been his sole water source and maybe he wasnt getting as much as he should have been and he is doing just fine, then maybe there is no infection to fight off..? It was just a precaution. My husband says that an antibiotic is an antibiotic and if he has a chance of surviving this he needs it.
The chick that had internally pipped yesterday pretty much rested all night without much activity at all then about 8 this morning it decided to zip and zipped itself right outta there! Its doing great!
Lil Man cracks me up!! I went in to give him a little bit of the boiled egg yolk and when i went to get him to open his beak he shook his head then started eating the yolk right out of my hand lol
as if to say.. "you dont have to do that, Look! I'll eat it, OK?" haha! He did the same thing with the syringe of antibiotic.. drank it right out of the bottom of the syringe
im afraid i just love that lil guy!! he and 1 other chick will peep really loudly sometimes and if I go in there they will hop in my hand and they like to snuggle up to my neck just under my chin
then theyre happy after that. I'll put them back and they will either go to sleep or start eating
Still have 3 rockers! (not ip yet tho!)
I candled the rest and found something really bazarre.. remember, i had about 7 that looked great except that they hadnt internally pipped. Well when i candled today i used a different flashlight and i could see better. All of the air sacs are in place, with no ip..however in about 5 of them, the bottom half of the egg also glowed! In one of those, I could see a tiny lil baby moving around in the upper half, the dark part of the egg!! I called my husband in the room and i was like look at this! It shouldnt be divided like this to where I can see up into the egg with the top half dark and not the bottom half... so then he says.. heather this chick looks tiny like its not as far along and its probably split like that across the egg because you havent been turning them! OMG!!!!! Is that what has happened? Is that why that tiny tiny chick was in that egg that i took a picture of, dead? since WHEN do hens lay new eggs in a nest box where their babies are due in just a few more days?!?!!!! Of those 5 or so, this was the only one where I could see a baby moving but its like, stuck in the upper half of the egg when its laid on its side. What NOW?? I didnt see movement in the others but I left them all in there to see if something might be alive in them and i will just start turning them all again. Will this one baby be ok having not been turned at all in at least a week now?? And will it be able to grow or is it too late and its stuck in only half of the egg???
right when I thought this hatch was coming to an end... I now find THIS!!!!
The chick that had internally pipped yesterday pretty much rested all night without much activity at all then about 8 this morning it decided to zip and zipped itself right outta there! Its doing great!
Lil Man cracks me up!! I went in to give him a little bit of the boiled egg yolk and when i went to get him to open his beak he shook his head then started eating the yolk right out of my hand lol
as if to say.. "you dont have to do that, Look! I'll eat it, OK?" haha! He did the same thing with the syringe of antibiotic.. drank it right out of the bottom of the syringe
im afraid i just love that lil guy!! he and 1 other chick will peep really loudly sometimes and if I go in there they will hop in my hand and they like to snuggle up to my neck just under my chin
Still have 3 rockers! (not ip yet tho!)
I candled the rest and found something really bazarre.. remember, i had about 7 that looked great except that they hadnt internally pipped. Well when i candled today i used a different flashlight and i could see better. All of the air sacs are in place, with no ip..however in about 5 of them, the bottom half of the egg also glowed! In one of those, I could see a tiny lil baby moving around in the upper half, the dark part of the egg!! I called my husband in the room and i was like look at this! It shouldnt be divided like this to where I can see up into the egg with the top half dark and not the bottom half... so then he says.. heather this chick looks tiny like its not as far along and its probably split like that across the egg because you havent been turning them! OMG!!!!! Is that what has happened? Is that why that tiny tiny chick was in that egg that i took a picture of, dead? since WHEN do hens lay new eggs in a nest box where their babies are due in just a few more days?!?!!!! Of those 5 or so, this was the only one where I could see a baby moving but its like, stuck in the upper half of the egg when its laid on its side. What NOW?? I didnt see movement in the others but I left them all in there to see if something might be alive in them and i will just start turning them all again. Will this one baby be ok having not been turned at all in at least a week now?? And will it be able to grow or is it too late and its stuck in only half of the egg???
right when I thought this hatch was coming to an end... I now find THIS!!!!
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