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I dont have show quality silkies but I think they are cute. Here are a couple of mine. They will be 9 weeks old Monday. I have 8 all together but these were the only ones I got pics of today.



 
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Apyl said:
I dont have show quality silkies but I they are cute. Here are a couple of mine. They will be 9 weeks old Monday. I have 8 all together but there were the only ones I got pics of today.
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They don't need to be show quality to be beautiful and very huggable!!
 
I think I'll go and buy a few packages tomorrow. Should have done that when I was in the feed store but I figured I'd read more about the product first. Oh well.


First chick is here!!
 
Apyl said:
I dont have show quality silkies but I think they are cute. Here are a couple of mine. They will be 9 weeks old Monday. I have 8 all together but there were the only ones I got pics of today.



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Dollys..kids included~!
 
Sanna said:
I think I'll go and buy a few packages tomorrow. Should have done that when I was in the feed store but I figured I'd read more about the product first. Oh well.


First chick is here!!
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Congrats!! So cute. I do use the electrolytes, but I am one that does not go with the full dose. I have found that it does more harm than good on the weaker ones. Not sure why. When I have a weak one, I give it even less than half the suggested dose. And I give the weak ones, just a tiny drop at a time. A drop an hr. for a half a day...or night, what ever it is when they hatch. :) For those that hatch on their own and are running around just fine, I put half the dose in the water container. Just sayin. :)
 
Cynthia12 said:
.....I put half the dose in the water container. Just sayin. :)
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I thought a packet of it went into a whole gallon of water - is that the size water container you are using?

To whoever asked the question originally, I can honestly say I felt it was a waste of money. I've raised numerous batches of chicks on nothing but plain, old water, but recently acquired 21 newly hatched chicks from a local person who had hatched too many and didn't know what to do with them all. I noticed one was having difficulty breathing the day I brought them home and sure enough, it didn't make it. But from there, one by one they dropped. I went from having literally NEVER lost a chick, out of hundreds brooded, to losing one every couple of days. Nothing was different - temps were good, food the same as I always use, bedding/water the same, no drafts. Trust me, I went over every consideration. So I got some Sav-a-chick, hoping it would give them a boost. It didn't change a thing. (After a week of Sav-a-Chick, I tried Duramycin-10 - it didn't help either.) Long story short, I lost 13 of the original 21 chicks.
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its over and the 8 that remain are strong and healthy. They are now 3 1/2 weeks old and having some outside time each day in our high temps and so far, so good. I will admit I tried the Sav-a-Chick as a desperation move, but base my opinion on it on the results: it didn't slow down the rate of loss one iota. I have to conclude that these chicks were either a weak batch or brought some respiratory ailment in with them. I would have expected an infection virus to hit them at the same time instead of one by one over a period of three weeks but there you have it.
 

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