Tales of Residential Urban Chicken Keeping from Hickory Hill

[Brooke215]

Hatching is hard work. The only problem with the chicks post hatch is that the one with the saddle shaped air cell has a hernia. I put some antibiotic ointment on there and she seems to be doing well.

 

[Brooke215]

Edited for Update: This chick did NOT make it

So today was all about assisting the second saddle cell egg. DH has been an amazing help, as he got her safely hatched with no bleeding or ill effects, even helping me treat a partly unabsorbed yolk. She's doing well, drinking and pooing, but not running around just yet.

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[Brooke215]

Today is day 23. Our hatch was 3/5 and the 3rd chick was an assisted hatch (saddle cell/malpositioned), that did not make it. Looking at the two surviving chicks, I am trying to take a guess at genders. These are barred rocks, so first here's a headspot pic:

Left=stripe, right=circle


Both have black beaks/black wash legs, but here are the differences:

Left=black toes, right=yellow toes

And here are their day old wing feather pics:

Chick on left has feathers with different lengths and all black


Chick on the right has one length feathers which have a yellow tip


According to what I've read online, the chick on the left is a pullet, and the chick on the right is a roo.

 

[Brooke215]

The two chicks are doing good. I'm missing them this week while I'm out of town for work.

 

[Brooke215]

Updated pic.