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[Little Wing]

That was nice. Thanks!

 

[yinepu]

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I pick her up and she flaps her wings and just scoots. I got to thinking on it and another thing with her is I can't recall ever seeing her eyes open. She's 4 days today. Not real sure what's going to happen at this point.

Looks like what we called a "flat chick"

Do you know what your incubation parameters were (temp during incubation and hatch.. plus humidity during both.. did you monitor air cells?)

You can try moistening his eyes with a wet q-tip and see if he will open them.. sometimes if the humidity was a little low during hatch there will be a chick with sticky eyelids... I have hatched dry and didn't have this issue.. so I believe there is also an underlying condition which can cause it.

If all of your parameters were good throughout incubation and hatch then the only other issue would be vitamin deficiency .. is this the ONLY chick in the entire hatch with problems?.. if you had any eggs not hatch did you do an eggtopsy?

For now I would wipe his eyelids.. and try feeding him some electrolyte water (sugar in it would help since if he has not eaten or drunk he is probably a little low on blood sugar)

then start on some polyvisol (without iron) or other vitamin supplement.

If he is eating try giving him some hard boiled egg yolk


trying to fix the problem may or may not help.. flat chicks were always culled by my grandparents.. my mother was a bit more stubborn with them. She did have a few work it out.. but others ended up being "failure to thrive" chicks and never made it beyond the first week or so

 

[Aphrael]

Mine from Ideal have the muffs, slate legs, one of them is even **gasp** the proper colour plummage. No beards, though.

The three I got from Ideal last summer have the muffs and beards and slate legs but are all the "wrong color". I don't care though they are beauteous and I love 'em. I ordered them fully expecting to receive the EE's anyway.

 

[barbg1971]

Looks like what we called a "flat chick"

Do you know what your incubation parameters were (temp during incubation and hatch.. plus humidity during both.. did you monitor air cells?)

You can try moistening his eyes with a wet q-tip and see if he will open them.. sometimes if the humidity was a little low during hatch there will be a chick with sticky eyelids... I have hatched dry and didn't have this issue.. so I believe there is also an underlying condition which can cause it.

If all of your parameters were good throughout incubation and hatch then the only other issue would be vitamin deficiency ..  is this the ONLY chick in the entire hatch with problems?.. if you had any eggs not hatch did you do an eggtopsy?

For now I would wipe his eyelids.. and try feeding him some electrolyte water (sugar in it would help since if he has not eaten or drunk he is probably a little low on blood sugar)

then start on some polyvisol (without iron) or other vitamin supplement. 

If he is eating try giving him some hard boiled egg yolk 


trying to fix the problem may or may not help.. flat chicks were always culled by my grandparents.. my mother was a bit more stubborn with them. She did have a few work it out.. but others ended up being "failure to thrive" chicks and never made it beyond the first week or so

Thank you all for the information and advice. I will let you know how she turns out. And yes she was the only one that ended up like that. There was a second one headed in that direction but with some coaxing i finally got her to stand and she appears to be doing well now. As far as humidity and temp we monitored it daily but something still went wrong. We had three eggs that looked shrink wrapped, after looking it up online, one that just didn't manage all the way out of his shell and one that was just dead. All the other eggs we had (about 20) weren't fertile at all. So out of 42 eggs I ended up with 14 chicks.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Thank you all for the information and advice. I will let you know how she turns out. And yes she was the only one that ended up like that. There was a second one headed in that direction but with some coaxing i finally got her to stand and she appears to be doing well now. As far as humidity and temp we monitored it daily but something still went wrong. We had three eggs that looked shrink wrapped, after looking it up online, one that just didn't manage all the way out of his shell and one that was just dead. All the other eggs we had (about 20) weren't fertile at all. So out of 42 eggs I ended up with 14 chicks.

So very sorry for your little ailing chick. He/she just looks so pitiful and I understand why you just want to nurse her to health. Cute little thing. Hope it works out. What kind of chicks did you hatch?

 

[chriswad]

Sorry, but, I am a cowboys fan. But, we're talking backyard chicken's aren't we.

. Lol. Btw, we have a little chick that is literally the smallest one of our six and it is my fav so far and I was wondering if there is a way to mark the lil girl so that I can identify her when she catches up with the rest. Do you have any safe ideas on how to do this? I was thinking of striping her with hot pink nail polish, but, that prob isn't a safe way.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Sorry, but, I am a cowboys fan. But, we're talking backyard chicken's aren't we.

. Lol. Btw, we have a little chick that is literally the smallest one of our six and it is my fav so far and I was wondering if there is a way to mark the lil girl so that I can identify her when she catches up with the rest. Do you have any safe ideas on how to do this? I was thinking of striping her with hot pink nail polish, but, that prob isn't a safe way.

ive seen people mark their chicks with the little zip ties...and just replace them fairly often as the chick grows until they can fit into thier adlut size bands.

 

[Little Wing]

Sorry, but, I am a cowboys fan. But, we're talking backyard chicken's aren't we.

. Lol. Btw, we have a little chick that is literally the smallest one of our six and it is my fav so far and I was wondering if there is a way to mark the lil girl so that I can identify her when she catches up with the rest. Do you have any safe ideas on how to do this? I was thinking of striping her with hot pink nail polish, but, that prob isn't a safe way.

I've talked to other people on here that use nail polish. I'm fixing to give it a try. Just a little stripe on their head. Or paint their toenails
We'll try not to hold the fact that you are a Cowboys fan against you.

You will be surprised at what all is talked about on this thread.

 

[chickletteSarge]

just checked my d'uccle, HE IS INFESTED WITH MITES!!! how did i miss this?!?!?
checked the cochin and she has them too!

now i gotta get some DE again! the last time i got it and put it in a litter pan for them they didnt touch it!
any suggestions?

 

[Fentressfarmer]

Oh what a night last night again!!!! My neighbors little yappy dogs barked from 11 pm to 2 am this morning! I go to bed at 10 and have to wake up at 5 am to be at work on time. I called her this morning to ask what was wrong with her dogs and she said nothing I informed her that they have been barking half the night for a few days this week she said she would move them to the front side of her house so I shouldn't be able to hear them. I hope she died it soon can't take many more nights with little sleep. I moved to the country so it would be quiet and it was for 10 years until she moved in a couple of months ago. I don't know what else to do I've tried being as nice as I can but I'm about to my limit!!!!