Sponges can be sterilized in a micro wave. Wet the sponge and squeeze out the excess water. put it into the micro wave for a minute to a minute 20 seconds and the heat will kill the bugs on it!
The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long
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4 chicks and 7 pips!! 
Happy Chicken Mommy!
I hope all is going well for everyone, My eyes have been glued to eggs and chicks all day lol Now have to leave to pick my son up from school and have a meeting with his teachers ugh I will be so anxious to get back home!
Happy Chicken Mommy!
I hope all is going well for everyone, My eyes have been glued to eggs and chicks all day lol Now have to leave to pick my son up from school and have a meeting with his teachers ugh I will be so anxious to get back home!
Set up a brooder box. BYC has wonderful Ideas from members!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-chicken-brooder-designs-pictures
Get out feeder and waterer.
Place wood shavings or other litter in the bottom of the brooder box. DO NOT USE NEWSPAPERS.
Regulate the temperature to around 95-97 degrees F.
Provide water for chicks after they are placed in the brooder box. Dip Beaks, Place marbles or
rocks in the waterer to keep chicks from drowning.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
New Chick Care Links and Info
DIP THE BEAK OF THE CHICK IN THE WATER BEFORE YOU TURN IT LOOSE in the brooder. A taste of water right away helps them to find more water soon. If your chicks are at all stressed, add about 3 tablespoons of brown or table sugar to each quart of water for extra energy. Most baby bird loss is caused because the bird doesn't start to eat or drink. Never let your bird run out of water. http://odysseyranch.com/Chick Care Tips.html
Homemade Electrolyte Recipe for weak/ill chicks
2 C. Water
2 TBL. Brown Sugar, honey or molasses
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
Mix until all dry ingredients dissolve & Keep refrigerated
You could also use electrolyte drinks Gatorade or Pedialyte, or
3 drops of POLYVISOL (liquid childrens A-B-D vitamins)
Slowly drip along inner edge of lower beak.
How To Raise Baby Chicks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...ks-the-first-60-days-of-raising-baby-chickens
Raising your chicks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/raising-your-baby-chicks
Dont forget to have Sav-A-Chick™ Electrolyte and Vitamin Supplement on hand! AND ITS CHEAP at TSC its Balanced electrolytes supplement for newly hatched and adult chickens, ducks, turkeys, and other domestic poultry. Fortified with vitamins A, D3, E, C, K, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9 and B12. Convenient, single-use packets each mix into one gallon of drinking water. Use during hot weather or other stress to support optimal hydration and bird health. JUST IN CASE you have a weak bird! OR You can add sugar to the water in the first couple of days.
Homemade Electrolyte Recipe for weak/ill chicks
2 C. Water
2 TBL. Brown Sugar, honey or molasses
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
Mix until all dry ingredients dissolve & Keep refrigerated
You could also use electrolyte drinks Gatorade or Pedialyte, or
3 drops of POLYVISOL (liquid childrens A-B-D vitamins)
Slowly drip along inner edge of lower beak.
How To Raise Baby Chicks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...ks-the-first-60-days-of-raising-baby-chickens
Raising your chicks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/raising-your-baby-chicks
Dont forget to have Sav-A-Chick™ Electrolyte and Vitamin Supplement on hand! AND ITS CHEAP at TSC its Balanced electrolytes supplement for newly hatched and adult chickens, ducks, turkeys, and other domestic poultry. Fortified with vitamins A, D3, E, C, K, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9 and B12. Convenient, single-use packets each mix into one gallon of drinking water. Use during hot weather or other stress to support optimal hydration and bird health. JUST IN CASE you have a weak bird! OR You can add sugar to the water in the first couple of days.
Some causes of EARLY CHICK MORTALITY ~
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Turner removed, humidity bumped, brooder ready... COME ON CHICKS!
So DH & I were discussing if we should play some music for the eggs. I suggested Dixie Chicks or Egg-lectric Light Orchestra, he suggested Bach (Bach, Bach, Bach.) Any other recommendations?
So DH & I were discussing if we should play some music for the eggs. I suggested Dixie Chicks or Egg-lectric Light Orchestra, he suggested Bach (Bach, Bach, Bach.) Any other recommendations?
12 of 12 quail eggs rocking and rolling in lockdown. Lights, camera, paper towels ... Action
Where do you keep your temps Wolf? I like to keep mine around 97 at lock down, and it was only 95 in one of the bators, so had to adjust mine a bit too this morning. They are old enough now, that you don't have anything to worry about..you probably know that already.
Editing..I think I will go and get some of that Polyvisol. I have so many eggs that are going to hatch...ahem..I hope. I don't want to run across this and not have the right thing on hand. Thanks.
I can try, but I'm a slow typist, so you'll probably get a lot more help from faster fingers. LOL
You have the Polyvisol, which I'll never be without again.
ACV (I'm never without this for anything or anyone in the house. Amazing stuff! Great for pasty butts
Tweezers (rounded tips)
Q-Tips
Paper towels
Band-Aids
A coffee or teacup
Zipties (for marking and also help to hold things together or on like bandages
Vet wrap
B12 with viamin K
I use the hatching baskets sometimes to isolate a chick if I have no other place
A blender or coffee grinder - I use this to make the feed even finer. It helps with pasty butts if the feed is finer in the beginning
Rocks or marbles for waterers.
bricks or wood pieces for raising the feeders and waterers (less mess)
My mind is blank
Crud, someone knocked on the door and asked if I had any eggs.....It's !2:08, I gotta lock down!
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You do realize that turkeys are beyond dumber than a rock and won't go into a coop at night of their own accord, right? I do miss mine though, they were sooooo friendly.
Quote: I'd split the difference and lock them down a little late on the 1st batch and a little early on the 2nd batch.
And now for the happy news about my classroom hatch.
I've also got NINE pips! Every time I check, there's another one pipping. This seems promising.
I hope it makes it!And hope you can get it a friend so it doesn't drive you bonkers in the brooder.
I have you all beat on crowing. I have the BYC record crower...................at 1 DAY old. (his daddy started crowing at 4 days old) Check it out:
Can't wait to see the little cutie!I got my first pip for the hatch! My lone little duck egg I had to set has pipped.So if he goes by normal slow duckling hatching schedule he should be hatching Fri/Sat, right on time.
He will have duckling company when he hatches, I have 3 little ducklings that hatched last week, momma just quit laying as soon as I set those and started collecting for this hatch, lol.
Yes, wry neck is nothing more than a vitamin deficiency of vitamin B. You can give Selenium too, which helps them absorb the Vitamin B. Wry neck does not only occur in chicks - I had a pullet get an injury and developed wry neck from it. By the time I figured out what it was, it was too late for her.
If you get Poly-vi-sol, make sure it's the one WITHOUT iron.
Great reminder!
OK I forget what I was starting with.
Pulled 14 for sure quiters, but I left some iffies and I couldn't see crap through Blue, Green, Lavender or the Wellies and Marans.
What I pulled out was
4 OEGB
4 Silver Pheonix
4 Bamtan Langshuns
1 Mottled Jap
I Big Bird (my momma to the lavender layers)
Pulled 14 for sure quiters, but I left some iffies and I couldn't see crap through Blue, Green, Lavender or the Wellies and Marans.
What I pulled out was
4 OEGB
4 Silver Pheonix
4 Bamtan Langshuns
1 Mottled Jap
I Big Bird (my momma to the lavender layers)
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