Here are pictures on my two splash chicks. It's kind of hard to see their legs. What color would you describe them as, yellow or skin colored?
The chick above if the one that has pale blue feathers growing in.
The only success I have had introducing chicks to a broody hen was when she hatched two of her own chicks and same day those chicks hatched I gave her the other ones we had purchased. Five days later I tried to give her a couple more chicks that hatched in our incubator and she refused them. It seems that window of time to graft chicks onto a broody hen is very small. But if she is still laying she is not broody. I think a hen will still lay fertile eggs up to three weeks post separation from a rooster.
Dogs will shed intestinal lining when affected with cocci also, it is a normal response. Just continue the Sulmet as per directions. My 8 week old chicks were going out at a young age but still starting showing signs with runny and stinky stools. I did the Corid and put them back on electrolytes and vitamins as the Corid will deplete them of vitamin B so I am told. I don't know if the Sulmet does.
Chick is just getting her cheeks and beard in I sure hope it comes in better soon.
Her lacing is coming in better.
Chick is just getting her cheeks and beard in I sure hope it comes in better soon.
Her lacing is coming in better.
If I don't have an incubator what would you suggest we do with the fertile eggs? I know eating them is an option, but Bertha is gorgeous(wish my HTC phone would upload pics to this forum) I'd love to have her hatch them. None of my silkie hens feel like completing the task. We've contemplated making an incubator ourselves. Since $ is limited right now. Will she eventually sit on them, or is her continuing to lay a fertile egg every day proof she wont sit? We've never had a chick wiyh fertile eggs so hatching has never been an option. Thank you so much for your help!
I think you might be out of luck this time. There is a learning curve associated with using incubators especially homemade ones. So even if you collected eggs and made it very quickly you might not have any success. Plus you shouldn't try to store fertile eggs for greater than 10 days because their viability will decrease rapidly. In homemade incubators the more eggs you incubate the better because they act as heat sinks and help maintain a stable temperature. So trying to collect and hatch eggs from only one chicken that that may or may not be laying fertile eggs at this point doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
