Valentine's Day Hatch

[shellyga]

Um, it was me.

cool Deb...will get your prize out to you-- oopss.. just checked (shame on me for not looking beforehand) and BYC does not offer gift certificates.. I can send you $10 paypal, walmart gift card or Starbucks.. just let me know
Shelly

 

[debs_flock]

cool Deb...will get your prize out to you-- oopss.. just checked (shame on me for not looking beforehand) and BYC does not offer gift certificates.. I can send you $10 paypal, walmart gift card or Starbucks.. just let me know
Shelly

I can spend money through paypal as fast as I can type my password

, I'm on my way to walmart to buy more bubble wrap for some eggs I'm sending out this morning and there is not enough Starbuck's in the world (just another addiction). But easiest for you would probably be the paypal.

Thanks so much for sponsoring the contest. I think I ran to that incubator hundreds of time. Chick 28 popped out only ten minutes behind chick 27, both after they had been pipped for most of a day.

Deb

 

[Dingo]

Congrats to the winners!
Just thought I'd update, of the 7 tester eggs, one died early, one died before pipping and 5 hatched. Last chick needed help, has a crooked beak and what I can only equate to a cleft palate. Otherwise it seems fine though.

 

[anderson8505]

um, I thought I read something somewhere about a St Patrick's Day hatch? I just came into a pile of eggs and I think they would make it on St Patty's day. Anyone know what I am talking about?

ps.... um.... poetry contest results???

 

[The Chickeneer]

ps.... um.... poetry contest results???

Yeah, what happend to that?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Darn... just noticed one of my chicks has crossbeak. It's really sweet and cute, though.





I wonder if this and the hernia chick have anything to do with my incubator being unplugged for a time halfway into the hatch?

 

[ReikiStar]

Sorry to hear this chick ended up with a cross beak. There are different theories on why it happens from genetics to temperature fluctuations during incubation (usually too high, I think). Depending on how severe it turns out, if you're willing to file down its beak every week, it should be able to live a pretty normal life. Won't be able to forage as well as the others, but we're going to be celebrating our cross-beak roo's 1st year birthday in two weeks. He's a perfect EE roo (who will never be bred in case it was genetic) and he's second in command of the 3 rooster flock he's in.

There are some people who've used massage or some cream to help loosen the muscles along the neck which have helped, but mostly its a skull deformity. Not sure how much we can control how it will grow.

As long as you keep beak a workable length and they can feed themselves, it should be fine.

Good luck!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Sorry to hear this chick ended up with a cross beak. There are different theories on why it happens from genetics to temperature fluctuations during incubation (usually too high, I think). Depending on how severe it turns out, if you're willing to file down its beak every week, it should be able to live a pretty normal life. Won't be able to forage as well as the others, but we're going to be celebrating our cross-beak roo's 1st year birthday in two weeks. He's a perfect EE roo (who will never be bred in case it was genetic) and he's second in command of the 3 rooster flock he's in.

There are some people who've used massage or some cream to help loosen the muscles along the neck which have helped, but mostly its a skull deformity. Not sure how much we can control how it will grow.

As long as you keep beak a workable length and they can feed themselves, it should be fine.

Good luck!

If it's a girl we'll try and keep her, if it's a boy he's going to freezer camp with the rest of the roos (after he enjoys a good few months of life).

I've had quite a few special needs chicks, this one will fit right in.

 

[kellyn]

All 3 of my vtd chicks died. I had two spraddles hatch out after the one-eyed cross beak. all died. poor fellas, the spraddles couldn't move and the.other one couldnt eat.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

All 3 of my vtd chicks died. I had two spraddles hatch out after the one-eyed cross beak. all died. poor fellas, the spraddles couldn't move and the.other one couldnt eat.

I'm so sorry to hear that.