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[Rainwolf]

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if lockdown is day 18 then 26th at 11pm or even morning of the 27th.

8th is day Zero

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

sometimes do the same until they can like balance them selves. Think about it, You are in a egg for 21 days and they get to move. lol
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[cheryl98117]

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if lockdown is day 18 then 26th at 11pm or even morning of the 27th.

8th is day Zero

Thank you! Thats what I needed to know! I can stop panicking now. lol

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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I was reading a thread the other day where someone put their chick in a gallon ice cream container, with a margarine sized dish of baking soda, then poured vinegar over the baking soda and closed the lid. It creates a gas, someone help me here - and it puts the chick to sleep. I don't know if I can find that thread now. Perhaps someone else knows what I'm talking about and can explain it more clearly.
I thought maybe I'd saved it for future reference but can't seem to find it now...
Sorry Broody - I'm hurting right along with you.

Thanks. To all who helped out with ideas, the deed is done. It was almost like the chick only had muscles on the top side of it's neck and not on the underside. It's was was looking up so far that it's head was lying on its back. Poor thing. I also thought I was doing a good thing by having a paper towel in the hatcher to give the chicks good footing but one ended up spraddled. So after I bandaided it's legs, I cut some of that foamy mesh drawer liner stuff to fit in the bottom of the hatcher. Seems like I'm getting a whirlwind course in things that can go wrong!
Thanks everybody for the support!

Sounds like the chick had wry neck. In hatchlings it can be a genetic issue. In older birds it is sometimes a nutritional issue. I had 12 eggs shipped from Maryland. Had a great hatch, 9 out of 12. Six had wry neck. Really really sad. They could not eat or drink and had their heads so far over their back they would flip over. I had to cull them. Not easy. The three without wry neck I gave away to pet homes. Not saying that is what your chick had, Just sounds like it to me.

 

[broodytood]

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Thanks for the insight.

Haven't met you before, glad you're here.

 

[broodytood]

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Thanks. To all who helped out with ideas, the deed is done. It was almost like the chick only had muscles on the top side of it's neck and not on the underside. It's was was looking up so far that it's head was lying on its back. Poor thing. I also thought I was doing a good thing by having a paper towel in the hatcher to give the chicks good footing but one ended up spraddled. So after I bandaided it's legs, I cut some of that foamy mesh drawer liner stuff to fit in the bottom of the hatcher. Seems like I'm getting a whirlwind course in things that can go wrong!
Thanks everybody for the support!

Sounds like the chick had wry neck. In hatchlings it can be a genetic issue. In older birds it is sometimes a nutritional issue. I had 12 eggs shipped from Maryland. Had a great hatch, 9 out of 12. Six had wry neck. Really really sad. They could not eat or drink and had their heads so far over their back they would flip over. I had to cull them. Not easy. The three without wry neck I gave away to pet homes. Not saying that is what your chick had, Just sounds like it to me.

That sounds right, poor thing was getting worse not improving so I went ahead and culled it.

gonna have to watch the other 2, don't know if they came from the same hen. Don't want to pass on bad traits(genes).

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Thanks for more options! Don't know if I can get past the crunch that the shears will make.

I don't even like it when I have to crunch a bug.

I was reading a thread the other day where someone put their chick in a gallon ice cream container, with a margarine sized dish of baking soda, then poured vinegar over the baking soda and closed the lid. It creates a gas, someone help me here - and it puts the chick to sleep. I don't know if I can find that thread now. Perhaps someone else knows what I'm talking about and can explain it more clearly.
I thought maybe I'd saved it for future reference but can't seem to find it now...
Sorry Broody - I'm hurting right along with you.

If you do a search for chicken euthanasia or Small animal euthanasia a few sites will come up. It's kind of invloved for just one chick. I think it's 2 T baking soda and 1 cup vinegar but they talk about 'chambers' and pouring slowly etc. It just makes them go to sleep and not wake up. Creates a gas. I tried it for a chick and an older bird. Only worked for the chick. A lot of people pop the neck on the chicks, it's quick though. I'm just afraid I will either pull too hard or not hard enough. Ick, never easy.

 

[broodytood]

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I was reading a thread the other day where someone put their chick in a gallon ice cream container, with a margarine sized dish of baking soda, then poured vinegar over the baking soda and closed the lid. It creates a gas, someone help me here - and it puts the chick to sleep. I don't know if I can find that thread now. Perhaps someone else knows what I'm talking about and can explain it more clearly.
I thought maybe I'd saved it for future reference but can't seem to find it now...
Sorry Broody - I'm hurting right along with you.

If you do a search for chicken euthanasia or Small animal euthanasia a few sites will come up. It's kind of invloved for just one chick. I think it's 2 T baking soda and 1 cup vinegar but they talk about 'chambers' and pouring slowly etc. It just makes them go to sleep and not wake up. Creates a gas. I tried it for a chick and an older bird. Only worked for the chick. A lot of people pop the neck on the chicks, it's quick though. I'm just afraid I will either pull too hard or not hard enough. Ick, never easy.

I hope I don't have a next time but when I do, I'll try the gas method. Seems very humane. Thanks.

 

[KazAnder Farms]

The gas you guys are looking at is CO2, we had to put down a pet Rat we had a couple of years ago. The animal passes out before it suffocates so it is seen as fairly kind. since the build up of gas is pretty slow. we had to keep adding more to the container we had, but a smaller container would have worked much better. for the faint of heart, they usually pass with their eyes open if that freaks you out, just a heads up.

 

[blueducklings]

Well all this can't be worse than putting the chickens to freezer camp.