Rural Gardening: Brooder babies and more due soon!!, 1 by silkiechick

silkiechick wrote:
i checked on the baby and it's peeping away but had yolk leaking. i didn't have anything to tie it so i used a zip tie. once that dries out as long as the belly recloses behind it, it should fall off and be ok i hope. kinda like cutting a babies cord but i'm just worried it won't have enough yolk to live on till it is up to par.

lost the other blue showgirl, i'm very heartbroken. this is the first blues i've hatched from the new girls. it was under the light looks perfectly fine but it's mouth had shaveing pieces in it. i think it inhaled them from when the bigger ones were in there stomping them. i feel like such a bad momma but honestly i've never had them do that before. and the 2 black silkies i left in r not much bigger than them and i thought they would be fine. all the others r great, some r running around already and some r a waddleing,lol. i still got the splash showgirl so keep ur fingers crossed the splash and hurt blue make it.

this is little blue with the hurt belly.