I doubt you could have revived it once it had drowned/ josh--there would have been too much water in its lungs and that would set a whole chain of physical problems in motion. With puppies and kittens you sort of swing them if they have fluid in their air canals at birth--but a chick is too small to do that to without hurting it. Do you have a source for more eggs?
My First Egg!
yer i have already got a silkie egg ready to go all i need is 2 more and im off because i realy need to get more silkies because i only have 3 pure bred and if that rooster goes i will have nothing to keep going
the same thing happened with my current silkies parents i bought them from the auction and there were 2 roos and 2 hens and then it took them a month until they started laying i got 4 of there first egg and incubated them
2 weeks in to the incubation a fox got all there parents and i was left with 4 eggs which all hatched but one of the chicks i needed to tak to the vet to be put down because it had irreversably splayed leg
and out of those 3 chicks i got 1 hen and 2 rooster (thank god they are all un related well the hens are but not the rooster it came from a different hen and rooster) and they just started laying and i only got one chick out of them which died so i am trying to quickly get more eggs
Good luck!
thanks with my track record i will need it
sorry josh. just keep on keeping on...
i will
I found another cash of eggs. My Delaware and RIR have been hiding their eggs, but I hear them squawking up a storm every morning, so I knew they were laying. 10 eggs! Last week's worth. And they are small, but not peewee.
Delphine ran over as soon as she saw me looking in her secret area. I left 2 eggs because last time I took them all she moved her nest. She went and checked. I sure hope she doesn't move again. Colby seem to be laying with her so I have three laying in the nest box--the Welsummer, the Orpington and the Marans, and two laying in the vines, the Delaware and the RIR. How to convince them to go home to lay?
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so u get even more eggs
Catscan, if they insist on laying in the vines, about the only thing you can do is mark the ones left in the nest, and check every day for others. Take the others out daily. That way you would be getting the fresh ones.
GG
oh have you ever got a bad egg its horrid isnt it
Josh, actually we never did. We did find a nest out in the woods once. There were only 3 eggs in it, and we just threw them out. We kept the chicks in the coop yard for a few weeks, and they went to laying in the nesting boxes after that, although we have found eggs on the ground occasionally, never had a nest out in the woods again.
GG
I've had two bad supermarket eggs in the last five years--one just a few months ago. Ugh! They were black.....
catscan i hate it when that happens
granny mine have never made a nest outside the coop
Josh, I'm a little concerned this year because the sex-links haven't started laying yet and they may not know about laying in the nest boxes. We let all of the chicks out to free range in the evening and the sex-links haven't been going into the main henhouse all that much. Although they are starting to mix with the adults, they are still sticking with each other as a group. I might have to keep all of them confined to the yard until they get used to using the boxes when they start laying. We will see what happens.
GG
No eggs here yet but a couple of roos are learning to crow. One sounds like he's yelling woohoo!
MollyD
He must be getting egg-cited!
LOL we were watching the chickens tonight when suddenly there was this horrible yelling. One of the roos had mounted a hen and in the process pulled out a whole mouthful of feathers from her. She was hollering and he forgot about making whoopee as he found himself with all these pretty feathers in his mouth and other birds trying to get them from him! LOL
MollyD
No roosters here! Or at least none acting like one.
I went to Delphines hidden nest and she is still using it--two eggs, one from her and one from the RIR, Colby, both light tan and one Extra-Large, almost Jumbo! There were three pullet eggs in the nest box--one light tan from the Buff Orpington, one dark one from the Welsummer and another dark one from the Marans.
We are on the way: I have eggs enough for us and more for my friends--someday I will have enough to sell! Yesterday I made 2 quiches--today more egg salad..... I love having chickens!
Nice, catscan. I know the feeling. That's why it's called chickenitis and all of us on this forum have it.
GG
Granny, that a disease? Or condition? Since I have it too, just wondering what keeps me doing this. Am I an addict? LOL
I really think it is an addiction. Non-curable too. Of course there may be some here who don't have it, they have another condition called chicken fairyitis. But that is to be duscussed at another time.
GG
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ROFL :-)
roflmbo! hmm... well I have CHICKYitis at the moment... they are just sooo adorable!
The kids fed them and petted them all day, I think they wore them out! lol!
My Fav pix so far :o) snugglebugs!
have you tried chickenitis patches they realy help the cravings its the reason i am the only one around here not getting new chickens :0
Where do you get them lucky? I need them bad!
if your local pharmist gives you and odd look when u ask for them try your local poultry store
Yeah, well I stuck to my original order. But with the demand on eggs here, I am going to have to get more in the spring. And I will be getting about 50 then. So, I don't have it either.
Yes, they are very cute when they are chicks. Just like human babies. Then they grow up. Right now we have about eight roosters in the hatchling group, and nine in with the keets. Making 17 freezer camp chicks. Of course I am planning on keeping three for breeding, so that will bring the total down to 14 for camp. But Bruno and Clyde have to go there too as they are two years old now and I need new blood. So the count is Rocky, 30 grown hens, 2 grown roos, 25 this years hens (maybe), 17 this years toos, and 9 keets, for a total of 84 birds. Darn, didn't realize we had that many. No wonder the feed is going so fast. LOL
GG
GG
My goodness tell me about GG. I have gone thru 50 lbs of feed in just a day over 1 week. My birds are little pigs. I have right around 200 birds right now, not sure how many roo's yet, the crested and the suprise chicks are starting to show some signs.
I NEED THE PATCH!
Tamamara I called Rachel and left message .Have any of you gottewn in touch or still just getting message ?
she will call you back, i promise! tell her you want the dave's garden discount LOL
LOL you enabler you. Yes that is what we get the DG discount.
i assume doc, you left your nubmer on her machine... somehow she must know not to call me today LOL...
they might be hatching now??????
sorry, i am on the "patch" today, no chickenitis for me...
doc, did she get you?
lol, so the poultry store sells the 'patch'? you mean I have to walk in there and somehow get past that brooder full of baby chicks to get the patch?! hmmm...
yes wm, the patch is in the back of the store on the very top shelf, right above the feeders and waters.
ugh! lol! so there really is NO cure!
OMG, I am in trouble then! Lucky me, our 'Del's' is out of chicks at the moment; however, you get to 'hear' the baby starlings & sparrows that have taken to nesting in the rafters above their warehouse! Automatically, go looking for the chicks without realizing, wrong sound!!
Gonna have to get the patch next time I'm there ......head it off at the pass, before they get more ducks or something...........