Oh please send pics! I'm dying to see more! Booboo babiez.. Love em so much!
I gotta see the blue showgirls.. Oh gawd.. can't stand it!!!
I was obviously "dustworthy" I've got it bad.. THANK YOU CF! LOL
Brooder babies and more due soon!!
ZZ, you're tracking it through the threads!! Wipe your feet before you come in here!! You know how hard it is to clean up after Chicken Fairy Dust???
Oh dang.. I hate it when that happens! LOL Sorry bout that..
hard to tell who is what but this is a group shot a few r not in it. well the one wet looking in the pic is the splash showgirl the last out of the bator i thought was a cochin,lol i need light bulbs in there so i can see. not sure where the other blue one is, there is 2 blue ones. had to leave it wet had an emergancy with the other blue showgirl and may loose it.
all the babies have had closed bellies when i put them in the brooder and i fluffed them first but some had tiny litle umbicord threads still real short. but me being an idiot i left 2 bout 4 day old silkies in there well some how they pulled the little strings on it's belly cord or something. cuz i went to put that showgirl in and saw what looked like loose stools. i thought um they don't poo like that that quick so i got a tissue to look at it , saw yellow thought oh no it's yolk but everyone looked fine. then i saw the blue showgirl was flipping around like something bothering it and i picked it up there was stuff hanging from it, ugg!! looks like them older suckers got ahold of the umbicord threads and pulled it's yolk sack stretched thin like 3" long through a tiny little whole. uggg, i'm so mad and upset. the whole would have been fine in another half hour it just needed time for it to mend together it was already closed and he wasn't even in there very long. right when i went to pick him up the one older one tried stomping it. those 2 r now in another brooder with older ones.
the baby is fine but i don't know if it will make it and i don't have the heart to cull it, it's a showgirl but will if i have to to keep it from suffering. i had to cut the yolk but nothing leaked from it cuz i cut where dry but the whole is closeing with yolk still about an inch long and noway to get it back in. should i find something to tie the yolk off at belly and cut the rest, keep it clean and hope the sweetheart makes it? or should i cull it? usually a baby without the sac can't make it long enough to learn to eat on it's own and dies soon after but it looks like some of it is still good inside and baby is fine so far and back in hatcher. i have never had this happen before. i'd not have cut it but the yolk had bedding and poo on it and i didn't want to risk it getting infected or the sac to get pulled worse from tangleing in it's feet.
help!! what do i do now???
Gosh that's awful! I don' know much, but I've had that happen before. Isolated the hurt one and let it dry till I could cut and remove. I'd let her see what she can do they are growing so quickly at this stage there's a fair chance (I think) that she'll heal. Maybe. Hopefully. Birth is traumatic anyway...
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.
She must wanna make it if she's still here and that's the biggest thing.
So sorry to hear about that Silkiechick - they are so fragile. It's still wonderful that you got any hatches considering all the ups and downs with the incubator. Shows you how tough these little guys are! I hope she will come through fine. I might have used a little piece of duct tape or something. It would fall off once the feathers come in. I hope they all do OK and that the leaky one gets better soon.
she is still trying to hang in there, so i'm waiting it out. i hope she makes it she is so cute and fluffy!! poor little thing i just want to hold her and make it al better but she is in the hatcher so she can hopefully mend in her own time. i don't know what else to do with her so i guess it is up to mother nature now to see if she makes it through the next 24 hours or not. crossing fingers.
i couldn't find any tape, band aids or anything to tie it. all i could find was tiny zip ties i use for peep bands. so she looks like she has a floresent orange navel piercing now,lol. the hole was mabe 2mm in size there was noway it was going back in after the meanies pulled it out. i never throught one would be smart enough to grab those little tiny stringy things. i thought on their bellies it would cover it but they must a flipped her over and found it. i was in the bathroom so i didn't hear her over the tv and being down the hall. if i'd of been here at the comp i'd of hear her sqaking something was wrong.
ok, now I have the bug... the girls are laying an egg everyday.. now what do I do??? ;-(
I need a bator... anyone have one for a dime?? ok I'll bid a quarter?? plus shipping??
Ah, it's a dangerous bug Fran! I'm soooo infected! LOL!
I think the cheapest option is to make your own bator. But, sometimes they are around on Craig's List or eBay or other places pretty cheap.
Fran, I got mine at the local feed store... I think it's cheaper to find it local if you can.. even the cheapest ones on ebay cost more after paying shipping. I paid $52.
I just got the bug too and am waiting so impatiently for auctions to end.. LOL
I may just have to build one.. not sure.. moneys very tight.. we are a statistic right now.. so working on a very tight budget..
starting to collect the parts.
Yea fran i opted out of building one because of the cost i decided to improve on the one i had.
We are a statistic if that means broke most of the time. We enjoy ourselves but the jone's we ain't by the way i know the jone's they in Fla.
i lost little blue, so wasn't ment to be. :0( candled and no movements so i started to open the last 9 i think it was. 2 r still breatheing the others r done. some had internal pipped and ran out of air. some stopped developeing early most likely when we had storms hit through and lost power. so i guess that means i got to collect more eggs and try again for a blue showgirl baby.
last splash one hatched when i set these eggs is silkie feathered showgirl and i'm hopeing this little splash is a frizzle!! i'm very happy though got lots of little sweethearts to love and spoil!!! got 1 buff orp in the hatcher hope will hatch still and another one different breed. can't wait to see who grows up frizzled!!!
after they r all up and about i'll take some better pics.
Oh Silkiechick....so sad....sorry. I am glad you have lots of new little ones to love, but always hard to lose some too. We'll look forward to pics after they are fluffied and running about.
Hugs to you SilkieChick. Little Blue is now at peace.
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Oh the poor baby... I'm sad. You did what you could.. things just happen..
I'm so glad for the darling babiez you did get!!
awe, thanks guys, it never gets any easier when u loose them and i get to attached to them. i'm just glad she went on her own peacefully and i didn't have to do it.
on a better note here is some more baby pics!! this bunch is silkies and the 3rd baby over is a showgirl.
this is the buff brahma babies the 2nd one over is the buff orp baby.
frizzled cochin babies
and the serama babies. let me know what ya think of all my new kid's. :0)
Just soooooo cute i love them all nothing like a little fuzzy to get your spirits up.
I have a trio of blue splash cochins their about 4 months old i think cochins are the sweetest and have the calmest personality.
Congrats. Silkie
They are ADORABLE! I wish I could just snuggle them!
Awww.....wook at da widdle baby chickie-wickies.....
(Moxon reduced to baby chicken babble again)
The showgirl in the 1st picture (3rd from left, right?) looks like that same color as my "not-sure-if-its-white" silkie. I should go take another pic of her.
Here is a pic of growing silkie wing. I am still not sure if it's white.
Here she is in full...
Last one...
In some lights she looks more golden/buff color. Sometimes i think she has a tinge of grey-blue to some parts of her fluff, but sometimes I wonder if that's just the black skin color showing through and reflecting onto the fluff. She's cute anyway, whatever color she is!
CF will tell you what color she isn't. She is NOT WHITE.
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I don't think she's white either... I definitely see the buff and blues in those pics. ADORABLE none the less!
I love these pics... they always make me say something.. Oh Oh.. boo boo baby... LOL
I'm so tickled for both of you!
Commander Moxon.. your baby's big gurl wings are just darling!
well i'd think that showgirl was a white baby but i know it came from the blue/black/splash pen so it's a splash. the last one was really light splash color. but those chicks in that pic r a silver blue and drk blue. i don't know what color the silver blue is gonna be unless it's a blue splash. or unless one is lavander and one is splash.
silkie says there is noway a buff can come from those color combos unless in the parent heritage is a hidden gene for it because they came from a mixed color flock. blue/black/splash makes a triange it will only throw those 3 colors or variations of them.
Mine supposedly came from a white/black/splash pen.
hmm.. some pics it looks white some buff. genetically those 4 colors should not make a buff. unless there is a hidden parent gene(or parents show brassy plumage) or one other possible way but i don't know if it is possible to make it that way.
the second way would be alot of times a white crossing throws partridge. splash is used as a blue dilute gene(splash x buff to get smutt blue out of buff). if the white parent is a silver recesive(ur baby's color looks like it) x'ed to splash and threw a partridge gene the splash crossed in then could dilute that i think and make a smutty buff. there would be a chance if that's the case of a clear buff but odd of 1 in 100,000. does all that make sence?? if this thought is genetically possible then yes there is a chance for a buff color.
can u take a pic w/ white toilet paper under it's wing spreed out to see the contrast better?
SilkieChick, GREAT JOB! Her chick is partridge colored, and will have some lacing to it, similar to golden laced. Smutty, like you said.
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i have been racking my brain for days on this one and that is the only possiblities i can think of that would create a buff color from those 4 colors if it is a buff.
it's not partridge it doesn't have the partridge markings or correct coloring but if it is a diluted gene from a splash x white mateing it could still have some partridge coloring to the plumage(or buff if it's possible) once it starts to feather in more. if so then usually it is a tortes(sp) shell colored baby or a partridge splashed color rather than a splash. the plumage then would be white with partridge(or buff) splatters rather than a splash light blue /drk blue splatters. i have a friend who crosses his and he has me hatch eggs out for him and they come out that or blue with brass in the hackles and saddles. i know it is definately not a blue or a normal partridge.
being as she has said sometimes she sees a blue halo effect and the showgirl looks so similar i'm wondering if it is a very light splash like mine r. after trying to think on why they don't look same as the normal splash cochin babies i think i figured it out. the others r not blue splash they r normal splashes. the 2 lighter showgirls from this hatch and last r washed out splashes due to splash x splash mateings(if u cross splash to much it washes out the blue). if that's the case then the splashes r diluteing the blue in the splash gene so i got to change breeders around. i know that is possible could it be hers is the same way and is a washed out colored splash?
i'll take pics of the babies see if i can post the differences for ya all to see. i'm wondering if mine and hers r all splashes cuz i know the older showgirl is and is very light colored it is not the normal splash color down. at first i thought we marked eggs wrong it was a white silver recessive but it's not, it's definately a splash and my pens r totally seperated. if my thinking on this is right that would explain why to me her's looks more white rather than buff and splash would definately be genetically possible.
what does the great almighty CF think??
CF thinks SC is right on!
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