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  1. PrettyCoolChicks

    eggbound or not eggbound?

    Got the results a while ago, only getting around to sharing them now. The result was unsurprising. Cause of death: salpingitis. But I learnt a few things: The salpingitis was caused by mycoplasma (MG) …meaning my entire flock was exposed and has it. Recommended prevention is strict biosecurity...
  2. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    I'm sorry both your hatches turned out so bad :( That power outage is really too bad, Junior - Come home to cold eggs? My heart breaks just at the idea. Maybe a few will make it, even if the odds are slim... Swan lives on my desk for now, splay legs in treatment, she's standing more...
  3. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    I tossed the other two eggs.
  4. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Baby is resting. It was difficult getting out, but she's here now, and she did it herself, she just needed me to give her a foothold. I might affectionately call her "the uggly little duckling" or maybe "Swan". Yes, it suits her. (Welcome to the world, Swan) She's almost all black.
  5. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Congrats on the pips! I heard a chirp just now. I had an internal pip day before yesterday and I looked because of the sound. Yes! A pip! Looks like I will have a lone duckling for the second time. The other two eggs are dead. I don't know why I don't take them out yet. Like they might still...
  6. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    I'm so excited you're going to get Owlbears eggs again!! Hope all the remaining Orpingtons and BCMs make it. 🤞
  7. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Oh thanks, great idea to check where she is before I go to bed as well as when I put them to bed. You're right, if I am confident she will take them, I will give her the babies, but this time they'll be confined to half the coop with no access to the roosts, separated from other birds and I'll...
  8. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Sorry your last owlbeard quit, that sucks :( It didn't sound like you did anything wrong in particular to me at least, and the seller seems ok? Shipping can be tough on eggs. I would try again after your trip, june seems a bit unlucky but maybe you're meant to have owlbeards in July? I had...
  9. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Same with my first batch but it depends on the birds! Seven babies raised in the house with me working from their enclosure as much of the day as possible, hand feeding and huddling on my lap to nap. Only two of them ended up tame-ish. That said they're all relatively tame for leghorns -...
  10. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    I hope your ~12 eggs make it to hatch, rooting for these babies! Maybe some of the ones you leave in just in case might still be viable. Agreed! I'll take sunspots as an explanation. Looks like indeed quite a few people are struggling. I'm already worried at the idea I need to be at the...
  11. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    whelp, the duckling is gone. It was fine like an hour ago and now it is dead 😭 I don't even want to know what happened, it's not like there's an answer that would make this better anyway. I'm down to three eggs I guess. Lockdown is in ~5 days or so since it's likely to be early.
  12. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Snagged a quick photo while mum's out to the lady's room :p
  13. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Oh no, I'm sorry your second chick didn't make it. Hopefully you can get some friends for your lone chick 🤞 In my coop, there were happy baby sounds coming from below my broody duck so I assume all is well. I've installed a small feeder and tiny water station in the back of the nestbox, keeping...
  14. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Congratulations! It's so lovely to see them come out of their shell <3 My duckling hatched too! Then it took me two tries but I have successfully given the duckling to broody. I'm now super careful not to interfere because mommy leaves the nest for a break any time I get near now... Here...
  15. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Checked this morning, the piped baby was making some effort to zip but is still chewing so I'm not helping it yet. :jumpy One definitely suffocated, there was only a tiny bruise and its beak hasn't moved at all for ~16h since i opened a small hole over it. I might have saved it if I had put in...
  16. PrettyCoolChicks

    eggbound or not eggbound?

    So i ended up taking her to the vet. They found her dehydrated, she had a hard lump to the left side of her body cavity and crackling sounds in her lungs indicating sepsis. Vet gave her clavaseptin 250mg (200mg amoxicillin and 50mg clavulanic acid) 3 times daily for 7 days, and meloxadin for...
  17. PrettyCoolChicks

    Eggs Hatching Day 18!?

    I just had the surprise of a duckling already externally piping on lockdown day with my hovabator... eggs from the same parents were late to hatch last time in a brinsea so in my case i assume it is a higher than shown temperature issue.
  18. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Woo they are soooo adorable! Thank you for sharing, that sure lifted my spirit <3 Such pretty colors and patterns
  19. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    Pics please! :love
  20. PrettyCoolChicks

    June 2025 hatch-a-long

    I don't want to get rid of my hovabator just yet until i've used it on chicken eggs as ducks i know are harder. But to be fair, it'd be nicer to have an incubator that doesn't add worries to an already expected to be difficult hatch... if i could go back in time when i was on the fence between...
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