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The circle of life.. When I came home from the vet with JC I found three pipped eggs in the incubator (right on time, but I hadn't really paid attention today) and the first one has already hatched two hours after. A little wheaten mottled chick (confirmation hatch from my mille-fleur hen and...

JC didn't make it. Went back to the vet with her today, because no improvement since Friday. We decided to euthanize her. Although she was eating when possible, and on high dosed vitamins, she wasn't able to get up, just creeping around the box on on side with feet trembling. I still hope it was...

Went back to the vet with her today, because no improvement since Friday. We decided to euthanize her. Although she was eating when possible, and on high dosed vitamins, she wasn't able to get up, just creeping around the box on on side with feet trembling. I still hope it was a a severe...

The tiny monochromes are celebrating there 14 days. They seem not to grow (but they do) and are still very tiny, compared with the M Fs. I'm not sure the grayish are really blue or will get black completely. If not, it's a very very slate blue...

4 weeks update on the mille-fleurs... the little ones are doing great. I was afraid, what ever JC had caught might spread, but I don't think they have the same conditions, nor that it's contagious. The cockerels have a pleasant youngster-attitude 🤭, and getting wither by the day, the pullets are...

7 week update... here are my two oddly-mottled, the cockerel has some sort of slate instead of black and the pullet too.

Here are the videos: First one, it's her status before injection. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0cbTC1BRA7Qd7_OM3-8plHcFQ second one approximately 4 hours after injection: https://share.icloud.com/photos/04bgQLSstWQc_ixDhnnsfJcAw

No I hadn't yet dewormed them. They were inside and only 4 weeks old, so I hadn't thought about that. I had planned to deworm the groupe once after having them moved in with the adults. Her poop is astonishingly normal considering she's eating a bit aleatorique. But I will observe and keep it...

At the beginning I gave her her usual chick starter mashed up with boiled egg and vitamins mixed up. But the don't seem to like the pasty consistence sticker to her beak. She kept flipping her head and tapping the box wall to clean it. She has chickens starter 24/7 in her box. I tried to feed...

Have to upload the video first elsewhere, but here is a photo: Just now she kept (with assistance of the box wall) on here feet for several minutes. This IS improvement :)

A few hours after the second injection and it seems she's getting slightly better. While she is unable to lift her self or eat in the litter box, the wood chips not allowing any grip, I take her out into a box with a rippled mat where she has more adherence. I put food inside and she keeps on...

I had eggs who traveled 8 days via mail and 50% success, other who traveled 48h-72h and 10% success. All together I had around 25% hatching rate from mail ordered eggs. But I received two batches from the same source where only 2 of 20 eggs were properly fertile. So I think he had a problem with...

There are those happy days...and then are the other days... Went to the vet with JC, thinking having her euthanized, because she was deteriorating. The vet proposed to treat her with Vitamin injections for a couple of days, maybe that will do the trick. Now I have to mount the courage to inject...

When I told the vet I've tried it with Vitamins, he told me sarcastically" So, you intoxicated her!" - fortunately I knew it's not the case, otherwise I might have felt bad...

I have a similar case, but the chick is only for weeks old. Her symptoms getting worse from slightly lame on Sunday to laying on one side and not getting up today. I gave her 400 iE Vitamin E (but I'm not sure how much she really swallowed) and switched to crushed pellets of VitE for my horses...