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Post by kim1 on Oct 7, 2005 15:09:06 GMT 10
I'm posting this for a freind, she has a pair of alex's, the cock is green/ino the hen lutino, so they are expensive birds, this is the first year they have bred. The problem is that the hen only hatched 2 chicks and both chicks died, one with the hen the other was pulled but died after a week in the brooder. Both chicks had yellow tummies, is this some sort of problem with the chicks absorbtion of the yolk sack? If so what caused it to happen in both chicks. The hen stuffed about a bit while sittinh and was in and out of the box she also laid a huge clutch of 7 eggs, but stood on a couple and cracked them etc. Was the problem in the way the eggs were incubated by the hen or was it a genetic abnormality which will show up again. The pair are fed the best foods plus breeding aid. any suggestions?
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Smiley
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Post by Smiley on Oct 7, 2005 15:54:35 GMT 10
Absorption of the yolk sac usually takes place a few hours after hatching. Sounds like they mite have had a serious bacterial infection..Normaly when you have a young one just hatch. You really only give it water for the first few hours..Food will stop the aborption of the egg sac.
I would be getting the parents checked out at the vets...
It does make you wander why the other died in the care of there parents..Alex's are normaly great parents
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Post by kim1 on Oct 7, 2005 17:11:06 GMT 10
the one that she put in the brooder, was taken at 3 days old after the first chick died, it lived for 10 days allup before it died and its poo was very black like it is for the first day after a new chick hatches but normaly it changes to more normal after day one, this one never did, the vet can find nothing wrong with the parents, he's tested for many things and it's all clear, She has been handraiseing chicks from the egg for 18 years so the problem is with the parents or some other factor as the chick was all ready sick when she pulled it, the vet down here isn't an avian vet and sends all the test away to another vet so he doen't really know what it could be. It's a mystery but she really needs answers as the hen has laid again, (6eggs) should she stick those eggs under another hen ?
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Post by Smiley on Oct 7, 2005 19:01:34 GMT 10
She could try that one..Try swapping some over and see what happens. Mark the eggs to so that she will know which ones are which..And mark the babies if she can..
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