[Chick named small fri]

What do small eggs and green feet have to do with getting more peeps?

Genetic mush, that's what we have were are like 8 generations in of breeding the same genetic cross with the same genetic cross, which is mushing our genes. So we need new chickens to help meditate this.

 

[robin416]

OK, now I get what you meant. I hadn't realized you haven't had new blood in there for a while.

 

[Chick named small fri]

OK, now I get what you meant. I hadn't realized you haven't had new blood in there for a while.

Robin my chick is screaming in the egg with no pip or progress from last night should I help her out or wait it out.

 

[robin416]

Help. This may be the wrong decision but if it's screaming it's stuck and needs intervention or it will die. Try putting a hole in the air cell area of the egg large enough to try to see what is going on.

 

[Chick named small fri]

Help. This may be the wrong decision but if it's screaming it's stuck and needs intervention or it will die. Try putting a hole in the air cell area of the egg large enough to try to see what is going on.

Sorry for not giving you a update. I did hatch out the egg she's doing well my mom name her Betty. She and two others had pasty butt already. I don't take my chances so I washed my chicks. This is Betty outside with luck and sterling she's the one with the caramel stripe.

 

[robin416]

Is it warm enough for them to be outside. Like 90 degrees? That's probably why you've dealt with pasty butt, they got chilled. Peeps do not have good body temp regulation before they're fully feathered.

I'll forgive you. I figured if it was a bad outcome you would have said something earlier. How hard was it to help Betty get out?

 

[Chick named small fri]

Is it warm enough for them to be outside. Like 90 degrees? That's probably why you've dealt with pasty butt, they got chilled. Peeps do not have good body temp regulation before they're fully feathered.

I'll forgive you. I figured if it was a bad outcome you would have said something earlier. How hard was it to help Betty get out?

I had to crawl up the air cell I kept dropping shell that made her bleed eventually she had absorbed it and I had to rip her membrane a little bit Betty still doing good. This is the first time I've taken any of them out side honestly looking at Betty again she started getting pasty. She is way to poofy at the vent. I had a hen like that before, her name was velvet. We had to cut her a poop slide so it wouldn't get stuck to her feathers. In the future I might have to cut another slide

 

[robin416]

Betty is an odd one. Screaming to be let out, yet is sounds like she really wasn't ready to hatch.

Poop slide? OK, that's a first. But if it works. Why not?

 

[Chick named small fri]

Betty is an odd one. Screaming to be let out, yet is sounds like she really wasn't ready to hatch.

Poop slide? OK, that's a first. But if it works. Why not?

Yeah I agree with you there. Betty is a odd character.

 

[robin416]

Sort of like her very inventive foster Momma?