I know this blog is about chicken raising, but thought I'd share our ducking story, since they are very similar.
We started with two eggs. The "due date" came and went, and one of the eggs turned black, and after candeling it, we knew the chick had died.
The other egg reached 2 days past the due date, when the chick starting pipping the shell. After several hours of no progress, I made a slight hole so the chick could breathe.
Well after along time, the duckling emerged, but with the yolk sack protruding out...so ER situation.
I've been keeping the sac moist, and I've put antibiotic on it, hoping to keep infection away.
Giving the chick very little hope of making it, he/she is surprising me. The yolk seems to be absorbing, although there is still a large bulge. The duckling is starting to stand today, drink some sugar water, and POOPED! So, I'm upping it's chances a bit.
We are still touch and go at this point, but have high hopes of a full recovery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZRTAzCPSzs&feature=youtu.be
My garden is producing MUCH veggies!
So far I've canned 9 jars of seedless blackberry jam, 6 jars of seedless syrup, 1 jar of pickles, and 8 jars of green pepper jelly. I'm starting on the tomato products, making sauce, salsa, BBQ, etc.
The chickens are all doing well. Gimpy (our little crippled chick) is holding her own. She and George are best mates, and hang out together. Neither is quite as fast as the other chickens, and neither likes to roost very high.
The chickens are all starting to size each other up now, going chest to chest and make a pecking order. It is really comical to watch...like "wanna-be" gangsters acting all tough.
Leopold is really starting to get some color in his feathers.
Until next time...
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