tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post4840653601142914386..comments2024-03-05T11:38:41.279-08:00Comments on Canary Tales: Double TroubleLinda Hoganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09453591933437696987noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post-11890914584295880112010-05-28T08:03:23.233-07:002010-05-28T08:03:23.233-07:00Nina
As soon as young birds are eating well, stop...Nina<br /><br />As soon as young birds are eating well, stop the hard boiled egg and drop animal proteins till you get it stopped. <br /><br />You may need to separate out the worst to stop them from picking on each other.<br /><br />Provide more perches. Even clothes pins at various places can serve as perches. Also plastic coat hangers and any type of divided perches.Linda Hoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09453591933437696987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post-82167633625621641242010-05-27T17:26:25.560-07:002010-05-27T17:26:25.560-07:00Linda, I have a problem maybe you can help me with...Linda, I have a problem maybe you can help me with. How can I prevent/stop young birds from pecking on each other especially on the wing butts? Several have ended up bloody. I have them in a large flight cage. Last year, I separated birds into their own cages, but don't have that option this year - too many birds. Any solutions? Nina RappNina Rapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05496542720113188431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post-44651899311096437612010-05-27T08:02:25.369-07:002010-05-27T08:02:25.369-07:00Thank you so much for sharing with us! It was so g...Thank you so much for sharing with us! It was so good I also featured it in the this weeks tips and questions.<br /><br />I have only heard one report in all my years of breeding of a double yolker producing two chicks.Linda Hoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09453591933437696987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post-21329290571236804932010-05-27T02:17:01.519-07:002010-05-27T02:17:01.519-07:00Double yolkers have never hatched for me personall...Double yolkers have never hatched for me personally, nor do I know anyone for who they have.<br /><br />I dislike to see them in the nest as I feel that they can interfere with the hen turning the eggs.<br /><br />It's strange how some hen's lay klarge eggs and some lay small eggs. I have always been of the opinion..big chick= healthy chick. Maybe this is a nonsense, but this year I obtained a very good hen Border in a swap. Normally I do not take in other fanciers hens, but this was (is) a very fine bird. Despite her large size, her eggs wer (compared to my own bred hens) small and round, rather than large and oval. I was disappointed and feared the worst. particularly as I had paired her to my largest and best stock cock, if the eggs were full I felt sure that the chicks would be unable to turn in the egg and die before chipping. Despite my worries she hatched five normal chicks, which are now weaned and they are as it happens very large birds.<br /><br />Another thing which happened (only yesterday) was that I had a nest of eggs due, 4 full eggs down 14 days, I seen the hen down at the hopper so took the opportunity to have a peek. None had hatched yet, but I noticed that she had stood on one of the eggs, the shell was indented in several places from the outside. I floated the egg in tepid water to see it the chick was alive....no movement at all. <br />This confirmed what I suspected, the chick was dead, I chipped the top of the egg and there was a void...empty, so I threw the egg in the waste bucket where it smashed and to my horror discovered that in the other half of the egg was a chick ..alive and yolk sac unabsorbed. <br /><br />I wasn't happy about it but have comforted myself (rightly or wrongly) that that the chick would have died during chipping as it was confined to only one half of the egg.<br />I was sickened, as normally the floating method is very accurate, one a positive note, here remaining three eggs hatched today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com