My baby chick was born sometime early evening today and I checked on the little one about 10 minutes ago and I can hear it chirping and I peeked in there and the mom is trying to feed it straight seed and its crop is empty...when do I intervene? I'm so afraid my little one will die during the night

sorry ashley i wish i could help

but i have no experience as of yet dealing with that sort of thing.

 

send a couple of pm's out to knowledgable breeders...

like kaz, generic-blue or RIP someone like that.

then they will immediatley reply when they log on!

 

hope it all works out!

Now the baby's crop is full of air. I have no idea what to do.

Is there any cream colour in the crop? or is it just pink?

 

Can you foster the chick to another nest with same aged chicks?

Edited May 20, 201014 yr by anne101

It looks like just air with a little yellow-creamish stuff but not much. This is my first time ever breeding so I have no one to foster it to. I thought I was so prepared and really well read before I started breeding and now I just feel helpless.

If there is a cream colour then there is food in there, if there was no food it would be flat and pink.Just leave mum for a few hours now with no one looking at her, baby has food so thats good.Do you have any egg and biscuit that you can give mum to help her out?

 

 

 

Have a read of this link Ashleys27...http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...&artlang=en

Edited May 20, 201014 yr by anne101

dont do i what i did with my first new mum and create a monster by hounding her all the time

she will look after her chick better if you

leave her alone

i caused my hen to not only crush chicks by sitting to hard but to pluck and over protect them

as i looked to much

i sent her to a experienced breeder where she now is a perfect mum and on her second round

(mind you their was a gap in breeding attempts

im getting her back soon

all you need to do is have a quick peep like even just knock on box and bring mum out peek see baby moving and shut door

cheack mum over quickly while shes out

vishually with your eyes

see her health and then thats it

clean water daily and gratted carrot would be good mixed with your egg n biskit

no need for adding water

remove this after few hours

so it does not go yuk

once all chicks are hatched you may want to add some bedding this is when you can pick up each chick give it a quick once over

for deformitys health all that

give mum a once over to but again vishually

see if shes looking still nice and vigorous not tied and slump

dad should helpfeed once all chicks hatch

so just keep up the carrot and egg n biskit

make sure you have iodine bell calcium bell and lots of seed

each chick needs a minimum of one cup a day in seed

thats importaint

the more you hound mum the more chance of something going wrong

First time Mum is she ? Is she over 12 months ?

 

One of the hardest things to do is breed one pair at a time. When you do you have no back up plan to transfer any chicks to other nests. Its scary.

But as Anne says there is food in the crop so far. Bear in mind a tiny new baby will only have like half a drop of food in its crop...we seems to expect more but a newly hatched doesnt show much food. This will change with time.

Thanks everyone after my breakdown I left things alone and checked real quick last night...full crop...this morn I checked...full crop and a 2nd one hatched. Should I check tonight since she seems to be feeding the first one? She is around 18-19 months old, I assume this is her first set of babies, I got her from and friend and I know she didn't have babies when she had her and I'm almost positive that she bought her at a pet store. Also when I checked last night the male was in the nest box. Is that normal? I assumed it was okay so just peeked in and left...

Kaz do you agree that 2 times a day is enough to check? I don't want to do it too much and stress her out but I'm also scare I will miss something. Thank goodness I found this board, ya'll are so helpful!

 

First time Mum is she ? Is she over 12 months ?

 

One of the hardest things to do is breed one pair at a time. When you do you have no back up plan to transfer any chicks to other nests. Its scary.

But as Anne says there is food in the crop so far. Bear in mind a tiny new baby will only have like half a drop of food in its crop...we seems to expect more but a newly hatched doesnt show much food. This will change with time.

Thanks everyone after my breakdown I left things alone and checked real quick last night...full crop...this morn I checked...full crop and a 2nd one hatched. Should I check tonight since she seems to be feeding the first one? She is around 18-19 months old, I assume this is her first set of babies, I got her from and friend and I know she didn't have babies when she had her and I'm almost positive that she bought her at a pet store. Also when I checked last night the male was in the nest box. Is that normal? I assumed it was okay so just peeked in and left...

Kaz do you agree that 2 times a day is enough to check? I don't want to do it too much and stress her out but I'm also scare I will miss something. Thank goodness I found this board, ya'll are so helpful!

 

First time Mum is she ? Is she over 12 months ?

 

One of the hardest things to do is breed one pair at a time. When you do you have no back up plan to transfer any chicks to other nests. Its scary.

But as Anne says there is food in the crop so far. Bear in mind a tiny new baby will only have like half a drop of food in its crop...we seems to expect more but a newly hatched doesnt show much food. This will change with time.

 

twice a day is good once in morn once at night

well around 600 pm

then do as you did and leave be

yes dad okay in box he will be helping usually they do no harm

 

sounds like all is doing well

thats good im glad

So glad it's all working out...

Thanks everyone after my breakdown I left things alone and checked real quick last night...full crop...this morn I checked...full crop and a 2nd one hatched. Should I check tonight since she seems to be feeding the first one? She is around 18-19 months old, I assume this is her first set of babies, I got her from and friend and I know she didn't have babies when she had her and I'm almost positive that she bought her at a pet store. Also when I checked last night the male was in the nest box. Is that normal? I assumed it was okay so just peeked in and left...

Kaz do you agree that 2 times a day is enough to check? I don't want to do it too much and stress her out but I'm also scare I will miss something. Thank goodness I found this board, ya'll are so helpful!

 

Twice a day is enough.

She will feed the second chick after its recovered hatching. A lot of males go in and help ............all good so far