dead squab

[lordcornwallis]

hi i had a pair on dummy eggs thay were due to hatch on friday. on saturday another pair hatched i took one squab away and put it under the first pair . this morning i looked under the pair and the squab was dead any idea what went wrong lc

[Glassfeather]

Did it have food in its crop when you moved it? Was there food in its crop when you found it dead? Did you see the fosters feed it?

[Guest IB]

I would not recommend handling a new born youngster. I've always had the egg floated under the foster pair from the beginning so that the youngster hatches out in the foster pair's bowl.

[Guest chrisss]

I would not recommend handling a new born youngster. I've always had the egg floated under the foster pair from the beginning so that the youngster hatches out in the foster pair's bowl.

 

the same as me, leave one dummy the other "real"[the one you want to float] that way [to me anyway]the birds assume that one egg hatched the other duff

[lordcornwallis]

thanks for all your input, it was actually a chipping egg i moved to the friday pair as one of saturdays had hatched. this morning when i found the squab under the foster mum it was dead but it looked the same size as the one that was alive regards and thanks . so what else do you think?

 

lc

[Guest Hjaltland]

I've found that some hens can be very fussy when it comes to shifting around eggs, they seem to know when something has been changed and on several  occasions they've actually dumped out the eggs and started over when I've tried to be clever. I do shift around youngsters with very little problem as long as I have a careful check on dates/times they hatch so the hen is ready to feed milk.

 

Goodness knows what's happened to your hatchling, could be it simply wasnt right in itself and wouldnt have survived anyway... it does happen.

[jimmy white]

as long as your sure you had the dates right,, i would agree with the last paragraph of last post ,,,,this can and does happen