Far North Flyer Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hi all,I've not been on for a while because of work but ended in a situation where I've placed the only representatives of a strain in the for of eggs under an equally good pair with their own eggs.unfortunately there are no other birds whose eggs will hatch at the same time as the floated pair.now I have a puzzled looking hen with four hatchling chicks .is this too many. Will she cope.i hope so as all four should be good birds.has anyone got any info on the situation?Kind regards far north flyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawked again Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hi all,I've not been on for a while because of work but ended in a situation where I've placed the only representatives of a strain in the for of eggs under an equally good pair with their own eggs.unfortunately there are no other birds whose eggs will hatch at the same time as the floated pair.now I have a puzzled looking hen with four hatchling chicks .is this too many. Will she cope.i hope so as all four should be good birds.has anyone got any info on the situation?Kind regards far north flyer If the eggs are very special can you not get a club mate to put them under something and maybe let him have one of the youngsters? Second worst solution would be to get rid of the two smallest looking chicks. Worst solution would be to leave four under the hen and end up with four very poor youngsters. I know it's not the answer your are looking for, has anyone else got a better one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddymac Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 If you have other pairs sitting on eggs around 12 day or more, slip a pair of Ybs under them and they should have enough milk in their crop to feed them until they start feeding grains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Far North Flyer Posted February 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 If you have other pairs sitting on eggs around 12 day or more, slip a pair of Ybs under them and they should have enough milk in their crop to feed them until they start feeding grains.I've got birds due to hatch in about 5 days but their chicks will be the first of the year too.im hoping they rear them as they are older birds that have both reared chicks before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterboswell59 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 its to many m8 they will struggle with three never mined four but if you can keep them alive for 3 or 4 days by taking out the ones that have a full crop of milk then put them back when the others are full then you can slip two under another pair because the pair will keep feeding the biggest ones first and the others get weeker and smaller you can help them by feeding pellets its softer and when they run out of pigeon milk they will try to feed hard grain which the youngbirds struggle to digest hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddymac Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 its to many m8 they will struggle with three never mined four but if you can keep them alive for 3 or 4 days by taking out the ones that have a full crop of milk then put them back when the others are full then you can slip two under another pair because the pair will keep feeding the biggest ones first and the others get weeker and smaller you can help them by feeding pellets its softer and when they run out of pigeon milk they will try to feed hard grain which the youngbirds struggle to digest hope this helpsGood sound advice as usual Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankdooman Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Never had much success with stuff like that it's hard enough rearing good strong y/ bds off a good pair without adding to it it's a tough decision but if your sure of the two young u want suffer the others right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Far North Flyer Posted February 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 its to many m8 they will struggle with three never mined four but if you can keep them alive for 3 or 4 days by taking out the ones that have a full crop of milk then put them back when the others are full then you can slip two under another pair because the pair will keep feeding the biggest ones first and the others get weeker and smaller you can help them by feeding pellets its softer and when they run out of pigeon milk they will try to feed hard grain which the youngbirds struggle to digest hope this helpsThanks all for the advice.ill keep my eye for the next couple of days and try to float them out to another fancier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovy1255 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 if your hatch goes as well as mine --couple dead half out of shells-fortunes of been at work all day,so keep eye on them and never say never-hope it all works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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