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We floated some eggs from the race team to stock birds - yes I know it's usually done the other way round.

But we put a couple of stock hens in the race loft and paired them to their grandsons

 

Anyway - we didn't realise how long they had been sitting the eggs - and floated them to some that had recently laid

 

Unfortunately its only a week later and they have hatched (hence the 'doesn't time fly')

 

We have floated eggs before successfully where there has been a 5 day difference - but not 2 weeks!

Apart from crossing fingers - what is the likelihood of these being successfully raised?

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We floated some eggs from the race team to stock birds - yes I know it's usually done the other way round.

But we put a couple of stock hens in the race loft and paired them to their grandsons

 

Anyway - we didn't realise how long they had been sitting the eggs - and floated them to some that had recently laid

 

Unfortunately its only a week later and they have hatched (hence the 'doesn't time fly')

 

We have floated eggs before successfully where there has been a 5 day difference - but not 2 weeks!

Apart from crossing fingers - what is the likelihood of these being successfully raised?

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Wouldn't count on them surviving but stranger things have happened.

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would not expect them to have soft feeding for them sue three days out is the max for me a day or two more if the feeders are sitting over due if you can switch them about the nests for a few days to get a feed you may save some

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Have hand raired Young birds successfully I know this will sound crazy :emoticon-0136-giggle: . But young birds just hatched out can feed them self but only for two - three days have had a couple do it for five day's but it's very rare. I mix up a milky weetabix and simply dip the beak into the mixture . As if still in the egg they fill the crop. :smiling-scarecrow-329:

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Have hand raired Young birds successfully I know this will sound crazy :emoticon-0136-giggle: . But young birds just hatched out can feed them self but only for two - three days have had a couple do it for five day's but it's very rare. I mix up a milky weetabix and simply dip the beak into the mixture . As if still in the egg they fill the crop. :smiling-scarecrow-329:

we used to give ours porridge lol

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Sadly one pair were dead this morning - I have put the other two with a pair already feeding two youngsters, but it's not looking promising

 

billy99 I might have given that a go if it had been a few days earlier - I was away the weekend and think these have hatched Saturday/Sunday

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Sadly one pair were dead this morning - I have put the other two with a pair already feeding two youngsters, but it's not looking promising

 

billy99 I might have given that a go if it had been a few days earlier - I was away the weekend and think these have hatched Saturday/Sunday

I think you should try what I said . Just make sure the mix is look warm.

 

we used to give ours porridge lol

:P:emoticon-0136-giggle:

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