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You know what I have been so upset that I haven’t been able to come to terms with anything yet.Really sorry to read your post about th little chick @orangesplash that is very sad. Fly free little one over rainbow bridge.
Ok here comes your "official talking too" by somebody who has also reared loved and lost and also to having reared and been rewarded by chicks growing into adulthood and driving me batty ever since!
Yes it hurts when we get attached to our feathered friends and regardless of what we do or try we sometimes do loose them.
Remember this not all chicks in the wild that are parent reared survive either some parent birds know instinctively that there is a problem and chuck the chicks out the nest or indeed will kill them in the nest if there is an issue that they can sense.
As there is no definitive way to know without an avian post mortem to determine what the issue is what if it was a congenital issue that both chicks had? If it was then there is more than likely even a parent rearing them they would have passed on....
So mourn for your loss and shed some tears we all have at sometime or another. We never forget those that we have loved lost.
Then scrub everything down with some good avian disinfectant top to bottom absolutely everything brooder, dishes, trays, perches the flipping lot anything that those chicks came into contact with as a just in case measure. Throw any seed and hand rearing mix out and buy fresh ones in case it was something to do with the feed.
Do some reading up in the meantime about what temperature a chick should be kept at at what age, about consistency of food for different ages. Then go and find another breeder who's chicks are not related to those parent birds you got yours from hopefully purchase some older ones if you can perhaps look at a different species so as not to give yourself too much heart ache thinking they look the same as those that have passed.
Thing is good owners who dearly love their birds do get hurt and we do question ourselves and we then strive to be better and too make a difference.
Once again am sorry for your loss x
I will put it up again.I can't see the video it says it's been removed?
Really sorry to read your post about th little chick @orangesplash that is very sad. Fly free little one over rainbow bridge.
Ok here comes your "official talking too" by somebody who has also reared loved and lost and also to having reared and been rewarded by chicks growing into adulthood and driving me batty ever since!
Yes it hurts when we get attached to our feathered friends and regardless of what we do or try we sometimes do loose them.
Remember this not all chicks in the wild that are parent reared survive either some parent birds know instinctively that there is a problem and chuck the chicks out the nest or indeed will kill them in the nest if there is an issue that they can sense.
As there is no definitive way to know without an avian post mortem to determine what the issue is what if it was a congenital issue that both chicks had? If it was then there is more than likely even a parent rearing them they would have passed on....
So mourn for your loss and shed some tears we all have at sometime or another. We never forget those that we have loved lost.
Then scrub everything down with some good avian disinfectant top to bottom absolutely everything brooder, dishes, trays, perches the flipping lot anything that those chicks came into contact with as a just in case measure. Throw any seed and hand rearing mix out and buy fresh ones in case it was something to do with the feed.
Do some reading up in the meantime about what temperature a chick should be kept at at what age, about consistency of food for different ages. Then go and find another breeder who's chicks are not related to those parent birds you got yours from hopefully purchase some older ones if you can perhaps look at a different species so as not to give yourself too much heart ache thinking they look the same as those that have passed.
Thing is good owners who dearly love their birds do get hurt and we do question ourselves and we then strive to be better and too make a difference.
Once again am sorry for your loss x
Thank you for the advise. You see when the postmortem was done, there was obvious infection.Yes that poor baby needs several more weeks of expert care - and it should be in a dark secure place, not under bright lights. Please don't buy a grey that is not fully weaned. I'm sorry to be blunt but your feelings don't really matter as much as the bird's welfare.
Thank you for the advise. You see when the postmortem was done, there was obvious infection.
they said there was mycoplasma. Now I don’t know whether To plan myself or the person who sold them to me