New Baby!!!!!
- Thread starter LennytheLinnie
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Cute!
srirachaseahawk
Fledgling
A new weebit!
It’ll be interesting to see how s/he feathers up
It’ll be interesting to see how s/he feathers up
Exciting! Was it an incubator hatch? I ask as it looks very young to have such a full crop. Parents usually don't feed them for the first day. If being parent fed, are the parents tame? I try not to peek at the babies unless mom leaves the nestbox. Linnies can be touchy. Is this your first Linnie baby? How exciting! What color mutation are the parents? We can play the color guessing game!
LennytheLinnie
Incubating
Yes, Incubator. This baby didn't make it unfortunately. Mom laid 3 eggs and sat on the eggs short time and then stopped. One egg was cracked, this baby was a fertile egg and the 3rd unfertile. This was my Cersei's first time laying. She's since laid again, which I did not plan for. I will be posting a separate thread asking for guidance.
Incubator hatches are tough. They need constant high 90's temps in a brooder, and tiny feeds every hour round the clock for the first few days, then you can stretch to it 90 minutes overnight. Formula needs to be super thin, and if you accidently over-feed, the crop stretches and stops digesting food, causing yeast overgrowth and starvation though looking "full". I just did 2 day one Linnies and like I say every 5 years or so when the memory of how hard it is fades, "I am never doing that again!" I foolishly forget and repeat intervening lol.