The only child Season begins, a mixture of excitement and nervousness. Mozambique our partner makes his first start, three eggs (as always) and are waiting impatiently for the long 12 days of incubation the female looking at the nest.
After that time are not always three chickens, sometimes there are two, sometimes one and sometimes none. In this nest was born one chicken:
only son.
The causes are not born all eggs can be many, may be that not all fertilized or it may be that the embryo dies inside the egg. If not fertilized is no sign of lack of zeal of the male or of not being accepted by the female, in the case that only one is fertilized can tell us not to have mated sufficiently. In these cases, vitamin E can lead the couple to increase fertility in the next start. However, the contribution of vitamins to heat can lead to a too ardent male pursues the female constantly and destroy nests and chicks throw down. The best thing is to find a more natural heat.
If dead embryos inside the eggs, the problem is more serious, we might have an infection that kills salmonella generally. Sometimes the female has left the overnight incubation due to a sudden fright, a light went off when to eat and could not return to the nest ... not born then none of the three.
If you were born one chicken could think that the parents will feed better than if they were many, but the reality is just the opposite, how many more chickens healthier and better nourished grow. The reason is that parents eat and fatten their children, after the prime expect to be hungry to eat again and prime. If many chickens have eaten just about as quickly and get hungry, if you have only one spare much hunger and parents take longer to reach them.
When we have a nest with one chicken should not remove the eggs did not hatch unless they are with a dead embryo and rotten. If the retired will place two eggs plastic in place. The reason is that the chicken on them supporting one another to stretch the cuelloy order food to their parents, brothers would normally rely on each other to keep warm and elevate the head, in the absence of brothers serve eggs.
After the first week, chicken has a large enough not to need support, and we can remove the eggs. It should be noted that the percaución accompanying eggs are not fertilized chicken (light) and show no sign of putrefaction, and bursting if the infection and kill the young chick. Chicken of the photo should be removed and eggs.
can help the only child fed with syringe stuffing, but we run the risk that the mother abandoned him completely and we should make a baby "the stick" to achieve full independence. When this artificially breed a chicken only (no siblings) usually mark the man and is cut, not serve as a player. What is the imprint? basically is when the bird is identified by its species, which feeds him, and believed man in this case, so that renders them unable to interact normally with other birds making it useless for breeding. However, if you are raised a full brood to stick, as other birds do not live with this phenomenon occurs and its imprint is correct. At the moment
small mozambique is surviving, growing somewhat slower than normal but I think it can succeed only with the power of their parents. Fingers crossed.
