Posts by redmouse

I'll add that this was because I didn't have a sympathetic vetenary clinic, if you do then maybe a trip to them would be a plan. Mine just joked that it'd be chicken dinner tonight! So I had a go myself :)

I've had a chick with its head pecked off at the back, and she made it to a ripe old age, so while it might look gruesome, it doen't have to mean it's fatal.   So is there any skin left to do anything with or is it all...

If he's still shaking and chirping he's probably doing fine. They can take 24 hours or more from pip to hatch.   Also I have had chicks hatch out just fine when they were completely out of the incy so don't worry too much. If...

I usually use towels for the first week, then chopped straw after that.   I have also used large flake pine shavings which seemed to work really well but were a bit expensive compared to the straw.

I've had broodys do that, but I always take the crushed egg away because nearly all of them peck at the red bloody bit and kill the chick if left.   I've successfully hatched out crushed eggs down my front (which was tricky,...

Well, this morning all the fluid in the baggy bit has been resorbed and left a little wrinkly bald flap of skin, so baby has gone in with the others :)   I kept her seperate while it was full and flopping about because I...

Here's a pic, please ignore how weird my hand looks, it's very hard to hold a wriggly chick and take a photo at the same time. The watery sack has shunk back to a tiny flap this morning, so   But it's an odd thing for...

Last night I had a little wellsummer bantam cross hatch out, but she has a very strange thing I've never seen before. She has what looks like a little bag of water in a 'flap' to the left hand side of her bum, it's sort of baggy and...

My theory on this is give it a little time, unless it's actually suffering. I've had some oddbods who turned into healthy happy chicks. I had one that had the back of her head pecked out (you could see the brain ) but with some...

I've had two banties hatch duck eggs this year, they did just fine :) I dripped a little bit of water on every three days or so, turned them once a day to be sure they had at least a bit of a turn, and then left mama banty to...