We had a hen go broody outside the coop and run. We allowed her to hatch out her brood, and took all but two chicks, her first brood, we wanted to make sure she would be a good mother, plus we have enough chicks in our back yard. We built a makeshift run and coop around her to keep her safe from...
We are hatching eggs in an incubator. Late Yesterday we had a chick hatch and one of its legs seems to be bad. Chick has it stretched out behind her and is dragging it while it moves around. Can I help it in any way?
2 of our 18 eggs have hatched in the past hour or so. How long do we need to wait to take them out of the incubator and into a warm broody box? I'm assuming wait till dry, but we have an open container of water in our homemade incubator and I worry they may fall into the water.