Ok so a friend of mine is moving 6 hours away and had to get rid of all her chickens. When she got home from signing the papers on her new house, one of her hens was sitting on 16 eggs. Well the hen had to go Saturday and I took her my incubator on Thursday. She set it up Friday and put the eggs...
I will, if he doesn't do some drastic improving in the next day or so I have a wild life rehabber that is willing to take him on. So his odds are better than most.
They do splay out to the side, I'll add the bandaid tonight to his/her legs and see if that helps. The biggest thing that worries/bothers me and that he's still not holding up his head for more than a few seconds.
How's the baby doing? I've got a similar situation with one of mine right now.It has the crooked neck, swollen belly, spraddle leg and curled toes. Even my kids told me to cull it but I just can't seem to not give it a chance.
Is it unheard of for a newly hatched chick to have pasty butt? Or is there more to this than I want to face? I got home and there is this yellow gunk plastered to his butt. I cleaned it of and more oozed out, I squeezed gently until there was no more and he seems to be more content now than...
Thank you, my mind has been eased somewhat. I'll be happy when I see #5 running with his/her sibblings as a happy healthy peababy! I'll get some more pics tonight to share with y'all!
So a friend of my mom's gave me 7 peafowl eggs, I ended up with 1 quitter, 1 died at the very end (I was so sad to see a fully formed chick in that egg), and 5 little peababies. Last night the last one finally hatched. I caught it hatching 4 days earlier than expected when I went to pull it off...
Here's my rotten kitty, Snowball aka Sheba (my girls keep changing her name). She showed up at the barn about 6 weeks ago and I felt sorry for her and brought her in the house. About 2 weeks later I noticed the tell-tale swelling of her belly. We now are expecting kitten any day (and yes they...
Meet Aflac (s/he also has a sibling named Gieco). Here Aflac is about a week old and they are my first ducks (Pekin).
Aflac and friends hanging in the coop for some outside time
Did it look like this when you first got it? I got 2 this past weekend (along with some Silkies and Old English) just based on cuteness factor! I have been trying to figure out what they are.