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What does her crop feel like?

I agree, she should be fed mash or pellets as they are nutritionally complete for most of the day then give her the other food as treats in the late afternoon or early evening so most of her food comes from the pellets, meal or mash. My hens love mash made with warm water like porridge and have...

How did it go, did you assist it? I've had to do a few times but you need to read up carefully otherwise you could cause a haemorrhage and kill the chick. Alot of people don't agree with assisting as they will probably be weak chickens but I have 2 hens I assisted this year now laying everyday...

I think 1, 3 and 6 aren't fertile so want removing ASAP. Can you see any blood vessels in the others or a dark ring. Any movement at all?

Have you treated them for mites? They also may be pecked by the others. I had some pheasant chicks this year, for some reason the poor white pheasants were constantly being pecked by the others to the point we has to separate them as they would have killed them. I got up one morning and one of...

I was advised by my vet to give my chicks abidec or another multivitamin and mineral as long as it doesn't contain iron. I did so as chicks and with winter coming I am going to give some to my hens in their water once a week.

I have up till now only given my older hens fermented feed as I haven't been doing it that long. I always keep a tub of fermenting grain on the go. When I have fed it to them I start another off so it works out I give it every three days as it takes that long to ferment. I give it all year...

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Is she still alive? I would apply coconut oil to the membranes to prevent them drying out. I tried to help a pheasant chick out today as she had pipped the pointed end over 24 hours ago with no sign of progression. I made a little hole in the other end as I was told there would be no blood...

I'm also interested and care. I have a baby pheasant who is a week old with severe foot curling. She is getting around but not very well. Obviously has a strong will to live as eating and drinking well. I've taped her feet but she constantly pecks at it then it gets stuck to the bedding and...

I have a white pheasant chick who can walk but is walking with her toes on both feet curled under her feet. I have attempted to make her little sandals and tape her toes flar, this initially helped but she ended up getting the tape stick to then puppy pad she is on and I ended up having to cut...

So sorry you lost her, unfortunately I had to Euthanize mine, she was towards the end laying down, gasping, couldn't move and I couldn't let her suffer any longer. It upset me but at least she isn't suffering anymore. If I had of left her to suffer it could have been another day or two so I...

No I didn't put her in that stance she does it all by herself 😢. I have now bought Vitamin b complex strong, have ground up the tablets, mixed it with a little homemade electrolyte mix and am trying to drop a little on her beak or dip her beak in it. Bless her I think she's given up.

Sounds like it is imprinting on you, thinks you are it's mummy so calls for you when you aren't around. It has mates so keep your contact with it as much as possible to a minimum, hopefully that may help.

The only things you can do have been mentioned, the mirror and stuffed animal and keeping your contact to a minimum. Do you have light on for it at night, if so turn it off when you go to bed, it will settle it down quicker. Reduce your contact as much as possible and put some mates in as soon...

I'm wondering if it is neurological due to the bruising she now has on her head.

It is just one leg she stretches out like this. When I put my finger near her toes she curls them round my fingers except one toe which seems to be limp. Bruising has developed on one side of her head, I expect where the other chicks were pecking her. Yes she moves both legs independently...

It is heartbreaking to hear them clearly suffering. People think incubating and keeping chicks and chickens is all cute chicks and comical hens but they don't realise the biggest responsibility comes when things go wrong and you have to pluck up enough courage to end a life especially when it...

You cannot see any visible injuries however it was walking fine when I put her in the brooder but then heard them having an argument and saw them attacking her so I whipped her out quick then discovered she was injures. There are 8 other chicks, all alot larger than her. They are in the house...

This chick hatched 48 hours after all the others, I let her stay in the incubator for 24 hours then attempted to put her in the brooder with the others, they immediately attacked her, she is now falling over when she attempts to stand up and walk. She can move the leg. I immediately took her...