Do both of these chicks need to be put down??

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I have Silkies and I'm a newbie, haven't had chicks since I was a kid on Grandma 's farm but the older two chicks I have one has this posture and we're leaning to rooster from his behavior, posture and crow. I think there's a way to sex your birds at a young age by the wing feathers. It will be interesting to see if this hunch is correct.
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HarrisonCreek said:
Oh, wow, was I surprised when I tried putting this one in the brooder.
The others couldn't get near it's bottom. This tiny little bird is a BIG bully! And it's LOUD.

Main problem was the Australorps. So docile! And this little wellie was grabbing thier black toes and trying to run away with them!
I separated her with the two alpha Sussex chicks - very laid back, but I feel bad subjecting them to this racket!
Top it all off the only one pecking on her is the other Welsummer, I just worried that the big Wellie might learn new tricks. :-/

This was taken just after she pit the Buff's beak. No one is fighting this one back!! Complete bully!

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I swapped out the 2 buffs and put her/him in with the older Welsummer overnight, under a stuffed animal leaned up agains the edge of the box (heater was outside the box) She really wanted to lie under the other chicks - seemed like she needed her momma.
The next morning she was great - no aggressiveness at all, even towards the black Australorps.

Sadly, she had a set back and dies 36 hours later. RIP little peep.
 
HarrisonCreek said:
They're both running round! I was trying to keep them separated with a rolled up towel. But the one with the biggest deformity keeps climbing all over it!

I have another one on it's way, that is way too slow in coming out. I suspect the worst at this point. It's chirping, but it'll probably be stuck as well. Lost humidity during hatch dealing with a splayed legs chick that we being picked on, so opened up the incubator.
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Chickens naturally live in flocks even though it is sometimes difficult for us humans to watch the dynamics of a flock of chickens. Therefore don't try to keep new chicks separate from one another, their instincts are counter to living in any other way except as a flock. It is stressful for a chick to hear other chicks peeping and not be able to join the other chicks! Keep your new chicks in a quite and dark incubator or hatcher until they are 48-72 hours old. Even though they go "PEEP" newly hatched chicks are not a peep show, reframe from looking at them every 15 minutes and what ever you do keep your hands to yourself. Try to keep your new arrivals as close to nature as is humanly possible, and keep a diary of ever clutch that you set either under a hen or in an incubator so that you can improve your piping success over time. It is my honest opinion that you'll be rewarded with more and healthier chicks if you will follow this advice.. When all the chicks hatch at once the humidity in the hatcher is also naturally higher, so DON"T stagger hatch your chicks, you'll end up with more stuck chicks that way. Opening up the incubator or hatcher usually harms all the piping chicks more than you or I together can help just one unfortunate chick. When incubated correctly from healthy stock your babies should and will hatch out like popcorn.
 
chickengeorgeto said:
Chickens naturally live in flocks even though it is sometimes difficult for us humans to watch the dynamics of a flock of chickens. Therefore don't try to keep new chicks separate from one another, their instincts are counter to living in any other way except as a flock. It is stressful for a chick to hear other chicks peeping and not be able to join the other chicks! Keep your new chicks in a quite and dark incubator or hatcher until they are 48-72 hours old. Even though they go "PEEP" newly hatched chicks are not a peep show, reframe from looking at them every 15 minutes and what ever you do keep your hands to yourself. Try to keep your new arrivals as close to nature as is humanly possible, and keep a diary of ever clutch that you set either under a hen or in an incubator so that you can improve your piping success over time. It is my honest opinion that you'll be rewarded with more and healthier chicks if you will follow this advice.. When all the chicks hatch at once the humidity in the hatcher is also naturally higher, so DON"T stagger hatch your chicks, you'll end up with more stuck chicks that way. Opening up the incubator or hatcher usually harms all the piping chicks more than you or I together can help just one unfortunate chick. When incubated correctly from healthy stock your babies should and will hatch out like popcorn.
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Very Good advise!! I am a small "hatcher", usually 50 to 100 chicks per week. I have Joked to my family that I would "Break their arm" if they "Tried" to open my incubator/hatcher during the "lock down period". From day 18 to day "22" the Only way my Hatcher will get open is "If all the eggs hatch" before day 22. In the beginning I opened at will--I too had a low % hatch rate, stuck chicks, deformed chicks, etc. Now having 100% hatch is not unusual, rarely having a messed up hatched chick. I too have a book that All dates/etc of the eggs are logged in---If I did not write it down I would have a Mess because I set eggs every week in the incubator(incubator holds over 300 eggs) and have to move them to the hatcher on the proper date, Good Luck everyone-----Lets Hatch some eggs!!
 

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