#birthdefects

Hi Brains trusts, I’m in day 20 and have had 2 early hatches, one of them doesn’t look great and has what looks like an intestine hanging out from its rear. It was moving around earlier on but now is heavy breathing and just laying on its side. The other hatchling is just trampling all over it...

Hi, My mixed breed chick has been extremely unlucky. Her mother cracked the egg about 2/3 of the way through incubation, and I think she was slightly malpositioned. She had a hard time hatching, so I ended up taking a little shell off for her, but she got the rest by herself. Her legs were...