day old chick

First time posting...hope I'm doing this right. I hatched 3 silkies this morning( first hatch at around 330AM, last two hatched at approx. 9 & 9:30AM.) Shipped eggs. They hatched on day 21, as they should, but 1 of my babies pipped sometime early Friday morning and he was the last to hatch @...

We had an easter egger x chick hatch yesterday (under a broody hen) with a bump on its head. Picture below. Also working on a video. Last night it looked like a bump on the skin, not an open wound. I've seen chicks pecked on the head and it didn't look like that either. I put a natural cream...

So I have a chick who I had to assist hatch yesterday, today it's eyes don't seem to open? They were open yesterday all day. Any ideas? Thanks!

I have a lot of quail but this is my first chicken, I think there was an incubator problem which has left me with just one newly hatched Wyandotte. She is obviously lonely, she is now 6 days old, we had a couple of times of pasty butt and she was back on her haunches for 3 days, but she has...

Hi all, I was in the process of hatching some cream legbars and this little one popped out. It does have certain markings but it is a completely different colour to any other cream legbar I have seen. Any ideas what breed it might be or is it perhaps just a very blonde legbar? They hatched on...

Hello everyone. We are down to our last hen unfortunately, her best mate just passed last night. They are three years old and her mate had just gone through a huge molt and the heat we have been experiencing just took her last bit of energy, she didn’t make it thru the night. Anyways, our last...

Hello, in my previous thread i had an incubating issues where one of my bators had heating issues where it kept dropping in temperature. Well i also lost a lot of eggs from shipping issues and only had one hatch out. Don’t worry this week some more should hatch out from a different batch, im not...

As I’ve been researching which DP to get for meat birds, I keep coming across people saying to make sure to buy from a breeder. It sounds like some hatcheries are good, but breeders (breeding for meat quality) should be better. I’ve searched on other websites and here on BYC, on Facebook and...

The first chick of my first ever hatch! This is Elara, she is an ameraucana---possibly a blue splash, but not 100% sure of the color ID just yet! Hard to tell on such a tiny baby. :D I'm only keeping these little guys to hatch and rear; I unfortunately don't have the space or resources to keep...

Hello, I’m new to raising backyard chickens and I understand that sexing silkies has been discussed but I can’t find anything on the issue I have. Today I picked up 2 chicks, both silkies and a day old. One of them has what looks like a little spur, it has a nail and all, this is in addition to...

I have a chick who is about a day old. It is not acting like the other chicks that have hatched. It constantly has its wings spread out (and drooling) and can only bring them in when I gently hold them in. The chick cannot walk, it just wobbles around. And when it tries to walk, it trips over...

Hi friends! I got day old chicks today from my local farm store. All of the chickens but one is fine. They’re all active, eating and drinking, but I have one light Brahma who cannot walk, and won’t eat or drink. She chirps, but nothing else. When I first put her in the brooder, she would kind of...

Hey all, I've got a batch of day old silkie chickens and one has curled toes. Most of them have polydactyl toes but this one also has curled up toes. I think from a traumatic hatch, and I say that because I've read about it in this forum when we first noticed it, only one has both feet- one only...

We want to end up with 6 hens this coming year, each one of a different breed (BCM, Silkie, Polish, Lavender orpington, EE, Cochin). Our plan was to get 6 chicks this Spring, but upon more research I’m concerned we will end up with some roos if we get them all as chicks from local breeders. I...

Hi 😀 we found a baby chick most likely just hatched in our backyard and there was no momma around and we took it in and it seems to be very weak and not standing up straight and keeps tipping over and it’s eyes are closed and won’t open. Also won’t drink any water and feed. The legs are very...

Hi! We have this day old BO hatched from fertilized eggs incubated by our broody. She is the only hatchling in the clutch of 5 eggs so far. She seems healthy, vent is clear. I haven't seen her eat or drink, but she hatched 24 hrs ago. Sticking close to mama. She seems to have trouble walking...

Peony: one day old black sex link (black star) chick

I have a hen that at one week into her second ever brood, I tried to sneak under her an abandoned egg that was days from hatching. She did great finishing it. It hatched. She boosted it from the nest. I think: the timing wasn't right and she knew it. Understandable. I took the chick to nurse and...

Hello all, we recently hatched our first chick ever from my aunt's neighbors frizzle (it may be a silkie frizzle mix). We are very new to this and noticed that the little one tucks its head and walks backward. It seems ok for a moment but then back to the tuck and backward. Also very unstable...

This is our second Amberlink from this year's chicks! Her name is Betty.