newborn baby chick

The first egg out of my incubator hatched this morning! But when I looked at the chick, I saw all this… weird hard stuff on the back of it’s neck? It’s sort of yellow/orange and white. The chick seems healthy otherwise, it’s walking around and for just hatching a few hours ago it’s fairly...

Hey yall, so we have been incubating for about 21 days and hatched out some new and totally adorable quail chicks. a small handful hatched yesterday morning and the rest last night, and now we have a few latecomers hatching out now. In our last night batch of chicks, one of them just came out...

We have been letting our hens sit on their eggs and hatch chicks on their own... Mumma hens x 2 have been sitting on the eggs of several hens, laid over a couple of weeks... First hen hatched 9 chicks over 3 or 4 days. 2nd hen has hatched 7 chicks over 5 days, but today there were still 3 eggs...

Before I talk about the incident today, I want to clarify that I’m raising my store-bought chicks at home while the adult flock is at my dad’s workplace. My hen named Matteo has been broody for a few weeks and actually hatched a single baby chick. My only question is, what should I do with it...