newborn chick

I had a chick who hatched today (on day 24 of incubation) with a little help. I thought all the eggs were goners, but kept them in the incubator just in case. But this morning I noticed a pip in one of the eggs! After a few hours it had pretty much fully zipped around and was trying to finally...

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...

We hatched our first batch this past weekend. On Monday morning, day 22, we had 5 hatched and 5 pipped. On Tuesday evening 9 were hatched and one had pipped, started to zip and then stopped. We could see her breathing and moving. We spent hours assisting her zip, and eventually, with a lot of...

We have a chick who I watched hatch out and she had no problems at that point. I left and went to bed because it was around 12:30 am. When we got her out the next morning she had hurt her leg. I tried looking up reasons that that could happen, but I wasn’t sure what it was still since there were...

Hey everyone, I just hatched 3 silkie chicks. One hatched day 19, two hatched day 20, and now it is day 21 and there is one egg that's pipped and is about to hatch. It will probably hatch tonight or tomorrow. Can the chicks who hatched on day 19 and 20 survive with ought food for so long? Some...

We have two baby chicks that we have been keeping inside our house since they’ve hatched. One is approximately four weeks old, the other around a week old. The little one was very dirty, so I gave them a bath in warm water and found a lot of white-tinted oval shaped eggs on their head and neck...

Hi guys! I need help pleasee. I went to my coop and checked on the chicks that were supposed to hatch overnight, I found 3 which were perfectly healthy and fine but one which was under the small food tray without any skin on its head and multiple deep wounds to its skull, it was all bloody...

On today's episode of "Guess that Chick!", we have this cute three-day-old chick, straight run, and breed unknown. Clues: dark shanks with pink feet, feathered shanks, four toes, mostly yellow fuzz with maybe blue? Source: Local breeder that does purebreds only. Was supposed to be a Lavender...

My new SLW chick is sooo loud! She’s 2-3 days old now and has an Australorp friend who is near inaudible compared to her. On the first night we had them I decided to put in an old sweatshirt that they could cuddle up against, and that’s been working pretty well for the time being. They sleep in...

Hi everyone i really need your help! We hatched a chick in an incubator 3 days ago and it still cant stand. This is our 4th batch and we've never had something like this before. It already had some difficulties getting out of its egg at first: it stuck out its beak and could open the rest. At...

Hi everyone! It's been a crazy week trying to get rid of mites, lice, and cocci in everyone / everything while caring for a newborn chick who was initially struggling from cocci. I have 3 hens in our large coop and now we have this one baby chick. 3 days ago I removed and discarded all bedding...

Hi everyone! It's been a crazy week trying to get rid of mites, lice, and cocci while caring for a newborn chick. I have 3 hens in our large coop and now we have one baby chick. 3 days ago I removed and discarded all bedding, nesting boxes etc. and went to town with dusting the coop, nesting...

My 2 year old hen just had 5 chicks with a high mortality rate... The newborn chick symptoms all came within a day or two of the chicks hatching: - General weakness, tiredness, dozing off, low energy, limpness, closed eyes - inability or lack of desire to eat / drink - consistent yawn-like...

Have a new born Moulted Java chick 20 hours old. Not exactly sure of the cause, if it is deformation or injury from the hatch. Newborn Moulted Java With Deformed Leg? by Farmer Connie posted Jun 23, 2017 at 9:27 AM The poor little guy is spunky and full of life but can't stand on one leg...