Sorry, I have one more question. If the chicks do have mushy chick disease is there any danger to humans. My 3 year old has been playing with the chicks and now I'm nervous that he could get whatever infection they might have. Three more have been born with the open navel and I have put...
Thank you! Does this mean that he will be fine? Is there still a possibility of him developing mushy chick disease or is he in the clear since his navel has healed and closed?
Thank you! The chick I posted about last night is doing very well now and it's all closed up! Quite a few of them have the same issue but I just put the polysporin on and am hopjng theh will dry up as well.
Hi there! I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance. We are doing our second hatch and one of our chicks pipped last night and still hadn't hatched this evening so I removed a tiny bit of the shell and found that it was shrink-wrapped. The membrane was extremely dry so after watching many...
Just a little update! So far we have 8 chicks that have hatched. I also forgot to mention that our eggs went in on three different days (12 eggs on March 13th, 9 eggs on March 14th, and 12 eggs (including the silkies) on March 16th). So we are in day 22 of the first batch, day 21 of the second...