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Okay. Thanks for the information. He's eating on his own now so I doubt he needs much more than an average chick. His wound is my main concern at this point.

That's good to know. Thanks for the information. Do you know anything about treating his wound? I have rinsed it with water and it seems to be healing but is there anything else I should be doing?

I should have mentioned the eyedropper was how I gave him the water before. I gave him some applesauce in the dropper last night. He seemed to like it but was more interested in the stuff that dropped on my hand than the stuff coming out of the dropper, which I took as a good sign. I also tried...

We normally retrieve our eggs or get them from another source and hatch them in an incubator. However, we have a couple bantam hens who insisted on hatching their own eggs. By that, I mean they were willing to take off a finger if any of us came close to the box they were sharing. We decided to...