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    Help Hatching Chick or Not?

    Great news! As of this morning, the chick's neck is totally back to normal! Yesterday I hand fed it poultry vitamins and electrolyte water every hour/couple hours. Today, it's standing perfectly and is getting better at walking. I'm guessing it was just in the egg too long since it seems it's...
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    Help Hatching Chick or Not?

    Yes, we've been feeding it poultry vitamins mixed with water. He/she can stand on their own now, however, the main issue I'm noticing its neck still cranes as if it's still in the egg. It can lift it, and occasionally will, but when it's standing and sleeping (it's standing up while it sleeps...
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    Help Hatching Chick or Not?

    Thanks for the response! I read through the article and it's very informative. Earlier today, the chick was still unable to get out and the membrane was drying out, so my mom chipped away a little bit of eggshell to see if that would help him/her push out. It only got worse, so a few hours ago...
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    Help Hatching Chick or Not?

    Update: My mom took out 8 and they're doing well. The humidity only went down to 75% after this and it went back up to 80-85 soon after. Sadly one of the chicks never made it out of its shell, but she managed to take it out of the incubator so that won't be an issue overnight. She dripped a...
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    Help Hatching Chick or Not?

    My mom and I are hatching chicks for the second time. We hatched 4 chicks around this time last year, and we're hatching around a dozen this time (I can't remember how many have hatched at this point). Today (4/21/2020) is the 21st day, and we had the first pips yesterday around noon and the...
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    Rooster's floppy comb impairing his vision

    Sorry, I couldn't get any pictures last night since the chickens were already in the coop for the night. Here are some pictures I got of him a few minutes ago.
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    Rooster's floppy comb impairing his vision

    That's interesting, I didn't know you could trim a comb (I always assumed they had as much feeling as the rest of the body). I looked into it a bit, and I'm seeing a lot of mixed opinions on it. I would definitely use very sharp scissors and try to make the whole process as quick as possible (a...
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    Rooster's floppy comb impairing his vision

    I have a rooster, around a year old or so, who's father was a true blue whiting and whose mother is an americauna. He has a large, round pea comb (unlike the single combs and very small pea combs on the hens in the flock), which droops over to one side. It covers his left eye. I'm not sure if...
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    Cornish Hen Can’t Walk

    Thanks for your replies! I bathed her today, and the feathers around her vent were very, well, gross, but the vent itself was clean. I bathed her in warm water and a very small amount of dawn. I also used a Q-Tip to clean out some white gunk from her nares- I actually didn’t notice her nostrils...
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    Cornish Hen Can’t Walk

    I’ve had a Cornish Hen for about a few years now. She’s always been at the bottom of the pecking order of about 10 chickens and is very scrawny. Although she’s a Dark Cornish, we had her for eggs (we didn’t know she was a Cornish at all until recently). A few months ago, we came back from a...
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