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    Dwarfism in chickens?

    Hi! So I have this chicken of about 4 months that his mom rejected and tried to kill, and we're raising separately. Mom and siblings are a smallish mix breed but they're still much bigger than her. She's so tiny that she fits in my palm and she's much calmer than other chickens her age, and a...
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    Egg Candling! Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices.

    Thank you so much for your wishes ❤️ Unfortunately it didn't make it. Yesterday it stopped moving, no veins visible and there was a little pool of blood. I don't know what went wrong, I also didn't have an incubator but I was constantly monitoring temperature and adding wet pieces of cotton...
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    Egg Candling! Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices.

    Thanks! Yep a small hybrid chicken. My guess is the bio mom laid on a bigger hen's nest, adoptive mom's eggs hatched already and she left the nest
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    Egg Candling! Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices.

    Hi everyone How many days old would you say this egg is? And does it look healthy? Mom left it in the nest
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    Orphan egg, how many days until it hatches??

    Not right now ☹️ but I'm planing on building a proper incubator in case it happens again, so that's very helpful! But I do have layers of clothes between the egg box and the mat, I'm monitoring every couple hours and I add or remove accordingly, I kinda got the hang of it by now 🤞🏻
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    Orphan egg, how many days until it hatches??

    Help please 🥺 still seeing movement but no sounds, do you think it will make it?
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Happy ending! Family reunited at last, this is from a few days ago, they're all doing great. Thanks everyone for your help! ❤️
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    Orphan egg, how many days until it hatches??

    Hi! 2 days ago one of our hens left the nest with 3 hatched chickens and left a bunch of eggs behind, this is the only one that seems to be alive. There is a possibility that it's not hers too so I have no idea how old the egg is. How old do you think it is? and how many days left would you say...
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Thanks! We tried reintroducing them today for a while under supervision, it went good! We'll try to do it everyday for a bit so mom won't forget it's hers, until the antibiotic course is finished then she's free to go with mom. I have other bad news though. Whatever it is that woke them up that...
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Looking better today, no redness Spending some time outside, hopefully she can be with mum again soon
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Not much difference today but she just pooped a big poop yay 😁 means her pipes are working fine She likes hanging on my mom's neck I think she needs to be cleaned, is that ok or should we wait? Just warm water or a bit of soap?
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    It's not looking good I'm afraid 😢 But she's also standing and eating and chirping a lot. How do you know if it's better to put them down? (Also I just realized I might've posted in the wrong subforum, is this one about hand raising?)
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    My mom feeds them what's on the picture, not quite sure what it is, looks like ground chicken food? She buys it like that in bulk. And the grit, is that a thing you have to give them regularly? Because she lived with mother hen and siblings until the accident (something woke them up and they...
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Thank you! She was feeling down but she's hopeful right now. They are very fragile, our dogs have accidentally stepped on a couple of them when playing and it was instant death 😥 Yes she pooped a tiny white drop in the morning
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    Stepped on a baby chicken

    Thanks! This is the night of: And this is from this morning:
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