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    Chick with splayed legs

    Awww...poor little fellow :( When we woke up this morning our little guy had already got the bandaid off and was walking around just fine.It was almost like he came out off his egg to soon. So it looks like yours can walk right? Just the legs aren't side by side.
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    Feces sticking to chicks behind! :0

    We never used any drops or anything. Clipping the feathers away from the vent always worked for us. It is so amazing how attached you become with chickens, we've been doing the chicken thing a little over a year now and wouldn't change it for anything. We have 4 kids ranging from 14-7 and it...
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    Feces sticking to chicks behind! :0

    it sounds like "pasty-butt" some of our chicks have gotten that. What you're doing is exactly what I do. But if it has a really fluffy bottom sometimes its best to have someone help and clip away some of the fluff so that the poo doesnt have anywhere to get stuck to. We've done that and it never...
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    Chick with splayed legs

    I'm having kinda the same issue. We've already hatched 2 batches of Polish Frizzle Frazzles and Bantams with no problems. We are now on the 3rd and 1 Bantam hatched last night and 1 of the Frizzles has hatched, but it can't stand up. It doesnt look like the splayed legs, it just keeps one leg...
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    In NEED of ADVICE

    Thanks for the info, we really hope so :) Being new, i've done alot of research & got several different answers! Heard BYC is the best place for info!
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    In NEED of ADVICE

    we've had chickens for about 2 months now. we were given some & bought some from a chicken auction. my question is that we have incubated 25 eggs, 9 have hatched and are doing just fine. Now there's 3 more that just hatched and one of them has a red-ball hanging from its vent. None of the others...
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