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I don’t know the humidity but the temperature was 38C The second chick hatched just 10 minutes ago:celebrate

Hey all, I recently had a baby chicken hatch yesterday perfectly healthy, but all of the other 5 eggs haven’t even entered the air bubble yet (apart from one egg that’s pipped). I just want to know why this might be. I candled the eggs and they are still alive but this one chick seems to have...

while she was living she was definetly drink a lot and she didn't want to eat, possibly because she was still learning wat the feed was

sorry never mind I just checked and she died:hit

hi all. I posted a thread a couple hours ago about a duckling that was having troubles catching up to the other ducklings that I took in and it was doing okay, however I went to have dinner and when I came back an hour later the duckling was upside down on its back. and now whenever I put it...

if that's so then I think I might have regular seed with pellets in them

I don't know the difference between the crumble and pellets, but the stuff im feeding them is just straight seed they seem to be able to eat the small pieces though

I only feed them watermelon once a week or so and they are completely loaded on chicken food, although I will see if my mum can start getting me all flock feed

ahh, okay is there any foods they could eat that would have niacin in it or would I have to get some from a vetinarian

I am just feeding them regular chicken food, watermelon and that's about it. they've got a large dam with lots of bugs so I don't have to feed them very often

G'day all. I recently had a mother Muscovy duck hatch some baby ducklings and I noticed today one of them lagging behind and it looked like it was walking with its legs slightly apart, unlike the others which had legs that were pretty much parallel. should I try and fix its legs or no? btw is...

ok ill answer all of the questions they were on the complete other side of the dam they were on and were barely moving they are not enclosed because their duck enclosure is only meant for sitting/nesting ducks, and they are not sick as it turns out they were just cold there are unfortunately...

help! my mother Muscovy duck has 2 ducklings that just wont follow her! I've got them both in my incubator right now but I don't know what to do! any help? Btw they are only 3 days old

baby chickens with their mum is so adorable:love