It's hard but try not to intervene unless you just have to. Wait until you think it's been long enough and then wait a little longer. I dont usually consider it before 24 hours. Anytime I open the incubator, even just a crack when I already have a pip I lose a lot of them, they get sticky and...
Thank you. I did start giving the chick nutridrench and have been giving it water. It will sit with its head back but not flipping over, as long as I am not touching it. I will try adding the honey to the water and electrolytes. I appreciate the information.
I've got 4 hens, all about a year old. They've been acting lethargic the last 2 days, keeping their eyes closed and not leaving the roost. Tonight one sounds like a cat purring and one seems kind of out of sorts, she tried to jump up one level of the roost and hit the back wall and stumbled...
I had 3 broody's sitting on eggs, he first of the 3 hatched yesterday... They were all pretty close together in the coop..maybe 4 feet apart. After all of the one hen's hatched they all got up and started taking care of chicks...I keep finding their eggs scattered and no one is willing to sit. I...
I was given some chicks from our local church since I have been donating eggs to their food pantry....as they are now growing, I have realized that 3 of them are meat birds...They are just about the size of my full grown layer hens at 6-7 weeks. I have no intentions of using them for meat, of...
Thank you for the information, I will read into it farther. Where do you go about finding a vet that will do surgery on a chick if that is what is needed?
I have a silkie chick..They are coming close to 2 weeks old... born with wry neck, which seems to be improving however, his leg which was rotated out from several days old is not improving. I have been band-aiding them. Not sure if there is anything else I can do? or do I just leave it? Thanks.
I have green egg laying Amerucana/EE. I would like to trade 6-10 eggs for 6-10 BLUE hatching eggs. I have a very high fertility rate here at home. Just hatched 36 of 39 that were set.
These would come from 3 hens and the rooster photographed. Black/Gold hen, Gold/Cream hen(photographed) and...
These chicks will be 2 weeks old on Friday. One has a scissor beak that is quite severe, also another that I just started noticing a very very slight cross. This severe beak chick, i see her at the feeder/waterer however I can't say for sure if she is getting food and water or not. Ive never...
We just hatched out a few chicks from our mixed flock. We had a silkie roo who was killed about a week and a half before these eggs were set. Two bantam hens, frizzle Cochin. One of the chicks is bantam. Could this be a result of our Amerucana rooster and Cochin hen? Or would it have to have...