They can be dried up blood. To be honest can you wet the membrane and see if there are blood vessels running through the membrane still if there is he she isn't ready yet if there aren't he she is most likely stuck so I'd help him out x
I have a 5 week old clb chick who has suddnely started walking on her elbows/hocks her toes aren't exactly curled but she just can't stand up and instead gets around by walking and shuffelling on her hocks and balancing her self with her wings Is this riboflavin deficiency?
You've given me hope. Because she's fine in every other way as I though if it was marerks she would be completely paralysed in her legs but she's not she stands up on her elbows and hobbles around on them
She water she has I've been putting a special poultry tonic in it since yes today she seems a little more alert. Is this common for them to suddenly not be able to walk as I've bred for years and not come across this before.
I'm a vorwerk breeder. And not had a problem with my birds. I had 2 suddenly die last year but I had no idea why my suspicions were coccidiosis. I didn't know cocci could make her not be able to stand yet be alert and eating and drinking well. She has put weight onb now she's on her own due to...
Had a 5 week old cream leg bar X vorwerk chuck suddenly not be able to stand up instead it now hobbles around on its elbows/hocks she's still eating and drinking and seems happy enough. I've Brough her inside under a heat lamp. I fear it may be mareks but I'm not to sure she can still hobble...
wow day 17 thats the first one i heard off lol Well done, i learned from my previous hatch that, a temprature of 38 degrees is a little toastie and can make the chicks pip early or go the other way and kill them. id probably try to keep the temp at 37.7 the temp of a hen. that way you dont risk...
Hi, I had such a bad time with my batch of 22 eBay eggs the first time I incubated egg and almost more than half diddent even develop. And only 6-7 made it to lockdown and only 1 hatched. This time around I have local eggs, and woke up this morning to 3 hatched and 2 pipped so happy want...