I have a 6 week old chick that was pecked by the others so bad it's skull is showing. Is it possible for it to survive? it is in a box on my counter now, I put some neosporin on its head. It looks miserable,It is standing all fluffed up with its eyes closed.
My friend gave me some easter egger eggs to hatch from her flock. Only one hatched, and it has had issues with pasty butt, while cleaning it's but, I realized it has no tail bone at all. It just has a gap between its bones back there! I wonder if thats what is causing the pasty butt.
I have a 1 day old easter egger chick, it was the only one to hatch. I saw today its whole butt and umbilical were covered in dry poop, I cleaned it off with warm water, but when I was picking the poop off, I made its umbilical bleed a little!! I poured more warm water over its butt, blowdryed...
about 3 nights ago the light in my brooder went out at some point during the night, and the chicks had gotten shavings into their water, the shavings pulled all the water into the bedding. So when I woke up that morning. I found all the chicks huddled together and soaking wet. All 11 are still...
So I thought the hatch was over, and started to cleen the incubator out. I started opening eggs to see why they didn't hatch, did about 7 (they were shrink wraped) and then I opened one up and it was moving! since I opened the top around the aircell, the membrane was still intact. I moistened...
We hatched 19 chicks last tuesday. One of the chicks is different than the rest. It is an easter egger, and it took a longer time hatching than the rest. Now they are a few days old ant that one chick is way smaller than the rest, and has shorter down, and less feathering on its wings. It seams...
First time incubating. My chicks have started hatching today on day 20, since they have started hatching the humidity has risen to 80% should I try to lower it? we have 4 chicks so far!
I have one Easter egger hen, four red stars, and a black and white unkown mix hen and rooster. I just got an incubator about a month ago, and now its filled with my eggs, and some easter egger eggs from a friend. Day 8 of incubation today, just candled a few and saw them wiggle! I'm so exited to...