Late last week, my 3 week old barred rock chick's eye was suddenly swollen. No problems before and this chick is from our flock. Our one other chick and the rest of the flock are all doing great. It's only this chick and only one eye. I immediately removed it from the coop, washed the eye out...
I am new to all this and have a freshly new baby chick (2.5 hours old)! Is there an info article or something on here about newly hatched baby chicks? Like mine is sleeping a lot (which I assume to be normal) and still wet looking but partly fluffed on bottom. It's not walking around a whole lot...
***Eggtopsy pictures added***So I did a float test with my 3 eggs today and 2 of them were moving around really good. But one of them did not move at all so I was still hopeful that maybe baby chick was just sleeping. So an hour later I checked it again and still nothing. So tapped on the shell...
I have 3 eggs that are due to hatch just anytime and we are expecting storms all week! Power is already out in some places. What do I do if the power goes out during lockdown or after they hatch?!?
This is my first time hatching. We are on day 19. I checked and traced the air sacs before putting them into lockdown but I'm really concerned that the air sacs are not big enough. What do you think?
Humidity was in the 30-45% range for the first 18 days so not high at all.
Hi all! I'm new to incubating and chickens in general. We made our incubator from a 10gal fish tank and had lots of trouble getting the temp right for the first few days using 3 60w CFL bulbs and had already set our 4 eggs in it. So we got a 250w heat lamp bulb from tractor supply and have been...