A number of years ago I had to help a chick hatch who pipped and then got stuck. Her neck was crooked (I assume because it stayed bent over in the egg a day or 2 too long). I tried all sorts of physical therapy on her in my "Chicku" but she always had a crazy bent neck and could spin her head...
My name is Karen. We have had chickens in our little back yard downtown for about 9 years. I started because I had a baby and we wanted nutritious eggs for him. Now I am hatching my own, this is probably the 4th batch because I love it and think it is a good educational thing for my kids. In the...
One of my chicks hatched and was laying on its back, I checked back a couple of times and it was still on its back so I got in there and it was stuck to the floor of the incubator. I took it out and tried to rinse of the stuff with warm water but I was afraid the baby would get too cold. So I...