So it’s night time and I added 9 chicks to a broody hen. She’s has been broody for about a week now. I put them under her and they went under her. I think it was just because it’s warm though. She flattened out to accommodate them all. I’m wondering if she would attack them or if they would even...
The chick hatched fine but then I came back to see that the cardboard under all the other eggs was bloody. The chick is chirping and moving around. I’m not sure if a egg fragment cut it or something.
I went outside to fine her vent stinking out and it looks a little bloody and I watched a video on what to do and it said to soak her in a bath and clean it off and gentaly push it in with a cloth and then once it’s in you insert your finger into her vent. The chicken in the videos didn’t look...
Today I come to find that 1 of my eggs under my broody hen has broken and the other eggs has crusted egg on them all. There were also two eggs that were like that but were not under her and it was a cold day. I decided to wash all the eggs off with relatively warm water but still had some left...
so the chick I have is chirping this second and I don't know if the yolk is absorbed yet and if the veins have dried up, I don't know if it was developing before I got but please help !!!m:hit:th:he:barnie:(:oops:
There is no checks hatching yet I'm really worried we had 6 eggs 5 died I just want this one to hatch have another set in that probably has 2 to 3 eggs that are alive and those are only 16 days along I really need help I'm a nervous wreck:barnie:he:oops::eek::th