Hello, this chicken hatched with an umbilical hernia. It has been doing okay, eating and drinking, other than having very rapid short breathing. It also seems to be growing a little bit slower than the rest. Today it started to almost be gasping for air and I don’t know what to do. It breathes...
Hello, one of my chicks pipped around 35 hours ago, the membrane around the pip was looking pretty dry, so I decided help it get started zipping (which I have successfully done before) I noticed as I started to chick away the shell that the chick had pipped in the middle of the egg. I chipped...
Hello, this chick hatched about 30 hours ago and part of its unbilical cord still has not fallen off (see picture #1) is it okay to cut it off so the other chicks don’t peck it off. I know not to pull it all the way off, but i’m afraid the other chicks might. Also, any idea what kind of chickens...