Hatched out chicks last week at home for the first time ever. One of my littlest chicks is laying on side at times, then jumps up and walking around at others - but seems dizzy.
They are on medicated feed, have Nutri Drench in water, have kefir yogurt, and chick grit down...
Any ideas or...
Hi -
Hatched out my first round of dorkings last week. One of my smaller chicks seems a bit dizzy, and I've caught it laying on it's side a couple of times. What can I do to help it? They are on medicated scratch, I've been giving them yogurt and they have Nutri-Drench vitamins in their...
Newbie and curious - at what point does one say the hatch is over?
I am towards the end of a staggered hatch of Dorking Chickens (end of day 21), and I still have eggs from my first "hatch" on day 23 with no movement, approximately 4 with no pip, and one with.
Hatch 2 - is at the end of day...
Hi - thanks to all who talked me through "helping" my stuck chick out - he's peeping like crazy - 3.5 hrs later.
I had to isolate him in a plastic dish with papertowel in it to keep the others from jumping on him in the bator. Because of the position he was in for 48 hours - on his back, head...
Hi - still hatching away here...
One of my little men has been pipped & zipped since midday Tuesday, now, 48 hrs later, he's still in there, about 1/3rd of the way out (leg,belly, etc) he looks like he's on his back and just can't get enough leverage to get himself out coz his one leg is...
In mid-staggered hatch of Dorking Chickens - knowing what i've learned over the last 24 hours - I would like to move my 2nd hatch group into egg cartons to keep them from being rolled around by WILD siblings... Is it too late to do that now? And if i were to put them into the cartons, do I put...
Hi -
I have 2 hatches going in the same incubator (Hovabator 2362N w/ forced air).
Hatch 1 / Day 22
11 eggs - 4 chicks out, 1 zipped (since midday yesterday), 6 still in shells
- I've not "helped" zipped chick, leaving him alone
Hatch 2 / Day 20
9 eggs
I'm somewhat worried about the other...
yes - still a newbie -
my first born (Dorking) is now fluffing out nicely, but terrorizing all the new chicks as them come out... pecking, jumping on them, etc. Although he's only 10 hours old, i'm thinking he needs to go into bad birdy lock down?
I guess i wait for the 24 hrs, do the steamy...
Hi - still hatching away - egg pipped last night, in the "top" of the eggs (laying on it's side)... NOW he's pipping down at the bottom of the egg.... should i be freaking out?
yes - i'm a newbie
Hi First Timer Here -
My hatch is underway, and I have a very LOUD & WILD chick as my first "outer". He is in there crashing about rolling over the other nearby eggs, so I'm somewhat worried about the other "kids" getting disoriented because they are now not "right side up".
Chick on the...