This is Rivet. She* is 10 days old and one of 27 ducklings from her nest. Right now, I'm raising her indoors because she has a bad twist in her spine that essentially makes her hunchbacked. She was knocked out of the nest when she was still wet from hatching. After three days in the indoor...
Rivet is a one-week-old Muscovy with a prominent twist and hunch in her spine. (Unsexed, we just call the duckling female.)
I brought her inside the day she hatched because she had been knocked out of the nest and neither Mama 1 or Mama 2 were interested in getting her back with the group...
My question: is there anything we can do to get the girls to lay timed more closely together?
DETAILS: We purchased five adult hens (three bantams and two cochin x) and nine white sapphire chicks a month ago from a bad overcrowded environment. They were tightly individually caged and the lights...