This is cutie. He has an injured foot that is beginning to blacken and shrivel up. His bum is also very hot when I hold him. He gets picked on by other chicks. He is much smaller, and always chirping loudly. He is in my hand while I am writing this. Cuties feathers are kind of mussed up. He is...
This little chick hatched two days ago, with a bleeding problem. He lost a lot of blood, probably from the umbilical cord. I stopped his bleeding with corn starch, but that isn’t the main problem now. I discovered yesterday that he also had blood coming from his leg. He had been getting picked...
So yesterday, day 21 of chick incubation, I had 7 chicks hatch. ( I began with 12, two stopped developing) There are three more left in the incubator, and one is chirping. It has no pip. I candled it to see what was happening, and I saw a beak in the air cell. It has been over 24 hours since the...