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    Mama with week-old chicks adopting day-old chick?

    I started incubating eggs last month and 2 hatched a week ago. A week after the incubation started one hen, Saffron, got broody (she has mothered chicks before) so we decided to let Saffron adopt them. We also gave her a couple of eggs just to keep her broody. The adoption process was...
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    • adopt chickens baby chick 0-1 week old and up broody broody and chicks
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    I incubated the chicks. 5 hatched out of 13. Three “healthy” ones, one has splayed legs, another has wry neck. The “healthy” ones have been eating in the start and drinking normal. Then about 2-days old one chick stopped eating/drinking and slept a lot in a corner. The next morning the chick...
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    EMERGENCY! 2-days old chick has splayed legs and bruised

    My chick is two days old and I just noticed this morning that it is not walking or sleeping on its feet like the others. It sleeps sitting on its butt, and whenever I try to help it seem to be in a lot of pain. Heels look bruised and swollen. Not eating or drinking. I had planned to make a...
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    • baby bird baby chicks curled toe emeregency splay leg splay legs
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Baby gosling unable to walk or keep its head up

    Hi, I have this gosling hatched yesterday. It hatched the fourth day since the first internal pip. I actually had to help it hatch. The baby has been sleeping and rolling around the brooder ever since it hatched. It is not able to walk or even drag itself by feet like my newborn chicks did...
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