I just found another thread that has a picture of instructions. It is a bit blurry but may help. the thread was 'Brower Model #846 Incubator - Montgomery Wards 1979 Model
Doesn't sound at all like ours! I wonder if they are Australorps? When I bought mine from the feed store, they were supposed to be black copper marans, but turned out to be australorps, but we love them! We have two and they are very gentle and lay a nice large egg almost every day. Ours came...
The leg & growth problems are from niacin deficiency, not from the amprolium. The mediated starter by itself is 'safe' but can be lacking in the amount of niacin waterfowl need. If you supplement the feed, they should be fine.
I realize this post is really old, but from what I understood when I worked at Orschelns is that the 'panfrys' are basically any miscellaneous breed cockerals that nobody ordered. THey sell them cheap to get rid of them, any most people just butcher them out. Now, the Cornishx, do not get those...
This is my Buff Orpington mama with a duckling she hatched out. She was broody during on of the hottest time of last summer for us in Kansas. Out of a nest of 6 fertile eggs, only this one survived to hatch. On the day it hatched it was about 110 and I didn't think the duckling would make it, so...
This is one of my Buff Orpingtons who hatched out a duckling this summer. It was the only fertile egg to survive during the heat wave we had. It was too hot for it to be in the coop, so they stayed in a tote in the house until it cooled a bit.
I also have a chick that isn't thriving. It acts sleepy and moves in slow motion. It's done this since I got it a couple weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but it hasn't grown at all compared to the other chicks I got at the same time. It still eats and drinks, but I am afraid one...