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I used a dash of fabric softener in the saok water, it seemed to help. Update: today all are well and dry! Thanks again, all.

To all who offered their help, thank you so much! However.......Just kidding! Problem resolved!! I am humbled by a wonderful and mysterious world, and also by the fact that I have to admit I am not the absolute authority in all areas! Good for me, and good for my chickens. My son and I spent...

Quote: Thanks for the input, concise and to-the-point. See my reply to the other post. We shall see!

Well I thank you for that, I imagined somebody would say I'm an idiot for not realizing it is poop.....But I have two doubts: 1) Why haven't any other of my broods (8 or so) developed this...ever before? Could it be the weather? Nothing else is different. I should specify that out of nine...

Hi all----I wrote before about this, and a month has gone by. I took a couple of pictures to show you which I hope will ring a bell in someone's memory. I think this is a genetic mutation. The father of all the chicks is a mix of breeds with feathered legs, and the hens are all genetically...

Here is something I always do that you all might not have thought of. About four days before the hatch I tape one of those cheap hearing-aid devices (you know the add, He wants to watch TV, She wants to read, He puts in the earphone of this little battery-powered device.....about ten dollars...

Quote: ------Well as to cracked eggs, nope. The brood were hatched by the broody hen as per textbook instructions. Only problem with this hatch is there were some tardy additions and they died fully developed when the hen left the nest to tend to the newborns. Lost four that way, will keep...

Quote: Redcatcher, thanks, you have an idea there, but I have looked closely and I see no way this could have happened. The masses are really hard and appear to cause no pain to the chicks, just mobility problems. In fact I can hear the one with the largest mass as it moves around the pen and...

Thanks Farmer Chef, for the input. My chickens are not totally unrelated (they come from a farm that has about 100 hens and ten roosters at any given time) but they are all an interesting mix of "experimental" breeding results from many different lines. That means, we have fun mixing and...

Nope, not bumble foot. It is what I would call a "gall" of the type you often see on plants where certain types of flies have affected them. They have a definite tumor-like aspect, and even are covered with the same scales of skin that the feet are. But here is the strange thing: Today there...

Hello all, I am new as a registered user but have perused the site often----It is a great help. I have searched the web and so far haven't found anything like this described: I have a hatch of nine chicks, about three weeks old. Two have a marble-sized fleshy hard growth on one toe...