We had a chick hatch last night and it can't or won't walk. It sits on it's butt with it's legs sticking out in front of it. Will it grow out of this or is this a fatal problem?
It hatched, yay! But there seems to be a problem. It has been out of the egg for 8ish hours and it wont stand up! It is just laying on its butt with its legs sticking out in front of it. Is something wrong?
We picked some eggs out from under a broody hen and realized afterwards that the chick was already peeping and had pecked a small hole in the shell. It has been almost 12 hours and the hole is not any larger. The chick is still peeping, but I am afraid we disturbed it's orientation inside the...
We buy feed from a local elevator. We keep it in a waterproof plastic bin. It is emptied to the very bottom every two or three days and re-filled with new feed. I highly doubt it is moldy feed. I was thinking Marek's or Avian encephalomyelitis. Any tips on how we can clean out the brooder...
Our feed source has been the same through multiple flocks, so I wonder about a disease. It is about 85 here everyday. They are co-habitating with two ducks and we only feed them in the morning. Their food is gone by the end of the day.
I understand that there is usually a 5-10% mortality. In total, we have lost 13 out of 50. WAY too many. Only 4 most recent exhibited the symptoms I wrote about.
We have a flock of Cornish X chickens that are about 1 month old. Since first receiving them we have lost at least 4 to seizures. I will go out and check them and one will be laying on the ground, unable to walk, legs shaking and sporadically kicking the poor bird in circles. I tried...