Many thanks for the tip - I searched and found info about the molasses flush here on BYC. Jones seems a little better this afternoon and is eating/socializing more than earlier today. Her toe looks as if it might be broken so she has had homoeopathic Arnica, which will help with pain too.
Jones suddenly started limping yesterday and I saw her pass a soft stool, but she later laid an egg and was able to grip our finger tightly with the affected foot. I put a droppings board in the house overnight and found a watery dropping on it this morning. She is also breathing heavily and...
Thank you Silkie
The eggs were fertile, we candled once and saw the chick developing. However, we had two tremendous thunderstorms, then the temperature fluctuations. We didn't think it possible they were still alive past 30 days (I read here that someone had a chick survive at 30 days), but...
Our bantam hen has been sitting on 8 eggs for more than 35 days. I read that bantams incubation time can be 26 days and that temperature fluctuations cause delays.
We float tested at approx 30 days and they were 25-30% above the water, so we put them back and left them. Eartha got shut out of...