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This looks like a mild form of what one of my chickens had in the last hatch. She could not carry her bodyweight though and after while the preassure on the hook joint became so big that it crawled out of the socket and bursted the skin. I took her to the vet and he said that it was the brain...

I have a hen (standard cochin) with full size spurs. She is now two years old and she has only laid one egg and that was about a month ago. The roster is shore she is a hen though and she is one of his favorites. I think this is a hormonal fault - sometimes genetic but sometimes caused by the...

I have seen it occatinaly. Especially after they take a sand bath or after stretching but it is over in a couple of seconds. I wouldn't worry to much if she seem to be ok for the rest and if it doesn't increase in ocurrence.

Hi. Does any of you have hatches where one or more chickens develops slower than the rest? This little guy (I think) is far behind his hatch mates. Half the size and behind with feathereing: The only one who is close in size is little Blondie: They are both healthy and full of energy...

I hatched 11 out of 13 fertile twice this spring from standard cochin. Actualy 12 out of 13 in the second hatch but one baby was born with a nerv problem and had to be put down. If it is your own hens you need to cut the butt-duns and feathers around the opening very short to allow proper...

Wet your fingers and dip them in the chicken food and wait patiently for their curiousity to make them eat from your fingers. When they are safe wit that - play with your fingers in the food and they will chase the movement. Spend time with them and talk with them while doing this. With our...

I keep the lamp untill they are fully feathered but I lower the temp to between 25 and 30 degrees when they are four weeks.

Since it began to be more and more difficult to make him eat I brought him to our ordinary vet yesterday evening, who I trust the most. He said that this is caused by a nervproblem in the brain. The chicken is partially lame in the lower legs and when the legs don't work there is to much...

I will try as long as he tries and he doen't seem to be in to much pain. He has figured out how to sit up with walls of the box as support, he drinks from a teaspoon every secon - third hour during the day and he picks the ood from my fingers. He talks with the other chicks outside his box and I...

Thank you for all info. Tonight I will bring him and our ill cat to the vet. He is stil ful of energy and drinks. He is eating but not enough. It is not spalyed legs. With a little support he can stand on his splinted legs without the legs sliding apart. I have ten more chicens from the same...

Thanks. No he is not an avian vet. Just interested. What is D3? Since the chicken now is eating I am giving him starter and the boild yellow of the egg. The vet suggested the raw yellow of an egg mixed with dry white, mashed bread. I guess the yellow of an egg should give him the correct...

He is now eating and drinking on his own and the vet say it is most likely a lack of calcium in that particular egg that made the joints to weak and that he can get the calcium he needs from a special diet. If he gets calcium now he should be ok in ten days, the vet claims. I will give it a try...

Thank yoy for the help. By now the hook socket of the other leg begins to do the same so I had to splint that one too. Now he is sitting up with his splinted legs in front of him, leaning to a clot I rolled together with a peace of tape. - And he is eating! He also drank a little from the cap of...

I hatched12 chickens out of 13 during Monday and Tuesday but this morning I discovered that one of them couldn't use his left leg. Looking clooser it appears to be broken or the "elbow joint" might be out of soccet. I was adviced by a vet over the phone to tape the leg completely straight with a...

Here is the first time outside in the new chicken coop: And they are right outside the kitchen window so I can see them. There is a heating lamp in the little house so it keeps 28 degrees Celcius.

If I boil our eggs fresh I have realy tough membranes too but with a week old egg or older there is no issue. I think I would check the humidity in the coop with a hygrometer and if very low, try too place an airmoisterer. The kind you can have inside.

In my last hatch the last chicken hatched on day 23. I know our breeder have had chickens hatch on day 24 and 25 and turn out fine.

Thanks. I left it at 68% over night and this morning I added water to the sponges in the bator and now it's 70%. I hope this will stay. Temp is perfect and it's strange that its a prolem with humidity since it is higher humidity in the outside air compared to my larst hatch.

Hi, I'm on day 19 on my second hatch this spring and since the first one went well I follow the same procedure. Last time I had a humididty on 70-75% during the last three days. I am doing exactly the same, same amount of water and three spunches and a clith under the eggs. I cannot get over 68%...

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