Thats what i has thinking...especially after having not one egg develop last hatch and only 1/2 in this hatch...but i wanted to make sure i didn't do anything wrong..i felt so bad for that little chick, but when i noticed his eyes i knew it was something beyond just me...thanks for your input...
The hens range from 2-5yrs and the roosters are 2 and 3. When we know we want to hatch we start collecting and checking all the eggs, making sure they're not cracked, and we candle to make sure the shells are solid and no strange defects, or "internal" shell cracks, they only sit long enough for...
So last year i got a new still air incubator with turner. I hatched 6 hatches 20-40eggs each, and it was close to 80-90percent in all of the hatches.
This year i started the incubator got temp set ran it for 2days before the hatch (2 thermometer to make sure its not off), and its setup in the...
So the best thing my local store carries is Pen Aqueous 100ml, but its not the expensive, can I give this to him, if so how do you get the dosage, and I read the best inj site is the breast or thigh is this correct?
OK so I'm looking in what our local store carries antibiotic wise, but for now I've soaked, have him confined, I let him out for a bit doing the day in a small fence, he seems feistier when I pick him up. And I have his toe wrapped around the nail and all with neosporin and gauze, the toe nail...
Ok so I found this website after searching for swollen chicken foot, and found out about bumble foot, which is what I thought my rooster had, so I went out clean/soak his foot real well, and there is no scab but he has a really swollen toe (its 2x bigger then the rest) the nail is really thick...