Thanks for the response and the internet hugs I was pretty upset earlier, especially when I had to kill the fluffy little baby. I just don't think it would have gotten better and it was suffering.
I think the temps are fine, some of them wander out into the cold and start making the loud...
Most of them seemed healthy when I opened the box this afternoon, but every time I go check on them, another has collapsed into the water. I'm using the standard mason jar waterers I've used for my last 4 batches of chicks with no previous issues.
I'm not sure if the symptoms are useful...
I've been getting bloody eggs occasionally for a while, I've suspected it was the same bird because the color of the shells is fairly similar. She's one of my 4 EEs, and they all lay slightly different shades of green.
I came home this morning and heard a new noise coming from the nesting...
Well your Elizabeth looks a lot like my current head rooster, an EE, did at that age. He was always significantly bigger than the other chicks, and I ordered them through the mail so I assume they were all hatched at the same time. He was so much bigger, that we called him Biggus Chickus and...