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We are having chick's just pop up with no mom around. We have a half acre with a huge flock so they lay everywhere and sometimes there are huge piles of eggs before we find them. Is it possible random eggs are incubating and hatching on their own without a hen sitting on them? Anyone have this...

If the legs or one leg is out to the side its probably splay leg. If the toes are curled on one or both feet its curled toes. Get a riboflavin supplement to put in the drinking water along with braces on the legs. Curled toes:http://www.avianaquamiser.com/posts/Chick_curled_toe/ Splayed Leg...

We switched from a forced air incubator to to three still air incubators and are having bad hatch rates. We had good hatch rates last season and the only difference is the type of incubator. What are everyone's settings that work for still air incubators?

He/she has a bad leg that is bent backwards in the wrong direction. It started out as straddle(sp?) leg which I tried to fix with the tape but only one leg fixed and the other would never change no matter what I did. It is to bad to fix. I have seen different ways to do it such as cutting off...

So far I have had 3 turkeys hatch from about 20 eggs. Most of them were developing and then just stopped moving the close to hatch time I got and then did not hatch/try to hatch. The first one that hatched came out with no problems and is about 1 1/2 old right now. In the last week I have had...

The leg is stretched out to the side and slightly behind so she only hops and can barely get around. I can try and get a pic maybe because it is hard to explain. It seams like it is not responding at all and she won't be able to use it later when she is bigger and won't be able to get around.

I did exactly this from the day it was born and it is over 2 weeks old now and only one leg corrected but the other leg is still like this. It's like the leg is no good and there is no fixing it. Not sure where to go from here. I feel bad because it can barely walk or get around.

I had 1 chick out of 4 with what looked to be sprattle leg. I treated it for that and one leg is straight but the other is out to the side and he/she doesn't use it at all. Anything I can do?

Even if I can see the chick and the hole is the size of a dime?

Just noticing you said bantam eggs, sorry sick and not thinking straight, and hubby does not like bantams so I wouldn't be able to use them. Sorry :(

The thing is is that it has broken a big hole in the shell it's just not zipping around it yet. I don't even know how to help it out. I would be glad to trade you for some however I have to warn you that I am not having very good success in getting to the end of the hatch with a lot of them...

So far I can not find anything that went wrong. The incubator has an automatic turner, correct temp and humidity, and at least 12 eggs were moving on the 14th day and after but for some reason all of the sudden they stopped moving and only two are hatching out of 16 or so. I don't get it, what...

I have one turkey egg that has been pipped sometime between friday night and saturday morning and so far there is just a hole the size of maybe a dime. I can see the beak and hear peeping but it doesn't seem to be zipping yet and it is now sunday afternoon and still the same hole. How do I know...

I don't think I am one that can crack one open and see and half formed dead bird in it. If I don't see or hear anything after about 31 days or so I can safely say it is no good without cracking it open?

I did candle them before I took them out of the turners on day 25 and all four of the ones that are 28 days or more did not look, to me, to be moving and looked like the bottom end of the egg opposite side of the air pocket was clear. I know they were all moving on day 14 because I candled the...

So far only 1 out of 5 look promising. Not sure why I am getting such bad results since they were all moving about 1 week ago.

I have a couple eggs that are past the 28 days and a couple that are at about 27 and i don't see any movement in them or any signs of pipping. How long past the 28 days should I keep them before assuming they are no good?

It doesn't have an signs of being a rooster....doesn't crow, no spurs, looks like all the other hen Barred Rocks we have ever had. I have looked in all the hiding places multiple times during the day because we have Turkey hens also and they like to hide their eggs and move their laying spots...

All three are about 8 months. The 2 that are laying are Rhode Island Reds and are about 8 months and have been laying for 3 months or more. The other is a Barred Rock, the same age as the other two, and has never layed even one egg.

I have 1 chick out of 4 that has strattle leg. I have tape between the legs making them underneath of it just like the other chicks legs. Sometimes he gets the tape off and he still walks with his legs out to side. It seems like one leg is really far out and weaker than the other one. The tape...