43 with one sitting on 10 fertile eggs
10 Bar rocks
3 Rhode Island Reds
5 Black Austolops
6 Buff Orphingtons
2 Americanias
2 Conchins AKA (henabators)
13 mixed breed (chonchin/americania, chochin/bantum,bantom/amicania)
no idea what the chicks will be
Please help,
One of my chicks looks like it is having a hard time breathing. She doesn't seem to eat or drink and is always the last to catch up to Big Momma, (she has 7 other hatch-lings) Currently she is in the house on a heating pad in a bird cage. She is eating (very little) a mash of...
Thank you everyone for your advice. I wrapped the chick up in towel nest and fed it electrolytes for a few hours. She made it thought the night in the brooder with the other hatchlings. It made my day knowing that a little extra TLC saved her. Will post pictures later.
HELP! Got a new shipment of chicks in today (replacements of the losses from last shipment) 1 was DOA 5 are very perky and active and one will not stop laying its head on its neck and falling over. Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks
new babies 4-24-13.JPG
Ouch one of our Cochin's has an open wound on her back and we have set up an isolation coop for her. Yours looks like predators got to her some how. Insodently I also live in "The middle of NOWHERE Georgia" LOL