This is Rocky, named as he's my little fighter, for such a small guy he has a strong will to live. He sleeps under my top in the evenings :-)
and when the other two get jealous, they come for snuggles to :-) it's the quickest way to shut them up and get them all to sleep lol bless em...
Thank you
I reluctantly lefthim to go shopping and i've come back to him stood up on his own fingers crossed he'll get stronger and stronger.
The leg was stuck out behind him, and it feels alot weaker than the normal one, i've been giving him regular massages and snuggles, if he pulls...
Well we have only got the three so far, 2 hatched thursday and one hatched friday. They are now out the incubator and in the brooder. Straight away you could see something was wrong with one's leg. Did a search and decided to use the bandaid method and splint it last night.
This morning, after...
One has something wrong with it's leg
I have done a search and will try to use a bandaid (which us Brits call a plaster lol ) to help straighten it, it's sticking behind itself rather than straight like the other one. It is moving around, it is eating and drinking so I think it's well worth a...
thank you everyone, i've never experienced anything this exciting before!
we now have two chicks playing bumper eggs and one more is pipping :-) if I knew how rewarding this was i'd have done it a long time ago
awesome and there'll defo be plenty of pics, we filmed one hatching lol
This little chick is soooooooooooo loud it is moving about the bator, no conideration for it's sleeping buddies it cheeps, has a mooch about then sleeps for a min, is this normal chick behaviour?
so excited it's unreal
Thank you for all your help Robin. If you wanted flubenvet I could always post some over to you
I have found a friend who has given Muriel a permanent home away from other chickens so she can't infect anyone else. She is going to be one hell of a pampered chicken!
Thank Robin, they were wormed with Flubenvet. She is in my mum's grden, having free range then sleeping in a shed at night. Whatever it is that is causing it was the same in our garden and my mum' garden.
Hey eggs are perfect dark brown eggs, and she looks healthy, just sounds like he smokes...
Yes as staed in first post she has been wormed. No improvemnt. The vet checked her throat for growths and he said nothing could be felt. He didn't really say she was congested