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I thought I would update in case anyone clicks on this thread later having the same issue. The assisted hatch chick is 2 months old now and loving life. She is friendly and no different health wise to any of her hatch mates. So glad I learned what to do from these message boards and carefully...

I don't know what age they are but I would say bring them in and get them warm and dry. Maybe give them some chick feed made into a mash with warm water. Hope they will be okay.

Our March rescue bantams are still thriving after their rough start. Still don't know for sure what breed the little white bird is since the hatchery they came from (via a feed store, not TSC) doesn't list any all white, straight comb bantams.

One strong chick is free of her/his egg now! I did have to assist after reading through the article. When I got up this morning s/he was still looking about the same as last night but quieter and another chick had hatched in the night. I slowly did the assist and a very feisty chick tried to...

I'll give it some time, since the chick is peeping a lot I assume it still has energy and isn't worn out yet. It's just odd how the shell is missing in a circle. I didn't take off the lid just lifted it because I thought we were at a safe point and then noticed this egg, with 9 wiggly, active...

Today is day 21, well day 0 since the Nurture Right counts down. There is certainly a possibility that the other chicks caused this since I was at work during a lot of the hatching. I never saw a pip at all earlier in the day just found it like this a short while ago when I took out the 9 fluffy...

9 of 12 eggs hatched normally through the day starting very early this morning. This one seems to have zipped oddly and is chirping quite a lot. I've gently moistened the membrane because it looked a bit dry and the chick is peeping a lot. It did this circular zip on the underside of the egg so...

Just to update, the little trouble makers were absolutely fine all night. I think I worry more about them because of the rough start they had and the extra care I needed to do to help them survive and thrive. Plus with the smallest one being so much smaller than the other three, she worries me...

I think it's the smallest one I worry most about she is well feathered, just so little. I just now used a dull headlamp to see enough to tuck them under the brooder plate. Well that failed. It completely woke them up and they started to eat and drink. I usually let the room darken naturally so...

So thankful for the reassurances here. Thank you. They seem comfortable, the timing seems suspicious. I have roosting sticks in the play cage and was thinking about moving them permanently to that soon anyway. And of course before long they'll have to move to the main coop. I was beefing up the...

Yes they are well feathered. I'm just about to go out to the barn to shut up the adult chickens for the night so I may try shifting the littles under the brooder plate when I get done. Maybe they're happy I don't know it just seems strange that this is the first time they're choosing not to go...

This is a new one to me and I've raised several batches of chicks over the years. I changed the position of our 4.5 week old bantam chicks brooder cage today and now they won't go under their brooder heat plate to go to sleep for the night. The brooder is a repurposed large lizard vivarium (NOT...

Hope it goes well @Gardening Gal. My little one never 100% got better she still has a slight protrusion and I still have to check her daily and wipe/moisturize as needed but it's a lot better than it was. She's small too although I don't know her breed so even though they're all bantams she may...

Yes we did get them at the same place! I use a variation of catsndogs4us on all my online things rather than my real name. That is one of my hatched frizzles from a year or so ago in my profile pic. I still have no idea what the two clean legged ones are they don't really fit the Welp descriptions.

Yes but I found their pictures to be not very clear. I tried looking on other hatchery sites and those do have better pictures but they may not be the same breeds since they are different hatcheries. I scoured the boards here too, bantams are just hard I guess! Thanks @NatJ for replying. This...

Any ideas on these 2 clean legged bantams (please disregard silkie who kept jumping into pictures :-)). These bantams came with some bad pasty butt, doing fine now may have been slightly delayed growth. 1. They are from a mixed bantam assortment in a farm store in NH. 2. The store listed them...

I'm happy to say they're doing very well, thanks for asking! Two are still a bit bald around the bottoms but that'll grow back. Only 1 of the 4 needed any treatment at all tonight and just a bit. They're like 4 healthy, happy, regular chicks now. It's such a relief. I atill have no idea what the...

I have quite a few 7 year olds including Silkies, Cochins, Salmon Faverolle, NH Red, RI Red, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock and a few others. I think it can vary a lot but 20 seems pretty rare.

I just went through something like this with a 10 day old bantam chick although it wasn't fully prolapsed and was caused by excess pasty butt due to poor care in feed store. I had already been doing epsom salt soak and vaseline for this one and the other three chicks who weren't quite as bad. A...

I'm very glad to report that the 4 bantams are dong very much better today!:jumpy They're downright feisty tonight and doing everything that healthy and well chicks do a this age. The hydrocortisone cream significantly reduced the swelling overnight for the worst chick and she/he seems in no...