I found one of my just under a week old chicks limping around my chicken coop with there mum. Under further investigation it has no full back response in its leg and doesn't use that leg at all. I think it's broken above the Knee? Elbow? (Whichever) as she cheps continuously until I stop...
Oh the poor baby, I had a rooster who broke his wing after being attacked by dogs, he had a gaping hole in his side and kept tripping over and stepping on his wing. We ended up spraying antiseptic spray (pink spray) on the wounds and using a bandage wrapped around his wing in as much of a...
I was wondering what cross breed my chick might be?
The possible parents of her clutch
Roosters
Silver double laced barnevelder
Silkies
Exchequer leghorn
Hens
ISA Browns
Hamburgs
Silkies
Austrolorp x
Hamburg x silkies
Silkie x ISA Brown
Any help will be greatly appreciated
I bought 3 Wyandotte chicks from a petshop a while ago, 2 turned out to be Auracanas but 1 has had us confused.
She has just started laying and she is really curious and sweet.
I assisted hatched at chick yesterday, mum had trod on it and the membrane was drying out, I removed all the broken shell and found the chick had internally piped, I moistened the membrane with olive oil and coconut oil. After leaving it in the incubator for a couple hours still no progress made...
She looks to be a girl, she also has no comb and is quite dainty looking.
This was my silkie rooster at 13 weeks
He was very clearly a he at this stage 🤣
I do eggtopsys on most of the eggs that don't hatch, it helps with guilt of maybe i did something wrong. I will update on what I find this afternoon. Thank you so much for all your help.
I think i should remove the smashed egg tomorrow, it is starting to smell, the shadowing is even less today and all blood vessels have disappeared. But I saw movement in 2 of the other eggs so fingers crossed🤞 they are okay and hatch safely
I candled it last night but it looks dead, a darkshadow has formed on the bottom of the egg and this morning I went out to find that mum has abandoned her other 3 eggs i put them in the incubator as well but they were very cold so they probably won't hatch either. I will post pictures tonight