Well shoot! I was misinformed. The only reason I added it was to keep them “warmer” in the colder months. Hopefully removing it helps. I’ll reintroduce later in smaller amounts.
Yes, I will upload as soon as possible. As of now he is pretty immobile. I do have a video of him from a day or two ago though that I will upload. At that point he was walking around on his hocks but still getting from point A to point B.
Hello!
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I have a young chicken, about 2 months old.
Last week he and one of his siblings began walking on their hock joints. I brought them indoors and made sure they had access to feed and water, they were eating and drinking well. I couldn’t find any injuries. I lost one of them 2 days later. He...
Also! I left Lolita with 8 eggs that seemed more developed than the others when I candled them. Lots of movement and big ol eyeballs. 1 hatched on its own, 3 attempted hatching, 1 was assisted, 3 stopped developing at some point. I think they would have been successful if we hadn’t reach triple...
Chick update:
One hatched successfully, one needed assistance hatching (membrane dried out from heat) and ended up passing after a day. The others didn’t make it, it seems they started to hatch but couldn’t make it in time before getting too hot. I didn’t realize they were hatching so early...
I moved her into her own coop yesterday, but I gave her all the eggs. Do you think I should just downsize to her 4 eggs to be sure they’re all on the same hatch schedule?
My bantam hen has managed to collect 16 eggs. Only 4 are her own. I was going to allow her to hatch her own 4 and was reluctantly going to allow her to hatch another 4 that were in the same stages of development.. but in the passing week she has managed to take in more eggs from other layers—...