He is doing great. The navel was never wet but what is still attached has nearly shriveled up. I’ve been checking it daily. And he is the tiniest little thing. Holds his own very well with the others though. Thanks for your help.
I checked rectum again. Seems fine. I’ve put paper towel covering floor of incubator so I can tell if he poops overnight. What I did find, which I originally thought was poop and looks to be a black hard button where his navel should be. Should this just fall off eventually? It’s dry and closed...
All of the other chicks are in the brooder. The last one who hatched, assisted on day 24, is alone in the incubator. It is flexing his rectum and crying. When I put in another chick it tries to get under it. I cleaned his bottom and it looks all clean now. There was hard poop all round his...
All of the other chicks are in the brooder. The last one who hatched, assisted on day 24, is alone in the incubator. It is flexing his rectum and crying. When I put in another chick it tries to get under it. I cleaned his bottom and it looks all clean now. There was hard poop all round his...
Hey, I’m in Central and South Texas. Two farms about 3 hours apart. I have chickens at both now that I hatched 16 chicks over the last 3 harrowing days! Thanks to a post here several chicks were saved. Even though I have had chickens all my life I learned things I had not known it that post.
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