We had pine shavings at first but now I have laid a layer of paper towels over the top of that. I read somewhere that they need to learn the difference between their food and shavings before we put them into the shavings (about 3 days). They seem to be doing fine on the papertowels...but this...
Ok...thanks for the suggestions...I did read about correcting the issue with pipe cleaners and tape...just wondered if maybe we needed to be supplementing their feed with something? I will try the splint and see if that works for them.
Hi...joined the site because it seems we have so many questions we need answered. We have just hatched our first batch of chicks. We put 18 eggs in the incubator and ended up with 17 chicks. 2 needed some help in the end, but seem to be doing great now (24 hours later). Our issue is that...