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The chick we lost yesterday we were treating for splay leg. The one with the taped toes seems to be lethargic this evening. struggling. I suppose it's not surprising that chicks born with these issues eventually do not make it. Can they be over handled? Overstimulated? She was off in a corner...

I just thought it was better not to fiddle with them. But maybe this isn't an issue. When you hand water them you have to hold them.

Thanks! She is walking around fine. I worry about over-handling them. But that’s the trade-off. She hatched Friday and the first hatched Monday so we expected some issues.

Thank you! I hope this works. She's walking around.

I would watch them after hatching. If they don't dry off, as ours didn't, and flail around, then I would. Our brood box was at 90º. We had a heating pad under it and a desk lamp for a couple days. Now we have a proper red warming light on a photo stand from a lighting kit. The pole is...

This post is very interesting to us because we are in a similar situation. We discovered a nest after the mother quail was scalped and her leg broken from a weed whacker line under our gas meter. The leg was splinted and she lived three days. Meanwhile, we bought an incubator (Little Giant...