We haven’t gotten Corid yet (it slipped our mind while we were in town) but this dude is a fighter. He’s still eating and drinking plenty on his own, it’s just his legs that are causing issues. He gets around well enough to move about the brooder, it’s just not graceful. We’ll try to get some...
We just lost a different chick. This one seemed very different though. When I found it this morning it was barely alive and had labored breathing. We started getting stuff around to cull because it was obviously not going to make it. It passed before we got the stuff around.
The Mille fleur...
The other chicks are definitely kind of trampling him. He seems to kind of be their favorite, I think because he’s bigger they go to him as kind of like their mom. They try to get under his wings to sleep sometimes. Our heat lamp is on one side of the brooder and it’s pretty toasty over there...
I figured we will offer both types of water starting tomorrow. We just wanted to get extra nutrients into the ones that were shipped to help with trauma.
We got 4 chicks about two weeks ago from TSC in the bantam bin. One of them was obviously older because it already had a good amount of feathers. I’m not sure exactly how old it is. Everything was going well, and it’s growing much quicker than the other bantams we got (maybe it’s not a bantam?)...