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That's what I'm going to do. He looks so sad. I wanted to wait until I could find a few buddies for the healthy chick, but its so hard to see him looking so sad

So I tried hobbling the little fellow but it wasn't even getting his foot in a different position. Still the same flopping problem. I picked him up an examined him and figured out what was really wrong. His hip is not attached to anything. How did I learn this? His foot was completely backwards...

Okay, thank you so much. I will go down and do it right now

How and with what did they suggest to tape it? Its one out of only two that survived so I'm hoping that it makes it through this

Does anybody have any experience with a chick that won't use one of its legs? It can move it to some degree when I am holding him, but when he is trying to get up to walk it just drags around as he flops

The way my incubator is, you kinda have to. But as of its new modification from today, now you don't. A bit too late for these guys. And because of the last hatch, I know that they either come early or they don't come at all. And they come in one rush, not one at a time. The two that did hatch...

I'm so sad. Two pips today and they are due tomorrow but every one else is dead. I may be a newbie at this but this is terrible. This is the second hatch that's gone like this *sigh* do I keep trying?

My polish serama cross is zipping!

I'm not quite sure if enough water has gotten out of the eggs that I'm putting into lockdown tonight. Should I just not bump up the humidity because of the extra liquid?

Gah! I hear peeping coming from the incubator guys! Hopefully I will wake up to four adorable duckies that need to find a mommy. I have one Muscovy hen and one buff Orpington as the candidates. I've been lucky so far that I've had hens go broody at the right times. For the next batch I'll need...

One thing chickens will do is that somehow they know when an egg is bad or dead and they will eat it. They are pretty good at gathering up all the crumbs as well. It looks like out of the five Muscovy eggs that made it to lockdown 4 have internally pipped. I have had issues with the two...

When my first chicks hatched, well it didn't go as well as planned. 3 chicks out of two dozen. And I had a broody buff Orpington at the time, so when she took the three, I went to tsc and got six more chicks. She took them and now they are one big happy family and everybody is perfectly healthy

I've got another batch due on the 26th and 27th. My nieces are coming out then and they will be able to see the hatching. I'm so excited!

That's always how it seems to happen. I can totally sympathize with you. Here's a happy story though that I thought of thinking of the little babies I've tried to save. When I got my first batch of chickens I was thrilled. I had eighty little guys and girls that I was taking care of. When they...

I did with three goose eggs. I have a question though. Is high humidity or low humidity more dangerous for developing chicks. Not the ones in lockdown

Welp, day 21 here. Three happy and healthy chicks under a broody. My lockdown box failed me and shrink wrapped another dozen. By the time I got to them they were all dead. Eggtopsies showed 1 that should've hatched but didn't and a dozen shrink wrapped babies. I am so depressed now

Day twenty and 1 zip and four other external pips!

Hey so I've got another newbie question. Will the eggs hatch vertically or do they have to be horizontal?

1&2. The way our incubator works is that it has trays inside of it that are hand tilted. They work great as long as you pay attention to how much they are tipped. My mother was in a hurry and tipped it too much causing two of my goose eggs to get out of their containers and fall to the other...

Is there any way this is salvageable?