APRIL Hatch a long ......Anyone?

[turkeysRtasty]

Here is a picture of what came out of my last hatch on April 4th. I have a new batch that is suppose to hatch on May 8th. I'm using my Little Giant Still Air incubator with an egg turner which seems very low quality to me but it gets the job done so oh well lol.

Hope everyone else is having some luck

Some chicks in the pic are Rhode Island Red the rest are a mix.

 

[FarmGirlForLife]

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

 

[goodb]

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

I had one that did that. Someone suggested taping the two legs together. I didn't get to try that with mine...poor fellow didn't get past day one.

Hopefully yours will be just fine!

 

[FarmGirlForLife]

I had one that did that. Someone suggested taping the two legs together. I didn't get to try that with mine...poor fellow didn't get past day one.

Hopefully yours will be just fine! 

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

 

[Kassaundra]

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

get a bandaid and cut in 1/2 long wise, then put the sticky part on each leg leaving the nonsticky center in between the legs, it is a hobble type set up designed to force the chick to keep it's leg in the proper place and use it building muscle strength and memory. Every chick I've had to do that to (3) have all done well and learned to walk, one in 12 hours in the hobble, the others 1 and 2 days.

 

[FarmGirlForLife]

get a bandaid and cut in 1/2 long wise, then put the sticky part on each leg leaving the nonsticky center in between the legs, it is a hobble type set up designed to force the chick to keep it's leg in the proper place and use it building muscle strength and memory.  Every chick I've had to do that to (3) have all done well and learned to walk, one in 12 hours in the hobble, the others 1 and 2 days.

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

 

[JenBoughtHens]

My first time!

here is my little homemade cooler-bator.
I have 18 eggs inside on day 5

12 silkie eggs and 6 EEs
I bought from the preacher's wife for $5! She only asked me for $2. (Total!! Can you believe it?)
my temps have been staying between 99-100
And my humidity between 40-50.
I candled and I can see that almost all of them are veining!

im awake at 3am checking on them.. oh how am I going to make it until May 16?!! Im too excited!

 

[FarmGirlForLife]

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. Well then. He seems a bit out of it. Do I put him out of his misery?

 

[goodb]

I'm not an expert but it doesn't sound good. My

are with you.

 

[subhanalah]

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. Well then. He seems a bit out of it. Do I put him out of his misery?

I certainly don't think he will have a good quality of life.