I had two hatch normally on their own and had to assist two that were shrink wrapped. The third to hatch really struggled for the first week. Pasty butt, splay leg and droopy wing. It's now happy as a clam, running around with the other chicks, just a little smaller
Great!!! Glad to here you got some this time for the kiddos!!I had two hatch normally on their own and had to assist two that were shrink wrapped. The third to hatch really struggled for the first week. Pasty butt, splay leg and droopy wing. It's now happy as a clam, running around with the other chicks, just a little smaller
I had two hatch normally on their own and had to assist two that were shrink wrapped. The third to hatch really struggled for the first week. Pasty butt, splay leg and droopy wing. It's now happy as a clam, running around with the other chicks, just a little smaller
Did you use the band aid method for the splayed leg? I wasn't able to undo the splayed leg when one of my chicks had it.I had two hatch normally on their own and had to assist two that were shrink wrapped. The third to hatch really struggled for the first week. Pasty butt, splay leg and droopy wing. It's now happy as a clam, running around with the other chicks, just a little smaller
Yeah I'm really amazed. It's full of life now
Well you never gave us a head count. Out of 20 eggs you got how many? It sounded like 5. I had 42 eggs in a big styrofoam incubator I borrowed. At one week 4 were discarded as infertile, and 2 were questionable. So out of 34 or 36, 24 hatched. Of the 12 that did not most had reached full time and just not pipped. Of the 24, three died in the incubator,- one one tiny one after a week. So I'm told that 20 out of 36 was a good hatch. It is exciting to watch them hatch, poor little things flopping around in there and you can't do a thing to protect them from the stronger ones that trample them! I have just separated them into two tubs so they have more space. I can't help but wonder how much smarter my first must be that hatched in the summer and were outside investigating the world at day 2 or 3. I imagine these babies are suffering from stimuli deprivation in their crowded Rubbermaid tubs! Chickens ha! They are so adorable, little mutt crosses between EEs, Marans, BOs and Dominiques.-
