Crooked Feet?

[Silkies4everr]

Silkies especially shouldn't be switched to layer feed until they are actually laying. I'd keep them on the chick starter until then. In our case, they never change as they're on all-flock from day 1 until they die from old age.

I heard the medicated chick feed blocked vitamin B or something similar if fed for too long which is why we swap them over eventually.

 

[Debbie292d]

I heard the medicated chick feed blocked vitamin B or something similar if fed for too long which is why we swap them over eventually.

Medicated feed can but not as bad as having them on Corid. I just don't use it long-term. I only use it on chicks that aren't my own, or my own chicks for a couple of weeks before I put them outside.

But chick crumbles come in unmedicated as well. As does all-flock. Silkies are predisposed to have vitamin deficiencies so I don't take any chances.

 

[Silkies4everr]

Medicated feed can but not as bad as having them on Corid. I just don't use it long-term. I only use it on chicks that aren't my own, or my own chicks for a couple of weeks before I put them outside.

But chick crumbles come in unmedicated as well. As does all-flock. Silkies are predisposed to have vitamin deficiencies so I don't take any chances.

I can probably pick up some unmedicated chick starter later.

 

[Silkies4everr]

This is now definitely sounding either nutritional or the incubation.

Thought I should update with this since this hatch so far is really successful.

Got a new incubator from Brinsea. My second batch of eggs had been started in a different incubator before I gave the chickens vitamins. So when the new incubator arrived I moved them to the new one.

Anyway, almost all of them have hatched out so far and there are no deformities so it could have possibly been the fluctuating humidity or something in the one I used last time.