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Good luck! I am going to wait a few days and candle mine.. Can't wait to see how they are doing.. They took a detour some how and bypassed me right up! When to a city almost two hours away... My little ones are going on a field trip today outside to play in the dirt and grass. Hope they enjoy them self because its starting to get cold out. I feel super BAD about my little handicap one..
Can your handicapped chick get around okay? I have a hen who is a couple years old, very severely crossbeaked (I have to trim and shave her beak regularly) and everyone thought I should cull her but she's doing fine-- like a puppy dog following me around. In my first batch of guineas that I adopted , I had one who was blind and one with a badly twisted foot who walked like a crab and they both made it to adulthood, otherwise healthy and happy. If your handicapped chick grows up with it's hatch-mates, they just seem to take it in stride!
One really nice thing about my cross-beak, Amelia, is that I can put her in with young chicks to get them used to the hens-- with her beak, she really can't do any damage (and she LOVES chick starter!)
At first s/he was just flopping around and couldnt get around.. I had to help the little get on its foot and stood in it while s/he was drinking some water. Not s/he is learning how to use that one leg to hop around.. At first it was quick hops and not its more slow and balance.. S/he is getting it down. He uses his deformed leg to balance it self. A lot of people would cull mine too but I Just couldnt. I had to give it a fair chance on living a happy life. Even tho I would need to give it more special attention at times, which I dont care because s/he I want them to live a happy life! You can see for yourself how s/he gets around. I setup a brooder cam for anyone who wants to watch. I did this for me because I just want to make sure they are doing ok while at work. I also had an hatch cam to watch them as they hatch. I will have one set up for this batch too. But anyways, the address for the cam is
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/james-brooder-cam Just watch it and you will notice which one s/he is. I also have a photo bucket account with pictures of his let. I can't access photobucket from work but if you go to my website and click on chickens there is a link to my account on photobucket.
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