So just yesterday I posted a thread about a Maran egg I was worried about hatching. I woke up this morning and it was out of the egg. But there are several problems that have arisen with that newly hatched. My first observation was that even after she (I don't actually know if it is a she but I am just calling it that for now) had dried off, her down still clumped to her body as if it was still wet. There was something crusted all over her and I'm not sure why. I have had a chick hatch from a double yoke egg once, and she hatched with her down all crusty because of access yoke. But she turned out fine.
My second problem was that her head seems a bit big. I'm not sure if it just looks that way because it is the only thing on her that is actually super fuzzy and if she is just having trouble lifting it because she is still newly hatched. But to me, it just seems like it is a little big.
My third--and most worrisome problem--is her feet. The hen whose egg she hatched from, came from a hatch of chicks with LOADS of problems. We are pretty sure it was because the eggs were shipped to us and we didn't let the air cells settle before putting them in the incubator. There were 7 eggs--one mixed mutt egg and 6 Marans. One chick died before it made it out of the egg. Another died right after it hatched. And a third died a few weeks later from spraddled leg. Of the 4 remainings, only one was a hen and all three roosters were monstrous. So we only had one Maran. We incubated one of her eggs and got a very sweet Maran rooster named Huckleberry.
But back to the point. This chick's feet are folded in underneath and she sits with them sideways. I am worried that she may have a case of spraddled leg on top of the other problems that I am hoping I am only paranoid about.
What is wrong with this chick? WHY?
My second problem was that her head seems a bit big. I'm not sure if it just looks that way because it is the only thing on her that is actually super fuzzy and if she is just having trouble lifting it because she is still newly hatched. But to me, it just seems like it is a little big.
My third--and most worrisome problem--is her feet. The hen whose egg she hatched from, came from a hatch of chicks with LOADS of problems. We are pretty sure it was because the eggs were shipped to us and we didn't let the air cells settle before putting them in the incubator. There were 7 eggs--one mixed mutt egg and 6 Marans. One chick died before it made it out of the egg. Another died right after it hatched. And a third died a few weeks later from spraddled leg. Of the 4 remainings, only one was a hen and all three roosters were monstrous. So we only had one Maran. We incubated one of her eggs and got a very sweet Maran rooster named Huckleberry.
But back to the point. This chick's feet are folded in underneath and she sits with them sideways. I am worried that she may have a case of spraddled leg on top of the other problems that I am hoping I am only paranoid about.
What is wrong with this chick? WHY?
