Hi everyone:
I'll intro myself elsewhere and another time, because I need your immediate advice about a strange characteristic in a chick who's about 7-8 hours old.
The chick is a Buff sebright I think, just hatched it in my TX-6 incubator this morning.
It seems to have trouble lifting its head and it seems to move backward like a crab or ant lion insect. It has trouble making its legs move it forward, AND being able to lift its body. I don't think this is splayed leg, and not Marek's either.
He(?) tries to lift his head, but his wings go forward and his rear wiggles from side-to-side, all the while his locomotion tends to make him go backwards or burrow his butt in the pine shavings.
I have a heat lamp on the brooder, temp hovering between 95-98 deg. I feed my chicks 1:20 sugar water for the 1st 3 days. This chick just hatched, no need for water and food yet.
If you look down on the chick it reminds me of those insects called an ant lion, the chick moves backwards trying to get to its feet, and his little wings are splayed forward, like a child puts his arms out fwd and squats to keep from falling backwards.
I'm hoping this is not a balance (inner ear) problem as I've heard of this rare genetic defect (Hutt mentions it in his 1949 book, Genetics of the Fowl)
I'll intro myself elsewhere and another time, because I need your immediate advice about a strange characteristic in a chick who's about 7-8 hours old.
The chick is a Buff sebright I think, just hatched it in my TX-6 incubator this morning.
It seems to have trouble lifting its head and it seems to move backward like a crab or ant lion insect. It has trouble making its legs move it forward, AND being able to lift its body. I don't think this is splayed leg, and not Marek's either.
He(?) tries to lift his head, but his wings go forward and his rear wiggles from side-to-side, all the while his locomotion tends to make him go backwards or burrow his butt in the pine shavings.
I have a heat lamp on the brooder, temp hovering between 95-98 deg. I feed my chicks 1:20 sugar water for the 1st 3 days. This chick just hatched, no need for water and food yet.
If you look down on the chick it reminds me of those insects called an ant lion, the chick moves backwards trying to get to its feet, and his little wings are splayed forward, like a child puts his arms out fwd and squats to keep from falling backwards.
I'm hoping this is not a balance (inner ear) problem as I've heard of this rare genetic defect (Hutt mentions it in his 1949 book, Genetics of the Fowl)