Landrace project F1 chicks!!!

[chickengr]

I've hatched 23 chicks in total and I only have 1 make rn, It's is crazy! All the wheatens are almost 95% orange in all their plumage except for the tails, and my birchen hatch has a singular male with a red crest and wattles and he hatched only to get splayed hours later so I can't use him in my project. Idk if it's genetic and even though I fixed his leg issues idk if I should use him in my project. They're all quite friendly though!

is the surface of your brooder slippery? or somehow other chicks stepped on him? I did have splayed leg chicks but they were like that from the moment they hatched.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

is the surface of your brooder slippery? or somehow other chicks stepped on him? I did have splayed leg chicks but they were like that from the moment they hatched.

He hatched normally, and my incubator was lined with paper towels. He was moved to a brooder that had a wire bottom but had paper towel and straw over it for the first week so the chicks can easily move in the brooder. However, overnight the chick had developed splayed legs by the morning.