Premature Chicks?

[ebonykawai]

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My response was to K&H.

Mine too.

At least we're on the same page, lol.

 

[K&H Chicken Farm]

See that is what we can not figure out. We keeped a hatching card on that hatch. (it was a test hatch) and temps where recorded 5 times a day on most days. There should have been no problems with temp. One of the chicks piped and zip[ed and the other tryed to do it to. The second one had big problems and is the week one.

 

[d.k]

* Hen hatch or bator hatch?? Which was it?

 

[BlueMoon]

So, now the Preemies are a few days old (like five) and the other eggs should start hatching tomorrow and through the week. One of the broody hens flew the coop, so I moved her eggs (Day 19!) to the other broody hen (Java). The Silkie is tending the chicks and then they all crawl into the Java's box to snuggle in.

Should I be concerned about mixing the ages? Last hatch, one of the youngest chicks was pecked to death, probably by the other chicks that were 10 days older. It was like they saw it as an intruder. I'm running out of spaces to put chicks!