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In the Brooder
- May 29, 2018
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Hi everyone! Trying to help my little friend, "Eggburt" aka Egbee.
He had been left by his mama because she had others that hatched and she was done sitting.
When we found egbee, his egg was cold but he was alive! We brought him into our house and tried to warm his egg by putting him under a heatlamp and trying to keep the air around him humid ..while we waited for his incubator.
Finally it arrived and egbee a few days later started to pip n zip. Well he was taking too long finally was just not doing anything but peeping. Seems egbee needed help. So we began the process of slowly chipping away. Sure enough he needed help. He was kinda "shrinkwrapped" if we had waited much longer he wouldn't have made it.
We got him out and boy was "he" little! But after we put him back in his incubator we noticed he was walking on his ankle! We thought hmm maybe more time in his incubator a day passed and his other leg looked better he was trying to stand and he was having kind of a hard time.
After incubator time was through he was in his new place with a couple chicky friends and they protected him a ton! Always surrounding egbee when we would try to pick him up.
Sadly egbee was disabled with a bad leg..still used it to walk but on his ankle. We tried a shoe.. we tried more vitamins..we tried it all I think, but still nothing. It's been about 3 weeks now.
What can we do??
He had been left by his mama because she had others that hatched and she was done sitting.
When we found egbee, his egg was cold but he was alive! We brought him into our house and tried to warm his egg by putting him under a heatlamp and trying to keep the air around him humid ..while we waited for his incubator.
Finally it arrived and egbee a few days later started to pip n zip. Well he was taking too long finally was just not doing anything but peeping. Seems egbee needed help. So we began the process of slowly chipping away. Sure enough he needed help. He was kinda "shrinkwrapped" if we had waited much longer he wouldn't have made it.
We got him out and boy was "he" little! But after we put him back in his incubator we noticed he was walking on his ankle! We thought hmm maybe more time in his incubator a day passed and his other leg looked better he was trying to stand and he was having kind of a hard time.
After incubator time was through he was in his new place with a couple chicky friends and they protected him a ton! Always surrounding egbee when we would try to pick him up.
Sadly egbee was disabled with a bad leg..still used it to walk but on his ankle. We tried a shoe.. we tried more vitamins..we tried it all I think, but still nothing. It's been about 3 weeks now.
What can we do??
