Splayed leg chick not doing well in hobbles

[Redhead Rae]

I really need to figure out my Franken-bators a little better. I’m convinced the temp swings are the cause of the problems.

 

[aart]

I really need to figure out my Franken-bators a little better. I’m convinced the temp swings are the cause of the problems.

Agrees...and the fluctuating ambient temps probably the cause.
The more I read about incubators the more I'm convinced they work best in a pretty consistently warm room.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Looks like the heat spikes didn't hurt this week's hatch. I had 4 Dark Cornish eggs left and I didn't think they were going to make it. 2 of the 4 had piped this morning and this baby hatched on its own and is already sitting up after less than a hour. I guess they were at a less critical point of development when the heat spiked.

I'm now erring on keeping the one Franken-bator a little cooler rather than focusing on keeping it right at 99.5. I have this batch hatching in the Brinsea because I don't want to risk the 6 shipped LF White Cornish that made it to lock down to my Franken-bators. After this hatch, I'll move back to starting the eggs in the Brinsea and hatching in the Franken-bators.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Poor Gimpy.. So sorry! I personally couldn't bear to cull a chick myself, it would be too traumatic for me, but you did the best thing, what I would have wanted to do in the situation. It wouldn't have had a normal chicken life. We used to have a BR who got mysteriously injured as a pullet, and would lie around and only move by running on her tip toes. She was skinny,the other hens picked on her and didn't lay eggs. We eventually put a kindly bullet in her, not me. I can shoot things fine, sparrows, deer, but personally killing stuff? Uh uh!

 

[Redhead Rae]

Poor Gimpy.. So sorry! I personally couldn't bear to cull a chick myself, it would be too traumatic for me, but you did the best thing, what I would have wanted to do in the situation. It wouldn't have had a normal chicken life. We used to have a BR who got mysteriously injured as a pullet, and would lie around and only move by running on her tip toes. She was skinny,the other hens picked on her and didn't lay eggs. We eventually put a kindly bullet in her, not me. I can shoot things fine, sparrows, deer, but personally killing stuff? Uh uh!

This was a HARD thing for me to do. Until that point, I had only culled roosters over the age of 13 weeks that we had purposefully grown for food. The next day, I had to cull a hen I had bought that didn't walk for 2 weeks.