Hi all, I had a chick hatch out earlier today. It got moved to the brooder before really being able to check them out as I was at work for a while yet. It turns out that it doesn’t seem able to straighten its leg .. I can’t even straighten its one leg. It’s locked up at the elbow it seems...
Please help... I had to hand hatch a chick today , who's membrane dried up and he was stuck inside the shell. I carefully got him out and put him back in the incubator... he can't stand up and is on his back and his leg keeps shaking, what should we do ?? Their are other chicks in the...
I’m really new taking care of baby chicks. He is 5 days old and I found him today face down. I carefully picked him up to see what was wrong and he seemed otherwise healthy other than the fact that he does not stand up straight. It seems like he is not using one of his legs or something. I don’t...
Hello! I’m a new chicken mom, and I we had two successful hatches. Alas, the third had a dried membrane and ended up being somewhat of an assisted hatch (it pushed itself out at the end but we had to wet the membrane). For the first two hours it was able to waddle around properly and then it was...
One of my chicks hatched in the incubator last night. She was in a funny position the next morning (one her side legs spread and her neck bent) and her umbilical chord was still attached with the egg shell stuck to her. We cut the very end of the umbilical chord away because it was very dry...