newly hatched

I have a chick that hatched awhile ago. Seems healthy, happy, and dry, but just the back portion of her seems to have dried into hard clumps. Is she okay?

My duckling hatched 4 days ago, first 2-3 days he was acting wierd, wringling his neck, not standing, not eating on his own. Today he is just laying there in the fetal position and not doing anything. I dissolved some vitamin d3 (heard its good for them) in some water and gave it to him in his...

He recently hatched (I'd say he's a hour or so old.) and seems active besides the swollen legs and feet. Both feet are swollen, with red sores. He's the first in this batch with this issue. His upper joints are red as well. I can take more photos if needed.

One of my chicks just hatched early (day 18) it looks like he has a prolapse of some sort? Is there anything I should/could do about it?

This poor little one started out weak and we haven't been sure it would make it. We still aren't frankly, the way it's been acting I keep expecting it to be gone when I check in on them all but it's still kicking! It spends most of the time just laying there but it is eating and drinking a...

I had a duck abandon her nest when the duckling was hatching. I tried to hatch her eggs that were left, but nothing came of that. I have a 4 day old duckling alone in the brooder, in September, in UP Michigan, no one is hatching ducks. Can I get a chick or 2 to keep it company? It’s absolutely...

I'm fairly new to having backyard poultry, only for about a year and a half. I bought my first chicks from TS in September 2020. They told me to feed them chick starter, which I did and all was fine but they did not recommend any other type of supplements, vitamins or electrolytes. When the...

So she must have hatched in the middle of the night, she definitely hatched early. She is very active and chirping a lot but has this on her bottom. It’s just there and doesn’t seem to be receding. She is moving around, walking and drying off in incubator. She doesn’t seem in any distress that I...

So this chick hatched this afternoon (I had to assist), and was born with very stiff toes. Now I'm seeing this strange and disconcerting behavior of rolling, distress calling, and scratching at the face. It comes in waves but has been continuing for quite some time. He'll often end up on his...

He seems healthy otherwise, but his toes are still and curled up. He was malpositioned in the egg (pipped at narrow end) and I had to help him hatch at around 2PM today as it had been over 12 hours since he unzipped, with continuous struggling to hatch. He's very active, he wants to move around...

The first chick of my first ever hatch! This is Elara, she is an ameraucana---possibly a blue splash, but not 100% sure of the color ID just yet! Hard to tell on such a tiny baby. :D I'm only keeping these little guys to hatch and rear; I unfortunately don't have the space or resources to keep...

Hey!! So today my baby chick hatched and I don’t think it absorbed the yolk fully. It’s not a lot left it’s just like a little bump on the navel and now it’s all dry. I’ve heard that this can happen and that it can either fall off by itself or you can cut it. I wonder if she/he is likely to...

Hi I just made an account for this so I’m not really sure if I’m posting on the right thing or not but I need some guidance. I’m new at raising chicks this is my first time. I hatched 8 baby Wyandotte chickens this Friday and Saturday and all seemed well at first. This evening I noticed that one...

ok so I had 2 eggs hatch earlier this past sunday the 31 and then yesterday the 1st i had the cutest baby come out but bam i noticed he has a huge amount of unabsorbed egg yolk and it was still attached to his shell. so in a massive freak out bc almost everything i read told me he’s gunna die i...

Not quite dry.

The unnamed, known cockerel (because of white spot on his head) right after he hatched on 1/17/19 at 7:30 am, the first chick to hatch from my very first incubation. Father - Welsummer, Duke Mother - Barred Plymouth Rock, Georgia Girl One of 8 hatchlings, 7 cockerels, 1 pullet.

Hi there I have 2 questions. We have just had 2 ducks hatch - 1 at 2:30am this morning and the other at noon today. It is now early evening. Is it safe to put the ducks in the brooder now or should we leave them be in the incubator? The incubator seems quite cramped. The first duck that hatched...

I have s bantam chick that hatched today. Yesterday evening we could hear her very loudly chirping in the shell. This morning another egg hatched and there was some fluff sticking out of her egg. We could see her pushing and trying, but no progress. My hubby assisted her a little, her yolk...

Has anyone seen anything like this in a newborn chick and if so what can I do to increase it chances of survival

hi there, first time incubating and hatching. about 3 maybe 4 hours ago i had to hatch a chick, he was on day 23 and the membrane had turned yellow/brown so it started to dry out and also stick to him. Hes now fluffed up but still has some goo on him here and there. He was very exhausted, i was...