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Of course! I love showing off my babies! Here he is with my daughter. (I’m loving the pattern on his wings that’s coming in!)

My chick made some progress but ultimately, after 34 hours he had stalled and I noticed he was still upside down and trying to kick his way out, all while chirping like crazy, so I took him out at that point and the membrane around him had completely dried up since he had been in there so long...

Thank you! I was so worried for the little guy, and am glad it looks normal. Im so excited to watch these guys grow, I’ve been wanting some for a while!

This video shows as close to lying down as he will get,

Thank you for your reply! I’ve never had seramas before so maybe this is typical for them. The picture I’ve attached shows the chick standing while everyone else is sleeping, and the other two photos show how much taller it’s posture is than the others when standing. It’s still not lying down...

I have 4 newly hatched chicks as of yesterday, but 1 of the 4 stands straight up all the time. Like not only is it standing up all the time it stands much more straight than the other chicks. It will not squat its legs to lay down on its tummy like the rest of the chicks. I have caught it kind...

Thank you, I’ve hatched a lot of eggs, but have never had this happen. It looks like it has made some progress, it is still chirping occasionally. From what I can tell, I do not see a beak or a puncture through the membrane yet. But again, it’s hard to tell at this angle and I don’t want to open...

I have a small batch of serama eggs that I ordered in my incubator and as I was removing my rotator to put them on lockdown this morning, I noticed a pip (this one is early) It looks like the shell is broken just a bit but the membrane looks to be intact. I quickly candled it as I assumed the...

Unfortunately, our incubator crapped out on us in the middle of our incubation process and we only got one chick out of it. It keeps chirping looking for some friends, so we do visits with it and it seems content to cuddle with us for a while but as soon as it goes in the brooder, it’s...

I just went out to find one my 7 8 week olds laid over on her side in the coop. When I approached she ran. But was panting and acting lethargic. I brought her inside because it is very hot and humid here, we did turn on the fan in the coop earlier today but the humidity is still terrible. I...

I have a female duck with pretty bad foamy eye. Unfortunately all of my ducks have a suspected respiratory viral issue going on. They are all kind of sneezing/coughing. Still eating and drinking normally, acting normal otherwise. Just the one duck has foamy eye and she's shaking her head a lot...

She is lethargic and has the green diarrhea but no increased thirst, swollen eyes, or purple comb/wattle. We do have field mice on the property but I’m not sure whether they’ve made it into the coop. I’ve never seen any evidence but of course it’s possible.

I was thinking if they all did have coccidiosis, since most of them are 100% better. I checked this morning once again and there’s only one that’s displaying signs of diarrhea she is still acting normal and eating. She was one of the ones that was really sick about a week ago. The other sickest...

Diet is Dumor brand layer crumbles from TS. They've been on it for a long time, I haven't switched. We don't really do treats, but when we do it's either meal worms from TS, or scratch grains from TS but that's rarely. I checked for mites and lice and didn't find any evidence of them.

I posted a couple of weeks back about some of my flock being sick. I treated them with Corid and I did a round of dewormer for good measure. The sickest ones have mostly recovered and I hadn’t noticed any other sick chickens until the other day when I posted about my chicken with the pale comb...