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This chick hatched on Friday morning so technically it is 3.5 days old. This morning I checked and his butt was clean, no pasty butt. He looked normal and feeling sleepy since he hatched. I just got home in the evening, the first thing I did was checked and now the umbilical area is out...

We have a hen that went broody when the weather warmed up. This is her 3rd time brooding. The first time she went to hide in the forest. I thought she died but my kids saw her feed and then disappear. I found the nest after 5 days and moved it into the house. She didn’t hatch anything and sat...

My rooster had bumble feet and he was sitting for almost 2 months. Other than he was unable to walk, he was not lethargic. It dragged out that long because I didn’t know he had bumble foot. He didn’t have the telltale black scab on that foot and it was very swollen. And then we had to evacuate...

I have a jersey giant sitting on a nest the way my grandma used to do. I have been unsuccessful with the incubator and with the previous broody hens. My mom told me to put the hen in a basket and cover it with another one. Take the hen off the nest once a day to eat and poop and don’t bother her...

I have been watching this hen for a few weeks now, she has never let me catch her. She has been excreting water, the sound it makes is hissing, like she is straining to push out. Her back side was dirty but I could never see the extent of the problem. Until this evening. I managed to grab her...

I have 4 chicks hatched 1 week apart. The first one is huge, she always was. The second one hatched a week later and she didn’t grow at the same rate as the first. One week later another hatched, so now I could tell what a huge difference these birds have. The third one caught up to the second...

I just opened an egg with a dead chick Inside. I wanted to see why it died. I had lots of malpositions in this hatch. This one was malpositioned as well ( facing away from the air cell toward the small end). It was moving up until day 23. It is day 25 so I removed it to check. What is shocking...

I have a 9 day old chick and a 2 day old. I just put the little one into the box with the other one and she is happy to be with someone else. The older one was lonely last week, finally I have a second chick but she is pecking non stop and posturing. She is twice the size and twice as tall. The...

I have an egg pipped yesterday morning. It is a malposition situation. The file says assist after 12 hours. We are passed the 24 hr mark with no progress. I left it hoping it would hatch by this morning. I knew last night the chick inside was moving so alive, but I have not heard any sound since...

What brand is this incubator? I need to find instructions for it. I got an incubator for last Christmas. I took a year off incubating because I had a broody hen. I got one chicken alive today from that clutch. That one chicken is now brooding. Good girl!!! Yay However the other hens keep...

I have a 10 week old chicken with wry neck. I have been hand feeding for about 9 days. I saw a video on how to treat and handfeed and she mentioned that it would take 2-3 weeks to get better. It has been a roller coaster ride, some days are better and I see improvement and orher days it is...

There are two separate issues in this post but both are about my little chickens, two groups of 5 and 6 weeks old that I would like to integrate into the flock. I had a hen with 4 chicks in the coop in a separated area. Last week they learned how to break out of it and I found chickens...

I have a chick who is zipping in the wrong direction. The head is completely facing out of the egg and the beak could bite the shell open, if only that were the way to open the top of the egg. The beak is actually out of the egg and it is trying to squeeze the head out of the small opening with...

I have a chicken that hatched late with curved toes and turned in feet. I splinted the feet on the first day but the shoes fell off overnight. I splinted the toes with toothpicks and stuck the toes on a cardboard for 24 hours. Last night I removed the splints because one foot looked good, the...

I found a cracked egg under the broody when I checked under her this evening. There was a broken bad egg and I needed to clean up the nest and the remaining eggs. This is the end of day 19. Is there anything that can be done to save this egg? There is a chicken inside. I did not see if it is...

I have a first timer young broody hen sitting on a nest. My nest boxes are about 1.5-2 feet from the floor where she set in everyone's favourite box. I thought this was too high to hatch chicks so I removed her and put her in a basket and covered her with another basket in the kitchen like my...

I have 2 hens that finished quarantine and now I have to toss their eggs. I want to put them back into the coop and I need to know which eggs need to be tossed. What can I use to paint the backside of these hens so their eggs will get stained? That would help to know which eggs are bad. I...

I have a top rooster that crows constantly. He starts at 5:30 and he goes non stop until we let them out of the coop. Sometimes I wonder if he will lose his voice but so far he has not. When they are outside, he crows every 5 minutes or so. There is another adult rooster that started to crow...

I have been waiting for any of my hens to go broody but. None of them are interested. A neighbour offered her broody hen for 3 months. She said she does this all the time, lends her hen to people who need to hatch eggs. In theory I would really appreciate hatching asap like yesterday, but here...

I have bought a rooster at an auction 4 weeks ago, among other roosters and hens. This guy was the smallest, he looked to be about 12 weeks size. He has been picked on by others and he was very cautious and jumpy and nervous but I never saw injuries. He found his way into the separate area that...