Recent content by Nebrets

Final update, baby did not make it through the night. Not surprising since it had prolapsed its intestines earlier, so even though I was able to get its intestines back inside, that’s never a good sign for a baby.

I started on antibiotics already. I was about to post. Its cheeping had provided enough pressure to push its intestines out. I have the intestines back in, but I put likelihood of survival lower. Tylan is what I already have on hand, so it has already been given a dose of that because anything...

If you have eggs that are pipped and unhatched, I would highly advise not opening the incubator, as that could drop your humidity very quickly and suddenly and dry out the membranes for those chickens making it difficult impossible for them to hatch on their own. If everyone is out of eggs, and...

I have an unusual hatch. This should be prefaced with the fact that there was an extended power outage 20 days ago (8 days into incubation). I expect some troubled hatches with this, and we have had several that pipped on the wrong side and to that needed assistance because of that, but for the...