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  1. S

    Finding chicks and pullets in 2025

    With the high demand for chickens and major hatcheries nearly sold out, I recently went online to search for specific high-producing egg layers like ISA Browns, NovoGen, and other prolific breeds. Surprisingly, I found very few sources offering point-of-lay or already mature laying hens, e Even...
  2. Emrosenagel

    Newly hatched chick gasping, bubbles and drippy nose

    I have a chick that hatched this morning at around 7, the only one that survived. It’s now 1pm and she can’t really walk still and I’ve noticed she looks like she is regurgitating, and then she will gasp. This is odd because she hasn’t eaten or drank anything yet. I held her for a moment earlier...
  3. crazy_chicken99

    I got hatchery chicks and broody hen that is due in two days! should I put them under her tonight? will she sit on other eggs until they hatch?

    Hey! I have a broody hen that will have chicks in two days (on sunday) but i bouht day old chicks today too (friday) should i introduce them today or tommorow? i really want to hatch the eggs also. And i do not want chicks getting too old. will hen sit on the eggs for another 48 hours? what is...
  4. M

    Wing sexing day olds

    Hi all! I have 8 babies that came out of the incubator yesterday-hatched the 31st of May. I’ve heard females wing feathers start to develop before the males? That’s the general consensus it seems in the FB groups anyways lol. I’m attaching pictures of the babies. Please excuse their sores. I...
  5. A

    Worried..Newly hatched Silkie Chicks

    First time posting...hope I'm doing this right. I hatched 3 silkies this morning( first hatch at around 330AM, last two hatched at approx. 9 & 9:30AM.) Shipped eggs. They hatched on day 21, as they should, but 1 of my babies pipped sometime early Friday morning and he was the last to hatch @...
  6. H

    Chick hatched with bump on head

    We had an easter egger x chick hatch yesterday (under a broody hen) with a bump on its head. Picture below. Also working on a video. Last night it looked like a bump on the skin, not an open wound. I've seen chicks pecked on the head and it didn't look like that either. I put a natural cream...
  7. amymicaela

    Chick won't open eyes

    So I have a chick who I had to assist hatch yesterday, today it's eyes don't seem to open? They were open yesterday all day. Any ideas? Thanks!
  8. Suez1uk

    Solo hatch 6 day old

    I have a lot of quail but this is my first chicken, I think there was an incubator problem which has left me with just one newly hatched Wyandotte. She is obviously lonely, she is now 6 days old, we had a couple of times of pasty butt and she was back on her haunches for 3 days, but she has...
  9. J

    Surprise hatch!

    Hi all, I was in the process of hatching some cream legbars and this little one popped out. It does have certain markings but it is a completely different colour to any other cream legbar I have seen. Any ideas what breed it might be or is it perhaps just a very blonde legbar? They hatched on...
  10. filmcmahon

    Introducing chickens in winter?

    Hello everyone. We are down to our last hen unfortunately, her best mate just passed last night. They are three years old and her mate had just gone through a huge molt and the heat we have been experiencing just took her last bit of energy, she didn’t make it thru the night. Anyways, our last...
  11. Diveks

    Day old chick don’t like starter any advice?

    Hello, in my previous thread i had an incubating issues where one of my bators had heating issues where it kept dropping in temperature. Well i also lost a lot of eggs from shipping issues and only had one hatch out. Don’t worry this week some more should hatch out from a different batch, im not...
  12. davidmpenning

    How to find specific breed Breeders?

    As I’ve been researching which DP to get for meat birds, I keep coming across people saying to make sure to buy from a breeder. It sounds like some hatcheries are good, but breeders (breeding for meat quality) should be better. I’ve searched on other websites and here on BYC, on Facebook and...
    • davidmpenning
    • Thread
    • breeders buckeye day old chick delaware dorking dual purpose eggs meat bird michigan naked neck
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  13. OfWolvesAndHen

    My first baby :)

    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...
  14. S

    Day old chick has spurs?

    Hello, I’m new to raising backyard chickens and I understand that sexing silkies has been discussed but I can’t find anything on the issue I have. Today I picked up 2 chicks, both silkies and a day old. One of them has what looks like a little spur, it has a nail and all, this is in addition to...
  15. S

    Day old chick with droopy wings and wobbling around

    I have a chick who is about a day old. It is not acting like the other chicks that have hatched. It constantly has its wings spread out (and drooling) and can only bring them in when I gently hold them in. The chick cannot walk, it just wobbles around. And when it tries to walk, it trips over...
  16. chickenchicklady

    Day old chick can’t walk

    Hi friends! I got day old chicks today from my local farm store. All of the chickens but one is fine. They’re all active, eating and drinking, but I have one light Brahma who cannot walk, and won’t eat or drink. She chirps, but nothing else. When I first put her in the brooder, she would kind of...
  17. D

    Help, day old bantam silkie chicken is walking on curled up toes

    Hey all, I've got a batch of day old silkie chickens and one has curled toes. Most of them have polydactyl toes but this one also has curled up toes. I think from a traumatic hatch, and I say that because I've read about it in this forum when we first noticed it, only one has both feet- one only...
    • DeeSmith1072
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    • bantam silkies curled toes day old day old chick help with bitties please help polydactyl silkie bitties still in the bater strong legs
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  18. N

    What’s best for a newbie to start - chicks or pullets?

    We want to end up with 6 hens this coming year, each one of a different breed (BCM, Silkie, Polish, Lavender orpington, EE, Cochin). Our plan was to get 6 chicks this Spring, but upon more research I’m concerned we will end up with some roos if we get them all as chicks from local breeders. I...
  19. selenag

    Baby chick weak

    Hi 😀 we found a baby chick most likely just hatched in our backyard and there was no momma around and we took it in and it seems to be very weak and not standing up straight and keeps tipping over and it’s eyes are closed and won’t open. Also won’t drink any water and feed. The legs are very...
  20. T

    Chick leg problem-not spraddle (I think)

    Hi! We have this day old BO hatched from fertilized eggs incubated by our broody. She is the only hatchling in the clutch of 5 eggs so far. She seems healthy, vent is clear. I haven't seen her eat or drink, but she hatched 24 hrs ago. Sticking close to mama. She seems to have trouble walking...
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