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  1. JackieDohoney

    Massive humidity drop with pipping chick

    😭 This is the worst hatch I’ve ever had! My first chick was attacked and hatched two days early. Two other chicks hatched yesterday and when I put them in the brooder with the first (Rocky) started attacking them. She just wouldn’t stop, even with toys, drawings on the brooder, and me playing...
  2. JackieDohoney

    Chick attacked while hatching!

    Oh man, I have more serious chicken drama! I went out of town a couple of weeks ago and my pet sitter forgot to check one of the nesting boxes. So of course one of my hens went broody and I came home to her sitting on a clutch of 9 eggs. I had no idea how long, so I just locked the coop and let...
  3. JackieDohoney

    Chicken with sour crop can’t walk right

    Hi everyone! I have a sick hen that I’m hoping you guys might have insight on. Grace Jones is a six-year-old free-range barred rock that suddenly started exhibiting symptoms of sour crop this morning. Yesterday she was scrounging like normal. This morning when I went out to take care of...
  4. JackieDohoney

    Yolk not fully absorbed?

    I just had the first of seven eggs hatch this morning and it appears as though this little one didn’t fully absorb its yolk. It just came out a few minutes ago. It’s cheeping away though and flipped over onto its feet. I can’t open the incubator because I have the other eggs pipping. It’s hard...
  5. JackieDohoney

    Humidity emergencies!

    Hello everyone! I’m relatively new to hatching (I’m on my second batch with the first being a 2/2). Here’s my issue. I had to leave town for an emergency and a friend of mine who watches my chickens and goats is also watching my incubator. The first two days it was fine. We are now on day 16...
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