Recent content by Altairsky

I have 6 and they hatched 5 days ago. The brooder plate size is for 20 chicks. https://www.riversystems.it/en/prodotto/caleo-700-heating-plate-for-chicks/

I thought my brooder plate was too hot but I trusted the manufacturer (it was 100% made by a company near my house) and the chicks love it.

I just had a batch of legbar eggs hatching and they're all roosters so let me see pictures of your legbar rooster x random hen Easter Eggers! Show me a pic of their eggs and tell me which breed was their mother!

Here is mine ^^

I had a chick pip on the side of the egg. It nicked a blood vessel and the blood cloth got the membrane glued to its head. If I didn't assist it would have died. Just sharing my experience since I never heard of chicks stuck on dried blood.

The breeder I got them from doesn't have any marans but he has olive eggers. I need to tell him some of his araucana hens are cheating :)

I got some blue eggs that should be araucana, but this chick has feathered legs (and splayed). What can it be?

60% hatch rate, most chicks were malpositioned and pipped on the side of the egg, 2 of them died in the shell because they couldn't find the air cell. Need to find out what happened and see if I can improve the hatch rate. Temperature might have been too high because I had the first pip at day...

Great tutorial. No need to isolate the chick though. If the bandage is put on at hatching, the chick will be safe (and a lot happier) to stay in the brooder with everyone else.

They should be fine. I've read somewhere that turning eggs is critical from day 5 to day 14.

It's almost 24 hours, I would assist. If the chick is making loud distressed chirps, and the membrane has no blood vessels at all, I would definitely assist.

Eggs were 5 days old when I started incubating them, stored at room temperature. They had the aircell side up during storage, and they were laying on their side during incubation. The eggs were turned by rolling them around 180°, from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 10 times a day. They were not...

I've checked some pictures online, and apparently these are males, am I correct? I got 4 eggs shipped, only 2 hatched. I need a legbar roo so this would be great.

Oh and I counted from day 0 and on day 18 I had the first pip. On day 20 everything alive had already hatched. I did the necropsy on day 21. Maybe temperature too high? I had 3 thermometers (1 calibrated and the other 2 in agreement +-0.1°C) Temperatures varied between 37.3 and 38.3, with an...

I'd use it exclusively as infirmary cage for sick songbird. Happens to me to find robins in shock hit by cars and had nowhere warm to put them other than my bra. Lol.