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They all did great! All of them hatched and are healthy! Not sure what happened, but apparently it wasn’t as big of a deal as I thought.

Darn! That’s what my initial thought was too. REALLY hoping I’m wrong or I have a lot of rehoming to do in a few weeks!

I hatched 9 little salmon faverolles two weeks ago and I’m trying to figure out if I have males or females. I’m starting to fear I have a lot of males from the amount of black I see, but I’m just not sure. The woman I got the eggs from said her rooster came from a breeder, but the hens came from...

Chick is alive and healthy!! It had weak legs for the first day which is maybe why it couldn’t hatch. It would just lean forward and not stand at all. My 14 year old and I did a little chick physical therapy where he held the feet down and I held the body up so it could get the right position...

I did wet the membrane just now and pulled a little more shell off. It kicked and its head and most of its body hatched. I left it in the incubator and it looked exhausted! Hopefully when I check again it will have completely hatched. It looked like all blood vessels had dried up, but I don’t...

Temp is at 98 and humidity at 72%

I tried to help a little just now, but there was a little bit of blood so I stopped. I feel so bad because I don’t think it’s going to make it!

It has been 27 hours since this chick pipped and the hole has gotten a little bigger, but no real progress. It is still chirping, but I’m afraid something is wrong. Is there anything I can do? Picture of the egg included on this post.

I’ve had the humidity at 50% the whole time. I thought it was weird to have some that looked good and some that were still a little small. They are different breeds so maybe that makes a difference. The smaller ones were mille fluer eggs and the other ones are salmon favorelle bantams. They are...

I am hatching bantam eggs for the first time. I’ve always hatched layers before so I’m not sure if it makes a difference. To me it looks like about half of the air sacs are developing regularly (slightly up the side of egg on day 15) and the other half are still just a circle at the bottom. Is...

I need some help identifying the gender of these chicks. They are mostly whiting true blue/Ameraucana crosses and a couple leghorn crosses. I did my best on pics, but they weren’t very cooperative. Thank you for all your help!

Their feed wasn’t limited before. They free range during the summer so don’t require as much feed. All I meant by that is we increase the amount so they can eat plenty through the cold.

I’ve looked them over for external parasites. What do you usually do for internal parasites? We’ve never had a problem before. We feed them pumpkins in the fall which I’ve heard helps with worms and such. This is our 6th year with chickens and I’ve never seen them start and then completely stop!

My spring hatch pullets started laying about 6 weeks ago, laid for about 2 weeks and then stopped completely! I thought maybe they were finding a new place to lay, but then we had a cold snap here in Nebraska so they were completely cooped up for a week and still didn’t lay any! I’m not sure...

I have some Whiting True Blue hens that I’m thinking of crossing back to an Ameraucana rooster. I’m curious if you all think the chicks will still lay the big blue eggs or will they have too much Ameraucana in them and not enough leghorn. I originally planned to breed them to my WTB rooster, but...

Yay! Thank you! I was hoping for one roo! Now hopefully the rest are pullets lol

Updated pics! Do you all think he still looks like a roo? He’s definitely the biggest of the bunch. Still doesn’t like his pic taken 🙄

Thank you! I’m hoping it is a roo! I’d like one of them to be and that one is the only one with a bigger comb growing in.

Thank you. That was the one I was thinking might be. I would actually like one of them to be a roo.

I have some Whiting True Blue chicks that I’m wondering about the gender on. They are still a bit young, but I thought maybe someone with more expertise than I would be able to tell. They are very skittish so pictures are not easy to get!