Recent content by Ahygre21

I have a duckling (day 28) that has pipped on the wrong side of the egg. I noticed it late last night, and this morning there was a little progress, but not much. Is there anything that I should do? Do I need to assist- if so, when? Do I just let it do its thing? I’ve never had it pip on the...

I have 24 12-week old Production Red Pullets that have been isolated and fenced off from my 40 1-year old hens for 6 weeks. When can I introduce the chicks to my flock? A while back, one of the chicks slipped out and my hens severely injured her. I am afraid that I have super mean adult hens and...

I have some eggs that pipped over 24 hours ago, but the spot they pipped seems to be drying up. Do I need to assist these hatches? I’m worried about the membrane drying up and them getting stuck inside. I can see them moving around inside the egg but it appears to be drying up. I only have 1...

I am incubating duck eggs. Today is day 27 and I have one that is starting to turn black and hasn’t externally pipped yet (my others have). On Day 25, it was moving around a lot in the egg (the egg was shaking in the incubator). So I thought everything was good. Do I open the incubator and take...

I only have one rooster, which is a mystic onyx.

I just hatched purebred mystic onyx chicks, or Atleast I thought I did. I separated my purebred mystic onyx hens and mystic onyx rooster and collected their eggs. 2 of the eggs just hatched, and one of the chick has white on it. Is this common? Or somehow did I mix up the eggs? The other tan...

I have starlight green Egger hens (green) with a mystic onyx rooster (light brown). I am trying to understand the genetics, if I were to put these in the incubator, would there be a 50/50 chance the offspring would lay green eggs? Any information is appreciated!

Are mystic onyx an auto-sexing breed? I thought I read somewhere that males will appear more orange colored as chicks where females will be all black.

Is this egg fertilized? What should I be looking for if it’s not?

She is still laying eggs, but would rather lay down and be by herself. She still hunches up with her tail down. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with her.

I have a 10 month old ISA brown that I found today that just stands hunched with her tail down. She can stand, but after a while just lays down. I checked for lice/mites, foot injury, and everything seems okay and nothing out of the blue. I read up on egg bound so I gave her an Epsom salt bath...

I am incubating duck eggs and I had one externally pip on day 26- I know this is an early hatch. Today is day 27, and within 24 hours no progress was made and I needed to assist the hatch. I was able to get the duckling out, the yolk was absorbed. I put it back into the incubator but now it just...

I am hatching duck eggs. It is day 26, and I have about 25-ish eggs in the incubator. Some of the eggs are turning into this dark color and I am worried about if they are duds and if they are going to explode. The incubator is in lockdown, so I cannot open it as I have one egg that has...

They aren’t fully feathered yet, but when should I face to face introduce for short periods of time? I’m just worried if some form of aggression happens.