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Just got this picture from a friend who hatched some of my birds eggs and just as I was thinking that the eyes looked really pretty, I remembered that Marek’s can cause something that looks like this. The other chicks still have blue/green eyes but nothing like this. I’ve never seen eyes this...

3/5 hatched on the due day. We lost one, and the other had some complications but seems to be doing better now. Hopefully it will be well enough soon and be able to join the rest of its siblings Teacup baby 🥰

Some extra details about what I’ve done so far. The yolk wasn’t very big so it didn’t take too long to absorb but I got a “band-aid non-stick pad” and put it in a teacup with a tapered rim to restrict movement. Stuff I read online recommended a damp paper towel and a coffee mug. I put the cup...

I have a chick that didn’t fully absorb their yolk before hatching. It was just a little bit so I found some similar posts online and followed the advice there with my own tweaks and the little one is looking pretty good now but I want to know what else can go wrong at this point and what I can...

Wonderful! I’ll just keep letting it drop for now. I have a broody with a pair of early siblings sitting on an empty egg so I can slip them under her when they hatch. She’s being a great mama, I can’t wait to see her with a tiny army 🥰

I have five eggs in lockdown right now and I just want to make sure I have everything right. I have a little Govee thermometer/hygrometer monitoring everything and the temperature is rock solid but I feel like the humidity might be a little high. Should I keep the humidity on the higher end or...

Both girls! One grew spurs though 🤣 I think the smaller one had more Polish in her so they developed differently.

Hey, thanks for the help. Sadly it passed away. I wasn’t the one directly dealing with it but here’s what she said: “Did a bit more work on it about an hour ago, stopped at blood and put them back in for a while. Could tell there was a struggle for breathing already. Waited an hour, checked...

We have an egg hatching on the pointy end with yellow fluid leaking out. Day 25 hatch. It’s not peeping at the moment but it does seem to be breathing. Reoriented the egg to reduce chance of drowning. We’ll wait for now but I’d like whatever advice anyone has. Especially if the fluid does turn...

I got these two from Lockwood Feather Farm. She was experimenting with auto sexed chocolate Marans and I managed to scoop the only two girls from her first hatch. Her normal chocolate Marans might be a little different, I’ve noticed these two are such a dark brown that they’re almost black...

One of them (Chip) had little white marks behind her eyes when she was little so I didn’t struggle to tell them apart while they were still growing but now I can only tell them apart if there’s ample light to see the differences. My beautiful babies 💕 I can’t wait to see their eggs, they’re due...

That’s crazy! Were you and your birds okay? They’re pretty hard to photograph when they’re not loafed but I tried to find the best shots of their legs I could. Fun fact! The feathers are actually one of the three best ways to tell them apart visually, “Chunk” has feathers all the way down her...

I have a pair of chocolate Maran pullets which look almost identical, I’d like to give them leg bands to tell them apart more easily but being Marans, they have lightly feathered legs. Does anyone know of a type of ring that would be suitable for feathered legs or some other alternative?

My other option would be making a vest for her, to help hold the hernia in. That’s how we fixed her ruptured air sac ultimately. It was past the point of regular draining with a syringe. The main problem with the vest is that she has all her feathers now and she’s bigger so I can’t just reuse...

I’ve personally lost one of my favourite hens during surgery. I’m painfully aware of the risks. I don’t take my birds to that clinic for surgeries anymore. I also have cockatiels, so the vet who would give her the surgery is an exotic avian vet. He has lots of experience with birds even smaller...