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9 of 12 eggs hatched normally through the day starting very early this morning. This one seems to have zipped oddly and is chirping quite a lot. I've gently moistened the membrane because it looked a bit dry and the chick is peeping a lot. It did this circular zip on the underside of the egg so...

This is a new one to me and I've raised several batches of chicks over the years. I changed the position of our 4.5 week old bantam chicks brooder cage today and now they won't go under their brooder heat plate to go to sleep for the night. The brooder is a repurposed large lizard vivarium (NOT...

Any ideas on these 2 clean legged bantams (please disregard silkie who kept jumping into pictures :-)). These bantams came with some bad pasty butt, doing fine now may have been slightly delayed growth. 1. They are from a mixed bantam assortment in a farm store in NH. 2. The store listed them...

I brought home mixed bantams yesterday because they looked in terrible shape and I couldn't leave them at the store like that. Each had horrible pasty butt and so much stuck on muck on bottoms and feet which I have slowly and carefully resolved over the past 24 hours. ( used epsom salt in warm...

In April I ordered some chicks from an area feed store, not one of the big ones like TSC. I am supposed to have 5 Olive Eggers in the bunch although 3 of those 5 sure like like an adult Golden Laced Wyandotte that we already have. Could these be Olive Eggers? They are 2 months old.

I purchased a Nurture Right 360 on Saturday. This was an emergency replacement for a different incubator. I love the NR360 so far. Only trouble is I can't keep the humidity where the instructions say it should be. I'm getting a range of 33%-40% with cup A full and vent open. I was able to...

You all are so good at guessing here, could you try these barnyard mix 8 week old chicks. Others are clear to me but not so sure on these three. I'd really appreciate insight since we may be able to rehome a couple Roosters and we certainly need to and want to give away the correct birds...

I'm trying to double check on my silkie genders before we need to rehome some. We already know that the dark partridge is male due to his coloring I was able to ask and get confirmation at an earlier age. so I didn't include individuals. They are 5 months old and all the possible males...

I have these two home grown cuties (ok maybe they're going through their awkward stage but I think they're cute!). Mother is a blue Silkie, father is either a Sicilian Buttercup, Ancona or Appenzellar Spitzhauben. The one with brown is 7 weeks old today and the one that is more gray/blue is...

I have a silkie bantam sitting on 6 silkie bantam eggs. She doesn't always seem to have them covered very well, often I will see one or two sticking out the sides or the back of her so I push them back under her a bit. Is there anything I can do to help her nest more completely and comfortably...

I would appreciate some breed and gender guesses. I guess so I can either come to terms with this or possibly feel relieved. Haven't had the best luck with our My Pet Chicken order. May 2 ship date so they are about 7 1/2 weeks old now, supposed to be all females. Out of 24, four chicks didn't...

I have a tiny silkie with a bulge, bleeding a bit near where I think the umbilical area would be. Something that looked like egg yolk eased out of it a bit. These chicks just arrived in the mail yesterday and one silkie passed right away now a second with what looks like a major problem. She...