So I candle my eggs today 15 are doing great one never started and one is to hard to see into to be sure but I'm pretty happy so far I had a temperature spike on day three of 110 degrees but I'm hoping for the best
i tried a two eggs that were just about three weeks on my first hatch i had know clue what i was doing but one never developed and one hatched but i had to cull it do to deformities
no there not shipped eggs if they were shipped on top of the gunk I don't think I would have a snow balls chance the first one I pulled out I could hardly see the egg I hate to scrub them but I had to
so I got the eggs yesterday that I am setting for the Easter hatch along do you think I have a chance at hatching them I had to chisel most of the gunk off along with eggshells and hard yoke and the ones in the picture weren't even the worst I will also be setting 4 or 5 of my orpingtons eggs...
Ok it's official the rooster and the dog are now working together to bring my demise lol I have insomnia and at about 3:30 this morning I just about fell asleep and the rooster came to my bedroom window to start crowing and the dog sat down beside him and started howling as much as it about...
Good morning everyone I've been of for a while but I'm back now life has been crazy as always but the past few days it has been slowing down at my house I've entered the Easter hatch along I got my hands on some EE and EE x rir eggs and any extra room I have I'm gunna fill in with my orpingtons...
Hi everyone I'm back sorry migraines are a terrible thing I usually catch up but I'm a 1,000 post behind and I just can't do it tonight did I miss anything good? Also I have four health happy chicks it's the first time I every used fermented feed for them and it's the first time I didn't have...
Ok sorry I've been away so long it's been crazy here. Egg update I had an internal pip yesterday at 4 am. By noon it had started to zip but when I got home at 9 pm I realized it wasn't any further so I pulled the little guy out and candle the egg I realized the one side oh the air cell had pull...
Good morning everyone the storm were having here was pretty bad the power just came back on thank good I was up at five to through a blanket over the incubator it only dropped down to 98 if it would have gone down any lower I would have had to walk out in this storm to my mems since my jeep...
it's hard to tell my phone takes terrible picture but his beak was a cream color but it is now a blood red but it looks brown it the picture he also has a few feathers pulled out because of the bully
Ok so I didn't get to go back to bed I checked on the chick's I just hatched the bully picked the younger ones beak raw and also the younger one won't open his one eye I'm guessing he was pecked there to so I now have them separated there were ok when I went to bed even tho the bully would peck...
Good morning everyone I woke up feeling like a mule kicked me I took care of the chickens had some coffee and I think I may go back to bed till 8 unless I get a call from my mem or mom this morning
So I have three chicks left from my first hatch I had four but little kracken he was my only white ome left passed away today they were three month old but he hadn't grown since he was two weeks he was also born with some mutations on both feet he had two toes stuck together and one wing was...
It took a little but my new chick and yule integrated pretty well but for some reason he has a problem with me when I reach my hand in he goes for anything he can hold on to claps down and shakes his whole body like he's trying to take a chunk out of me just like his daddy it's odd the new one...