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You could do that. I honestly think I would give the egg back to her. She'll abandon it or hatch it. That's nature's way. If it does hatch, it's much better off with mama. The chicks live off the yolk for three days. They may nibble at food & water but they're not that into it until their big...

Your elevation won't be as high as mine, but it can make a difference... Here's one I bought (and did not calibrate) on recommendation of another very helpful member here: https://www.thermoworks.com/RT301WA I used it to calibrate my incubators by holding the tip near the incubator's probe and...

Dang... 😂 SOME days go by without my hands bleeding. Today... (so far). :oops: I actually carry gloves clipped to a belt loop but I forget to put them on.:lau

I have large hands, but slender. 😂 That does NOT count as manly. :rant :lau (teasing)

What I meant was that if a chick needs helped out of the egg, I wouldn't breed that chick (should it survive) in future. Unless the mama routinely produces chicks with problems I don't think it's necessarily a problem with her own genetics or health. It could just be a faulty bit of DNA that...

They so often don't make it after helping—and when they do, they often die later or fail to thrive. It's sad, and there's nothing wrong with giving a little help. I would probably avoid breeding that bird in future though, just to be safe.

Not sure; I don't always pay that much attention to the time. I take the egg to a dark closet and have a look. If the chick is still working on getting out, that reassures me. I guess maybe 24 hours would be an average. If you're worried and it's been longer than 24 hrs, I'd probably pick out a...

Sometimes you'll see them move; other times not. Also, unless you're candling them, it can be easy to miss the pips. You can candle them (I would) and see what's going on in there if you're worried.

Unfortunately when I started my dehydrater up (for the first time this year) it wouldn't heat. 😢 I guess that happens sometimes & it has a ten-year warrantee, but it's still a semi-expensive hassle. Had to do my jerky in the oven and it added unwanted heat to the house. It turned out pretty...

I caught a pullet racing from the chicken tractor to the weeds around the cattle guard. Went to look for her and almost stepped on her. She must have been sitting on, like, fifteen? Holy Smokes! That's a lot. 😬 I'll have to candle them in a couple days, but I doubt they're fertile since I...

If they're knocked around too much during shipping, that can destroy the embryo and they'll act just like unfertilized eggs. You don't have to see damage—it can simply be the shock of being jarred or dropped.

I found three poults in the nest shared by a turkey and a chicken hen. (None of the chicken eggs made it.) So now they're playing mommy together. 🥰🤣

Ours has been good, just like normal. 🤷‍♀️

I agree... that's odd advice coming from a hatchery. Is Corid not safe for guineas, maybe?

I have broody girlfriends; a CCL and a Narragansett turkey. 🤷‍♀️ They had chicken & turkey eggs but I've had to pull the chicken eggs, all. 😢 Poor chicken hen. I wonder who will be mama, or whether they'll take turns? Of the two, chicken-mama has been the most consistently faithful but the Narri...

Cackle has always sent me extras (very generous numbers of extras) and of the chickens, extras have always been females.

I have one just about three years old who recently hatched three littles for me. She's a Columbian Wyandotte. I gave my broodies random eggs. It's so funny. The first, a Buckeye, hatched three reddish & two black. The second, the (white & black) CW, hatched three yellow. The third & fourth, both...

This is little Sally and one of three chicks she hatched out sometime yesterday. She herself was only hatched early this year. We're very proud of her. I suspect the little one out front is a boy, on the scant grounds of his boldness and the spot on his wee head. The other two are black as...

I have one sitting on the back deck on a canvas tarp I had folded in a corner. Tried to put her into a broody tractor but she freaked out. I finally let her out and she rushed back to her tarp and snuggled back down. 🤷‍♀️ So I gave her back her eggs. She's well-hidden there at least. I think...

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