Recent content by Moon Daizy

Fantastic article, thank you

Thank you for your detailed response, I appreciate it. I will just have to keep my fingers crossed it’s a pullet then. It’s a real sweetheart, and very docile / calm, and always hungry 😂

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/boy-vs-girl-cuckoo-marans.459471/ I was going off the information provided on here re gender at hatch @ShrekDawg @LavenderDaFlerf @EggSighted4Life but thanks for your replies!

Hello, can anyone shed some light on this little Cuckoo Maran chick please? I think it’s a girl, but the bottom is confusing me :confused: I know baby’s bottoms can be swollen at birth from all the hormones though. It’s my daughter’s chick, and only one of her 3 Maran eggs have hatched so far 😢...

Hello, can anyone shed some light on this little Cuckoo Maran chick please? I think it’s a girl, but the bottom is confusing me :confused: I know baby’s bottoms can be swollen at birth from all the hormones though. It’s my daughter’s chick, and only one of her 3 Maran eggs have hatched so far 😢...

Any of the eggs more likely to be a black chick? What breeds are the different eggs? Sorry if you've already answered this, been kinda distracted hatching eggs over here 🤣😂😉 xxx

We get ticks on the dog too! Horrible things. Our parakeet is cute, he can say a few words (hello, good bird) and he mimics my daughters laugh really well, and always seems to know when it's an appropriate time to laugh - he has me in stitches! Like, once he did a poo on our sofa, where my...

Um... Well, we drew round the air cells after candling on day 17, but the chick pipped well outside of this air cell. So I was worried it wouldn't be able to get air - the pip had cracked the shell but had not broken through. So I candled the egg to see if the pip was inside the air cell - and...

Hello! I only have done this one hatch, so not really experienced! Our temperature didn't fluctuate. The thermometer on the incubator stayed at 37.8C, and the calibrated thermometer at the bottom usually said 37.4, but it's thermometer sensor is on the underside, so against the floor of the...

Thank you!! My youngest daughter was so excited / worried last night, she couldn't sleep! They already get under your skin as little eggs, especially when you see them moving during candling... but man, when they start cheeping and pipping it's even worse :love:love....!! No, thankfully I'm not...

Yes, two have pipped!! One cream legbar and one maran. It is day 21 today. One pipped yesterday outside of the air cell, so that was an oddity. I left it 12 hours, nothing more had happened. I carefully removed it this morning to candle it - and saw that the air cell has moved, and in fact...

It has been 12 hours now. I carefully removed the egg this morning, candled it. The air cell is bigger / has moved from when I drew it on day 17, and is over the site of the hole in the shell! And I heard cheeping and felt it moving! So precious! I am not worrying now I know it has successfully...

Thanks for your reply. It isn’t chirping so I’m hoping it is just resting. It is day 20 today, so I’m guessing it was trying to pip internally. I’m just hoping it can get air through that tiny crack, it’s hard to see if it has or not

My first ever egg to incubate has just done this. How long did it take to make the hole bigger? If you remember! I don't want to intervene / assist too early (I'd only make the hole a lil bigger, have read the articles by Sally Sunshine) but I don't want to let it suffocate either. I'm worried...