Guys I’m back again with questions about Cheese and her weird nesting habits. So she currently is sitting on her nest at night and in the early mornings and afternoons and is off during midday when it’s the hottest. However I went out tonight and noticed she wasn’t sitting fully on all of the...
Hello everyone. I’m incubating eggs for the first time ever and my eggs are due to hatch in 2 days. I had put 16 eggs in the incubator. 8 were infertile, 2 were found to be double yolkers (discarded before incubation) and 2 others weirdly passed at day 14 and 16. So I’m left with 5 and the last...
So hatch day has begun and one chick hatched yesterday earlier than the rest ( under 24 hrs as of now) but the other are just beginning to pip yesterday night. How long can I leave the first chick before it will need access to food and water? The incubator is small and I don't want to risk...
Amazing news! I was able to get eggs and incubators for my experiment. So we set them about 5 or so days ago and we just candled them and all of them are growing! It's been great getting back into the swing of things and just being able to see the growth of these amazing birds. Some of the...
So a year ago, I bred my kikiriki hen with my silkie rooster and I got one chick which is this rooster. His name is blue and he is half silkie and half kikiriki. As you can see, he has regular feathers like his mom but a comb like his dad, an extra finger on both feet like his dad, and feathered...
Hi! I’m hatching Muscovy eggs for the first time with a borrowed incubator (and it’s been a long while since I’ve done any hatching) and looking for some advice- though I’m sure this is a dumb question I want to make sure I get it right! I found the guide by yinepu when googling and I’ve decided...
My wife loves her GLW and we are looking from some breeding options for them. I have a bunch so we were going to split them into groups with different roos 😅 Thanks for any help!
Hi everyone! Just wanting some advice/ tips
I have a pekin duck egg in the incubator at day 29 currently, can see a lot of movement in the egg but not sure if it has internally pipped yet.
38° Celsius and 75% humidity
What should I expect in the coming days, and when pipped, when is a good...
Hello peeps, I have a genetics question. I crossed a blue roo with my olive egger who is half cuckoo maran, therefore she has the barring gene and will give sexed off springs that are barred, only males will be barred. My question is, will all chicks have a dot on the top of the head or only...
These are not for eating
Should still be hatchable, but I already have a clutch in my incubator
Some of my hens decided to lay eggs in some tall grass. If anyone in the Sarasota county area wants some free eggs I can deliver to public locations in the Venice/nokomis/osprey area
My flock is a...
Hello everyone! I was curious, what do you all feed your chicks?
Quail chicks as well as chicken chicks.
I would usually feed my quail chicks 27% protein and I can’t get a hold of my usual chick crumb for the chicken chicks, so I was wondering if 27% would be too much for their kidneys to...
ive been having problems with chicks both making it to hatching but drowning in the egg and also chicks dying after about day 7-10. i suspect the latter is because i have to open the incubator once a day to refill the humidity since i cant do it from outside. im looking into trying a dry hatch...
This egg has been consistently growing since the beginning but has this bullseye type of shape when candling. It’s day 22, they’ve been on lockdown since day 18. No pipping from any of the eggs yet but this is the only one that looks this. It seems to have gotten more pronounced since...
HELP!
Duckling 1 hatched on its own, Duckling 2 is a little behind.
Duckling 1 has no pecked and pulled at the membrane of Duck 2 and POPPED A BLOOD VESSEL.
How do I help duck 2 without killing it myself?
qtip and blow dryer?
Hi! I am an experienced chicken hatching high schooler! I used to run a chicken business with my mum when we lived in Canada, now in the US Wisconsin. I wanted to run an ethical experiment/study on hatch rates of different incubating and egg conditions like egg weight and dry hatching vs...
My first go at a few eggs was so fun to watch with the kids. Had 3/4 hatch fully healthy, learning new things along the way to better my next batch of eggs !:jumpy:yesss:
I've been around small scale chicken flocks my whole life. My grandma had chickens, my mom had chickens, and I've had a flock of around a dozen for the past 5 years. This year I'm upscaling and doing things differently.
I currently have 5 roosters, 35 hens, and one pekin duck hen.
I have...
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My broody grabbed eggs while I was on vacation. The ones that I knew went in on 1/4/25 hatched in the past two days. There are 3 that look completely dark, but not seeing any movement. I don’t know what day she grabbed these so I don’t know when to expect them. I also can’t really see any veins...