Posts by ChickenPrnces

X2!!!! Wait it out a couple more days! If its moving and in the air sac then it is ok for now! Mine were just like that! Late, pipped into the sac and I screwed it all up! Let me tell you what! It was heartbreaking! Don't do it! If I had...

What are your incubating temp and humidity and your hatching temp and humidity??

If you use the same incubator for whole thing when you raise the humidity way up for the first hatching batch you could drown the second batch! I am doing a major staggered hatching and I would not risk it! I went out asap and got the...

Even though the 2 birds came from different places and are different breeds and aregetting it one after another?

I had a cochin bantam hen that started limping on one leg! Then she started dragging it behind her!I put her in a separate cage tinking it was brken so she could heal! Then she lost all balance then could not hold up her head! At the end...

Did you tr taking them and candling them to see if they show any signs of beig fertile??

Quote:Originally Posted by MedChicken I have read that eating layer feed is very bad for chicks, but I imagine it depends on whether it is their sole ration (i.e. if the broody is teaching them to forage). As I understand it, if...

I would give it one more day at least! Did you try candling to make sure it's alive and see if it pipped through the air cell? I made the mistake of helping 2 hatch that were 2 and 3 days overdue and it was exactly that! A BIG MISTAKE!...

Sooooooo...... I no longer have to wait for Muscovy eggs to hatch and raise to have a breeding flock of them! (sorry 1chickmagnet but I could not help it) Look what I got today!!!! And they just happened to come with 2 precious black...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tahai Quote:Originally Posted by ChickenPrnces ...a huge rubberized (for frozen water removal ease) pig waterer! It is a big, round 2 foot deep pig thing!...  more than enough room for all 9 to...