Posts by MuscovyMad

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I went out to the coop today and found a cracked egg and this lying beside it. It looked like a big cream slug and when I opened it, it was full of membranes and pink stuff. Has anybody had something like this before or knows what causes...

I haven't been on in ages. But an update to this post is that all the eggs hatched and the 2 hens co raised the brood. Ie chicks would go from under one hen to under the other one with no problems. :-) unfortunately there were only 3...

  Here are another couple of photos now the chicks are off the nest. Luckily the hens have decided that they are going to share their chicks with each other and they sit down and let all the chicks gather under them. One of...

  Here is one of my broodies with some of her brood. She's an old English game bantam crossed with a pekin and the chicks are 3/4 OEGB and 1/4 pekin. Just looking at the second photo do you think the chick on the right is a...

I checked the broodies again this morning. One of them has hatched all of her 8 eggs. And the other one is sitting on 4 chicks, 3 zipping eggs and 1 egg doing nothing. Hopefully i'll get 16/16 hatching.   Ps i tried to take...

Yeah you could leave them in. I hatch all my eggs in rings cut out of toilet rolls to stop them getting booted about by the first hatched chicks.   Good luck with your hatch.

I went out to check on the broodies and seems as it is a few days before hatch day i figured i'd just let them out one last time before the big day.   However on walking into the shed they were both cooing softly. So i picked...

1. Hens basically have 2 settings. One where they lay eggs and one where they sit on eggs to get them to hatch. The majority of hens will stay in egg laying mode. However some breeds eg cochins and silkies are more likely to switch to...

Ah thats different then. I've never hatched shipped eggs successfully. I reckon one lot wasn't even fertile and with the other one i had 3 grow but they gave up halfway :( . I don't bother with shipped eggs now.   It certainly...