Posts by eaglequest

I just had a chick born like this. It was the yolk sack I think. Mine now seems to be pulling out some of his insides. I think we are goint to put him down at this point.

We bought some from ebay and some of them were rather poopy! I have not hatched any quite this dirty before. Should I wash the few that are really dirty. I was unable to scrape the dry poo off with my fingernail (gross). These were...

We have a Brower Top Hatcher. It's got auto turner and we have done several hatches with chicks, 1 of ducks and 1 with button quail. It seems to work pretty well. My fav parts are the entire top is clear acrylic plastic. So a...

We hatched 18 out of 44. The last hatched late this morning and I'm guessing we are done now. All seem very healthy and are doing great. We did have some issues with shrink wrap. It is extremely dry here in north east colorado. We have...

My 1st chick just hatched. Yea!!! Got about 4 more pips and lots of chirping in there. :-)

I started hearing a few cheeps today!!! So excited. I have family coming friday to stay thru weekend and hopefully they will get to see some hatching.

We had one a few yrs ago with similar sounding wounds. Ours also had her neck skin ripped off. She was a leghorn mix pullet we'd bought at feedstore & I thought for sure she would die. But I'm a nurse and my kids BEGGED me to...

Hey, I'm a nurse too! But I'm a chick. haha No pun intended.

Last year somethng wiped out a bunch of our flock, including most ducks. We had magpie ducks. We were left with 1 male duck. A friend gave us a couple duck eggs which we were able to hatch only 1. Her's were mixed and the duck we...

I had that happen to me one of my 1st tries hatching eggs. Dropped the lid & racked 3 eggs. About the same day as yours but mine were not as badly damaged. I placed some scotch tape over the cracks. Everyone thought I was nuts,...