Posts by Fleabuskitty

Well, one of her sisters hatched yesterday (day 19) evening, their brother hatched last night while I was asleep, then another female chick and two male chicks of the same breed hatched sometime between 9 and 3 today, along with a LF...

Well, she hatched today and seems to be normal (if my feather sexing is correct, she is a hen).  Her belly was bleeding a little earlier, but I've had lots of chicks hatch and bleed a little and she's fine now.  And of course...

Hmm, I didn't know about the oxygen thing.  I knew they pipped internally and then externally shortly after, but I thought they knew to start trying to "escape" once they absorbed the yolk.  Do you know what triggers a chick...

Just like chicken eggs, turn them three times a day (when you wake up, whenever you get home from work/school/whatever, and before you go to sleep).

When this has happened to me before I just leave it until I clean out all of the egg shells and unhatched eggs, mostly for convenience.  It really doesn't harm anything unless your hatch is taking unusually long and it starts to...

Ok, I have an egg that pipped either late day 18 or early day 19 (it was about midnight when I noticed).  I know bantams are notoriously early hatchers (although all 3 times I've hatched bantams and LF together they hatched at the...

I want to put a BCM (if they hatch) in with the Ameraucanas soI can hatch some OEs next year. An Ameraucana/Faverolles cross would have to be the most adorable creature on the planet!  So much face-fluff!  Squee!  My...

Cool!  Yay baby Ameraucanas!  If they hatched for you, since you are much further away, I blame my incubator. I ended up getting a black chick and a blue hen from Sawmill Chicken Farm.  The hen is beautiful, and I also...

North of Atlanta, about 5 hours from Savannah.  It's pretty far, we go because we also have friends in Atlanta, and I wish there were more further south.  I forgot to mention the bantam show in Swainsboro, which was in...

I personally try not to have roosts directly above each other, chickens poop a lot at night and bathing poop-covered chickens is not fun But if they are at an angle where that can't happen, two should be fine - if each is four feet...