Malpositions are caused by too high of humidity during incubation right?
Turning is automatic at 6x a day. I can set my humidity super easy. So if it is humidity, I'm baffled. I wouldn't think 43% is too high. Even at that my air cells were huge. Is it possible for air cells to be too big for a...
I'm getting kinda stumped. Some egg's hatch in a textbook manner. Others in the same hatch die after lockdown. Upon opening them I find malpositions of various degrees. Also a couple had a gel like layer around them. It comes off easily, but it seems potentially suffocating? I'm getting about...
Alright, locals! Soon I will need to get rid of some cockerels. I'll give you guy's first dibs. I have 2 created cream legbars ( so friendly you can pet them like a cat.) Then I have a black copper Marans and what is a Marans legbar cross that might have something else in him. He is big, blue...
Alright Fellow Oregonian's. I'm here to vent. Bear with me.
Today I had 6 more super rare Belgian Malines egg show up today. I was already nervous because of the heat wave. But they got here in good shape. I was at work so my son (13 yr old) offered to unpack the egg's and set them to rest...
Chick looks good 👌. Wouldn't worry about it. I just had 3 pip the wrong end and a Friend said it's about 50/50 when they do that. My 3 did hatch. Just took a bit longer.
I've been trying to. For some reason it won't let me post pics in the fashion that I did last. I'll try again later.
On another note, one of the Malines is colored in a unique way. Can't wait to see what comes of it.
Well. It has not gone as good as I had hoped. Just before I got home from work yesterday, several chicks hatches simultaneously and the humidity pinned the gauge at 99% at that point. I'm not sure if it was too much hatching at the exact moment or what..? But the inside of the incubator was...
I've now got 16 pipped and 1 hatched.
I've come to the realization that I had humidity to high during incubation. I have 3 backwards Pip's.. I hope they make it.
I've read about that a little bit. But I was always under the impression it was a color pattern thing. Didn't realize it could be done buy rate of feathering, but it does kinda make sense.