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I have a Wyandotte mama who’s sitting on a clutch of 6 eggs. She’s been great so far. I’ve noticed though that she keeps leaving an egg (or a couple) out from underneath her. So far I’ve just been scooting them back underneath her but tonight when I found one I decided to candle it and see if...

This is a partridge plymouth rock at approximately 6 weeks. I’ve had horrible luck with chicks turning into roos and the fact that this one has a comb starting freaks me out. However, it’s mostly yellow and I don’t really see any wattles forming yet so those seem like good signs. What’s your...

7 hens to 4 roosters. We haven’t had the bantam roosters long and we’re trying to get rid of them.

I have one macho rooster and a couple little bantam roosters that have all but plucked all the feathers from the back of my hens’ heads when they’ve mated. It doesn’t seem to bother the girls and they’re not being pecked at by other hens, so should I just let it be? Is there something I can do...

Dud. She sat on that last egg another week until it was looking grody and I candled it again. Dead. Looks like it got shrink wrapped but I didn’t have the heart to break it open. 😩

That’s a great solution. Thanks! Nervous first timer here.

She’s currently in my living room in a big “maternity ward” until the chick hatches. So there can’t be a leak. It’s almost like she got herself wet and then sat down on the egg. I’ll offer her some dry shredded paper so she can tuck it under her. I don’t want to risk her leaving the egg because...

I have come to understand they are masters of maternal instincts and they have all the equipment needed. Her waterer is in the corner or her brooder box right now So I wondered if she maybe tipped it over. Do you think I should clean it up? I hate to disturb her and the egg under her like that...

So I had to bring in my broody mama and her egg (she’s a bantam and the only viable egg left) because our temps here dipped into the single digits with negative wind chills. We have her set up in a corner of a room where it’s chilly but not cold, but of course that same room has a fireplace and...

Thank you!! I intended to let her keep the chick, it was while moving them both on the nesting pad that the chick somehow came out from under her and got squished. So momma and egg are still in the brooder now, and I hope it’ll hatch so she has a chance to raise it. She’s pretty devout and I...

I feel your pain! My broody mama insisted on sitting on eggs and it’s smack dab in the middle of winter here. So when the first chick hatched this morning I thought for sure it was best to relocate her and chick and the remaining egg (she only ended up with 2 viable) inside to a brooder. The...

So one hatched very early this morning, day 24, and in the process of me trying to get them into the brooder (our temps took a huge dip and are in the single digits, windchill is sometimes negative) I squished the chick. I’m sick!!! I was just trying to help and keep it from being exposed. I am...

It’s the end of say 23 (unless I calculated wrong) and not a single sign of pipping, hatching or anything else. I went ahead and candled the eggs again tonight. 3 were duds. Zero movement, no veins, and not the right size for how old they should be. It appears they died at least a few days ago...

It’s day 23 (unless I calculated wrong) and no signs of pipping, hatching, movement, or anything. She’s not been off of them since Friday morning that I can tell.

When she’s been on them they are definitely warm to the touch. However, I have found one a couple times that was halfway under/halfway in her back butt feathers and not all the way up underneath her. Accident? Like she didn’t realize it was sort of exposed? Or did she kick that one out and it...