Recent content by claireree

Can someone help, collected eggs and one was a very small one, when I cracked it open this was inside, any ideas what it is, it didnt look good

I have set it up to what the accurate temps and with my internal thermometer it is about right sometime a degree or so lower but not way out

I have recently purchased a incubator and now I am at day 25 for my duck eggs and day 18 for my chicken ones, I have candled them tonight and they all have good veins etc but do not seem to be very big inside. Before this I had a homemade incubator and they always hatched on time if not before...

Mine is a cheap chinese copy, I have now got all the temps right but I cant get it below 60%I am in spain

Ok so I got a cheap chinese copy of a egg incubator but can anyone help with the settings, the lady needs to find the instructions. i have 8 settings, CA =Calibrating temp, AS = Humidity Alarm, AH and AL low and high temp alarm, LS and HS I think is the temp settings but not sure what HU and HD...

My partner made me a incubator which is working fine (made same one before and 100% success rate hatching snakes). The temperature is fine and the humidity seems to be staying at a steady rate of between 50 - 60% but none of my eggs seems to grow. I got once to the point one of my silkies was...

Myself and a friend both got some Silkie chickens from the same breeder but we have now noticed that a couple of them only have 4 toes instead of the normal 5. I currently have 3 Silkies, 2 hens and one cockerel, my cockerel and one of the hens has 5 toes and she has hatched 2 chicks which...

My partner has recently made me a incubator but i am really struggling to keep the humidity levels up. They seem to be sticking at about 50% I have a couple of bowls of water inside and if i spray with water it goes up but not for long. I have a few eggs in there and they are coming up to day...

I have recently purchased 3 silkies a cockerel and 2 hens, I have been told that pure silkies have a extra toe, is this correct. My cockerel does but only one of the hens does.

Today when I went to feed the chickens I heard some chirping coming from my girls nest, when I looked she has one tiny little chick under her and still 15 eggs to go. This is very new to me but am I right in saying it can be anything upto 48hrs before the other hatch out. Will she still stay...

Ive got a broody chicken which after years of keeping chickens is a first for me. My question is her at night a couple of other chickens roost on her box and its mucky, I try and keep it clean but today Ive cleaned it more and I have bugs and all sorts in it due to her never leaving it. She...

I have a broody hen she has been sat on her eggs a couple of weeks, not sure exactly how many days as she was hiding in the pen. My question is when and if the eggs hatch, she has about 15 eggs, do I leave her with the other hens or seperate her to somewhere else. I have a large dog cage and...

Ive just been out to check on my chickens and picked one up, she has a deformed beak so is very friendly, when i stroked her and moved her feathers I notices she has loads of mites all over her, tiny white/cream things any ideas how to get rid of them. I checked a few of the other chickens and...

Anyone got any ideas what breed this is please, Im sure its a boy but not sure if its a muscovy or not <a href="http://s290.photobucket.com/user/claireree/media/ducks2.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll264/claireree/ducks2.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo...