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My 6 month old legbar pullet laid her first egg in the dirt and we have a cockerel of the same age so I decided to incubate the egg on the off chance. So it's day 14 and the egg is developing great! But looking at this egg and her newer eggs its relatively smaller. Will there be any problems in...

Thank you, I'll try that, I only have 5 other birds and they are all different breeds. I'll give it a go

My black Orpington of about 3-4 months had been acting strange this morning, she was found sleeping standing up and acting a bit quite and didn't move when touched but then reverted an hour later ? 6 hours later we came home and found her lay down stiff and dead. All the others seem to be fine...

So in the pictures is my 6 week old silkie I incubated and hatched it myself and I have no idea if it's male or female? Some help would be great, it is the only silkie that survived from the batch of 6 so I have nothing to compare it to... If anyone has any idea ?? Thank you !

I have a strange incubator, I add water at the back in two funnels so I don't know % 4 have popped out of 9 so I'm assuming it's fine? But before I read this I had opened it during "lockdown" am I in trouble ?!

This is my first batch of eggs, I have silkies, legbars and orpingtons, one has hatched and is very excited, runnin and knocking the eggs but her back and the top of her head seem damp or spars fluff? But the rest of her is dry? Do I remover her or wait an hour ?!