Have you checked for mites? I took this one chicken home from the flea market a long time ago and she laid a bloody egg in the car and I checked her vent and she had horrible scabbing from mites. I put Vaseline on and around her vent and she was laying eggs normally after that! I would...
So currently I have 7 Serama chicks that I just hatched out about a week and half ago, all seemed really healthy and they loved my turkey poults(BBW) and other chicks (which are sapphire gem pullets) however I did not introduce them to the others until they were around 3 days old, I watched...
if you have the time you could take a few diverse eggs that are from the group and incubate to see which are viable and which aren't, plus you'll get some chicks out of it!
Yes the new incubator I have put a few different types of thermometers in it to monitor the temp and so far the factory setting is superb for being so accurate. These eggs I have right now are moving and healthy, I've only candled today just because I was worried but I usually don't touch when...
So I just recently purchased a Harris farms 22 egg capacity auto incubator, it says to have the humidity on 50% and it had the temp preset at 99.5, I have Serama eggs and OEGB eggs in there currently. It seems to be working great and the only eggs I have lost are ones that were infertile to...
Hi I really need help I put a polish egg in the incubator for about 7 days and only turned it a couple of times because I thought it was infertile. And I candled it this morning and it's fertile so I put in the auto turner will me not turning it for those first days hurt it?