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Nevermind, my dad ended up keeping them. Thanks everyone

Ok, turns out the hen is really good this time and didn't end up killing her chicks. They are now almost a week old. But, on an unrelated note, there is another problem. As I was making breakfast today, I noticed - as I was looking out the window - one of our chicken's who has been escaping...

Recently, my broody hen hatched 2 out of 3 eggs that I let her have. I was scared to let her hatch any in the first place because last year she tried to and killed the developing embryos in the process, so that’s nice. But so far so good. Except she’s not feeding her chicks at all and it’s been...

hi, just an update, both chickens turned out fine. they are very active and don't seem to have any other problems. :-)

just candled the eggs, and 7 out of 7 eggs have veins ^^ so excited for this batch because i never hatched this many at once before... so proud of my rooster and applaud him a good job :D

wooow 4 in 15 months? to me that seems like a lot. an update: a couple weeks ago i noticed she made her own nest in the neighbor's yard underneath the porch (but they were ok with that) and after a couple days she kept going there and retreating and had made the noises of when a chicken lays an...

i think she's doing fine, but she's just more aggressive i guess. only when you comfort her by placing her in your lap and petting her then she will be a bit calm. but now since spring is starting up that can mean for new chicks???

So my dad goes out to open the chickens today and one of the chickens jumps from the coop and lands on the floor. It can't walk at all so he had to pick it up and he noticed it was very light. The bones stick out a lot when you move your hands under her feathers. 3 days ago I was playing around...

hey! i havent been on this website for a while, but i just thought to tell you guys that, yeah.. the chick was dead. a while ago me and my dad opened the egg to see and yea it was pretty obvious that the chick was dead. it had yolk still attached, it looked perfectly fine and full grown, except...

ok my egg is getting lighter but still can feel something. is the yolk gone that the chick absorbed it perhaps? also the egg looks more darker

no i do it most days because its funny

Ok so my bantam rooster is now 59 days old (8 weeks 4 days) and, i know it sounds weird, but he mates on my hand. and the stuff comes out too it's so NASTY!!!! He prefers the back of my hand tho. So we hatched out this rooster so I have been with him his whole life, he's pretty close to me i...

wait so seeing veins is normal? i checked again today and there are only a couple of veins left attached to the air sac. but since my bantam is so tiny, she sat on 10 eggs! i knew some days i would see an egg or two poking out. i think not every got enough warmth so the process is a bit slow?

5 days? wow that's long! anyways today the egg didn't hatch. it looked the same as yesterday and the veins are still connected to the air sac (only a few). i'm starting to now think the chick is still developing or taking in the yolk. i tried the float test today with warm water but i didn't...

well my 'incubator' is actually a hen haha. it will be day 23 tomorrow (8/2/14) and thats when if it doesnt hatch im going to test out the float test and see if it's wiggling. if it doesn't wiggling then i'll be so scared because i don't know if it's alive or not but it could be alive as you...