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Unfortunately I have a neighbour who does not get along with me (or anyone) and will complain to the city at the first crowing. We had to re-home a silkie roo last year. (admittedly he was the crowing spawn of hell, all the time any time and loud) It is going to take a lot to convince me...

I have 2 easter eggers 12-13 weeks old. This is imperius we are pretty sure he was trying to crow a couple weeks ago but nothing since. No comb at all. possible saddle feathers? HUGE coward. runs away from his shadow. Are there roosters that learn not to crow... Wouldn't that be nice if we...

Apparently my arduino didn't save all the data to the memory card. Here are some more of the eggs that did not hatch. All were a little different most were fully developed. Chick1 The beak was just visible at the top of picture in the air cell. It didn't look like it had broken into the air...

I keep having chicks die around day 17-18 4 of 12 eggsh hatched and are healthy. One hatched on day 20 two on day 21 and one early on day 22 I am using a modified incubator with a turner and an digital temperature control and a computer fan for circulation. I don't currently have an...

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Right Now I don't have a humidity "injector" setup- the code to control the humidity is inactive in the arduino code. But the plan was to have something either pump water into the bottom of the incubator or inject humidity with something like a small humidifier and some tubing. Either would be...

I warned that it was a spaghetti monster.

PICTURES ADDED - not great pictures - but pictures none the less - -So I don't have any pictures of my actual incubator at the moment but I am currently running a test run with some eggs from a friend. I thought some of you might be interested in the data collected over the first 23 hours. I...

FYI Everything seems to be working out ok. All 4 chicks were outside today running around together and #4 seems to be keeping up.

Ok so here is the situation: 3x one week old chicks + 1x day old chick + one mama hen =? I had 8 eggs in the incubator and only 3 hatched.. But wait.... I had 2 more, put in the incubator a week later.... (long story .. we had a roo and wanted him to fertilize our silkie hen.. he did but we...

I know this is well late but I just had a similar situation and thought i should share my experience. I found one of our day old chicks had got out from under the mama hen and got stuck behind a piece of wood in the coop. I was sure it was dead. It was cold and stiff when I found it after...

I have 2 silkies I am trying to convince myself are not cockerels. S1 and S2 (S1 has the normal beak S2 has a crossbeak) They are 10ish weeks The squared off the other day and had a stare down for a minute or so. S1 S2 S2 (rear-end) and S1 Any Thoughts? Thanks

Too bad for "Cheepy", but at least I think I have a good home for Him. BTW I believe this is the rooster / hen he/she came from. The hens large comb/waddles had me a little uncertain. Thor

So here is our situation. We hatched out 4 chicks 2 Welsummers a buff orpington, and an australorp. One Welsummer is obviously a boy (he just started crowing). One is obviously a girl. The Buff Orpinton is a 99.9999% a girl. Now the Australorp? Starting to look more like a boy. The...

Thanks, I say to the pullet prediction. and Nico says to the wiggle bunny!