Hello! This isn’t the first time I’ve dealt with something like this just hasn’t been this severe, pretty sure my chicken or a rooster I’m not sure yet because he’s a young Silkie but I’m pretty sure he has wry neck it happen most out of nowhere the other day I’ve been giving vitamin E...
Yes there is air bubbles on all of them. No red ring, two of them are bantams so it’s a little harder to tell but they’re all darker on the side of the egg.
The day after I got fertilized eggs for my broody hen to hatch my husband thought our chickens laid them and brought them inside (our house is around 69/71 degrees). I noticed around 12 hours later and put them back under her. I’ve had 2 of the 5 eggs hatch. One on day 18 and one on day 20. The...
So I just had a chick hatch while I was at work. Have three left they feel heavier than a normal egg just scared to candle cause I’m a cluts and the last time I tried to candle I broke the egg 🥴. Will she kick the egg out if she sense that it isn’t viable? I’ve heard hens do this not sure if...
I did candle one and it accidentally slipped out of my hands and I went to catch it and it got against the nesting box and broke open and I saw the fetus it was really sad so I haven’t since then 🫤
I’m letting my broody hen hatch eggs. Two days ago I had the first egg hatch on day 18 now it’s day 21 there’s no pip or moving I’m wondering this late can I candle them to see if any of them are viable or do I wait till day 26?
I was going to move the hen and chicks to their own house. She’s in a nesting box in a coop with 9 other chickens and a rooster with one hatched chick and 4 eggs rite now.
I was told by someone that if you touch a broody hens chick it will abandon it. I know it’s false with wild birds and they don’t have that good of sense of smell but I just wanted to make sure. I have a broody hen I got fertilized eggs for and she just hatched her first chick. She barley lets me...
Hello! The research I’ve done shows that when there are multiple drakes what the ratio should be but I only have one drake and two hens. I’m curious if that’s enough. My ducks are in the same run as my chickens. I really don’t want him to try and mate with the chickens. The drake is a pekin and...