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Anyone have any? Anyone in the southwest of Missouri? Around Springfield specifically? LOL I guess I can't spell. I'm looking for Crele Orpingtons.

Does anyone have an interior picture of a goose egg at 10 to 15 days? You know, with a flashlight shining through? Thanks.

Has anyone tried putting something on their eggs between washing and putting them in the incubator? I was sitting and thinking and got to wondering about putting Cornstarch on them to simulate the bloom. I don't know if that would clog the pores or not. I mean after the egg is completely dry...

Picture of some of the eggs. Pictures of some of the babies we have hatched. These will be standard size chickens, no Silkies, no bantams, no Guineas. I may be interested in trading for hens/pullets NPOL. My incubators are not keeping the temperature steady but all the eggs I put on start...

After waiting since December, I finally had a gosling hatch but I think the membrane hardened and kept the baby in the shell too long. The baby hatched yesterday with my help. I found the egg in the incubator with the pip and could hear the baby peeping. When no progress was made after about 24...

In their incubators. I have found some narrow trays with open sides but the bottoms are solid. I couldn't find any with open bottoms. My husband has offered to try to drill holes in the bottoms but I wanted to find out if any of you use them with...

I go in every night to check on my babies before I go to bed but tonight I found 3 of them dead. Their brooder was not cold, they had food and water. I grabbed the poly vi sol and started dosing the other babies. I'm pretty sure 2 more of them are going to die before morning. I have been...

What do I need? Do I need to insulate the sides? Should I remove the door and put a heavy Plexiglas one on? Should I drill holes in the shelf to let air pass through? Should I tape or fill the slot in the top shelf and drill holes in it to let air pass? The sides are either 3/4 or 5/8 inch...

If I understand their anatomy, it's a girl?

What is he? He could even be a mix of some kind, I got his egg in a swap. I thought he was a girl until his tail started to curl. He was hatched in July of last year.

I received my Cochins from Ideal yesterday afternoon. There was one that didn't make it and the post office verified that it was dead, I suppose incase Ideal wants to argue. Altogether I got 25 babies, I ordered 19 pullets and one cockerel. And yes, I know sexing them is not an exact science...

a cabinet incubator? I have an old printer cabinet that is enclosed except where the cords should run out. It has a fan near the top but if I remember correctly, it didn't work. I will get pictures of it tomorrow when there is daylight as the room it is in is not well lit. I just need to...

How early should I be able to see something going on in the eggs when I candle them? I have some that have been incubating for 2 1/2 weeks and they look like duds. I have other eggs I can put in their spots if I can be sure they are not suddenly going to start incubating. Please let me know.

One of my girls is laying a pretty pink egg that has a kind of unusual "blush" (?) on them. The shells don't look like other eggs because of this "blush" and I am wondering if anyone thinks that there would be any kind of problem with incubating them? I will try to remember to take pictures...

One of the chicks I hatched last May is going broody but she is sitting in a basket that is part of a stack of baskets and there's no bedding around the egg. I found an egg there the other day but didn't know who laid it. Still might not have been this hen. Anyways, I saw her on this basket...

I have a mixed breed rooster courting a Chinese goose. Should I worry about him? I have a total of 10 geese out there but one is sitting on a nest. The other 8 just stood around looking on like, "Go for it bud and see what happens!" The rooster doesn't seem worried and the goose just held...

A lady on Hatchaholics Anonymous on FaceBook posted this picture and I am taking advantage of it because I didn't know there was a picture like this. See where I have circled the knee(?)? Prince is a Cornish Cross mix rooster who has a bad knee. He is not heavy like his mother but he is...

My husband just shot a opossum!!! Coming in broad daylight to my coop!! I thought they were nocturnal. I didn't think I would want revenge, just want it gone but I grabbed up a short piece of 2x4 and beat on the thing. It was still moving but if it wasn't dead, it wasn't far from it. Ok, it...

How can I kill him? My chickens, guineas, ducks and geese won't sleep in the coop or run, they sleep on my porch under the lights and the raccoon came up on my PORCH IN THE LIGHTS to try to grab one! If I had still been asleep, he would have gotten another one. He won't go in the trap, he's...

a cabinet incubator? I have an old printer cabinet that is enclosed except where the cords should run out. It has a fan near the top but if I remember correctly, it didn't work. I will get pictures of it tomorrow when there is daylight as the room it is in is not well lit. I just need to...