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Hi, I am currently incubating 8 eggs right now and also have the Saddled aircell on my eggs. (shipped eggs) I have read this post and have some questions. Should I keep turning my eggs regularly on it's sides and on day 18 set them "upright" in the carton. Or should I set them upright right...

Update: my rooster died earlier this month. The hens seemed unfazed by it. Poor Crooky. RIP

Uh, my coop is about 6 by 2 feet, fairly small, obviously, they all just eat from the same bowl... They're fairly close knit, like a family. They don't free range, of course; they literally live in my suburban backyard on a slab of gravel.

My rooster is 8 months old; on the other hand, his younger sister is about 7 months and my eldest is 1 year old. Well I have him in solitary confinement right now, so I don't know if my oldest hen will be a little nicer to him after having some time to cool down, or what. This whole experience...

I have 3 hens and 1 rooster. At first my roo was showing a little aggression, pecking me, "raping" his twin sister, typical rooster stuff (I think). But then I guess my oldest hen decided that she wasn't gonna take it anymore, and started assaulting my roo at every chance she could get. She...

In that case, this means nothing is wrong with the embryo? Just making sure.

At day 6 of incubation, I have noticed a blood ring that is only clear on one side of the egg, but the other side has well-developed veins and a healthy, moving embryo. What does this mean? Like the most recent post in this thread, this egg is also a silkie. What causes this, and should I...

I have a chick who's fairly young right now. I only have one because I cracked one and two were infertile during incubation, so she lives with me in my room in her brooder right now. I assume she's a pullet, but I'm not sure because I haven't got her sexed. I thought she was a female Welsummer...