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I haven't hatched eggs from my flock in forever. I recently started over around Easter with chicks. My polish started laying at the end of August, very small bantam size eggs. I know polish don't lay large eggs...more a medium size, so I'm wondering how long until they will get up to hatching...

As a way to keep track of data and the whole experience. I've wanted emu for years. But not just any emu, I want whites and blondes. So this year as a early bday present to myself I bought 3 eggs off ebay. Did I do any research beforehand? Not really. I knew they needed a incubator with...

I bought 3 new birds a couple weeks ago. Right off the one had a couple bubbles in her eyes. They all had lice also. So I've been treating for lice and started treating with Denaguard. Anything else I can do? I tried Vet rx I think its called first before starting denaguard.

Not new to hatching but I have a problem with this batch of eggs. I've battled humidity the entire 18 days of incubation. I run dry the first 18 days due to a already high humidity. Air cells have been various sizes but still below what they should be. Lockdown was Wednesday and eggs were...

So I was looking over the BBS chart last night trying to decide on the amount of each color I wanted that would give me the most colors in offspring. When looking at splash x splash there are 2 offspring colors. One is splash and the other is splash but different, what is it? Anyone have pics of...

Looking for ways to lower humidity. I have a diy incubator that I am running dry. Humidity has been in the 50s the whole time. There is a increase in air cell size but not like I want. I have drilled more holes around the door and on top.

Chicken math strikes again. I picked up 13 chicks at TSC today for 75 cents each. 3 are EE’s and the rest are some kind of feather legged bantams. I know of a few porcelain D’Uccle in there but I’m unsure of the rest. None are silkies.

So this chick hatched at the beginning of August. The mother is a Barred Rock and the father is either the Blue Andalusian or a splash EE/OE. Or maybe a old English game bantam lol It hatched black with a head dot, comb is small, no shiny feathers. I thought boy for sure since it should be a...

These are shipped eggs and are due this Wednesday the 7th. The other 8 are right on track, filling up the egg, nice big veins. But 1 egg is not as developed as the others. They were all set at the same time so I’m just trying to figure it out. It’s still alive and moving inside but very small...

I know she’s a frizzled Cochin but is she double dosed? She’s my first frizzle and I got her from a feed store. I got her in April/May as a chick and she has taken forever to feather out all the way. She’s not how I pictured her.

So I have a hen that I believe has vent gleet. The whole flock had been on rooster booster vitamins/electrolytes for a few days last week due to the sudden heat wave. I put some ACV in the water because I read that it can help. But what else can I do? She makes a weird noise several times while...

Alright y’all I finally tracked some of this down after TSC didn’t have the B complex stuff. Walmart does not have this but Kroger’s did! Now how much of this do I feed? The ducklings get food 2x a day because they won’t eat the food once it dries. Picky little buggers.

I have a hova bator foam incubator running day 6 atm. I opened it earlier and it smells musky inside. It was cleaned prior to eggs like always. I can see stuff on the wafer through the window. Eggs seem fine.

These 2 are silkie crosses. Dad is a buff bearded silkie and possible moms are a buff bantam Cochin or a porcelain D’Uccle. I’m leaning towards the Mom being the Cochin. What do you all think? The one on the left is a cockerel and has white skin. I’m really hoping these are from the Cochin as I...

Alright so I bought this 2nd batch a week after the first. They were very small and a week old. So not only did I find out that they were fed just cracked corn but the advertised pure Muscovies were in with other ducks. So these are potentially mules which I don’t want. So what are some signs...

ok total duck newb. I got 5 lings yesterday. They are supposedly 1-2 weeks old. I mixed up some 18% flock feed last night and this morning for them. No feed stores here have a actual duck feed. Tsc has purina flock feed but it’s about $18 a bag. I’d rather not get that. Do I need to worry...

My friend gave me some duck eggs. The mother is a Ancona but the father could be one of 5 other breeds including Muscovy. If these lings are half scovy will that affect incubation time? They are on day 23 and the eggs(2) are not completely dark but are alive.

just a quick question on coloring. I just picked one of these up last weekend. I wasn’t really paying attention at the time when I was grabbing chicks. Once I made it to the car I was looking and the chick has a head dot and faint barring on the wings. Do these follow the general rule of darker...

Just for giggles because I know what she is. I figured I’d share her. She hatched at the end of October 2017. Just starting to get red comb and wattles.

I have some chicks I hatched out 3/7/18. I was wondering if anyone knew what their adult colors would be? Dad is a Buff silkie and moms could be white, black, splash, Buff, or lavender silkie. I do plan on keeping these to see how they grow out. I will post pics as they develop.