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Typos normally make me twitchy. That typo just made me hurt from laughter. My fourth little hatchling finally dried off and I was able to get a good look at it when it flopped out from under momma. It's such a cool looking chick! Black legs and feet. Black beak. BLACK SKIN. Coal black...

My 4th baby finally hatched about an hour ago, so that makes 4 healthy chicks out of 6 eggs. Not too shabby. I can say I'm definitely hooked on hatching!! I'm anxious to see what these chicks turn out to look like. Right now, they're all black with varying spots of yellow or white. I know for...

I'm sorry to hear about your chick in the ICU. :( I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know what's wrong with it, but sometimes, there's just nothing to be done. That doesn't make it any less sad, though. I also raised pheasants once--from chicks I bought at the feed store. About six...

Good news, all! I woke up this morning to find three hatched babies, all fluffy and peeping up a storm under Floris, and the fourth egg is pipping now. So--it seems I'll end up with four chicks of the initial 6 eggs I put under her. Not bad!! And, of course, they are very, very cute:

Unfortunately, the little chick whose shell was being picked at didn't make it. :( I noticed a great deal of membrane had been exposed, but I could still see the chick moving around, so I wrapped the egg loosely in a damp paper towel and put it back under Floris. When I checked a couple of...

I checked on things as I was putting the other hens up for the night. Floris is still sitting tight, and I hear peeping coming from inside several of the eggs. There is a definite tapping sound coming from inside the egg whose shell she was picking at, so I'm thinking everything will be alright...

So I peered into the hen house and saw that Floris was standing over her eggs and that one of them was quite a bit cracked (shell only--membrane was still intact, save the little pip hole). Floris was picking off little pieces of shell and eating them. Is this normal?? She was only doing it to...

I'll join the party super late!! My salmon faverolle, Floris, has been going broody with a VENGEANCE off and on ever since she laid her first egg. It's extremely hard to get her to think of anything else when she goes broody, and can often take weeks to break her, so I finally relented and...