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Sold all my Easter pullets. Their current owner reports that she is getting blue and green eggs from most of them.

Well, at least it's not in the hands of irresponsible owners anymore. But what did the owners expect would happen if they didn't contain it at all? Loose dogs are dead dogs. I just hope they don't decide to get other aggressive 'replacement'.

If you have several chicks, he may not be getting enough feed. Try adding another feeder. Also, you may be keeping him too warm.

Contest #13 ended March 27th. It's April now...

Could be white, lavender, or splash. They are too young to tell which.

About 50%, give or take a few either way...

Rice will reduce the humidity, so I would take it out.

99% of eggs at the grocery store are infertile. Egg farms simply won't bother to keep roosters. It just doesn't make any sense for them to keep non-productive birds. Hens lay whether there are roosters around or not. Only a few places have fertile eating eggs, and they are specially labeled.

It can take over 24 hours. Some do it in much less time. But you can usually count on it being several hours from pip to hatch. Once a chick pips, the vessels begin to recede and the yolk begins to absorb, and the chick needs to rest. After all that has happened, then the chick will begin to...

It's taking every ounce of self-control to not load the bator back up with more.

How long has she been separated?

I had one more chick hatch yesterday. It was pipped at the bottom, so I didn't notice it until it was almost done hatching. After spending several hours in the incubator it still had not gained control/use of one leg. It passed away this morning. 6 eggs DIS. Out of 27 eggs set, only 12 hatched...

Soggy, mushy chick feed maybe. Might help until you can get to a store and pick up infant vitamin drops, like Poly-vi-sol. You can get that at most grocery stores and places with pharmacies, and those places are open today.

If you're looking for something that is a set and forget sort of incubator, you can't go wrong with an Incuview. Just turn it on, set your eggs, and check the humidity once or twice a day. You just need to make sure you have a second hygrometer inside. The one on the lid can't be trusted to be...

Take a paper towel and gently rub them. Sometimes it will just slough right off.

Partridge.

The abdomen looks pretty normal. That's where the yolk sac absorbed, it will close up in a few more hours. The foot may just need another day to straighten out. If not, you can splint it with band-aids.

Mama is a stunning Easter Egger! Her lacing is beautiful.

I'm pretty sure my hatch is done. Out of 27 that went into the incubator on the 5th, 18 made it to lockdown. I've got 11 health chicks. I'm pretty sure the 7 remaining eggs are dead. It's been my experience, that if an egg isn't pipped within 48 hours of the first hatch, it's not going to.

8 chicks hatched, and 4 more pipped.