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i have a hypothesis about pasty butt. my chicks were not having that issue until two nights ago. the difference was that two nights ago i really wanted sleep and they were nit being quiet so i turned off their white light (they have a heating platform they sleep under). i believe it is from them...

i have 8 month old silkies that were very fertile! if you have a strong flashlight you can cup your hand with it on one end and the egg on the other and get pretty good results. just look for even a shadow moving. i can see internal pips and have use it to rescue out some.

yes they want a cuddle. if you put your hand in flat they will try to climb under it. they feel good to be securely held and having their heads covered/in the dark. when they go to momma they crawl under and lean up into her warmth, sometimes on their toes. they may not know what you are but...

of my 10 eggs incubated after prespray of ascorbic acid, 9 went to lock down, 4 needed help hatching -including one 'sticky chick' and another is iffy and may not make it. now to be fair I have 2 advantages that could nullify the results. 1- these are my eggs from my flock, 2. I am good at...

no offense! i know, that 'guy' claims some stupid crap-showing a blood ring as an example. the papers are there though but the data takes some reading through to parse, different ones choose different species (avian of course) and different time periods to apply and even reapply. there are a few...

topically applied ascorbic acid (turns to vitamin c in body) is supposed(based on multiple scientific papers) to help survivability in late term and hatching

i had set 50 eggs on my birthday (2/24), 7 were malay from mail order, 12 were porcelain d'uccles from mail order and 31 were d'uccles from my own stock. none of the malays ever developed. of the 12 porcelain d'uccles i had,11 developing (w/1 blood ring) until midway. 3 of those hatched, 1 had...

yes the pigment migrates everywhere but the feathers, no matter what their feather colour the flesh is black. even my paint ones loose their skin spots after a while.

if you arent squeemish (like i am) about slaughtering chickens-silkie chickens (Taihe) earn 3 times the price as meat birds since they are seen as 'traditional medicine'-try looking at the price for one of them at asian markets! look at this 'discount' price...

well if you are hatching that many roosters - statistically it may be an anomaly, depends on how many you hatched out of how many eggs-and there is some data out there (but i havent looked into it fully) that a temp drop/spike at a specific time will result in a gender difference AT HATCH. note...

no it is not from the vent it is from the 'naval', not stringy white/gray (with lots of useful urea to help the tissues shrink), it is definitely organs. i wondered if they might retract- dont know if mesentery is torn. ah, ok , so you are expecting your young girls to have lower fertility? i...

??? how can you know that? did you drill through the egg and get a DNA sample?

this morning i woke up to 2 babies, but one is not good. it has its 'ins' out. i put it back, bottom side down, into the larger part of the egg and mummied it in TP. does it have any chance of survival? i see no yolk, just abdominal organs.

today is lockdown for my second batch in March, i already have 4 pips! none of my malays ever developed. what is set to hatch will be 100% D'uccles, -both mailed and home grown eggs.i have been getting some surprises (not all good) from my personal d'uccle breeding program.

shouldn't you join the Easter HAL?

a week?? were they set at the same time? did you candle them at lockdown and see a difference in veining/space??

ok--FINAL tally for my 3/17 batch: out of 55 eggs = 5 chicks.... 5 malay eggs=0 hatch 32 d'uccle eggs=3 hatch 6 my stock silkies=1 hatch 12 silkies/showgirls from mail=1 'hatch' (actually one of my two breeches-it has lived so far but has a little trouble standing) after a temp spike that...

i noticed my first hatch at 2 am today-a day and a half early, it is a solid blue duccle, split to mille fleur pattern and lavender.

drat! one of my only two showgirls to survive the heat spike that killed 9 others has pipped at the wrong end! there is little EXTERNAL blood, but i cant tell how much may be lost inside. it is peeping ok. i puled away a tiny bit of the hard shell and made sure the membrane tear was open enough...

lockdown was yesterday, today i got my first pip. two more have internal pips. the others still have some significant veining showing. out of 55 eggs set, 9 are in lockdown. i can account for 9 late embryo deaths due to high temp spike of 111F...the rest??? my shipped eggs had low fertility or...