I put in a rather large swedish flower hen egg. I just assumed the mother was 2-3 and layed larger eggs. Hatch day came and one large chick came out and yolk spilled everywhere. One of the yolks wasn't fertilized and never developed. The chick is 6 days old now and towers over everyone.
I was so upset about my first hatch. After those hatched one of my cats knocked into the incubator enough for the lit to be ever so slightly off dropping the humidity. We lost all eggs after those first 6. 3 of those 6 ended up getting sick and dying They would develop a boil of some sort then...
Hey everyone! I started my first hatch in a second hand incubator 10 days ago .So far so good We have some obvious duds but not too bad There are 6 eggs I won in an auction 2 mosaic, 1 barbezieux, 1 ayum cemani (my husband calls them Gothic chickens),1 white Bresse, and 1 F2 EE. I also have...
Day 7 on incubation time. I checked all the eggs and of the 25 I can confidently say that 20 are developing!!! Let's see where we're at on day 14! I'm so excited for this.
Thank you for the tips! My husband will probably make it a fun project for himself to calibrate everything and get a good set up for it for my next hatch.
Hi there! My name is AM, even though I am not a morning person. :caf
I recently got into chickens, about 4 months ago. When doing all my research I swore I wouldn't do hatchling and chicks, just pullets at least 8 weeks old. My first little quartet of serama/frizzle mixes ranged from 1 week to...