Recent content by Beth0202

Good news! Keets are now responding to momma hen and all are doing well so far! It just took them a little time to figure it out. So far other adult chickens/rooster have accepted them as well. I'm hoping when they are older they'll be more likely to stay home after being raised with chickens...

Hello, I recently purchased 4 Guinea keets to place with my broody hen (chicken). The keets are about 4 days old and my hen readily 'adopted' them right away and is trying to care for them but they aren't really responding to her. They will stay huddled under her if I put them there but once...

So, after 3 stressful days of waiting I have 5 healthy chicks out of 7 eggs. The 6th one hatched but I found it dead when I got home from work. It looked normal so I'm not sure what went wrong there. The 7th one never hatched at all. I opened the egg after i knew it was dead and the chick looked...

Haha I like it! Wyandotteggers. I'm excited to see how they turn out. Since moms are EE's I don't really know what to expect color wise.. Thank you! This is what I needed to know.

Sorry I'm no help! I just have a similar question about my babies. I just hatched 6 chicks from a black EE hen & blue EE hen with a blue laced red Wyandotte rooster. They all hatched from light green eggs. I'm also wondering what do I call them? Are they still considered EE's at this point since...

I'll keep my fingers crossed! I'm really wanting to let them mingle with the rest of the flock. At this point, if they survive all my mistakes thus far, I'm planning on keeping them separated from the flock until this coming weekend and then having a supervised interaction with the rest of the...

This is my first broody hen to hatch eggs so I don't have any other experience to go by personally. She is young.. just started laying herself about 5 weeks ago. I have 10 other chickens and a rooster that share her space only at night. Every morning for the last week I've gotten up at daybreak...

Never claimed to be an expert! If they don't hatch maybe that's why I'll keep that in mind. She's also a young first time mom so I'm probably lucky we've made it this far. She was off the nest on her own yesterday while the first egg was pipped but I did lift her up this morning to take a look...

Here is the progress so far if anyone was curious

All of the eggs were set at the same time. I dated them and removed any eggs laid after that. I'm not sure why some are taking longer. My fear is that I'll come home from work today and find mom caring for the hatched chicks, possibly away from the nest, and the later hatching eggs will be cold..

Hello, this is my first hatch ever! I have seven eggs being hatched by my little silkie cross. We are at day 22 and I have one fluffy dry hatched chick from overnight and one just out if the shell still wet, and one just pipping. The others haven't externally pipped yet but I can feel them...

Hello from Alamance county NC!

UPDATE: help! Okay, so I'm still having no luck!! I'm thinking this just isn't the right incubator for me. I'm having a lot of trouble keeping the temperature right.. whenever the temp fluctuates in my house it also fluctuates in the incubator.. I just don't know how to deal with this issue...

Nope! Can anyone tell me how to calibrate or test my thermometer/hygrometer?

I cracked them open today, day 7, after not seeing anything on candling.