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    What sex are these?

    Thank you I’ll hang on the the 3rd and 4th a bit longer and see if I hear crowing...it’s hard at the moment because there are a lot of roosters but they are going today so we’ll see what happens! The 3rd one looked like a cockerel from a young age but as it’s grown it’s looking more pullet to me...
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    What sex are these?

    Thanks I really appreciate the help!
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    What sex are these?

    They were hatched around November so I’d say 3-4 months old
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    What sex are these?

    Hi all! I have a couple of birds I need help sexing if you guys don’t mind...I’m new to this and some stand out but a few have me guessing...thanks in advance!
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    What breed is my rooster?

    Can anyone help me identify him? I picked him up at a fate and I can’t pick it...he has given me some gorgeous babies!
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    Pipped wrong end what should I do?

    Thanks guys I removed the shell only around him so he didn’t have to zip and gave him the night to fully make sure he’d absorbed all the yolk. He was the last man out from 25 eggs so I knew he should be ready and completely removed the shell this morning there was a sticky slime covering him not...
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    Pipped wrong end what should I do?

    So this guy has just pipped the wrong end of the egg what would you do?
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    My first assisted hatch

    Thanks! I’m so excited after watching two loads of eggs die I have the most perfect bubba and I got the pentagon incubator with 15 chicks hatched waiting to come out!
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    My first assisted hatch

    So I had two bodged hatches (incubator issues it turns out the new one worked!) but 10 days into my second hatch I got my first egg from a new frizzle rooster. I thought I could just put it in to find out if it was fertile or not. Turns out it was and even though he’d been through humidity hell...
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    Age of egg advice needed on lockdown

    So I raised the humidity up to 70% on Monday and yesterday she still hadn’t hatched and I’d heard chirping for over 24 hours so I ended up intervening. She was completely shrink wrapped and I’m assuming all the others were too I wish now I’d opened them up. Is this because I broke lock down? The...
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    Age of egg advice needed on lockdown

    Never! I’m greatful for the time you’ve taken to try and help me - how else will I learn?
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    Age of egg advice needed on lockdown

    No I don’t the egg is now very gently rocking so I’m assuming I’m on day 18 now I haven’t had success incubating so far so I was hoping someone might be able to tell me from the pic
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    Age of egg advice needed on lockdown

    Hello! I’ve had two failed hatch attempts and think the second was due to too high humidity during the whole incubation process but the problem is 5-10 days into the last hatch I got a frizzle rooster and was so excited to see if he was fertile I put the first one of his eggs in just to see if...
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    2 bodged hatch attempts need advice!

    Thanks for the replies I will try your tips just with my own eggs atm. I had the humidity down to 20-30% at the start but to my inexperienced eyes it looked like the air sacs were growing too quickly so I increased to 40%. We’ve just come off the end of winter so maybe now spring is here I won’t...
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    Newbie

    Hi there! I’ve owned and loved chickens for 8 years but have recently decided I’d love to incubate eggs.
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