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    Super stressful lockdown

    One of the eggs that was cracked has hatched and is doing well. The one that pipped at the wrong end hatched but died within a minute of hatching. The other egg with a crack hadn't hatched so I candled it and the chick had died before it had tried to pip. I have three little silkie chicks in...
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    Super stressful lockdown

    Hi I posted yesterday about what I should do with an egg I dropped while putting into lockdown as it had cracked. With advice, I was planning to seal the crack over with candle wax as I could see the chick in the egg was still alive and moving. However, when I went to take it back out to do...
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    Dropped an egg on day 18

    I had candled the egg just before I dropped it and it wasn't as big as it is now. It now looks like a saddled air cell that you get through eggs going through the post. I'll try the candle wax, thank you
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    Dropped an egg on day 18

    Hi, It's day 18 and as I was sorting the incubator out for lockdown I dropped one of the eggs. The egg has some cracks on the pointy end, no fluid is coming out. The air cell has also gotten a lot bigger on one side. I candled the egg and the chick is still moving around. Is it ok to keep it in...
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    Day 21 and no signs of hatching...

    Try and keep the membrane moist if you can. Whether the chick will die will depend on how much blood it has lost. Keep the egg warm and the membrane moist to give it the best chance Chicks can take up to 24 hours to hatch after pipping. They only time I helped a chick was after 26 hours and it...
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    How do you breed a frizzle silkie like this one?

    So would like have started with a smooth feathered silkie and then bred it back to a silkie feathered silkie?
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    How do you breed a frizzle silkie like this one?

    Hi Before now the only frizzle silkie's I've seen have been smoothed feathered. A silkie breeder I follow on facebook uploaded a picture of a frizzle silkie they made this year and she looks amazing, so fluffy! I wondered how they'd kept the silkie feathering and the frizzle gene, anyone know?
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    Are stud cockerels a thing?

    Thanks for the replies :) By breeding I meant have fertile eggs for the incubator. She hasn't started to lay yet as she's only 15 weeks old, but I can tell she's going to be a good one. I just wanted to ask and see what people thought. I know people put hens and cockerels together in breeding...
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    Are stud cockerels a thing?

    Hi, Bit of a random question but I was wondering if people hire out their cockerels for a couple of weeks to act as a stud for a flock of hens? I've got a hen that I'd like to breed from, and would like to match her up to a good standard cockerel without having to keep the cockerel permanently...
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    Types of Silkies - Large Fowel, Bantam, miniature, USA?

    Hi, my post was tagged in this thread. I think you've got your answer to the question. @LynnaePB you sound pretty clued up on your silkie knowledge :) In terms of the Siamese thing, I know the ebay advertisement for hatching eggs that you're referring to. Having been unable to see any mention...
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    Are ornamental ducks tame if raised from hatching?

    @The Phantom - those pictures are great, looks like you've done very well at taming the teal, this gives me hope :)
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    Creating new chicken breeds

    I posted this in the general breeds discussion but then started to look through the Exhibition, Genetics and & Breeding forum and thought it would fit better here, hope you don't mind. I was reading a post from 2011, and the poster had asked whether it was possible to create a new breed of...
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    Creating a new breed of chicken

    I was reading a post from 2011, and the poster had asked whether it was possible to create a new breed of chicken and if so how would someone get recognition for doing this. It was an interesting thread to read through. A few responses mention having their own breeding projects on the go with...
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    Are ornamental ducks tame if raised from hatching?

    I'm still researching which ones will suit me best, but the one's I'm considering are: Hottentot Teal Silver Baikal Teal Chilean Teal Blonde Carolinas Silver Carolinas And one of the breeds of Mandarins What's been your experience of keeping ornamental ducks?
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    Are ornamental ducks tame if raised from hatching?

    I was thinking of hatching some ducks, as I've had them before and loved them. I started looking at some of the ornamental breeds as they are so pretty, but I also want my ducks to be pets. Obviously they're not domesticated, but if you hatch them will they be tame and like normal pet ducks?
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