This post gives me a ton of hope for the eggs I've got incubating atm!:) My dad shipped me 2 dozen eggs he got locally at my request. The post office fumbled though, and had them a little too long. Got them the other day and majority are really porous. :( Fingers crossed though. I've got a lotta...
How would that be possible? I assume I'd have to have other hens to raise the young ones? If so not possible as I just started my flock. ;w; and we live in the desert. I can't say I'm comfortable with the idea
I have chicks of many varying ages in the brooder right now. The oldest would be 3 weeks old and the rest ranging from 2 weeks old, 1 week and the youngest at the moment having hatched in June 5th. We have two Egyptian fayoumi eggs set to hatch the 18th. And an Ayam Cemani set to hatch the 24th...
I came up with the same idea and I'm hoping it works for you and me. 🥹 The person I buy from packages their eggs amazing never had one arrive broken but USPS handles them so bad it seems that I lost 6 gold phoenix eggs and an ayam Cemani to this issue. :( trying more Ayam Cemani eggs with this...
Update: I ended up just chancing a full assist hatch and praying. Opening the egg chip by chip I saw no veins. At first I only opened her attempted crack and saw her little beak immediately pop through. But she still was unable to make progress hours later. So I kept going. Bit by bit. Lots of...
Update: I'm not sure what to do from here. It was recommended that in a sterile way I open the pip. So I did. Movement, and the first chirps ever from this chick. Then noticing the membrane was very very white I was told to carefully chip the shell away. So I did. Shell is mostly gone and...
I also want to add that it's generally not advised to keep pigeons and doves together. Pigeons can possibly hurt and fatally injure doves. While maybe sometimes they will get along it's not something I personally recommend doing.
Im also afraid of shrink wrapping it if I do this. One part of the X shaped crack looks so easy to just nip off as it sticks up a little. As it is I can't see inside the egg at all though.
I guess I should add I know it's possible to never hear some chirp until hatch but this egg has never chirped once. Playing chick sounds or hearing the chicks in the brooder across the room if it can hasn't done anything. I want it to live and I'm panicking honestly. It was nerve wracking...
Im going to be honest I don't know if you can even see it. Its a little hard to take pictures through the tiny window of a Styrofoam incubator.
This egg is a little late. Today is day 24. It finally pipped yesterday if you can see it at the end of the egg. That little X shaped crack that...
Meet my doves from left to right Frost, Vanilla, Cinnamon, and Peach. 💕 (Peach was going through a molt during this pic. ^^') I got into doves when I saved a two day old abandoned Eurasian collared dove. He was my first ever and I'd named him Sora. A year later followed Peach from a different...