Recent content by ManWithChicks

I agree with cull. She is injured or sick and suffering. Extending that out 3 weeks seems cruel. I bet she is safe to eat, but do you really want to eat a maggot covered chicken?

This is normal. Until she gets off the eggs do nothing. If she gets off eggs, and you want them to hatch, have an incubator ready.

I accidently killed a 2 day old chick. I know the feeling.

Why do you think roosters mating = mean rooster? You should get rid of all but one rooster though. Trust me, it's for the best. I tried keeping 5, then 4 then 3 then finally 2 roosters in 2 flocks that are always seperated. They will fight or chase each other, and I was getting injured hens...

I would hate to open the incubator just for photos, as its very dry here. I zipped the shell to the air sack, and the pip is on the fat end, just 180 degrees from the lowest side of air cell. There is no tear in the membrane in the air cell area. THe membrane near the pip is a bit dry, but not...

I tried peeling some shell back, but when I went for membrane it bleed, so I stopped. I candled it after that and realized it was facing away from its air cell . Any suggestions?

One chick is completely covered on the face and eyes! I think they are mites, im going to go buy some mite powder and carefully powder and move them to a new broader. I'm sure mama is infested too. Not sure how ill get this under control, just hoping I dont lose chicks to this mess!

I've noticed when I touch my day olds that my broody hatched, I get a ton of little quick moving bugs, look kinda like tony ticks. What can I do?! Here's a video of a few on my hand

Yeah, I kinda figured this was the case, but I really needed the other hens to stop laying under her, lol. maybe there was a better solution. I never meant for this hen house to even be for laying really, but I never was able to integrate my flocks the way I wanted. So I had a temporary laying...

Might be my fault, but I moved my broody over so that my other chickens would stop laying more eggs under her. She seemed fine with it, but maybe she was confused, cuz I noticed her on the wrong box today. I moved her to the other box, with the eggs in it, but they didnt feel super warm. How...

I think you are good so far then. Developing nice. If it was not in there it would be completely lit up like a lightbulb.

Ive seen worse, I have one who I thought was going to die with a similar looking, but worse, injury(I was so sure she had to be a mushy chick). SHes over a year old now, and that part of her looks quite lage and wrong now. But she is alive and happy!

DId the non-airpocket part look lit up or dark?

Prolly should post some photos!

you should be able to see blood vessels , or are the eggs really dark brown?