Thank you, I appreciate this a lot. I should have stated in my post if I wanted them to be approachable/petable as they grow up and I DO want that. We hatched them for a homeschool science lesson and they will be with me for only the first 4 months then they are going to my friend's farm to live...
So… I have 5 d’uccles, 3 millie fleur and 2 porcelain. We hatched them 6 weeks ago. Is it possible to handle them too much? I think they are convinced I’m their mama. At dusk they all cry and want to crawl under my hands to snuggle up. Some nights I accommodate that because it’s so cute! Tonight...
First time having baby chicks. They are 2 week old d’uccle. Something is wrong with one of my babies 😢 Can you see her foot? Her toe is turned under her foot, we tried to do the little chick shoe out of bandaid tape for 2.5 days and now her whole leg is bowed out 😭 is she going to be ok...
Dang. That makes sense because on day 18 before lockdown all 6 showed great movement. But this one particularly got kicked around quite a bit from the first 2 chicks who hatched, I wonder if that hurt her 😕
Can someone who knows more than me help me out? I have a bantam egg that didn’t hatch. Curiosity got the best of me and I tried a float test. So what does this mean? Is my egg worth keeping in the incubator?
What if the egg spins around in the water? I waited for the water to get very still (I...
What if the egg spins around in the water? I waited for the water to get very still (I floated a tiny tip of a leaf so I could tell if it was just movement of the water in general) the leaf became still, the egg continued to spin, what does that mean?
It’s a porcelain d’uccle and we are on day...