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My dog gets very excited around the chicks and has also tried to bite them. I make sure he is in a sit and will let him sniff them. If he starts getting to excited, I firmly tell him to leave it. I try to expose him frequently. When they get a little bigger, I let a few chi Keon the grass, but...

Thanks for the pic! I wasn't sure that I could stack them - couldn't think of why not, but it just seemed wrong. What is the blue cord you have? Is that how you add water? I feel much better now to just stack the eggs that don't fit along the side. :)

I have a hovabator incubator with a turner and am about to start my third hatch. I picked up two different sets of eggs and both sellers gave me extras. Certainly no complaints, but now I have more eggs than my turner can hold. I am able to fit all the eggs in using paper egg cartons and have...

Going in to lockdown I had 19 silkies and 5 large fowl mixes. End of day 21 I have 11 silkies and 4 of the mixes. My first hatch I had a 100% hatch rate of all my backyard mixes. I used dry incubation for both hatches, 1st 18 days was between 15 and 20. % humidity (although I live in Oregon, so...

Our rooster is a cochin and all of our hens are breeds without leg feathers. We've hatched out about 24 of these mixes and all had leg feathers at hatch. It got thicker over time of course, but you could definitely see the leg or toe fuzz at hatch.

Yesterday was day 20 and by 10:30 last night 8 of the 19 eggs hatched. 2 more had pipped and hatched overnight. Humidity was around 70 or 75 when I went to sleep. I woke up and the humidity had dropped to 45 or 50. I brought it back up to 65, but is the damage done to the remaining 9 eggs...

Thanks! I do have 1 black runner. Glad to know it's normal, because that was one odd looking egg!

I got my 3 Indian runner ducks in the mid to late summer and they all just started within days of each other. We have had a warm, sunny and dry spell here in Oregon and that seemed to jump star my remaining chickens and the ducks

Hi everyone, I have 3 indian runner ducks that just started laying within the last week. The first eggs were white and then we got one with a green tint. Well, yesterday we got a dark grey and this morning there was another one, but lighter in color. While the picture below doesn't show the...

Hi, I set my eggs in the middle of the day on a Saturday. Lockdown is this week, but I'll be working during the day. Is it better to go into lockdown and up the humidity in the morning or evening after work? Or does it not matter either way? This is my first hatch! I candled a few days ago...

Anyone have ideas? I wad able to get the chick to eat this morning, but just found it completely on it's back. Kind of like when a beetle is on it's back and can't roll over. This chick was fine yesterday morning and now seems worse than the first one

So, the original chick I put down as it kept getting worse, wasn't eating or drinking. Now, one of the remaining chicks has similar symptoms but worse - rapid onset (fine this morning), puts it's head completely under it's body or buries it's head in the bedding. I gave it a little provisol and...

I have 4 silkie chicks that are about 5 -6 weeks old. I came home from work last night to find one with his head pretty tilted. Did some research on BYC and got pro-visol tonight after work. I came home and its looking worse. Does this look like wry neck, or is this something else...