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The chicks are 17 days old and we have a clear lamp bulb. I told my husband it is not good they will peck but he just ignored me saying he knows better. Well we have a bully that pecks the others and one so bad blood showed and the other 11 gained up and now it is bleeding on its back and...

We are doing pretty good. We have 12 hatched with another one taking it's sweet time to zip. We have 7 that are not pipped so might candle them tomorrow day 23. Going to take them out when the pipped one hatches as they are knocking and beating each other up especially they ones that are just...

This is what the chick looks like. Is this normal? The last egg I saw pipped and zipped within an hour.

My Husband said some are rocking and the one that pipped made the hole about the size of a dime and is breathing through it and talking to him. I wondered if he pipped where the air sack wasn't and died before he could make it. It happened fast since I checked an hour before and no eggs were...

We put our eggs on lockdown on day 19 and heard some chirping in an egg that morning. The next day 4 of them were rocking. Then that night I saw one pipped through the middle of the egg and the beak was half out but not moving. It died and looked like he had some liquid in the beak. The...

We only had 2 that hatched and late last night they were fine. Around 1 am our blue was laying with his wings spread out and one leg out. Then at 4 am my husband said they weren't acting right that they were very slow to respond. Then at 8 am my kids woke me and said they are not moving. I...

This one hatched very early this morning. Woke up to him/her. And the egg next to him pipped and is halfway zipped with the break hanging out. The other two haven't moved or pipped yet but it's day 22. Going to wait until day 24 or 25 to see what happened.

I think she is either 3 or 4 but hasn't laid any eggs until this spring before. She had only laid 4 and only one is fertile. When do hens stop?

Oh I'm not. Right now the 2 are talking to my husband while he whistles at them so I know they are good. And we saw one trying to get through the crack he pipped. Hubby said open it do he could move the Albany egg closer to the sponge and I told him no way!

We are having problem getting our toppy to lay eggs. And when she does they are not fertile even though she is with our Toppy Rooster. We are feeding all the birds 16% feed but still nothing. Our rooster is getting tired of her and is favoring our Claret we have in there and now the toppy hen...

Hello. This is my first time incubating and hatching eggs. Our first batch I cooked and this our second one had mostly clears. They are a mixture of American Gamefowls which I think are gorgeous. Only 4 made it lockdown; 1 Albany, 1 Kelso and 2 Blues. I have been worried since they have no...