I am so sorry!!! 😢 I know it hurts!! I lost every chick the first time I tried to incubate. Are the other eggs piping? Keep them going. Don't give up, the others may surprise you. You are not a failure. Sometimes it happens even when the Mom broods them. We have a mentor Farmer and she said...
Hi Kale,
Everything I can find says they should be fine. It also says sometimes you have to open during the lock down, just try to be quick. I could not find the spevifs on a quail egg. But on a duck and chicken egg they can take up to 48 hours to zip after piping externally. Watch your...
Hi everyone!! I have been researching online but I know I get some amazing help here. So I am still not sure how it happened but something got my brooding duck,Fawn, just over a week ago. She had been on here eggs for roughly 4 weeks. We rushed to get the incubator out of the shed and set up...
Here is an update on Fancy Pants, She is doing amazing!! She is back with the others , They just moved into their new home outside and she loves it !! Thank you to everyone for advice and well wishes!! Thank you BYC for being here !!
We do have some in the winter. ( In N.C.) We have heat lamps, and straw in their house and always put them in and close the doors on those days. ... I hate the thought that I failed him.
Thank you, Frostbite? We kept heat lamps in their house on night the temperature would go below 32°we put them inside and closed the door . Do you have any advice on what more I should do for them please? I hate that I missed something and caused that.
I will, thank you. I am concerned though because the article I read said it comes from them eating moldy stuff and we always clean their drinkers, fresh straw,
This is Red, he is my year old R. I.. we went put to move them to new grass and I noticed a black scab on his comb. Unfortunately we acquired a couple other roosters and I do not know if this could be a sore from them picking on him , or if it is fowl pox. Has anyone dealt with this before...
We are changing her bandage today . She is still eating, drinking , good poop and talking up a storm. She is hopping and moves her her leg a little more.