When buying indirect you run the risk of not getting what your looking for NOT saying that for all but there are a lot of chicken peddlers out there that will slap that label on fowl just for the purpose of making a dollar. But if you are just looking for a pet this should not be of much concern.
Yes has a sponge applicator attached to the top (kinda like pvc glue) apply, put bird on a clean surface for an hours or so as this is oily and dirt will stick to to the legs real easy.
Here are some possibilities, no need to candle daily, day 7 and 14 should be plenty. Handling them to much makes it easy to contaminate the egg with bacteria off your hand. Which brings me to number 2 would have been a bacteria that caused the progress to stop, i disinfect on candling days with...
Hen hatched is always best, just make sure if at ground level there are no ants near by, i'm from TX so its a problem here this time of year, we spray a light insecticide around hens near hatching date
I have seen some that say raise humidity last three days to above 65, but i have had chicks hatch out early with the humidity at 60 so i leave mine at 60 for the full 21 days and have had no issues. what i have seen is if the humidity gets to high chicks pip but never get out. so for me anyway i...
open your vents if you already have not done so, also if your not in a controlled room, and your humidity outside is higher its gonna be higher than what you are trying to achieve
pantyhose cut them and tie the end after you put eggs in or laundry bags, i have even used the loofah just cut rubber band off them and cut to the desired length
JMO better styrofoam in their craw, which they digest easily, than their brooder mates. Chickens are like a garbage disposal when free ranging they eat everything the only thing aside from some poisons that harm them is too much sand, thats what causes the majority of cases with them being crop...
If its a respiratory infection you will need the antibiotic, i hope the vet rx does work though, ive always heard vet rx just helps the process. Best wishes
If you can get Baytril antibiotic inj a half cc under the skin of the back of the neck, use in conjunction with the vet rx. if you can not get baytril you might get LA200
all look bad you can see veins as early as day 3, sometimes hens will sit start the incubation process and then get up, that's when you will see an egg never grown passed a stage is because the embryo stopped at that stage
So sorry, chickens are so hard to protect, people work, we have to sleep etc. The only 100% way to keep them safe 24 7 is get a good LGD , I have a large farm and have 8 great pyreneese. I have almost no predator problems (except hawks) which if these dogs could fly would not be a problem. I...