I live in southern California and have witnessed my chickens that hatched this December throw up a clear fluid twice. We are livin in some pretty intense heat so i don't know if htat has anything to do with it. Also their egg production is good, so whatever it is, its not affecting that.
whats...
My chickens hatched the day after christmas, and i'm starting to wonder when i will be able to get eggs from them... also, they don't seem to be going into the coop like they should, they seem to like outside better. How do i get them to nest in the nesting box's??
i have a silkie that hatched from its egg yesterday. One of its legs goes in an outward direction, beause of this he is unable t o walk, so he scoolts him /herself on the "good" leg. i've done research and i can't seem to diagnose or come up with a treatment. the other chicks are already...
im aproaching the end of the 21st day and the cracked still hasnt came out, i know its alive because it wiggles a little, but its beak isn't showing and the whit membrane has been exposed for nearly 12 hours. im avoiding taking the eggs out because that would envolve opening the hova, and i...
now its noon and i have 3 chicks!!! there is only one other egg that has cracks in it, infact the crack in this one egg goes all the way around the egg, but the egg hasn't chirped or wiggled all day. is he dead??
i had a chicken hatch last night anothe one over night. today being the 21st day of incubation. the first born is still wet after that whole night. the new one even looks dryer than it. should i worry?
im keeping my fingers crossed, imm so nervous tomorrow the eggs will just sit ther and nothing will happen. theree silikies, so i can't wait to see the chicks
i am on the 20th day of incubation. and this morning, when i went to check on the eggs, i could here a quiet chirp from inside the incubator. it only sounded like it was coming from one egg though, is there anything else i should be looking for on the 20th day??
I have been incubating chicken eggs for a little over a week now and we just candled them for the first time yesterday. on mostly all of them we could see the little embryo jiggling inside the egg, but on a few, we see the dark spot, like in all the others of them, but it seems to be stuck to...
im confused, if a cover it and count it as part of the coop, then they have no run. are you saying that if a cover the run then i will be able to fit more chickens in it???