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  1. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    Okay, so here's the little guy 12 hours later. He is really tiny but otherwise seems fairly typical. One of his extra toes has another toe growing sideways out of it.. so that's.. special. I still have him in the incubator, but I'll move him to a brooder today and I think then it will be...
  2. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    So unfortunately I had to come to work, but I just got a text from my husband that the egg hatched and there is a chirping zombie chick sitting in the incubator. I want to ask him if it seems to be weird looking or disabled from its magical adventures in resurrection, but honestly he is not a...
  3. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    So, this morning I heard a few peeps- so it's a bird in there. The pip is not really bigger, maybe a tiny bit but still no hole or anything. Not as much progress as I would typically expect to see in 18 hours. I feel like he is going to be too weak to hatch given the circumstances, but I'm...
  4. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    Okay, so zombie chick has a pip today. I haven't heard anything or seen any movement, but the pip is right in the spot where one would expect it, so maybe he's really going to try to come back from the dead. ...Or, the bacteria in the egg is making it explode and in a couple of hours I am...
  5. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    I looked again this morning and I really think the chick is presently living. This is shocking to me because based on when he was 'collected' he was sitting out for a minimum of 24 hours.. and who knows if it could have been longer. Not knowing how far along it is, I am not sure how to set the...
  6. Rena

    Can movement inside egg be from infection?

    ...He would have to be some kind of magical zombie chick. Would would be neat I guess, but not probable. I should add, this is definitely not *just* like a huge nasty ball of infection. It is assuredly chicken shaped with matching air space size and visible veins. Of course that does not rule...
  7. Rena

    Multiple questions re: bad, delayed hatch

    Thanks for the info. I did remove the chick last night. He seemed to be having trouble walking (not that he had much space) and the inside of the egg looked bloodier than I am used to, so I wanted to check. I didn't see any yolk or anything else weird about his underside related to the blood...
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    Multiple questions re: bad, delayed hatch

    I will start with the long version of the story and end with my specific questions- feel free to skip to the questions! I have a fully automatic 3-egg incubator that I keep specifically to loan out to my kids' schools each year for hatching projects. It has been used a number of times with no...
  9. Rena

    What gender are these three mutts?

    I know this post was a year old, but I had to update that all three of the birds pictured ended up being roosters. I gave them to my friend and told her that the online chicken experts confirmed their pulletness. Nine months later she mentioned that she hadn't been getting any eggs and that her...
  10. Rena

    How to use a surrogate?

    Thank you! Yes, I think I have two days left to go.. a bit confusing because they are Midget White turkeys and some websites are telling me that these incubate for less time than other turkeys, but others say they are the same. Either way, we're about there. When I last candled the egg a couple...
  11. Rena

    How to use a surrogate?

    Hi experts, Last month my mother (who has some turkeys on her farm) asked me to use my incubator to "test" a couple of eggs for fertility as she was trying to figure out if her tom turkey was doing his job. I put in three eggs; two were fertile, but one didn't last very long. Fast forward, I...
  12. Rena

    What gender are these three mutts?

    I was afraid to even dream that would be the case! :)
  13. Rena

    What gender are these three mutts?

    One of my bantam hens hatched these three babies. They are 10 weeks old now, and I can't figure out what sex they are. I think the two black ones are hens and the whitest one is a rooster, but maybe that one is just more red because it has lighter skin? I am not sure what breeds are involved...
  14. Rena

    Do I have three roosters?

    My best guess is that the moms (at least some) were Dominiques. Dad could have been a Wyandotte- there aren't any Wyandotte hens though. I appreciate the input! With most of my past chickens I could tell at this age, but these combs are making it much harder.
  15. Rena

    Do I have three roosters?

    My little hen hatched these babies 5 weeks ago. I could try to guess what breeds they are but I don't know for sure (they all came from light brown eggs). Either way they are mixes. I'm suspecting I had bad luck and all three are roosters! The black one with the white lacing is one I'm least...
  16. Rena

    What to do? My broody just got up.

    So, I have this huge red star hen who is three years old. She is disasterously dumb. She can't ever seem to find gates, runs into things, tries to eat her shadow, etc. Even for poultry she is just not bright. Anyway, a month or so ago she went broody. I did not trust that she would be a good...
  17. Rena

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Yesterday my broody d'Uccle hatched the 4 standard eggs that I gave her 19 days ago. One of the chicks had a horrific injury- it looked like the skin on his head had been stuck to the shell and ripped off upon hatching, so his whole head was raw. Mom actually didn't reject him, but he did die...
  18. Rena

    PLEASE HELP- new chick with scalp injury (warning- graphic pics)

    I have a 1st time broody bantam hen about 19.5 days along on 4 standard eggs. Came home today to find three chicks had hatched within the last 4 hours. Two are normal and healthy, but one appears to be missing all of the skin on his head. The best I can guess, he was stuck in the egg and the...
  19. Rena

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I have a really tiny d'Uccle hen on 4 standard-sized eggs (she planned on setting 15 of her own that she had hidden in a rain gutter, but my bantam eggs aren't fertile). The eggs are at day 18 and as of 2 days ago were all growing and well. When I went to give her fresh food and water a bit ago...
  20. Rena

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Can I ask a question too? I have a tiny d'Uccle hen who has gone broody. I guess she has been sneaking out of her pen each day for awhile now.. when she didn't come in I searched and found her in an overturned old wagon on 15 of her eggs :) I know that none of my d'Uccle eggs are fertile. I...
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