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I have 6 and they hatched 5 days ago. The brooder plate size is for 20 chicks. https://www.riversystems.it/en/prodotto/caleo-700-heating-plate-for-chicks/

I thought my brooder plate was too hot but I trusted the manufacturer (it was 100% made by a company near my house) and the chicks love it.

I just had a batch of legbar eggs hatching and they're all roosters so let me see pictures of your legbar rooster x random hen Easter Eggers! Show me a pic of their eggs and tell me which breed was their mother!

Here is mine ^^

I had a chick pip on the side of the egg. It nicked a blood vessel and the blood cloth got the membrane glued to its head. If I didn't assist it would have died. Just sharing my experience since I never heard of chicks stuck on dried blood.

The breeder I got them from doesn't have any marans but he has olive eggers. I need to tell him some of his araucana hens are cheating :)

I got some blue eggs that should be araucana, but this chick has feathered legs (and splayed). What can it be?

60% hatch rate, most chicks were malpositioned and pipped on the side of the egg, 2 of them died in the shell because they couldn't find the air cell. Need to find out what happened and see if I can improve the hatch rate. Temperature might have been too high because I had the first pip at day...

Great tutorial. No need to isolate the chick though. If the bandage is put on at hatching, the chick will be safe (and a lot happier) to stay in the brooder with everyone else.

They should be fine. I've read somewhere that turning eggs is critical from day 5 to day 14.

It's almost 24 hours, I would assist. If the chick is making loud distressed chirps, and the membrane has no blood vessels at all, I would definitely assist.

Eggs were 5 days old when I started incubating them, stored at room temperature. They had the aircell side up during storage, and they were laying on their side during incubation. The eggs were turned by rolling them around 180°, from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 10 times a day. They were not...

I've checked some pictures online, and apparently these are males, am I correct? I got 4 eggs shipped, only 2 hatched. I need a legbar roo so this would be great.

Oh and I counted from day 0 and on day 18 I had the first pip. On day 20 everything alive had already hatched. I did the necropsy on day 21. Maybe temperature too high? I had 3 thermometers (1 calibrated and the other 2 in agreement +-0.1°C) Temperatures varied between 37.3 and 38.3, with an...

I'd use it exclusively as infirmary cage for sick songbird. Happens to me to find robins in shock hit by cars and had nowhere warm to put them other than my bra. Lol.

I had 6 out of 9 eggs hatch. At day 17 I candled and everything was looking great. Sadly 3 eggs didn't hatch. Many chicks pipped on the side of the egg and not in the aircell. One nicked a blood vessel, and the blood cloth got him stuck to the membrane - though I noticed the issue and...

Couldn't find a discussion about this. There is a lot of talking about the benefits of fermented food for chickens like yoghurt, sauerkraut, fermented seeds, but what about homemade sourdough? Can it be administered to chickens from time to time?

I had to put almost half gallon of water and a sponge to get the humidity at 60%. One hatched early (day 19) the others are all externally pipped.

One egg is pipped. Incubator full of water, humidity still 30%. I have 3 options: 1 - do nothing and let the chicks hatch at low humidity. 2 - spray warm water around the incubator sides and top. 3 - the bottom of the incubator is cold so water does not evaporate: add a heating pad under the...

Hello, I've started lockdown today. I always kept humidity at 30% by filling 1 tray out of 4 with water. This morning I filled 2/4 and got the humidity up at 45%. After a few hours, after humidity stabilized, I filled 3/4 hoping to get 55% humidity... But instead it dropped back to 30% and never...