Update - I almost lost one of the smallest yellow and black/grey chicks. Good lesson on poopy butt with tiny chicks. She is fine but still suffers from poopy butt everyday. She gets so cold that I usually hold her until she warms up after the de-pooping.
The orange ones are a delight...
Well she seems maybe better? I warmed her up, got a little water down her and she ate a bit of watermelon in little tiny pieces. Then I mixed some chick food with a bit of water and she enjoyed that. She also had two fairly large poops.
She is still wobbly but she is back with some of the...
i have a very small chick that came in a mystery box along with my order. she had terrible poopy butt that i cleaned. she was quite wet. i dried her off and wrapped her in a warm piece of flannel. when i checked her a few minutes later she could not stand well and kept her wings away from her body.
Seems to me from looking online that my chicpmunk one (2nd photo) could be the golden phoenix. And Valley Hatchery sells them.
The hatchery does not sell the Gold cuckoo marans though. I have two of these. At first I thought they (and the chipmunk) were bantams as they are at least a third...
I ordered 8 Salmon Faverolle chicks from Valley Hatchery LLC. Two boxes arrived right on time (actually a few hours earlier than I thought). The first box contained the 8 SF chicks.
Puzzeled, I opened the second bigger box to find 15 chicks on one side of the divided box. I thought I picked...
Thanks. I do not have a problem with temperature fluctuations, but only with the humidity. I think that the early drop to 26 degrees one night stopped the developement of all but possibly 4 eggs. There was nothing when I candeled them at about 10 days or so.
The four that seemed possible...
Will do. I do not know if it can be calibrated, but that is a good idea to look into. It has worked satisfactorily in the past. I think it could be better though.
I do wet hatches. I was really looking forward to this group hatching as I lost 6 hens and my spare rooster (who was going to be gorgeous) to a couple of hunting dogs. No blood, the necks were just snapped.
I thought I had used the eggs from the hens before the attack.
Thankfully my husbands...
I have been incubating both chicken and goose eggs for about 3 years with this incubator. At least half of the 22 chicken eggs usually hatch if not more. Sainme with the goose eggs, about half of the eggs (either 6 or 8) hatch.
I have never had none of the eggs hatch.
I did notice that...
Well all of my eggs hatched and I Baby Curely has chicks under her but I do not know how many.
I ended up with only 5 viable goose eggs, but they hatched.
I took the eggs from all three of the nests. Two are quite large, they were also the first to hatch and the other three are about a third...