Its day19 on the verge of 20 and my bantie egg has pipped and I can hear it peeping inside the egg! its my first bath that has made it this far! im so excited! God is such a miracle creator putting a whole chicken inside of a teeny tiny egg! and then bringing them this far for me!
I have the little giant incubator from TSC. We only have a themometer and no hyrdometer or turner. However, I have been very good about keeping water in there for humidity. Should I be worried about not knowing the humidity percent and go buy a meter pronto? I'm also hatching two dozen mallard...
I'm not sure if this could be a case of bumblefoot none of my other chickens have it but this bird and the rest of the Pyles for that matter, have been sickly for some reason ever since they got their adult feathers help? the brown stuff is just poop/mud however the tips of his toes are way...
I have a Red Pyle bantam and one of the bigger chickens (maybe another pyle idk) got ahold of his neck and made a gnarly wound. He acts healthy and its scabbing over but he keep scratching it back open and I cant see it healing with him clawing it to death. I tried to put a bandage over it but...
The adult i believe is a silkie cross of some sort because she looks like one feather and 5 toes wise, but she is a standard size chicken but she is a small one. Her name is Lucifer ;) the chick though, I dont know its probably around eight weeks or so :)