Hello again. maybe someone could answer this. I found one of my hens laying on the floor barely alive, It looked like almost all her insides were on the outside. I immediately put her out of her misery. she was about 7 months old. please let me know if there is a cause for this or just a fluke...
My daughter tried out our incubator for the first time, 9 eggs. 7 hatched but one didn't make it. looked like it's insides were on the outside. she was pretty upset about that but was happy with the 6 that made it and are two weeks old now and doing fine.
my question is she is incubating eggs...
We had a hen start to nest on the eggs even before we had a rooster. so we got 3 fertile eggs from a relatives chickens and put them under the hen, 21 days later one of them hatched. It's amazing how the new mother chicken new how to take care of a chick, she did very well. But today a hawk got...