well I have a silkie 9 month old who layed 13 eggs and then stopped we thought she was taking a break I incubated 4 eggs and eat the rest :p little bantam sunny side ups
After a week I panicked and check for any sign of illness or broody ness
She isn't ill nor broody now its almost over a...
My silkie hen started laying egg 2 1/2 weeks ago and then after laying 11 eggs about every day an egg she stopped first I didn't panic
Later that night I saw she was sitting like a broody hen
I put normal refrigerated eggs under her and she spent the whole night on um the next day she led the...
Well as the title says my rooster has weird yellow ish spot all over hi comb and beard and they sem to be increasing every day
He has not been vaccinated for any thing :(
1) what could these spots be?
2) can they spread
3) is there a cure?
4) should I cull him to stop it from spreading to my...
well I just put eggz in the bator not my first time but first time if they hatch iv ehad 0 percent hatch rate
any ways
I have 4 silkie eggs (first 4 eggs the silkie ever layed)
its day 3 and one egg (the first ever egg tht silkie layed) looks clear and other 2 show sign lf life but the 4th one...
Well I have eggs going in lock down 2moro and there air cell is not formed it as If it was just laid the eggs r full with nice healthy ready to hatch chicks but I hear u need to raise humidity in lock down but if I don't I risk a shrink wrap do u think they can survive with such a small air cell :(
I have eggs that r going in lock down 2moro but the question is
I have other eggs that r in day 4-7 and they need to be turned so how do I manage it
What's more important turning or lock down I hand turn them so the incubator will definitely open :/
Well I put a DIAMOND dove egg in the incubator And today I think it's day 7 for it and I noticed some sort of pipping toward the inside
There's no way I broke it CUZ I use gloves etc and last time I turned it it was perfect scratch less
But today when I was turning them I noticed about 4 pips...
Well this morning I turned my eggs once and second time but then I came over towards my friends house and I won't come back till tomorrow morning
Will my eggs die of not Turing them
Well I have a dove egg
And it's gonna hatch in 5-10 days and I wanna know that when it hatches how long will it stay without food and what do I feed it
Well this goes back last summer I got 4 chicks (normal non breed basic chicks) and well one night a cat came and ate them but I managed to rescue one with a broken toe
Since then that chick is has grown in to his mid age but he is extremely scared of every thing when I open the door he panics...
Like we turn the eggs in an incubator do the hens turn there eggs cuz I've never seen my hen do it and her eggs hatched ...and how does it become humid not like the hen has humid control
Well I candled my eggs today and they r in the 5 th day I saw a spider like thing in one egg BUT
It was latterly floating if I moved it upside down it would float on to the direction I would move the egg
is it dead???
Did it die during PROCCESS
My mix breed silkie has breathing problems
It rained a couple days ago
He had a fever and breathing difficulties
I gave him medicine and his fever is gone he is super active but still has breathing problems
Please help what can I give him to finish this problem
Well yesterday I went And got a pair of silkies..
They were very expensive and the guy said these r still in there middle age and not fully grown thoe they look up to size....
I also got some mix breed babies that r half silkes
Yesterday night it rained and a chick got a cold
Should I move my...
Well I'm new Just to inform u :p
ANYWAY
I have some breed of a partridge that originates from India
She started laying eggs 3months ago and started sitting on 8 eggs but after a week she left them I candled them they had babies so we just put the eggs in a heat pad thinking it would hatch but...