the little chick hatched 3 days early with a rough navel..the navel is dry...the chick has taken 24 hrs to be able to hold it's head up it's starting to push around in the hatcher but isn't on it's feet...it has had b vitamins and water from a syringe
any suggestions?
I have several hens that go broody every year but I've never let them hatch keets...we lost their roo around Christmas so their eggs aren't fertile but one is especially committed for weeks now to her nest...I gave her keet eggs due to hatch....has anyone had a positive experience letting the...
he was the head roo...I do have another rooster but my guinea's eggs aren't fertile this year
does anyone know since they are monogamous will they mate with the other rooster now?
I haven't a clue why
the eggs are fresh laid by my buff orps, in an egg turner but the air cells are developing on the side instead of the top.
has anyone a clue why or ever experienced this??
I have my frizzles eggs in the bator....some due next week
my cochin bantam
and a mystery one of my other girls has started laying...it's either a phoenix bantam or a silkie
she seemed dizzy this morning...I read something about vitamin deficiency so I gave her chicken vitamins/electrolytes and added sugar...with a dropper...she took a lot of it this morning! she's waning now...what caused this anyone know??
I have set
turkey, sebright, silkies, buff laced orpington, blue EE, peafowl and many bantam breeds...4 incubators overflowing with eggs along the edges.
one I use as a delivery room...my husband was helping move some eggs...when he saw them all he said "wow!" what he doesn't know is I just order another incubator!! I'm I addicted or what? lol
I've had so many deaths lately...well my little guinea egg was rocking and rolling....I decided to pip it just in case...mind you I just want to try and avoid more tragedy!! well it's not internally pipped! I punctured the inner membrane a tiny bit by accident! what an idiot....I wrapped it in a...
my youngest son is here for summer...he heard something while in the kitchen turned around and one of the little chicks not due until tomorrow hatched right in front of him!! he announced that since he watched it hatch that he would name it PRESLEY!! don't know why but that's cute...and Presley...
I have a few duck eggs that look like they are ready to pop they are so full...so I expect some activity in the next few days! others most have started incubating later!! one egg is very full but I can still see fluid moving just under the air sac! does that sound okay?
I have some duck eggs that are very close to hatching based on how they look when candled...don't know the actual incubation start date... this morning one wasn't smelling right and there is also no internal pip...I opened the big end of the shell a little to try a be sure if it died but I'm...