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I need some help for Betty 2, an 8 month year old Australorp. Putting her to sleep is a last resort so I am asking for help here. She has been perfectly normal until a few days ago when we found her huddled up on the coop floor...
All the research I have done says that sebrights rarely go broody but I think my Miss Priss has done just that. First off, she hasn't given me any eggs in a few weeks. (She is a year old and used to lay a sweet little brown egg every day.). Second--she is a flyer and a part of the run they have...
Something got into my coop--which I thought was secure. It is in a barn in a renovated horse stall, concrete floor, barn boards halfway and then chicken wire..but I was sadly mistaken. It snuck in through a rat hole I found and all that was left was the crop and espohagus. It even ate my 2...
FOr the past 3 days I can hear the chick in the egg, tapping and peeping. It is day The EARLIEST hatch day would have been yesterday. Should I just be patient? Thanks!
My d'uccle has successfully hatched 8 keets over the past 3 days. This morning 3 eggs were still working on hatching but I had to go to a family reunion. When i got back 2 of the eggs had rolled into the water dish. There was little water in it and I had clean rocks in it so the other keets...
My d'uccle went broody on a dozen guinea eggs 26 days ago. She is brooding in a private corner of the coop behind an old upturned drawer. Today when I got home from work I checked and 4 have hatched--all fluffy and seem healthy, and more eggs are pipping. I'm not sure how many because I didn't...
My d'uccle hen went broody on a dozen guinea eggs two and a half weeks ago. I think there may also be one of hers in there--I thought so at first but today when I checked I wasn't so sure. All of the eggs show veins, movement, even heartbeats except for one egg which showed a hairline crack...
This is the incubator I have: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360657853305&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:US:1123
I've read the sparse directions (obviously written by someone who speaks another language) and have googled the heck out of it but I still can't figure out where the...
I have (well, HAD) 4 guineas that are cooped up at night and free range during the day. They always stay close to the house. Yesterday I had to run an errand and when I got out of the car I noticed the guineas were squawking up a storm, which isn't unusual. They were in the overgrown field that...