This chick pipped and zipped, but never hatched. Any ideas on what might have gone wrong?
Here is what I found when I picked away where the air cell was:
This is when the shell was removed- it looks like the yolk sac was never reabsorbed? Maybe?
I've got 3 hens and 1 roo. I've noticed that one hen is the "odd girl out." When I let them out to free-range, she's usually off by herself. Sometimes she doesn't go back to the coop in the evening, and I've got to get her out of her favorite tree. When I give the chickens treats, the rest...
I put 10 White Dorking eggs in my homemade incubator (made from a foam cooler, thanks to the awesome plans found on BYC) last night.
Here's hoping for success!
I finally finished my coop! We used the Savannah Playhouse, bought at Toys R Us for $249.00. We raised it up on cinderblocks, put down a plywood floor, and covered that with vinyl flooring for easy cleaning. We flipped one of the panels upside down to make a door for the chickens, and then...
I'm new to this chicken thing, and I'm planning on getting started this spring. There is a local farm near me that has heritage poultry, and they will have white dorking day-old hatchlings for sale ($60/dozen).
Can anyone tell me anything about white dorkings? Are they good layers? Good...