Today is a very sad day in our house. I woke up at 7 looked out my bedroom balcony to look at my silkies. And i noticed my rooster J.F.K. was not in his closed in area with Marilyn she was pacing bk and forth. I knew something was wrong. I went outside and my fears were confirm something had...
Well we had taken all 8 of my silkies eggs last month . We put them in bator because she has a history of eating eggs. Well we got to day 21 and all of them died it was the most depressing thing yet. In the mean time she had not been laying again so i stuck 3 tiny eggs from my new layers in her...
So i have 7 little white silkie eggs in bator that went in on the 17th that will go into the hatchery bator tomorrow. So I need advice had a real bad hatch last time of sex link eggs. So what do yall find is the best humidity for silkie eggs for hatching ??? The bator they are in now it is 50%...
Ok I am at a loss here i need some advice. So i decided my second time hatching to go the dry incubation way or lower humidity for days 1 to 18 it was 35 to 40% day 18 moved eggs into hovabator humidity 60 to 65% had 3 chicks hatch 1 hatched fine to piped and ziped and then was so slimy he dried...
So finally my silkie layed eggs i had 8 one was tossed blood ring. I am so excited i bought this hen3 mons ago she was laying when we got her but 3 days latter went on strike. So these eggs are like gold to us LOL. They went in on the 17th anyone else hatching silkies join us please and share...
I forgot were the page is on here that shows you the codes for like the cartoon hyper chick the hooray one ect anyone have that please post .
Feeling very dumb right now
So i have like 37 rouen eggs in bator collected over the past few weeks. I candled them and 5 or 6 look like this . I can see a baby moving in all of them but look how it humps. Anyone know why its that way? Or have you ever had eggs in bator like that? All i can figure is some were 3 weeks old...
So i have a hova bator with egg turner used it for my first hatch which was just a few weeks ago. I decided i want to kick it up a notch and hatch way more at a time. So got hubby to make me a huge cabnet bator that can hold over 200 eggs. So after 4 or 5 days of working out the kinks it is...
So we had this rooster who we had to seperate from the hens. He would attack them and draw blood. They were so freaked they would not leave there nest boxs. We tried everything free ranged him by himself for awhile put him with a different flock of hens same result. We even had to cage him for...
Hi I live in Sharbot Lake ON Canada about a hr from kingston and Otawa. I am looking for other Canadians that want to swap eggs or sell eggs? I have red and blk sexlinks and white silkies, rouen ducks laying eggs aswell.
hi my name is Starry I have a addiction to hatching eggs
Ok eggs went in on the 9th in the new home made cabnet bator. Keeping temp right has been a pain working the kinks out. The humidity is easy its perfect. I checked bator temp a hr ago it was 99 i took a bath and it went to 102 . My dh is a home inspector so i have the use of all his gadgets he...
I dont know what to do one of my 3 month old pekins was found in the yard just sitting there. he will not drink or eat and is breathing heavy. I had them in the barn last nite along with my rouens due to a storm . The temp droped last nite and this morning he and the rouens were in the yard I...
So after a very poor hatch of rouen ducks 14 went in and we got 3 ducks. I am just going to use the Hova Bator for duck eggs it is full with 40 rouen eggs. Last time i had chicken in there so this time the chickens are in the new home made bator. The ducks in hova bator temp 99 humidity 60...
So i got some red and blk and white sex-links we started collecting there eggs and decided to try our hand at hatching. I found BYC TG and read page after page of posts. I said we can do this so we bought Hova Bator with fan and egg turner and a humidity reader digital ect. So in they went with...
A chick hatched today he had a real hard time getting out he is way biger then the one that hatched 2 days ago. He still has a small amount of yolk left hanging dwn, But he has some kind of bloody blob bulging from his vent ??? What is this? I cant take a picture because i dont want to open the...
One chick hatched a hr ago no pips on the others yet. But becuase i have stagered hatch half the turner row are out half in with other babies due May 2. The new chick keeps climbing all over and getting legs stuck in the sides of turners. What should I do? My others in turners are only at day 17...
OMG I was in kitchen looking in bator like i always do kids at kitchen table. I said man i wish you guys would pip. Then about 10 mins later i came bk so first tiny crack then a tiny piece fell off. You can see a pin size hole but the rest of the crack is white and looks dry is this normal? I...