I have one hen that has been secretly sitting on eggs. I recently found her sitting on 18, and I candled a few. They seem to have not overly pourous shells. They are around on week 1, day 2 as I accidently cracked one open. Now the thing is, she stays off of them for too long. Recently I have...
So My broody hen has been sitting on 3 duck eggs for a while now, and yesterday was hatching day. They have not made any progress at all. I hear one pointlessly tapping, but it's not working. Two have pips, and the last has a crack from being pecked at, and I can see its down from the hole. On...
I just came home from school. I go check on my duck eggs, and my broody is off her nest. Probably for her lunch break. I go to the duck eggs, and look at them. One looks cracked, so I picked it up and looked at it. Sure enough, it's cracked. It also has a hole at one end!! The pipping end! But...
I came back from school and looked in the nesting box, and my buff orington cockerel was dead. It was very saddening because he's a family pet, a
Raised from an egg. I picked him up and set him on a chair, and doing so, he started leaking some kind of whiteish stink fluid. Now I want to know...
Yesterday, we put our 2 buff orpington pullet and cockerel out to free range at around 3:00. Their around 5-6 months old. It rained harshly at around 5 and I saw the two come in the garage to escape the rain, I was petting them. Later on, at around 6 I went to put them away, I found the cockerel...
Ok, so it's day 19 of incubation of my chicks..the bator temp is 101.1 F, and I saw one egg was oozing a kind of clear yellow liquid. I decided to risk it, and quickly grabbed the egg out of the bator and looked at it. THERE WAS A PIP IN IT!! But the pip was no where near the air cell!! It's my...
So I have 11 eggs in the incubator right now, due to hatch on Monday. I was candling the eggs yesterday for the last time, when I came to my one last egg, kinda whitish brown, and smaller than my others. I was suspicious of it when it was laid, but I put it in my incubator anyway. So the thing...
I just received a dozen free hatching eggs from my neighbor.. Half are from yesterday and half are from today..
Ok, so I was getting them ready for incubation, and then I thought I should candle them first to look for cracks.. So I candled em.
The first egg, had something that looked like a...
It's day 21/22. Of my first hatch, and I have one egg in the bator with NO internal pip!! I know cause It hasn't been cheeping at all! I'm nervous that it'll die.. Should I be scared?
Yesterday it was moving and rocking a lot! But today it's being still( probably sleeping)
Thank you, a...
So.. It's day 20/21 of my first hatch. I have one egg in the bator, who has gone through so much, and somehow lived.. A power outage, and lockdown troubles.. It just has to make it past this.. In the morning, it was very still, and I was sure it was dead, from the power outage.. But about an...
So,it's day 20 of my first hatch,'(there's only one egg in he bator) and everything was going pretty well, I guess, until about 8:30 pm!! We had a flash storm, (I live in Florida) and our power went out,, I penned everyone up and brought my show roo inside, and all of a sudden, I remembered...
OMG.. Ok this is my first hatch, and I am shaking. I was excited, counting downnthe days until hatch, and I thought it was day 17.. Yesterday I was turning it and everything and the went to bed. Today, I was looking through my previous posts, and GUESS WHAT!? I had something sent 10 days ago...
Hey guys, sorry for the caps. It's my first time hatching eggs and I'm really nervous. My neighbor have me a light brown egg, I'm assuming its one of her orpington eggs, but I don't know. I took a big risk just getting ONE egg to hatch, though. Anyway 9 days ago I set my Little giant Incubator...
Hey guys... I'm officially going to try to hatch quails!! Right now my bator is set at 54% humidity and it is 100.5• degrees F. That is what someone recommended for a 80- 90 percent hatch rate. Is this correct? They are courtnix quail. ANY tips and experiences at all and how to candle them and...
Our two ducks have recently shown lots of mating behavior... The drake and hen are only 4-5 months old. The drake will try to mount her in their pool after the bobbing head dance, but he can never seem to :p (clumsy lil man)
She has an enlarged egg pouch thingy... What is the technical term for...
Hey fellow chickaholics...
Around what age do hens start laying?
I have 2 Banty hens, a Black Mottled D'uccle and a Black Tailed White Japanese which are both around 3-4 months old...
Their "boyfriends" :rolleyes: have already started to mate with them, and they show the mating behaviors... I...
Hello yall... With my first thread, I will be asking a question... Does anyone know how to tell the age of ducklings? What about the gender? both were purchased at the same time from TSC in Dunnellon, FL. I am assuming they are at least 5-7 days old, as they are really social, and have tail...
Yay! Hello.. I'm RandomDuck, better known as RandomQueen. I have 2 baby ducklings, LOTS of pets, and I am looking forward to getting to know yall... bye for now.