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    Bad broody momma? Please help- chicks at stake.

    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...
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    Shrink wrapped ducklings!!

    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...
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    Duck egg cracked!!❕❕❕❕❗️❗️❗️❗️

    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...
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    Chicken Died unexpectedly?! Please help D:

    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...
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    Lost chicken, please help!!

    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...
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    Breached Chick?! Help please!!

    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...
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    Possibly an egg deformity?

    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...
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    Fertle eggs for incubation have porous shells..?

    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...
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    Day 21/ 22 No internal pip

    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...
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    Egg rocking but no internal pip?!!

    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...
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    POWER OUTAGE DURING LOCKDOWN OF FIRST HATCH!!! CRYING SO MUCH, HELP!

    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...
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    Is my egg dead?!!!

    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...
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    AIR CELL TOO SMALL?!!!

    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...
  14. RandomDuck

    Quail Bation <3

    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...
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    Duck mating behavior??

    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...
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    Chicken maturity? Egg laying?

    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...
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    What gender of ducklings!

    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...
  18. RandomDuck

    Hello world!

    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.
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