I have ordered 12 eggs so far 6 have showed up and iam leaving them for 24 hours to settle, at a glance the air cells are definitely wobbly, they could be totally detached but I daren’t turn the eggs upside down to find out for sure.
I have an incubator with a rolling floor so eggs I set are...
Hi I could use some ideas.... I have a faverolles with crooked toes on both feet, she is 6 weeks old. She was the last to hatch and had been stuck in the egg (she hatched day 25) I tried to splint them when she was younger but every attempt failed, whatever I tried usually dropped off. Her toes...
Hi, I originally set 18 salmon faverolles (collected from a breeder 110 miles away) 2 clear on day 10 so I have 16 that are developing nicely. These eggs are like gold dust to me I have always wanted salmon faverolles, I have kept the temp at a constant 37.5c (checked with 3 thermometers) and...
Upright or on their side.... that is the question... i bought some hatching eggs and they arrived with rather bad air cells some detached completely, some not fully detached but jiggly and certainly move a good way to the side, I rested the eggs for 24 hours and put them in the incubator, having...
I have a few new chickens, I have only had them for 4 days all look healthy and fit (lovely shiny feathers, red combs etc) however ..... the cockerel has got quite watery poo? I don't know whether it is maybe the change in diet as they had all been kept indoors for months and are all now on...
Hi everyone I have a silkie approx 1.5 years old, she was born unable to walk but we corrected with splints and cardboard shoes, after that she has been completely normal up until now?!! A few days ago the was slight shaking of the head which then progressed to a head tremor with intermittent...
Hi everyone, I have a silkie hen, she is about a year and a half old I call her funny feet as when she was born she was unable to walk and I had to make her some cardboard shoes to straighten her toes and then she could walk and up until now has acted completely normal! I have noticed over the...
This morning when I let my chickens out I noticed one of my chicks was just standing, not running around with the others, I picked her up and noticed that her back end was matted up a bit with poo, I cleaned her up and noticed her cloaca is not as it should be!!! Instead of being like lips (so...
Hi everyone I have had some chicks hatch yesterday and throughout the night, one little Pekin has its legs out in front of it, it almost sits behind its hocks with its legs out near its head, I have taped legs as if they were splayed with not much luck as the legs are not to the side but in...
Hello everyone I have just had some chicks hatch yesterday and overnight, I have a little Pekin that has problems with its legs, they seem to be too far forward it almost sits behind its hocks with legs stick out near its head, I have taped its legs as I would if they were splayed and this...
My silkie hen has been sat on her eggs (only 3) and one has pipped today, all the way through she has shuffled her nest about sometimes leaving eggs and letting them get cold which is why she only has 3 now, I have checked her this morning she was sat on them, checked her a couple of hours later...
My silkie hen has been sat on her eggs (only 3) and one has pipped today, all the way through she has shuffled her nest about sometimes leaving eggs and letting them get cold which is why she only has 3 now, I have checked her this morning she was sat on them, checked her a couple of hours later...
Hi everyone I'm just looking for a little reassurance, I have an egg that pipped externally at 11.30 this morning at about 5pm tonight the little hole was made slightly larger and I thought the chick was going to start to make an appearance although it seemed to be going slightly in the wrong...
So I had 14 fertile eggs to begin with 11 went under my broody hen and 3 I put in a homemade incubator made from a seed propergator , my hen crushed 1 and I had one clear and lost 1 from homemade incubator, so I now have 11 (one of which I'm pretty sure has quit) so anyway my broody hen gave up...
Hello, so I have a broody hen sitting comfortably on 11 fertile eggs that I purchased a couple of days ago, I had a couple of fertile eggs left over (3 to be exact) so I thought I may aswell give it ago at hatching them too, rather than throwing them out, Bit of an experiment to be honest I have...
Hello everyone, so I have a hen that has gone broody (Doris) I have decided to get some fertile eggs from a friend and hopefully let her hatch some chicks, iam picking them up tomorrow and she has been broody for 5 days (he advised this to make sure she is committed) so she has been sat on...
Okay so I have really wanted a couple of silkies for a while but have had bad luck with them turning out to be cockerels I got these two today as a friend of mine breeds chickens and he got them of a friend that shows silkies he was quite sure (as sure as you can be with silkies) these are both...
Hello, iam at a loss at what to do, any help appreciated, I have a young brahma (approx 22 weeks) when she was around 10/11 weeks she looked very sick, lethargic,eyes closed ruffled feathers I took her to the vets and she was injected with strong antibiotics then we followed a course of orally...
Can anyone help? Most of my chickens are point of lay, I got my first egg yesterday from my blue bell I'm not sure whether she layed this or one of the others, I don't even know what it is? It had gloop on the end of it which looked somewhat like egg white, and after inspection it seems to be...
I have just been out to check the chickens and noticed this poo!!! It looks bloody and I have no idea what to do next or even which chicken it is!! I have picked up all 4 and inspected their rear ends but all look clean and not bloody, all chickens are bright and active also eating and drinking...