Hello everyone! I have a small flock of Birchen Marans. All of my flock is black Birchen apart from one blue Birchen rooster. I have hatched out a few chicks and all of them have been black. Is it possible to get blue from this flock or would I need blue Birchen hens as well? Also, I have one...
Hello everyone, I have a small flock of Birchen Marans and I was hoping for advice on picking the best rooster for breeding. I’m planning on keeping two, but they’ll be separated from the hens until breeding (so don’t worry about overbreeding). I’m already planning on keeping the blue one...
I have 7 4-week old Birchen Marans Chicks. I know it’s too early to know for sure, but I wanted to hear what ya’ll think. It seems to me like my only pullets are 3 and 7.
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I have made other posts about my turkey eggs and chicken eggs having small air cells. I was told by a few to just lockdown on day 26 instead of 25. Today is early day 25 and one of the turkey eggs have pipped, but I believe it pipped the wrong end. I found out because I went to candle it and a...
Hello everyone. I have turkey eggs on day 21 and chicken eggs on day 14. The air cells seem to be too small. Can I decrease humidity to 25-35% or will that affect the chicks? My humidity has been between 40 and 50%. Thanks for the help! Here are some pictures from day 20 for the turkeys and day...
Hello everyone. I have turkey and chicken eggs in my incubator, and I’m a little unsure if my eggs are on track for air cell development. To me it looks like the air cells are too small, but according to weight loss the air cells should be too big. Most of these eggs sat for a week or so before...
Hello everyone. I have turkey and chicken eggs in my incubator, and I’m a little unsure if my eggs are on track for air cell development. To me it looks like the air cells are too small, but according to weight loss the air cells should be too big. Most of these eggs sat for a week or so before...
Hello everyone. I was testing the temperature in my incubator after having a failed hatch (was told it was due to high humidity) and my two thermometers were reading about 97 F. When I set my new batch of eggs I set the temperature of the incubator according to the thermometers, but when I moved...
Hello everyone. I’m having some serious hatching issues and was hoping I could get some advice. I put 24 eggs in my incubator over 23 days ago and not a single one hatched. 3 or 4 days after their intended hatch day I opened the eggs and about half were almost completely developed but not alive...
Hello everyone! I’ve ordered 18 hatching eggs from an online hatchery. I’ve heard that hatch rates for shipped eggs can be lower than 50%. Does anybody have any tips or tricks to keep the hatch rate up? Also, what’s the best humidity for shipped eggs? Thanks!
I was thinking about selling chicks in the spring but my rooster is a mix breed and I know the breeds of my hens anyway. Will any one buy mix breed chicks???
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I need help with identifying first one he's brown I think he's a rooster I'm not to sure second one is a frizzle of some sort and a rooster he crows in the morning. And the last two are my friends white hen and a rooster of some sort please help me identify these...
Hello every one this is my second thread. My freind has a couple chickens she and I can't identify so we need help she has four white hens and a rooster thank you everyone for viewing.
Are neighbors dog killed one of are chickens so they gave us two more there not there chickens so they don't know what breed they are. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what the brown one is I know the other one is a frizzle of some sort I think there both roo's
I know the frizzle is...