I am losing my mind, and sleep! I'm at day 17 and in the past few days the temperature keeps going all over the place.
I have not moved the incubator and only open it to candle on days 4, 10 and 14 so far, and to occasionally add a little water. They are supposed to go into lockdown tomorrow...
A friend of mine gave me a nice mixture of eggs from her flock. There are some speckled sussex, lavender orpington, red sexlink, silkies and brahmas. The only rooster she has is an easter egger.
Will the females of this mixture also lay colored eggs?
I hatched 9 eggs in my incubator that were from my own chickens. Of the 9, two are splay-legged. I tried the bandaid splint for two days, and switched this morning to a small piece of a drinking straw with a rubberband through it. The rubberband is working great!
They are standing up and trying...
Today is day 23, and nothing is happening. I took the eggs out and candled them, and all of them are still moving and have nice veins.
What would make them take so long?
I raised the humidity to 65% 5 days ago and now I'm worried that will cause problems.
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I pulled 10 eggs out of my coop after my broody Buff Orpington abandoned them for her 5 hatched chicks. She was stealing eggs, so I don't know the age of all eggs. So far, two have hatched. One 4 days ago, one 2 days ago, and all others have quit besides this one.
The egg has been twitching...
My chick had to be helped out of it's shell after a day and a half of being stuck in the membrane. When it finally came out, the umbilical cord was still attached and full of blood. I tried to leave it, but each time the chick moved, it was tearing it's belly from the weight of the shell and...
This chick had a hard time hatching, and had to be helped out because it was stuck in the membrane. Now it's got a wet, red cord or vein still attached and when it moves, it pulls on the chick. Am I safe to assume this will just dry up and fall off on it's own?