Will all the chicks be blue? Could some be splash?
I have a pen with 2 white roos over 6 white hens plus one mauve. I have a 3 week old chick who started off yellow so we assumed white, but now I'm seeing the odd gray feather.
Thanks for your input
Some of my shipped eggs had detached air sacs but most looked ok. I let them rest for a day and a half with the fat end up.
I then set them in my incubator. It has horizontal egg placement, so that the eggs roll. On day 6, I candled and found that quite a few more must have had partially...
Hi all,
I'm looking for good quality bantam barred Plymouth Rocks in Canada, preferably Western Canada. We would need chicks or hatching eggs for 4H projects in Feb/Mar 2020.
Thanks!
We had two hatch already: 48 hours ago and 24 hours ago. Two more eggs are pipped.
Is the 48 hour old ok to stay one more day in there or should we extract him while trying to keep the humidity high? It's a little incubator in our ensuite so I could run the shower hot and steamy, before pulling...
I must have miscounted days or i have a heat issue, but anyhow one of my ducklings is hatching. The egg is pipped, hole is about the size of a nickel and i can hear it chirping . I have disabled the turner but the eggs are all still in it. The eggs rest on their sides in this tray not on-end...
Our gal was a late, assisted hatch. She has been slow to grow and now is in with 2 week old chicks because they are the same size. At times she seems totally normal and happy, then she will be listless and weak.
Today I noticed she has swelling beneath her vent. It feels firm (about the size...
Looking for advice: We have a weak legbar chick. It pipped on day 24 (the rest of the chicks hatched on 21). We ended up helping him zip after 36 hours because there was no change and it's membrane became very dry. It hatched the rest of the way on its own about 24 hours ago. It is fully dried...
Our 10 month old barred rock has a very swollen abdomen. We think she is egg bound . She is sitting in the nest a lot but has not passed an egg. For the past two days we have soaked her in baths, fed her Tums, and lubed her vent with KY and Preparation H. I can feel the tip of an egg in her vent...
I have a day old walking on its hocks. It's left foot looks a bit curled under to me. It seems happy otherwise. Chicks are on an inch of shavings with paper towel on the surface. We have added Poul-Vite to their water. Is there anything I can do to help this little one walk normally?
I've got a barred Orp roo and my hens are black, splash and blue Orps. Will the barring carry over to half the offspring? Are the splash hens chicks going to look like a) one or the other or b) all mottled or c) some of everything. Thanks! I'm still learning about chicken genetics :)
I've got one black and one splash Americauna cockerel. I'm thinking of breeding them to my barred rock hens. I'm newish to chickens... wondering what this cross will produce in terms of feather colors and egg colours? And am I better to use the splash or the black cockerel? Any fluffy-cheeked...
I purchased several BBS chicks from a reputable breeder. Now that they are 8 weeks, one blue cockerel is showing barring or a cuckoo pattern (is there a difference?) in his feathers. Is this possible with the BBS orps or is he an accidental cross of something else?
Is this gleet or EYP? Hen seems normal in temperament but she is not laying. She has been laying thin shelled eggs for awhile. No discharge seen, but her abdomen is swollen and hot. We have soaked her in epsom salts (so bum is wet in the picture, feathers around vent appear normal). Our coop...