I have raised chicks of various breeds for several years now. I keep them in a tote or a cage that is draft free with shavings and a heat lamp and watch them closely. I have not had any die this way. I make sure all have fresh water and food. Saturday I bought 12 cornish rock chicks and 2...
Well...the egg we had that had the shell over the air cell cracked (pretty badly) and had fluid in the air cell...HATCHED!! 2 days early even. Chick is bigger than the others we have ever hatched out. It is a silkie cross. The other silkie cross hatched out 3 days early and the silkie hatched...
My hen went broody....i THOUGHT she only had a certain number of eggs cuz we labeled them and took out any extras the other laid. Mama is a mean one and liked to rip the skin off our hands and i guess we missed some cuz 2 days ago (what should have been day 14 of her sitting on them) she decided...
Ok this chick hatched earlier today. I have no idea what is wrong with it. It is peeping and moving around in the incubator...i took it out briefly for the pics.....do we need to put it down?
Ok so I habe incubated before with this incubator. Today while checking my eggs that are due to hatch tomorrow (peeking through the windo to see if any were pipped and checking temp and what not) my incubator read 105!!! Omg...and i have one chick pipped externally. I dont think it was like that...
I just wanted to thank everyone for helping me through my last hatch that didn't go too well. Out of over 20 eggs, only 9 made it through hatching and only 7 survived to this point, weeks later. However, I cleaned out the incubator, did some checking and set it back up and rechecked and then...
Ok, I rescued this little turken hen. She was attacked by a dog and some of her sibling my s were killed. A few weeks later,a rooster attacked her and killed her remaining siblings. She was the only surviver and she was injured. Well, after a couple weeks, she was put with ducks because no...
I have a showgirl chick that is almost 3 weeks old and chick is eating and drinking fine and pooping fine, but it kindof looks like the vent may be prolapsed some. Can I put a little dab of preparation h on it? Or what do I do? Vets here won't see chickens ugh...
I know I have had lots of questions and things lately, I apologize. I appreciate all the help and advice, yall have been wonderful. I have 2 eggs left in the incubator that i had taken from my hen who had too many. They should have hatched on the 16th or around there. They are silkies. We kept...
I have an egg should be on day 18/19 I THINK. It was under the hen and she had been stealing eggs. I locked her up a week ago with her nest. I took the egg and candled it....and had been keeping an eye on it for a while because it looked like two yolks in it. Well, now there is liquid in the air...
Ok, so my silkie chick Pipped last night and this morning had no progress and was not chirping or moving at all. So, I got it out and opened it a bit to see that the chick was shrink wrapped. Got it taken care of, mo big deal and the yolk was all absorbed, it was able to get the last half of...
This egg Pipped yesterday and i know they can take longer to hatch bit it is not moving now or peeping or anything. I sent know whether to help it or not. I lost 2 others in the egg already. One had Pipped internally but not externally and I opened it up and it had died. The other one was not...
Have some silkie and silkie cross eggs in the incubator....they will be 22 days tonight.....some were rocking and moving yesterday and none are now that I have seen....and none have Pipped. Since they are on lock down do I just leave them alone for another day or so or what do I do? I know I...
I have 12 eggs (most are silkies but some are silkie cross) in my incubator. We started out with 19. They are at 21 days today. I know knokids snuck some in on me when I was gone for a couple days so they are not all at the same development....but all within the same week. I have seen several of...
I want to thank everyone who helped me with hatching my first (and probably last) ducks. It was quite an experience. The lady we got tje eggs from say they are Welch Harlequins....and 4 of them do look like the pics I see....but....my little Harley (the dark one) doesn't look like the others...
Ok so we just had one hatch yay! But I have some questions....
1) the egg I think is twins and has pipped the wrong end has not made progress in 43 hours. It looks dryish....moving around still. What do I do?
2)the one that hatched drug its sack around and a piece of shell got caught on the...
Ok, so far 5 of my 8 eggs have Pipped....only one that Pipped yesterday is only a bit of cracking and no change since. Its only been 24 hours so I leave it alone right? My humidity is 68-70....temp is 99.5. Most of the eggs have been rocking and moving but the one that Pipped yesterday isn't...
So yesterday after noon 2 of my 8 eggs started pipping. ....but its not a hole, its more like just a crack in the eggs....this morning another is like that...no change in the other 2....and none are rocking where I can see em like they had been. Also, one of my kids bumped the incubator and 2...
My duck eggs are due to hatch on Saturday. We are now in lock down. Still have the concern that one may be twins. The eggs this afternoon (some of them) are moving quite a bit. This is our first time incubating any eggs. I am just about all ready for hatching I think. This is exciting and...