I have two 8-month-old hens who are the oldest in my flock (i'm new to chicken raising and the rest are still only 3-4 months) but recentally they've been laying there eggs in different spots than their coop. I was able to find the spot they were laying in and locked them in the coop during...
I recently bought a new incubator and this is my first batch of chicks using it. This is day 18 for the eggs and I was simply wondering if the eggs needed to be able to roll around, or if keeping the turner piece in would be fine. (the turner automatically turns off 3 days prior to hatching)...
Hi, so I am a new chicken farmer and have a flock of about six chickens that were hatched in my incubator and are about 3 months old. (hens still too young to lay) I know that at least 2 of them are roosters due to the fact that I wake up every morning to a crow off, but I have just noticed some...
Im very new at this incubating thing, and I just had two out of five eggs hatch, one chick seems fine (loud) but fine. The other i'm a little worried about, she doesn't seem to be using one of her legs very much, and it seems like something is almost coming out of her rear. I might just be over...
It’s been 28 days and two of my chicken eggs have not hatched, so today I opened it up to check for an interior PIP, when I saw that one had done an outside PIP and I had not noticed it before, but now it has stopped moving and chirping, has it shrink wrapped and can I help it by adding more...
I put 7 eggs in my incubator on the 4th, three died in the first two weeks but the other four were looking good. on the 25th (yes, Christmas) two hatched, but I hav'nt seen any improvment on the other two, how long should i wait till i through them out, or is there a way that i can see if there...
I put six chicken eggs in and one duck egg, its the 5th day and I can see the new embryos in them, I was wondering how often I can check them without harming them? also one of the chicken eggs are a double yoker so i'm not sure how that works
well... Im not quite sure how this works, but... me and my family used to be huge farmers, we had a cow dozens of chickens an a couple of crazy dogs, then we had to sell our cow, our chickens were no longer laying eggs so we had to sell them too and the two dogs got out so much that we decided...