Chic is breaking through shell, but hasn't used the air cell, and isn't breaking the membrane! I managed to put a bit of a hole where the beak is, and it's now breathing. HOWEVER. it's bleeding a bit. Not much, it's stopped, but there was a bit of blood. What do I do??
It's now day 17, and neither of the button quail eggs I have have pipped. The one is too dark to see through, but the other there is a live chick in, the veins are still there. Should I be concerned about them not starting to hatch yet?
TIA
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I'm getting a quail egg on Monday to try and hatch in my bra.
these are the 2 contraptions I've made to hold the egg, demonstrated with a quartz rock.
The plan is to put that egg against my chest, with a barrier of a 1 ply toilet paper...
So im getting a button quail egg on Monday, and I'm going to try hatching it with my body heat (under my boob). Though I was wondering, will the sweat impact the hatch rate- and how should o deal with that? Should I put it under, or between? Does it need to be in direct contact with my skin, or...
The last week I've seen a goose being rejected by other ones. As of yesterday, he was alone, exiled from the group. Didn't look too well, a bit rough looking. Went back today, still there. All the other geese were gone. I approached him, he stood up, had a very loose poo, and i backed off. To my...
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I have a Thai game hen and I think she has pretty good conformation. Is there a pdf that has references to how the ideal Thai hen is supposed to look for show? I'm trying to find an online show (if that's a thing) because I don't want to subject her to the stress or illness irl shows...
So my chickens probably have MG. it's flared up in the cold weather. I have some doxycycline pills that could be crushed up and put into water. Would this work? Or would it be dangerous??
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I have 2 chickens. The first started with sneezing in November, and so did the second shortly after. Coughing started in the one, who seems to have had whatever this is worse. There was a bit of eye foam in the one. Coughing ended now, and the second never started coughing only...
Hello, For almost the last month since I got this hen, around 6 months old, she has been sneezing. Around a week in she started coughing. A lot. It comes in fits. There is runny mucus around her nose, it dries yellow. None on her feathers though. Her one eye gets foamy when she gets in these...