Our hen hatched out a small brood last week and was exploring the poultry paddock with her new family for a few days until yesterday. I didn't see her or her chicks out and found her and them in the coop. Again today she was in there with her chicks. I checked underneath her and found she was...
I have a 36 hour old chick that I need advice on-
- hatched in incubator
- I missed the date written on the egg, so he never went into lockdown... Heard peeping coming from the bator (one with the turner, not the lockdown bator)
-chick had pipped out a hole, but couldn't move to pip more
He...
I'm having a zero hatching rate and I'm losing the chicks between day 16 and 21. I've had six eggs that haven't hatched. Two I opened at day 23 that were still moving so I put them back in and it was too late they shrink-wrapped. The others were dead, two that hadn't absorbed the yolk and the...