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Well, a few days ago, we had our first chick pip and we were all excited. I left it in with mamma and the rest of the flock, only for uber curious chickens to peck and eat the chick and 2 other eggs. We found one.. I was gonna put him in the incubator but when I looked at him he had died. My...

He died.. I candled and saw nothing. So I made a tiny hole to check for movement in the air sack and it was cold and he is dead I Ithink I gonna re do our set up, make a "nursery" and try again in the spring time..

Yeah. shes jnot setting onthe egg anymore.. it wasn't as warm as it could have been and she wasnt' even at the entrace of the barn growling at me anymore. I don't have an incubator set up but it is warming up as we speak. I just dont want him to go the way the other guy did. Shoot, Idon't even...

Would it be wise to try to incubate the last remaining egg? Could it have died from being bounced around and such? It should go todayish or so.. but I don't know if it will work. What do ya'll think?

Wow.. I always just figured that the mamma would have just taken care of them. My DH is quite discouraged and never thought chickens could be so barbaric. I will try to talk himinto making a seperate nursery off to the side so this does not happen again. we are gonna put the other egg in the...

We had our first chick hatching yesterday.. we let it be because we wanted the mamma to raise the babies. This morning we go out and the other chickens are carrying around a now dead chck and they are fighting over it. Did mamma lose interest or did the other ones over power her grumpyness? Is...

Ours is under a silkie hen. if the kids mess with it too much will she abandon them? they are dying to check on the little egg. when the chick chirps, does momma call back? just curious.

How exciting! Our little silkie we got in february is hatching her first clutch of 4 eggs. One pipped this morning.. and it will either be a pure silkie or a cross with Eagle, our Light Brahma. How neat is that!!!

We have 2 silkie hens and a LB (standard) rooster, amongst other birds. Well the silkies are setting on eggs, we checked and they are fertile some as far as about 7/8 days. Has anyone ever gotten this cross before? It would be neat to get a brhama colored silikie!! lol . Also one we opened...

Yeah, shes okay... little bit shocked, has some scratches and such..but other wise okay.. We had been wanting to get rid of him for a while, but the lady who came to get him came and took a polish roo instead so we still had him... Something about big black roosters!! I had a BJG that attacked...

My Black Australorop rooster had to go today.. My hubby took my 16month old out to see the chickens and he jumped on her and started pulling her hair!! Hubby rang his neck, now no more rooster.. I only have my Brahma left. I guess its okay though, since the 'Lorp kept pulling the Brahmas tail...

So it may be australorp eggs, just small pullet ones? because they are half the size of a large AA egg from the grocery store.

I have started getting my first eggs in already!! they oldest ones were hatched on 2-4-09, making them only 4 months old on the 4th. The eggs ai am getting are smaller bantam sized, brown with ever so slight dark speckles. If its from my bantams, it would only be from white silkies or a little...

I went to the feed store today and well, my girls HAD to spend their allowance on a new baby chicken.. each. Then I learned they had 4 varieties so I HAD to get two more.. Now I got me A RIR, a BR, an EE, and a Sicilian buttercup. She is awful pretty.. they are already about 2/3 weeks old so at...

Thanks everyone! I have a pygmy friend coming over in an hour or two to come look at her.. I will let you know!

I have a pygmy thats a FF.. I have NO idea when she was bred, as we suppposedly bought her bred to kid at any time and that was Jan 14th ish or so.. she has just started to get the tinest udder that is obviously fuller than normal (she was FLAT empty), and lays down more than usual etc...

OH! Okay.. thats exactlly why they were making a little burrow. She was gonna kindle! If hes in there, I wouldn't worry about him then. Leave him in there, but I would still pull him out mid morning (about 9am) and check to see that he ate. He should be gettig real big real quick being the only...

Even if the other two died, get the baby in a nest box filled with a little straw and pull some fur from her belly. No, if you touch it she will not eat it, and no pulling fur won't hurt her. Hopefully you have a blizzard of belly fur already. If so this is a good sign, I find that does will...

A herd of rottweilers, now that makes me laugh. I already have a rottweiler. His name is Shy Little Jester, or Jess for short. He is a good boy. We are working on a CGC, but he is still young in the head. Jess just shows an interest in them, so I was wondering about training him to do it. I...