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all the yolk on the one I opened had been absorbed. The humidity was probably high, my hydrometer was not functioning properly, I think the needle is stuck! I guess this could be the reason. I am going to have another go!

Out of 30 fertile eggs in my incubator I had 20 hatch at 21 days. a further 10 failed to do so by day 24. Because I was curious I have candled the failed eggs and all look full of chicks, I did actually open one to find a perfectly fully formed chick! Why have they failed to hatch, they didn't...

Can anyone help? My incubator was turned off accidentally by a family member on day 5 of incubation. By the time I realised the temp at the top of the eggs (Still Air Bator) was at 34 degrees C or 93 degrees F. they were soon warmed back up to the correct temp. Will this have killed the...

Has anyone else found this? My 24 bird flock of Leghorns and Sussex are going into the moult and the egg numbers are dropping. We are in the middle of the Autumn (fall) and the birds will ususlly stop laying in about 2 weeks until January. For the last couple of seasons I have noticed that...

Bloody poo sounds like coccidiosis to me. I'm in the and here I use Baycox from Bayer Animal Health. I use medication through the water 1ml of baycox to 1 litre of water. the response is rapid. 24 hours should see them right. Keep them on baycox for 3-5 days. Good Luck

Can anyone help? I have a dozen leghorns to which I intoduced 5 welsummers a week ago. After a day or so all were getting on okay. However after a couple of days I noticed one of my leghorns looked like it had done a coupke of rounds with Mike Tyson. One of her eyes was closed and the bottom...

Looks like a seagull egg to me!

Can anyone help me. My wife switched off my incubator by mistake and it has been off for about 3 hours. Most of the eggs in there are due to hatch in 4 days with 5 which have only been in for 7 days. I normally remove the eggs into my hatcher as soon as they start to hatch. Will the embryos...

Can anyone help. I have 16 3 week old leghorn chicks and one is very unwell today. The chick is listless and fluffed up a bit. When I picked it up its crop was squishy and it freely vommited a murky looking fluid. I massaged the crop and it vomitted freely until the crop felt empty. My...

What is going to happen to my week old Leghorn Chicks. A polystyrene box somehow fell into their rearing pen and they have pecked and consumed a large quantity of the polystyrene. Their crops are full to busting. They seem to have preferred it to the crumbs they are on! I feel so guilty...

I have a problem with feather pecking in my small flock of layers. I only have 7 hens which were rescued from a commercial free range laying unit at the end of their laying cycle. 6 of the hens show signs of having their feathers pecked out and there is some bleeding whereas 1 hen is fully...