Hello, over two weeks ago I hatched 5 eggs in my incubator. One came out with balled feet and one splayed and crooked leg. I honestly didn't think it would survive, but it did. It just layed on its back chirping happily. On the second day, I realized this bird was a fighter and we started to...
We are hatching duck eggs in our classroom in an incubator. Monday we lost a duckling who hatched prematurely (we're assuming - it came out bloody and still had a full yoke). Yesterday two more pipped and then staled. We decided to leave them and give them time.
This morning my coworker arrived...
I have, what was told to me to be an Easter Egger/Fryer mix (she looks like a fryer and lays blue eggs so they are probably right). I hatched her from an egg last May (it is not November). We also have two of the smaller breeds of New England chickens - they were hatched in July. Yesterday we...
I just started a backyard chicken coop when we moved to a small town recently. I hatched a few eggs in my Kindergarten class (2 hatched successfully out of 30 -although many didn't even develop so I wonder how many were really fertilized). Since they were fryers, we decided to keep them. One...