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I got a mix of eggs that are supposed to be Czech geese or Franconian blue geese, but they weren't labelled. One gosling is all yellow with pink feet and a pink beak, so I'm fairly sure he is a Czech goose. The other two have darker beaks and grayish legs. I presume (and hope) they are...

I used to have four geese. Three came with the house when we bought it, the fourth I hatched from their eggs. A fox attack in broad daylight last summer took out the three adults. The remaining male goose bonded with my ducks that I hatched last year, and all was well. For a while. Now they...

I have 7 brahma chicks. I know the sex of the three light brahmas and the two partridge brahmas, but am unsure about my dark brahma and blue brahma. Any guesses? The dark brahma isn't very pencilled compared to my female partridge brahma, but doesn't have dark chest feathers or shanks either...

I have three faverolles chicks I am unsure of the gender of. They are pure bred, eggs from a local breeder (in Italy). Two are much darker, but the color in their primaries is dark gray/brown not true black that I read indicates roosters. I have hatched so many boys this year - about 20% girls...

I have hatched lots of ducklings over the years, but the last two hatches I've had real problems with soggy bedding. I don't remember it being so bad before, possibly because it was later in the year so I could put them outside on the grass with a heatlamp so the water was more easily absorbed...

Quick question - if you use a brinsea ecoglow, do you put the lowest height setting or the middle one for 1-3 day old ducklings? They are Mallards, but lowest setting still seems like it would be too close to their backs, and certainly touching their heads even if they lie down. Thoughts?

One of my six week old chicks has started pooping blood today. First poop was pink and frothy. Its done two more since which were more like a lump of dark red mixed in with a normal poop. In between those its been doing normal poops. She is a barred rock and is feathering out slightly slower...

I had a trio - 1 greyback gander, a greyback goose and a romana goose. I was hatching some duck eggs two months ago so I put two goose eggs from the girls in with them. Only one egg made it. Now he's 4 weeks old I'm not sure what route to take with him. This is my first year of having geese...

This is "Bananas" He was 4 weeks old yesterday and has been starting to feather out over the last few days, so I'm getting curious about 'his' breed and sex. His mom was a mallard, as far as I know. He hatched from a small blue egg, but came out not looking at all mallard-y. He was yellow...

Ok, I have just set 27 eggs in my brinsea octagon advance. 99.6F, 45% humidity. They are: 5 Buff orpington 4 Black Orpington 3 Cochin (Cocincina nana nera) 2 Brahma (brahma perniciato maglie nere) 9 Mille Fiori di Lonigo 4 that I think are barred rocks. Some language confusion on that one so...

This is a continuation of the most awful hatch ever...with poor hatch rates, dying chicks, a dead duckling and now a stubborn gosling. Sigh. So he hatched about 45 hours ago. He had a hard hatch and in the end I assisted him until he could release himself from the egg. No bleeding, all yolk...

We have been struggling with ants in the house all spring. We live in a house of stone and I think they are in the walls. Nothing I try gets rid of them, they just reappear in a different room or disappear for 24 hours then come back in even greater numbers. I have duck and goose eggs in...

One of my chicks hatched out stickier than I've ever seen, and then the liquid dried rock hard on him sticking a piece of eggshell to his backside and gluing one leg to his body, so obviously he couldn't stand up properly. When I was able to retrieve him from the incubator I gave him a wipe down...

So I have hatched chickens and ducks out for years with good success rates but am suddenly in unknown territory. We moved to a new house recently, and 3 geese were included in the deal (!). I think they are grey back geese, though one is white. 2 females, one male. I was told that the eggs...

I would like to buy a high accuracy digital hygrometer, preferably with probe, that I can trust as much as I trust my brinsea spot-check thermometer. Any recommendations for brand and model?

My poor Pekin, Daisy... 4 weeks ago she decided to go broody, which I'd never considered because I thought Pekin's weren't much of a broody breed. She only had 3 eggs in her nest though. After a couple of days I found a mishap had occurred leaving Daisy with a yolk-covered breast and just one...

My poor Pekin, Daisy... 4 weeks ago she decided to go broody, which I'd never considered because I thought Pekin's weren't much of a broody breed. She only had 3 eggs in her nest though. After a couple of days I found a mishap had occurred leaving Daisy with a yolk-covered breast and just one...

The last 3 hatchlings in my last hatch had a bit of a rough time of it...humidity went too high, then shrink wrapping when I tried to sort it out. Anyway, the long and short of it is 1 had omphalitis - about a pea sized bulge that I tried to get to go back in but it wouldn't fit. I sprayed it...

I've posted before because we lost 4 ducks, 5 chickens and a batch of 12 eggs that were due to hatch the following day - all lost to raccoons, we think. We have now trapped and dispatched 5 racoons in 3 months, but I know there are more because they've been taking eggs. Then hens are refusing...

I have three 5 week cayuga ducklings that will be joining my other 2 adult pekin ducks in the duck house in a few weeks. What can I expect? Do I introduce them like I would new chickens to the hen house? i.e. put them in at night, keep them penned in for 3 days etc? Or are ducks just not that...