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Hi, I have 17 chicken eggs going into lockdown today in my Hovabator. 12 are a backyard mix that I am hatching for a friend and they look to be bantams, I've never tried hatching small eggs and the shells are a greenish colour that is impossible to see through with my mediocre candling light...

Yes our humidity is high here in Nova Scotia, I have wide, flat roosts for my large breed chickens so they can keep their feet covered, and we usually end up with a few of the roosters with mild frostbite on their combs. I hadn't realized the goats would like to eat chicken droppings, but I...

Hi, we are new to Seramas and have bought a young trio for my daughter to show for 4-H. They are currently living in the house while we decide how/where to build their coop. We live in Nova Scotia and have long, cold, damp winters. So I am trying to figure out how to keep the little guys warm...

Hi, we are new to Seramas and have bought a young trio for my daughter to show for 4-H. They are currently living in the house while we decide how/where to build their coop. We live in Nova Scotia and have long, cold, damp winters. So I am trying to figure out how to keep the little guys warm...

I'm not sure of the cause, but the reason it got so bad is that I hadn't been checking his feet, I only noticed when he started limping about a month ago. The first 2 weeks I brought him into the house at night so he wouldn't be roosting, and only put him out in the coop late in the day for a...

Thanks for the replies, the foot soaks are in Epsom salt water, and yes I had been packing the holes in the bottom of his feet with neosporin ointment. The bottoms of his feet healed up but the tops still have 3-4 red swollen areas between the two of them. It's a holiday here, but I will try...

I'm currently treating a rooster for bumblefoot without success. About 2-3 weeks ago he was limping and I discovered the bumblefoot scabs on both feet. He has a couple red, swollen areas on the top of his toes. Shortly after noticing the bumblefoot I started soaking his feet every second day and...

Just wondering what ended up happening with your rooster....I'm dealing with a similar case but my guy is still limping around. Removed the scabs from his feet 2 weeks ago but didn't find any kernel

I ended up with 9 out of 10 eggs hatching, the tenth one didn't even pip so maybe died during lockdown. This was a way better hatch rate than I expected using the hovabator, after reading all the negative reviews on here. Of the 9 chicks, I have 2 dark brahma and 7 Buff Orpington. One of the...

I keep mine in a run until they are a good size, about 4 months I'd say. I do let them out supervised before this, but our main daytime predators are bald eagle and hawks, and I worry too much when they are small to leave them out alone. I also only keep large breeds for this reason, though my...

Congrats Love the paper towel tube divider, might have to try that this time. I've got 10 eggs on Day 20, most of them are Buff Orpington too. 2 have pipped this afternoon

Love seeing all the fuzzy little chicks. Ours eggs are on Day 11, we candled 6 of the 12 last night and saw 1 clear, 1 blood ring, and 4 squirmy little chicks. PeepsForUs, your little 'chipmunk' chicks look just like my dark brahmas when they hatch. Though there could be another breed that...

Thanks. I will need it! No, they're not shipped eggs, I bought them from a fellow an hours drive from here. But this will only be my second try in the hovabator, last hatch was 3/12 with no candling

I put 12 eggs in the Hovabator last night. 10 Buff Orps and 2 Dark Brahma. I don't have any Buff Orp chickens, so I'm really hoping a few of these hatch :)

It's a brand new Hovabator 2362E and I've only done one hatch in it so far (seemed to work fine then). Cleaned it and stored it in it's box for 2 weeks, and when I plugged it in last night the heating element is not working at all. There's not much to it, but I'm not great with electronics, as...

I've only done one hatch last summer, so I'm not experienced or very knowledgeable but I can tell you that with mine, the first pip was Day 21, last chick to hatch was Day 24. I had basically given up on any more eggs hatching but still had a chick in the incubator drying off and was surprised...

Hi, last year when we incubated eggs, the last one to hatch had a hard time getting out, and the yolk sac was not fully absorbed....we left the shell alone, as I had been told if it is pulled off and ruptures the yolk sac, the chick would likely die. The shell did eventually come off on it's...

I use an incubator to hatch, but have had my chicks hatch on 3 consecutive days when all were started the exact same time.

She usually started molting in September and eggs would decrease until none at all by about end of October. She'd take part of the winter off - Nov, Dec, Jan. I'd start getting eggs again by end of January, which is still very cold and dark here in Nova Scotia! I don't give the chickens any...

My last hen from the older flock was killed by a hawk in August; she was about 4.5 yrs and was laying 5-6 eggs a week. Not sure how long she could have kept that up.....she was a dark brahma.