I dont really know how, it may have been cracked and when i picked it up the shell by the air pocket area fell away. There not ready to hatch, that I know. I do turn them by hand but I don't pick them up, I gently move my hand in a circle and roll them all . There at that stage though of 15...
No theres just a wire mesh they all sit on. Its a Styrofoam incubator with a couple slots for water to keep the humidity up. No others where broken yet. Im going to go check on it now, its been a little while and I just got back home.
Edit: I just checked on it and if I tap the side of the egg...
I was checking on the eggs in the incubator making sure the water trays were filled. Its a dry still air incubator. Well one of my eggs was broken I sitting up, inside ways a chick moving. But its not ready to hatch yet! Its about 15 days old maybe a little older or younger. Can it survive? It...
Thanks for your reply, in regards to them being scalped, I solved that by substituting the top of the cage with a strong netting with small squares. About the size of a 1/4 inch, something like the size of rabbit cage wire for the bottom. This works well, because its not a metal, the squares are...
Hello, my first post other then my introduction post. Ill try my best to give as much information as I think one would need to help answer my in a sense, may be a crazy question: Can you put a hood on a pheasant?
Some may not know what a hood is, but its fairly common among falconers. It is a...
Hello everyone in the community!
Im very new to the site but not to the chicken life. I believe I have had chickens ever since I was able to walk. For a while I didn't because of where we moved to but we do again now and there even rare. Im only a teenager still on the verge of adult hood (18...