Hello! I have my 1st 2 peachicks hatched from my neighbor's commercial incubator. In the last (3rd) egg, the chick has broken the membrane, but not pipped. How long should we wait before we help it along?
Thank you!!
Update to my serama. She started brooding a golf ball & then an empty nest box, BUT she was in a box coop in the run, so I had pity on her & put 4 eggs under her. 2 hatched (but not hers). She is THE BEST MOM EVER! The little family is so cute & she defends them like a lion! She ran my goats &...
Spirit died. He stayed in the coop all day,but got paler & paler. We saw him fall over in death throes & put him out of his misery. We plucked & butchered him to see if there was any obvious injury. We didn't see any. No big wounds or anything like that. Our gamecock didn't attack him again, so...
This morning my Orp cross rooster, Spirit, was huddled in the corner of the run moaning. He has been in some fights with one of my other roosters, & his comb is damaged, but he has seemed fine otherwise. After everyone left, he went over & ate, & poop seemed normal, but he's not acting normally...
Did you ever get a guinea girl? I can't find my neighbor's phone # & his gate is always closed b/C of livestock, so I have to run into him. Sorry this is dragging on.
I have been to 3 feed stores & when I ask for turkey starter, they bring out gamebird feed. ??? The Gardening with Guineas lady recommends pine shavings so I am ambivalent about it. Now, since I live in FL, I have a ready supply of sand & am intrigued by using that in the brooder.