The babies ended up being black with Yellow wing tips and yellow Crop/ Breast area(To my understanding the yellow fluff become white feathers at maturity)and orange or orange and black feet with dark black legs.
I am about to let my pair accumulate a clutch and see if she sits on them, she has built a nest that she lays an egg in every day that i have been collecting every time, starting tomorrow morning I will stop gathering them and see if she sits on them once she has collected enough, hopefully she...
In the Brooder
Hi, I have a question, I have tried incubating chicken eggs for the first time, I started with 12 eggs, and on day 5 I candled them and threw away the ones without any clear signs of development, so now I have 8 out of 12 that seem to still be alive, my question is, every time I...
I just tried and it looks like two yolks floating around, this time they don't appear to be fused together. I imagine that twins would hatch if it was incubated, given that it was successful, however my incubator is already full, I got some mixed chicken eggs from somebody close to me.
Good advice, thank you! However I now have to wait until I get some more normal eggs since she just started laying less than a week ago, Three eggs so far have been double yolk, two conjoined yolks. Hopefully I will get some normal eggs good for hatching, also I am curious to see what hatches...
I have a question, I am trying to incubate duck eggs, it had been in the fridge for a few days, after taking it out of the fridge I put it straight into the incubator instead of letting it reach room temperature first, will it still hatch?
Update, they are two weeks and 4 days old and so far I'm still telling them apart, they are getting big, trying to fly out of the tote, very active little things. Brooder lamp is only at 80 degrees and they don't seem to mind, also feathering out nicely.