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I have a Genesis 1588 Hovabator, and it has one 1/2" vent hole on the ceiling, and a couple of pencil-width holes around the perimeter of the incubator's floor. I have done 24 hatches and, in every single one, the chicks are panting and I always end up with 20-40% chicks that died in the shell...

I have a 5-week-old Japanese quail rooster whose right eye is irritated and swollen (not sealed shut, but he keeps it shut), whose tissue around the left eye is puffy, and whose sinuses are bulging. What might he be suffering from? He is in with two other roosters and three hens, but I don't...

I have a three-year-old hen who has gone totally blind in one eye, and is going blind in the other. Pictured below is the blind eye, and I am wondering why it is blue/white, and if there is any way I can prevent the other eye from going totally blind (the other eye has just a little bit of...

I have a chicken that was born with one eye, and where the eye would have been was covered over with skin. Recently, the eyeless area started to swell, and then somehow the swollen area opened and seems to be full of a sort of cheesy pus and some fluid. The hen has been acting totally normal...

I have absolutely no clue how it happened, and I know I didn't miscalculate, but I have three pips on day 17. The eggs are still in the turner, the humidity is around 20%, and I don't want to open the incubator to remove the turner or add water because I have 34 other eggs in there. What should...

I just culled a hen with egg peritonitis, and I was wondering if it is safe to eat her?

I have a three-year-old RSL hen who has been acting very lethargic for the past several weeks. She has not laid for perhaps a year, and when she did, she often laid soft-shelled eggs. She stands around most of the day with her head tucked in, but does eat and occasionally preens herself. Her...

I have a frazzled bantam cochin cockerel which came from a frizzle x frizzle mating where I started by breeding two frizzles, and then bred one of the frizzled offspring back to the mother which produced the male pictured below. He and his sister were extremely bald at first, but they soon...

I have tons of ferns in my yard, and I was wondering if I could use them instead of other types of bedding. Any opinions?

A few minutes ago, I found my 2-month-old male bantam cochin chick lying on the ground with his feet tucked under him. I picked him up, and he didn't move much but drew his neck in and blinked, and I looked for injuries and that sort of thing but didn't find anything. Some things I did notice...

During my past two hatches, I have ended up with a number of chicks that never breached their air-cells and which, upon my opening their eggs, I found that they were all dead. I am going to list a summary of the conditions of my past two hatches in hopes that someone will see what went wrong and...

I bred my black male bantam cochin to my blue female bantam cochin, and I got a splash chick. How is that possible?

This rooster got into a fight, and he had some small cuts on his face which I believe have become infected. I have started him on penicillin, but is there anything else I can do for him? Could I drain any of the swelling? Are the yellow parts filled with pus or something? He is still moderately...

I need to administer penicillin, and the lady at the feedstore said that I needed 18 gauge needles for penicillin, so I got them. When I was reading about how to administer it, the articles I was reading said to administer it using a 20 gauge needle or higher. So can I not use the 18 gauge...

I have a bantam cochin rooster who got into a fight with another rooster a few days ago. His face had some cuts and so I cleaned him up and began treating him with neosporin. The day before yesterday his face started to swell slightly, and now his face, comb, wattles, and ears are very puffy...

I have been trying to sell a number of 1-2 month old roosters I hatched in my incubator for $2 a piece, but no one is interested. Is this too expensive? I am willing to drop my price, but then I might as well be giving them away.

On day 18 I raised the humidity to 65%, and it has maintained that until today. It is now day 20, and about 1/4 of the chicks have started pipping, but the humidity has dropped to 55% during the past few hours and none of the chicks are making progress, and I am worried that they are sticking. I...

I have eggs from three different flocks in my incubator, and I am wanting to know if I can make dividers to keep them separate so I'll know which is which. If this is possible, could I use metal screen? Or some other material?

I have a silkie who looks like his head has been put on the wrong way; sort of sideways. I first noticed it when the chick was a few days old, and over the past month it seems to have gotten better such that I can hardly see the tilt. So now he is a little over a month old and yesterday when I...

One of my chicks that hatched this morning is acting fine, but it is panting and it is the only one doing it. Should I do something for it? Is it thirsty? The temperature is normal and I still have unhatched eggs in the incubator, so I am reluctant to open it and remove the chick. Also, does...