I read an read how to tell hen or roo in barred rock.
1. Feet dark in hens.
2. Spot on head irregular with possibly stretching to neck and ears in roo.
But 5 looks like roo from head but hen colored feet?
Ive read contradicting information about feather sexing and which one has long and short...
First time hatcher in incubator. Hatching SEEMS TO BE EARLY. Some liquid gushed out with one chic....looked like a red string thing was still attached to the egg. I came back 5 minutes later to check and this is what i found. She seems fine otherwise. Active as of now. It seems to be drying...
Just reading the one that's in the incubator. Its my 1st time but I noticed the outer membrane was brown and completly separated from the egg shell with no veins or blood at all. Also had small amount of light brown fluid leak out when i pulled a piece of the outer membrane off the chick.
After day 25 and still no movement i put a hole in the air cell to find dead chickens. 1 almost absorbed the entire yoke so i assume they died right before hatch. What did i do wrong. Incubated at 100.4 degrees and then upped humidity to 65 percent at day 18.
I had a dozen eggs i kept in cool dark place to put in an an incubator when i got it. Took too long to get it so only 2 eggs ended up veining. Now they are at day 23. When i candled before lockdown and now since not hatching there is a large light area. no movement but seems to be some fluid...
Yes we put a stick in their brooder too and they did use it and then when I first put the roosting poles up in the coop for them I put them low to the ground and then never use them so then I just recently put them higher up but I still never see them on them and I've checked them at night and...
I added pics. Roosting poles are just 3 or 4 ft from floor and ceiling. You think I should take the woods ceiling I put up down and just put cloth there instead?