If I had to guess it may be bruising/pooled blood. Did you find this in every bird? How did you dispatch them? Killing cone? Holding down and removing the head?
In very large meat birds I have also seen globes of white or cream colored fat which my husband, a Quebec butcher, calls "Suif du...
Yes, she is in great condition. Her first hatch is 8 weeks old now and have been on their own since 5 weeks. I separated them once she started laying again.
Thanks for your input :)
Monday I excitedly received 48 Barred Rock eggs from B.C. Canada. I let them sit 48 hours and they have been in my incubator ever since. So that would make 2 full days in the incubator without rotation. Today my good mama Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace hen went full blown broody on me again. She...
Final Count: 7 Canadian Blue Bresse and 9 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace. Only 30% hatch rate on the shipped eggs but they did come a very long way. Sorry for the delayed post but we are battling flooding with the big thaw up here. Here are the pictures!
OK Scotch tape baby didn't make it :( But out of the 24 shipped Canadian Bresse we got lucky 7 healthy chicks! From our own 11 Bantam Wyandotte Golden Lace we got 9:jumpy Good day on the homestead.
9 bantams hatched! 2 bantams and 15 Bresse to go. 2 Bresse have externally piped. Now I have moved the 9 cheerleaders to the brooder I can hear some small peeps :D
Just answered my own question from the articles section on BYC
"My Eggs are Hatching Early!
Again, are you sure you have the hatch date calculated correctly? Was your temperature a little too high? High temperatures will cause eggs to hatch early. Or, are you incubating a small bantam breed...
OK so I'm in lock down and hatch day, the 21st day is tomorrow approximately 8:30 pm. 2 of my own Bantam Wyandottes are showing pip holes starting. I have hatched 2 batches of leg horn/ red sex-link chickens last year. I have never seen early starters. Anyone ever seen bantams or otherwise start...
Well we are in the final countdown here. I did my final candle tonight. 2 of the Bresse (one of them being the scotch tape baby) seem to have died in late development :( . I just took them out of their cradles and laid them on the floor of the incubator. I also raised the humidity to 70%. Here...