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I’m not seeing any movement from this egg and it looks different from the others, is it dead? The others are semi clear and I can see the babies perfectly, they’re at day 18. Oh and this egg feels kinda cold despite it being 99.4 in the incubator

So as an FFA side project I decided to see if I could hatch out duck eggs without the help of a modern incubator. I know it sounds weird but bear with me. I know I can successfully hatch out ducks like this due to intensive research of how they used to do it before we had modern incubators(with...

so, here's the story and I know this doesn't go in this thread but I need help asap I have a duckling who was set on 1/20, went into lock down thursday and it is now sunday night. turns out my humidity was much lower than I though and I saw the baby being really active but now activity is slow...

so I set this last little surviving egg on 1/20 and it went into lock down thursday, it is now late sunday afternoon. she appears to be very active but hasn't pipped yet and I'm wondering if I should make a tiny safety hole to check to make sure the membrane isn't too dry for her to pierce. I...

So I noticed my pekin hen was getting sick a while ago so I’ve had her separated in isolation as soon as I noticed her sick. And when I say sick I mean head down, limp, barley moving and when moving is super slow and appears painful, wheezing, runny nose, and I think her eyes are dripping?About...

So one of my ducklings pipped internally yesterday around noon I’m guessing and I decided to check on her since I’m using a homemade incubator and I noticed that she’s still in the exact same way she was yesterday with just the tip of her bill in the air sac and it doesn’t look like she’s made...

so I have a maybe four or five year old pekin hen that's small ofr her breed which is why she's still alive and not meat. I came out yesterday morning to let out my birbles and I saw her laying in a corner and I thought maybe she was laying an egg so I left her alone. I came home and she was...

So, while I was checking the eggs to see if I needed to toss any since I'm hatching these by myself, I accidentally cracked an egg. the membrane isn't pierced and It's around day 7 for that egg. I gave that little guy another day to see if that killed em but it appears that it's doing just fine...

I came out this morning to my hens feet looking like this, and when I picked her up, it looked like she had bumblefoot. So I went and soaked her feet in a warm bath with Epsom salt in it for about 10-15 minutes. after I pulled her out, I dried her feet and flipped her on her side so I could...

I have a two year old Aracuana that appears to have bumblefoot on both of her feet, she's really flighty so I have no idea how long she has had it since I only caught her this morning to return her to her pen. I've never had to treat bumblefoot before and I would love some advice on how to treat...

I got three hens with mites and I'm going to be using a quarter gallon spray bottle to spray them with, how much permethrin should I put in it? I have the 10% permethrin spray. should I also spray down all of the coops and birds just in case as a precaution as well?

One of my silkie hens had gone broody and so I picked her up and put her outside while I collected the eggs she was sitting on since I didn't want her to be broody, and when I came back to grab her, I noticed in her poop it looked like their was streaks of blood and a blood clot. is that from...

I have two hens and three roosters that need a new home since my dad says I own too many of them. the roosters are all absolute sweethearts that are friendly and calm and they are a father-son trio that wan't meant to happen but did, but they are all hand raised and well mannered. I really don't...

My two beautiful silkie boys need a new home since I can’t keep them anymore. They both are well mannered, get along really well with humans, won’t attack you once they know who’s boss, sweet, cuddly, and are healthy. The younger one does have some attitude but he never actually attacks. The...

I have a chick and its toes curl underneath it,causing it to not walk properly. Its' a day old and its a silkie chick so it has fluffy feet, what should i do to help straiten it's toes tat won't hurt it or pull out any of it's fluff? it can walk, but it stumbles when it tries to.

how do you tell with a chicken is mentally set back? I have a 5 month old chicken who is different in all ways both mentally and physically.and I think he is messed up in the head but how do I tell?

how does one get rid of the white stuff left on a bird after the bird has successfully been treated for mites? my black silkie rooster had mites a while back and he was treated for them but the white stuff remained on his butt fluff.

when can you tell if a chick is going to be a roo or a hen? I have two silkie chicks and one is a day older that the other and they are almost 2 month old. I can get pics when I get home if needed

when can you tell if a chick is going to be a roo or a hen? I have two silkie chicks and one is a day older that the other and they are almost 2 month old. I can get pics when I get home if needed

If one bred a black silkie rooster with some traces of gold and a beard,earmuffs, and really fluffy feet to a white silkie hen with small feathered feet,no beard and no earmuffs, what traits would end up dominant? Would the gold coloring become dominant?