I have 8 fertile chicken eggs in my incubator. At some point in the first week my incubator stopped turning the eggs I think for maybe two days. I just candled them and all the air sacs it seems are on the side. There is a small spot on the top but not much. They are all developing and I could...
Well there were two more eggs kicked out yesterday. One had nothing in it but the other did have a small fetus (can that be used in duck terms?). I think we are down to a dozen or less now, she really wouldn't let me look, tried to beak me lol. Chickens Really I think was on to something...
I hope she comes home soon! We have lost 6 ducks this year. Thought we had lost another but he ended up coming home after 24 hours. Beat up, but home and healing! Good luck!
I have two Swedish hens. We started letting them keep their eggs around the end of May (wish I had been paying more attention) and once there was about 10 eggs one of the hens started brooding constantly. We ended up with a total of 21 and then the other hen started brooding constantly. That...
I live on 90 acres and we recently (4-5 months ago) purchased 7 chickens (ok, hubby did, total surprise on my part). We also currently have 8 ducks, but 2 of our females are sitting on 18 eggs at the moment so may have more soon! We have 5 parrots, 3 B&G macaws, an African grey and a yellow...