Ive read some ppl lockdown day 14, im on 15... i have eggs desperately needing to go in incubator their getting old. They are silkie eggs but first year laying so they are tiny compared to regular silkie eggs... if you think i can lockdown early is the humidity ok at 60% at this stage as i cant...
Baby chick hatched last night looked all happy healthy left him in incubator all night to strengthen and fluff but by this morning it is floor surfing it cannot lift its body up into right position that ud expect from new chicks ... i think problem is it was in a low humidity incubator overnight...
Sorry if its in wrong category..
Is this newly hatched silkie a paint?
Born today about 6 hours ago
Only one small black dot on the head definately not blue
Yesterday while at work my king suro power cut out i have different stage eggs incubating in it 😭😭😭😭😭 put it back on after possibly being off 6 hours .. candled 2 random eggs they still alive but last night after going to sleep middle of the night the lid fell off whilst turning 😲😲😲😲 no idea how...
So was contacted to help fix this chick for someone, im guessing its 3 weeks old .. they said it was born like this and they purchased from a bad breeder they felt sorry for it and hoped they could fix it, they took it to vet and they couldnt see a break and prescribed pain meds. But they didnt...
So my hatch was supposed to be all lavender and blue silkies, but this pink skinned 4 toed chick has hatched?? My friend who gave me the silkie eggs said he only has silkies no idea how this has happened he came out of a silkie shaped egg .. no idea if mums own chicken eggs have muddled in...
So ive just hatched a siamese silkie egg
Mum is white siamese silkie
Dad is a LF black silkie
Wat ive hatched is a white skin, 5 toed, white silkie with black patches =paint or splash, BUT theres no such thing on google so does that mean there is no siamese splash/paint??
HELP PLEASE
I have a LF silkie that was POL late last season so didnt start laying until this season, ive placed her eggs in the incubator and each one is fertile but never made it past a week in incubator before giving up and not progressing, i have other silkie eggs from other hens in same incubator doing...
Is this mites? Bought some light sussex from someone, seperated in 3 pens .. this chicken is in pen 1 .. now another in pen 2 looking same. I put DE in pen 1 already.
I know that i am obsessed with knowing what sex my silkies are before they lay or cockadoodledo, and that i have many posts asking what ppl think im sorry BUT i have to know.
These pictures ive taken today were took because i love my silkies and their just so darn cute and at the time werent...
Im positive my chickens have cocci .. the sympyoms are exactly as stated ...
Ive bought harkers coxoid treatment (contains amprolium) we started treatment today and have dosed it out exactly as shown on label and put in the required water amount ..
Ive read mixed reviews on weather or not we...
Before 1 week old i used the wing sexing method on ny 5 baby chicks and the method seemed to show they were girls so i kept them. They are now 7-8 weeks old and i see what i think are streamers 😭😭😭😭 on atleast 2 of them, can someone put me out of my misety and proove me right or wrong, if im...
Ive hatched few partridges their normally darker than this... is there such thing as buff partridge.. 🤨🤨 tried googling it but wasnt clear so im guessing im wrong
So by next spring i will have ..
3 males, black, blue bow tie, grey
6 females, 2 black, 1 white, 1 lavender, 1 grey paint
What colour MIGHT i get if i breed these 3 groups ...
Group1..
black male with white fem and grey paint
Group2.. blue bowtie male with blue fem and lav fem
Obvs ill...
Im very impatient and i candle mine at day 4 i have a very good candler and can see very well.. ive never been wrong in my fertility determinations at this stage, ive had a few im not sure about and left them in longer or dark shells that i cant see thru.
Reason i ask is someone gave me 5 eggs...
Born yesterday..
Cant walk just shuffles with feet forward which was my initial problem
But now hes full of gas and cant release it
Ive fed him yolk tonight with vit b complex as advized by soneone here
Given belly masages
Hes only happy if i hold him in squat position
Hos vent is almost...
Hes just crawling around ... hatched yesterday .. i placed him in brooder after fluffing up and soon noticed its just crawling with legs to the front .. hes been seperated from rest ever since .. ive treated him for spraddle leg even though its legs are not to the side, ive read maybe its...