I have a duckling (day 28) that has pipped on the wrong side of the egg. I noticed it late last night, and this morning there was a little progress, but not much. Is there anything that I should do? Do I need to assist- if so, when? Do I just let it do its thing? I’ve never had it pip on the...
I have 24 12-week old Production Red Pullets that have been isolated and fenced off from my 40 1-year old hens for 6 weeks. When can I introduce the chicks to my flock? A while back, one of the chicks slipped out and my hens severely injured her. I am afraid that I have super mean adult hens and...
I have some eggs that pipped over 24 hours ago, but the spot they pipped seems to be drying up. Do I need to assist these hatches? I’m worried about the membrane drying up and them getting stuck inside. I can see them moving around inside the egg but it appears to be drying up. I only have 1...
I am incubating duck eggs. Today is day 27 and I have one that is starting to turn black and hasn’t externally pipped yet (my others have). On Day 25, it was moving around a lot in the egg (the egg was shaking in the incubator). So I thought everything was good. Do I open the incubator and take...
I just hatched purebred mystic onyx chicks, or Atleast I thought I did. I separated my purebred mystic onyx hens and mystic onyx rooster and collected their eggs. 2 of the eggs just hatched, and one of the chick has white on it. Is this common? Or somehow did I mix up the eggs? The other tan...
I have starlight green Egger hens (green) with a mystic onyx rooster (light brown). I am trying to understand the genetics, if I were to put these in the incubator, would there be a 50/50 chance the offspring would lay green eggs? Any information is appreciated!
She is still laying eggs, but would rather lay down and be by herself. She still hunches up with her tail down. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with her.
I have a 10 month old ISA brown that I found today that just stands hunched with her tail down. She can stand, but after a while just lays down. I checked for lice/mites, foot injury, and everything seems okay and nothing out of the blue. I read up on egg bound so I gave her an Epsom salt bath...
I am incubating duck eggs and I had one externally pip on day 26- I know this is an early hatch. Today is day 27, and within 24 hours no progress was made and I needed to assist the hatch. I was able to get the duckling out, the yolk was absorbed. I put it back into the incubator but now it just...
I am hatching duck eggs. It is day 26, and I have about 25-ish eggs in the incubator. Some of the eggs are turning into this dark color and I am worried about if they are duds and if they are going to explode. The incubator is in lockdown, so I cannot open it as I have one egg that has...
They aren’t fully feathered yet, but when should I face to face introduce for short periods of time? I’m just worried if some form of aggression happens.
I hatched Pekin ducklings 2 weeks ago from eggs not directly from my Pekins in my flock. The other day, I put my ducklings outside (it’s very warm where I am so temp was the same inside as it was outside). I have a little playhouse inside the coop, and I put them in there where nothing was going...