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Thanks! 23 out 0of 26 is a pretty good hatch!

I did clip it but it was looking much drier......I suspect it would have fallen off on its own now. There was no bleeding but it does look like fresh blood where it enters teh body. Iguess that i sfrom pulling around the egg. It has been in the incubator for 4 hours now and is steadyon it's...

It still looks a bit wet but it is all twisted......should I cut it? How long does this usually take? The others dropped their shells very soon after hatching

HI, My 3 hour old chick has not dropped it's shell. The "cord" is still attched to the chick who is dragging it around in the incubator. I did give it a gentle tug and it did not come free. It is moving around in there and seems fine. Will this hurt the chick? Should I do anything to it...

I borrowed a bard rock......left him with my girls for about 9 days.......started collecting on day 5 finished on day 9 out of 51 eggs total set in incubator 2 different days. Fertialization rates.....26 of the 51 were fertile determined from candling. Of those I have had 23 of them...

Hi, My daughter and I are working on a science project. We have pure bred Bard Rocks, Austrolorps, Rhode Island Reds and one Deleware. We are crossing them with a Bard Rock rooster. We are keeping all the offspring to add to our flock....except for the roosters. The question we have is...

My daughter is 11. We are homeschoolers and have been studying genetics this semester. She has grasped a good deal of the concepts already. Wetalked about it this morning and she came up with a hypothesis.......of ...........If barring is a dominant trait then we should be able to look at the...

The rooster is the the Bard Rock......we borrowed him...pure bred. He bred with bard rocks, austrloprs and rhode island reds. I am going to inspect the chicks for size and definition of their head spots......most of them have a head spot a few do not. They all are black , one has 2 brown...

I am sure this question has been asked many times......can I sex my chicks? I crossed a Bard Rock with a Bard rocks and a Bard rock with Austrolorps....do either of those species of bird have any sex linked traits that you know of?

All of them seem healthy. The one that hatched yesterday ( day 22) is smaller than the others but some of them are already 3 days older than her. I am calling them all hers at this point. I am hopeful and trying to will them to be girls! Ha ha! I am going to try to post some pics.....I am...

Hi, I wanted to share that my first set of eggs this year hached over the last few days. I set 15 Plymouth Bard Rocks crosses 13 of those have hatched. Yippeeeeeeee! They started hatching on day 19....most hatched on day 19 and 20....one hatched on day 21 and one yesterday on day 22. The 2...

This morning day 16.....things were well when I turned the eggs. Temp 101 now 4 hours later the temp was 103! Have I killed them? Please advise....I am worries. I am using a still air incubator and things have been well....until now. Does anyone know if the temp increase for 4 hours was...

Hi, We set eggs on Tuesday and tonight candled them. Out of 38 we have 13 that were fertile, 5 we are unsure of and 20 that were not fertile. We were hoping to have a better fertility rate but I think I started collecting eggs too soon after the borrowed rooster arrived. I want to know if I...