Hello again 👋 hatching advice needed…. Timeline of events below:
• 1st May sat broody hen on 5 eggs
• Hen died 18th May due to red mite infestation - had laid 3 own eggs by this time but I don’t know when
• Decided no life in eggs and disposed all except 1 with a visible chick
• Now 1st June...
I am really, REALLY new to all of this but through my extensive hours of research I’m led to believe you keep this guy in the incubator and gently moisten the visible membrane using a sterile cotton pad and either sterile water or coconut oil. You have to do this regularly to stop the membrane...
UPDATE! I managed to get a clearer video of the egg in question, remember I said she had since laid 3 of her own? I now think this is one of her own thus behind on my original dates. 🤞🏼
Sadly, it won’t let me attach the video for your eggs-perts to see but I plan to give this one another week...
Thank you for taking the time to reply! I too thought the chick looked underveloped, do I just allow nature to take its course and presume baby will die naturally inside the egg? She is very actively moving at the moment
Hello! It’s a long one so buckle up.
My husband and I are hobby chicken owners, we have a small flock and one of our chesire blues suddenly went very bloody (rare, I know)!
A friend had fertile cream crested legbar eggs so we set 5 under her (she has since laid 3 of her own which we have left...