I just had a chick born like this. It was the yolk sack I think. Mine now seems to be pulling out some of his insides. I think we are goint to put him down at this point.
We bought some from ebay and some of them were rather poopy! I have not hatched any quite this dirty before. Should I wash the few that are really dirty. I was unable to scrape the dry poo off with my fingernail (gross). These were packed super well, way better than the last ebay buys which both...
We have a Brower Top Hatcher. It's got auto turner and we have done several hatches with chicks, 1 of ducks and 1 with button quail. It seems to work pretty well. My fav parts are the entire top is clear acrylic plastic. So a really good view of the hatching for our kids. It holds up to about 40...
We hatched 18 out of 44. The last hatched late this morning and I'm guessing we are done now. All seem very healthy and are doing great. We did have some issues with shrink wrap. It is extremely dry here in north east colorado. We have trouble keeping humidity up for hatching. I don't know how...
We had one a few yrs ago with similar sounding wounds. Ours also had her neck skin ripped off. She was a leghorn mix pullet we'd bought at feedstore & I thought for sure she would die. But I'm a nurse and my kids BEGGED me to "save" her. I kept it clean as possible and kept her in a makeshift...
Last year somethng wiped out a bunch of our flock, including most ducks. We had magpie ducks. We were left with 1 male duck. A friend gave us a couple duck eggs which we were able to hatch only 1. Her's were mixed and the duck we hatched is now about full grown. It is basically all black and...
I had that happen to me one of my 1st tries hatching eggs. Dropped the lid & racked 3 eggs. About the same day as yours but mine were not as badly damaged. I placed some scotch tape over the cracks. Everyone thought I was nuts, including a very experienced friend. Well, 2 of the 3 cracked eggs...
Some wild animal killed all our chickens! Major bummer. These were mostly 1/2 grown banyard mixes we'd hatched out from our own flock. My 5 yr old daughter was HEARTBROKEN to learn that Cupcake (the 1st chick we ever hatched) was dead. I have picks of her with CupCake as a fresh hatchling and...
We have 8 Hyline white leghorn types. We bought them from a local small egg ranch as yr old hens. They are AMAZING layers, huge white eggs and lay just about every day even tho they are about 2 yrs old now. Ours are smallers light birds. They are not overly crazy about us messing with them, but...
I saw that some hatcheries sell a jello type stuff for new chicks. It said it gives them hydration and a quick boost of nutrients. I was wondering if anybody makes their own stuff like this?
I used to have a zapper in my horse barn and the hens used to run for it every morning when we let them out. Free food & helping control pests. Win-win situation.
I am relatively new to this forum & to hatching. How does it all work if we want to play? My incubator is full right now so I can't take on any eggs till around April 12 or after.
I can offer from our mixed flock of free range layers. Hens are RIR, Hyline, and leghornx. Eggs colors are brown...
So where can you find shows? I haven't seen anything in our area but we are pretty out there in the boonies. Perhaps something in Denver since we are in CO?
I have had chickens forever but getting more into it lately. Just started hatching our own as we always started with day olds before. My question is where do people show their chickens? I've only seen shows for kids in county fairs, etc. Can adults show birds too?
We got home from walmart yesterday and our newly hatched chicked were screaming like crazy. We checked the brooder (an old ice chest in our laundry room) and found them standing in 1 inch water. They were FREEZING, one laying on it's back not moving & I thought for sure it was dead. Apparently...
This sounds like the ones we got off ebay. They were in a flat, not even a top on the flat. then just wrapped in bubble wrap around the entire flat. And then put into the priority box and a few plastic grocery bags shoved in around it. No individual wrapping, no double box, the eggs were free to...