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I've had chickens and ducks for many years. However this is the first year I have locked all of them up for the winter...had a rough winter from hawks. They can still go out but their run is much smaller than they are use to because I only enclosed half. That's not the problem. It's inside the...

It somewhat looks like the pic in your link...but not quite as bad. I just checked her and it seems to be going up on its own and she seems perfectly fine. Thanks for the link.

Well we put her in warm water for about 30 mins. That relaxed her and we were able to get the egg out....most disgusting thing I've ever had to do...but that comes with owning animals! She seems fine but the canal or membrane/wall, whatever it's called is still hanging. It's not as low as it...

I just took in a female turkey who is about 2 years old. She has been laying eggs but not since I've had her...I got her on Saturday. Last night she started to lay. I have chickens and am not familiar with how turkeys do it or how long it takes. You can see the egg hanging and it's surrounded...

I did candle them and since ducks are different than chickens I didnt know really what I was looking for...other than movement. All of my attempts at duck eggs have been the same. They develop on one side of the egg. Intead of settling and filling in the larger part of the chicken egg leaving an...

Well today is day 33...so far 3 have hatched and are healthy, 3 more are almost there. I did have to assist because they are super dry, even though the humidity is at 80%! The membrane is so dry and stuck to them. Looking thru the hole their bill sticks out you could tell their fluff was dry and...

Ok, another update. I left my bright flashlight on by mistake on top of the incubator this morning when I checked on them. I just went back up there and they are hatching!! I wonder if it was to dark and they thought it was sleep time and the bright light helped them realize to wake up and come...

Ok, it's been 48 hours for some of my eggs. No more progress. They seem much quieter and some dont seem to make any noise. Humidity still good. Leave them or help them? I dont want to help them but nothing I have read says 48 hours and if they die it will hurt knowing I could have helped them...

It has been a full 24 hours since the first two pipped. One of the two havent made any progress...this one has a tear in the membrane and if I shine a flashlight on it just right I see little yellow feathers shift away from the hole but the egg itself isnt moving anymore. The other one is...

I just had a hen hatch one baby but sat on 8 eggs. She has always hatched babies...her own plus every other hen in my flock. One hatched overnight so in the morning I came out to see her and her little one. She was caring for the one while sitting on 7 more. #2 hatched and she kicked it out form...

Thanks so much. I havent opened the lid. I'm just so nervous because of my last two attempts. I let them be and on day 32 nothing happened after the pip and partial zip, one bad egg sort of exploded so I had to get the other ones out because I could still hear them chirping very weak. They were...

Five are a pip with a raised shell, a couple have like two pips...I guess where it will turn into a zip. One the shell is off and the membrane exposed with a rip in the membrane where it's bill was sticking out yesterday. This was the second to pip and that was about 10 a.m. yesterday. The...

This is my third and final attempt at hatching Pekin's. Each time I got a couple but I had to help them out. Six pipped between early morning yesterday through the evening. Some just a pip and some made a little more progress. I was determined to let them hatch out by themselves this time (if I...

Thanks....I never try to help chicks or ducks but the ones that were pipped with a large hole were really chirping and sounded frantic one did die that is why I decided to help. when I looked closely at them they were very dry so I just peeled back around the hole and they started to push out. I...

This is not my first time hatching incubated ducks but it's my first time with a problem. They are on day 30 today, they pipped early morning yesterday and last night some time. They made no progress. I helped by peeling the shell back just a little so they could push their bill out and...

The are brand new...maybe 3 days old. I'm just going to not think about them I guess. We save or try to save every stray, every bird that falls from a nest, it's time to just let what happens happen.

Can a pet rabbit who is currently still nursing her kits foster wild rabbits? My mom is about done, I can take the babies out now, they are 7 weeks. I still see the little ones trying to nurse but dont know if she still is. My husband mowed over a rabbit nest yesterday. First cut of the season...

Thanks! I really didnt think about it being a false preg or that she is ready to breed again. I did know it meant her baby would have had to father them. Sick in the real world but didnt know about the animal world! I'm moving them ASAP anyway....no more babies!!!!!!

Thank you to all who have helped me over the past few months with my rabbit issues. We have the boy seperated now so no more babies...so I thought. My two babies are just 8 weeks old. This weekend I was going to move them away from the mom and into their own cages since one is a boy and one is...

I dont know what to do. He pipped last night. Now there is a big hole in the shell, it never zipped. It's entire beak is out as well as his head when he sticks it out. It's very wet...which I'm sure is a good thing. The membrane is away from the sides of the shell (at least part surrounding the...