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I had a chick (about 6 weeks old) who had wry neck on and off. After about 2 weeks it went away on its own without us altering anything. I think sometimes while growing their nerves/tendons have to catch up with their muscles and bones or it could be it got pulled. I could also be full of beans!

Final tally: Swedish Flower Hen: All 4 duds :/ Hedemora: 1 infertile / 1 who failed to hatch / 5 hatchers Barnevelders: 2 who didn't hatch / 11 hatchers Isbar: 1 egg, one chick 4 infertiles / 1 quitter / 3 who failed to hatch 17 chicks, all so far healthy with no hatch issues and good...

Ideally, both of their parents (on premises) were of pure stock so I hope so!

Ask and you shall receive ;) Not all were in the photo op! Hedemora and double silver-laced Barnevelder bantams (the striped ones)

We need some of your heat, FridayYet! I think tomorrow morning we'll make the executive decision to round up the chicks fast-like so the others can have room.

It's a Barnevelder explosion! Six have hatched today and there are 5 more pipping (including the lone Isbar!). There are 20 eggs in my Octagon 20 (holds 24) and with the chicks and empty shells it's getting quite crowded. The other part is the chicks knocked over the humidity gauge so I'm in...

Two more barnevelders have pipped! The original still isn't doing much visibly but I think they need a crowbar to get out of those thick bantam shells.

Swab the area with honey or an antibacterial and keep him as clean and dry as possible.

Has anyone noted if bantam or smaller eggs take longer to zip from pipping? There's been a crack in one egg for at least 9 hours, not a whole lot of external progress but I heard it peeping so that's encouraging. The large fowl eggs seemed to crack much faster. But I do notice smaller eggs...

I have the same model you do. Yes, you can take down the dividers as they will just run over them anyway. The first hatch I did I put a wet washcloth between the two compartments. It made it maybe a bit too high once they started hatching. This time I did not add any cloth but it has been a...

First chick pipping: a barnevelder bantam! I'm at work missing all the action, but the hubs called to report. ;)

It would result in a mixed breed. Your particular chick must have had some genetic abnormality, I'm not aware of any lethal genes for those two breeds. Congrats all on the early chicks! Day 19.5 here, ready for some babies...

I did candle on day 9 and day 18, chucked the few that weren't fertile or had died previously. The 20/25 eggs left looked dark and full of chick. Most of the time we didn't see much movement, but then again they don't have a lot of room to do so. What air cells we observed didn't look too bad so...

Once they start popping it'll likely jump past 70%. I'd read but forgot hatching eggs increase humidity. During my last hatch I had the last few chicks have swollen bellies/rough navels, I think, because the moisture level was too high once most of the hatching was done. A few didn't even...

Tonight is day 18 though I was having humidity issues about 4 & 7 days ago. Unfortunately I didn't weigh the eggs (this is my second ever hatch) but we do have a small digital scale we'll try to implement next time (were going to do it this time then forget several days in). Humidity currently...

Lockdown tonight! The lone Swedish Flower Hen egg looks like it died around day 13 or so. It didn't fill the egg :( It was hard to see movement this time though all of the other eggs were dark and filled. I was worried to death I had harmed them when the humidity (when it was humid outside)...

A friend was over so we did a fastfast candling of two eggs to show him. The Hedemora egg we thought was questionable tonight had a bouncing embryo.

It looks like it might be the navel. Or it laid in some poop.

Husband's birthday was tonight and we had a small crowd and a youngster so we decided to do this batch's first candling. My husband said not to count my chickens before they hatch so I told him this is a preliminary! Day 9: 4 Swedish Flower Hen: Only 1 we clearly saw an embryo. The rooster...

Glad to have another participant! What breed did you purchase from eBay?