I have a broody hen, who has managed to hatch 2 chicks. But the other 2 eggs still have not Hatched. What do I do, if they don't hatch in the next 2 days. It is now day 23 or 24.
I have a solo 3 day old Oxford Old English Game chick who is wonderfully healthy (eating and drinking as well as using its wings at only 2 days old) and fantastic with people. I felt sorry for it as non of the other eggs in the batch were fertile and tried to introduce a runner duckling who is...
Right on time, exactly at 8 a.m.. Placed the eggs in the Little Giant Incubator 21 days ago at 8a.m.. Far out! Time to play the lottery.
51 eggs all hand turned average 4 times a day. Candled at day 15 and had 37 positive fertile eggs. We put hot tap water soaked washcloths rolled up in all 4...
I have an incubator with 18 eggs and they are starting to hatch today. We decided to incubate the eggs ourselves so that our hens would continue to lay eggs. As it happens, one of our hens (who ironically is the mother of the eggs we are incubating), went broody two days ago. Instead of...
I have two Leghorn chicks which are two weeks old. Cleo and Tilda. I think Cleo may be a rooster, "she" has no tail feathers and a larger comb, but.... "her" wings look like pullet wings (all the different lengths).
Tilda on the left, Cleo on the right.
Tilda in the front, Cleo in the back...
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Hey from Oklahoma! I'm a teacher, and thanks to another teacher who is also a farmer, I was able to incubate & hatch chicks in my classroom. (We also had tadpoles from my pond & the kids got to watch them change into frogs!) We started out with 28 eggs, and ended up with 15 chicks. The most...