Hi gang,
A month ago I bought 4 peafowl eggs from a lovely guy near me. I put them in my (very cheap) hobbyist incubator with little hope but and interest to see what happened.
This morning we work to one hatched and two pipped which was exciting!
By late afternoon, it was clear that the...
Would anyone be interested in Dutch Owlbeard eggs? My breeding stock is from Greenfire Farms. The hens are lemon, the rooster is a lemon/gold mixture. They are pickup only, since I am not NPIP certified. $7 each or $75 for a dozen.
Hi All,
I have a big broody Orpington/Brahma and she's super keen to sit on eggs. Been trying to break her for a good week, she's currently sat in chicken jail and I just feel terrible for her so having second thoughts about maybe putting some eggs under her to hatch.
I was going to order...
hello! i have a female duck that has been laying an egg per day for almost 2 years but on May 8th she began making a nest and laying all of her eggs there… none of them are fertile since i don’t have a drake, but it’s been over a month and the last few days she’s been refusing to move so now i...
hen hatched one baby chick last Monday. Separated mom and baby and they’re doing great. Unexpectedly had another egg hatch today in the main coop with 2 hens laying on top of it. When I moved them to collect eggs I saw it and one of them protected the baby and the other looked like it’s shoving...
I have a GQF cabinet incubator for sale. I believe it is a 1200 series. It has 3 egg trays, holds 290 chicken eggs, water reserve system with bucket, auto Turner, 6 adjustable vents on back, high volume air circulating fan, newer electric thermostat, and backup wafer system. Works great, I've...
I've been getting into raising rarer breeds of chickens/poultry, so I'm looking for breeding pen/coop ideas. I have lots of groups/pairs I would like to keep separate so I was wondering if anyone had any info/ideas to help me out. I found a few double decker cage ideas online, which seem very...
When to go into lockdown? Egg #1 and 2 have been wiggling, and Egg #3 has been just no movement of any kind. Egg #1 & 2 are in an incubator together, and Egg #3 is in an incubator by itself. It's Day 25. We tried to candle them with a heat lamp ontop, and flashlight underneath, to keep the...
I’m at a loss on ideas i tried looking up what could cause this and can’t find anything. the eggs are rested a few hours before put in and put in pointy end down humidity on lockdown is 70% and temperature is 99.5 this egg was doing fine moving when i put it in the incubator for lockdown on day...
All the rest have hatched while we were on vacation )we had someone watching them.) except this one. We figured it’d hatch out by now we collected these all about the same time. But to me it kinda looks like it stoped growing but I’m not too sure how to tell and the dark kinda blood spot on...
Looking for either African or Super African hatching eggs... I need 6 of them. Looking for this color pattern, please show me the color of your stock. And please don't be offended if I decline... looking for this specific coloration. Will need to be shipped to Rincon, GA. Thanks in advance!
This egg has been like this for 8 hours. Membrane is starting to dry out and turn brown. The last time this happened I had to assist the chick out. Should I wait a little longer before assisting? I don’t want to ruin the other eggs. Most have pipped but not made any progress in the 8hrs I’ve...
i am hatching mallard duckling that were abandoned by the mother since the second day, and when they first started hatching, 3 of the 4 eggs made an external pip and died for unknown reasons, the fourth started cracking yesterday and it was chirping 5 hours ago but now he isn’t moving much and...
It’s day 23 for my eggs under Blackberry ( broodie ). Yesterday morning I went to let my chickens out, everyone ( except Blackberry ) came out as usual. I scoped up three cups of pellets for 11 chickens outside, then I scooped a small bit of stage two chick food out for Blackberry ( I usually...
I started with 7 eggs, all fertile and all were growing and developing fine. 3 days ago I candled and 2 of the eggs had died and stopped growing, no veins and the inside was yellow. There 2 both had much smaller airsacs then the rest so I’m assuming that is why they died? I removed those 2 and...
We’re incubating and hatching chicks it’s our first time and we hatched the first 2 successfully, i have one that i heard chirping from inside the egg so i came over to look and saw the shell had a crack in it but i haven’t heard anything and it hasn’t cracked anymore in 3 hours, the other 2...
Long story and some commentary. This is a weird one, at least for me.
I have hatched eggs about a dozen times succesfully, four with my Brinsea Maxi 24 Advanced with this being my fifth. This last batch we had a problem with the incubator, and power outages. The turning motor stopped working. I...
I have five eggs in lockdown right now and I just want to make sure I have everything right.
I have a little Govee thermometer/hygrometer monitoring everything and the temperature is rock solid but I feel like the humidity might be a little high. Should I keep the humidity on the higher end or...
So I had a muscovy duck sit on 6 eggs, shes been sitting for around 3 weeks now, candled them and only 1 is growing. I took two eggs away as they was rotten and smelt bad. Shes abandoned the nest since I removed them, she was off the nest for 5 hours till I noticed, the eggs was cold. Since I...
We've lived in Arizona for 30 years. In 2012 our friend and neighbor Lou passed. He would put rocks up on the top columns of his patio for doves to nest. Doves are horrible nest builders and often their eggs roll out of their flimsy built nest.
The neighbor who bought his home had no interest...