Recent content by Jojociita

Hey hey again BYC! Today is internal pip day, however, I walked into the incubator room because of a LOUD cheep and realized that an egg (that had no pips an hour early nor was it moving or making noise) was 75% zipped. Within another 10 minutes, she was out. She looked like she pipped LOW but...

Quick backstory; I wanted to try and hatch chicks but can’t raise them, I have a coworker who has a flock, he brings my fertile eggs, I hatch them in a diy setup, I live on them for two weeks, then they go back with his flock. It’s a win win. Except he had a predator attack that killed many of...

I did a mite check to the best of my abilities. No other animals in the house(except my husband maybe 😝) and I do have a pothos plant I keep in the downstairs living room but it’s more free and I presume plant mites and chick mites wouldn’t overlap. I think they were just feathering as you...

I’m usually in crisis in the hatching forum, but here I am. I have a beautiful baby silkie (maybe 2 weeks) and two completely unknown 8 day old chicks. All very vocal and friendly (they like to charge my hand and vie for who gets to sit and sleep in it while my arm falls asleep. Regardless...

Hah, I did about 18 l-20 hrs of adhd hyper focused research reading through studies, and you’re 100% right. Frogs and amphibians are one thing, but the situations in which a chick just ‘changes genders’? Nah. And of the recorded studies of this ‘phenomenon’ were chicks with hermaphroditism , not...

Congrats!! It’s always a moment that I can’t quite describe. When a new baby makes it out and greets the world. Regardless of the future, that moment is beautiful and fills me with more elation and content than I can describe

lol yes that’s what I put in my original post. She’s gone to her flock and is thriving, just a big baby. But definitely the first issue I’ve had where they pipped and it was already drying out. Humidity was fine so all I can think is it was the size ofc but that indicates the hen was much older...

Look at that big baby!! Oh my goodness!!! I had a total of 3 hatch. One silkie, and two… I have no clue. All small eggs. The other two were a small medium brown(I swear it looks like a black copper maran lol but it’s def not) and a small cream(barely darker than the silkie egg and hatched out a...

Listen, never say never. I hatched 2 of EIGHT Egglands Best eggs. I was curious. They’re not supposed to have Roos but at the stage of puberty some pullets can outright just become cockerels. They don’t swap back and forth like frogs.. kinda a one time thing.. and I have no idea HOW it works...

We hit 28 hours with no progress just angry screeching, I went in and chipped a bit of shell, pre-moistened membrane with Bacitrin, set her back with a warm damp paper towel tented over her. Did this every 2 hours for roughly 10 hours, eventually she didn’t have much test to go but wouldn’t push...

noooooo! I’d be so conflicted. I love my kitty but the little babies 😭 Mine is still peeping every once in a while. The bleeding / vein seems to have chilled out so I have half a mind to give her a bit of a jumpstart and move a tiny bit of shell. It’s already 79% humidity in here in preparation...

Totally get that. From my limited experience, when working with DIY incubators all completely IoT, controlling humidity is a hair pulling nightmare. My first tries were way too high way too low, too much fluctuation.. it was a mess. I did do a dry hatch (dry incubation) on my current bator of...

Because I’m always here every Hatch Time, and after Oatmeal was the only hatch from my last clutch months ago, I’ve wholly reassessed and made changes. Still Not getting hatches even with ample circulation, temperature, humidity, AND separating the Silkies from Olive Eggers and BCMs into their...

Thing of if you just sat your bare butt on a bunch of golf balls for 21 days with minimal movement excepts to eat drink and restroom.. it’d get kinda sweaty 🥴 the humidity game we play is to mimic (to the best of our ability) the environment under a momma hen. The eggs have to lose a certain...

Guess who’s back, back again. Jojo’s back.. and needs help with hatching chickens~ lol ok SO! Rundown of set-up, timeline, and symptoms after the description off the issue. The egg in question is an Olive Egger (all my eggshells lightened this hatch like they were Sun bleached… and I don’t know...