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Anyone know if hens that goes broody and hatch eggs live longer than hens that are not allowed to sit? Usually chickens that lay a lot end up with reproductive issues that greatly shorten their life, but if a hen is allowed to breed, she will take a break from egg laying. Do you think this might...

This hen decided to go broody for real. She laid one egg a day for a week, which is unusual for the breed. Then she started the walking broody clucking again. She sat all day yesterday without eating or drinking, and this morning she's still sitting so I gave her a bunch of fertile eggs. We'll...

She did fine without splinting

Chick is 100% normal now! Leg is no splayed anymore!

Males with No barred wings, is this OK for the breed?

Aggression is often a genetic issue. I would not keep any rooster from this batch and I would absolutely never buy from that seller again.

If it's just the beak he should be fine, unless he has other malformations we cannot see yet.

Broody hens should be moved to a nest where no other hens have access to, but this should be done before she actually start sitting on good eggs. If a hen is halfway through incubation, she should be left alone or the risk of her abandoning the eggs is high.

Bee sting maybe?

I had 2 perfectly formed chicks die of suffocation in the egg because of malposition. They wiggled a lot on day 19 and died between day 19 and 20. I made a safety hole on day 20 but it was already too late. I did necropsies on day 21. Both perfect chicks with all things absorbed. Now I will...

No swelling and no redness this morning. I'll give her a few days break and see if the splay leg stay stable.

Thanks, I'll update tomorrow morning. Would be a good idea to give her a 2 or 3 days break from the splinting and see how it goes, or would it be too late to fix her if I wait and her leg worsen?

The redness and swelling are barely noticeable, I'll try to take a picture tomorrow morning but I'm pretty sure there will be nothing visible by then. I'm more worried about the leg still slightly splayed. Do you think it will improve further without splint?

Hi, I have a chick born with one splayed leg. I followed the elastic band tutorial and it appeared to work. The chick was walking normal and looked happy, after 3 days the splint came off but the leg wasn't healed so I had to put it on again. Today the chick looked really sad and never came out...

I have 6 and they hatched 5 days ago. The brooder plate size is for 20 chicks. https://www.riversystems.it/en/prodotto/caleo-700-heating-plate-for-chicks/

I thought my brooder plate was too hot but I trusted the manufacturer (it was 100% made by a company near my house) and the chicks love it.

I just had a batch of legbar eggs hatching and they're all roosters so let me see pictures of your legbar rooster x random hen Easter Eggers! Show me a pic of their eggs and tell me which breed was their mother!

Here is mine ^^

I had a chick pip on the side of the egg. It nicked a blood vessel and the blood cloth got the membrane glued to its head. If I didn't assist it would have died. Just sharing my experience since I never heard of chicks stuck on dried blood.

The breeder I got them from doesn't have any marans but he has olive eggers. I need to tell him some of his araucana hens are cheating :)