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I ordered from Meyer hatchery for the first time this year so I am concerned it's something that came from the hatchery. It's an Easter egger chick that's 3 weeks old. I noticed it limping a bit 2 days ago and I checked it's feet. They looked okay but I was keeping a close eye. It seemed like it...

I had an issue I didn't catch right off. My thermometer in the incubator as a double check isn't the easiest to read (I need a digital) Anyway I realized that the temp has been closer to 98 than 99.7F for 2 days. It's now day 4 and a half. I candled them and two showed normal looking embryos...

I got surprised with chicks that I wasn't expecting and had to make a brooder. I am really happy with the way it came out. I only needed one sheet of plywood and 1 2x4 to make it and it is PLENTY big enough. It's meant for inside use or in a barn as it doesn't have a top but one can easily be...

So it's been a while since I last posted. My husband and I had sold our chickens and were getting ready to travel around the country for a while when coronavirus hit. Now I find myself scrambling to get going again. I started working with researchers and amazing people from all over the world in...

It's day 20 for eggs under a broody. Last night we had a fox attack. She is fine and secure but the commotion caused a couple eggs to get trampled and my lady is out of sorts. She hasn't abandoned the nest but keeps getting up and down. I have internal pips on the eggs but no external yet. I am...

I am looking for 12 svart hona hatching eggs to add to my all black flock! I already have Ayam Cemani, Black Australorp and French black copper marans! I live in VT. USA Let me know if you have any and your asking price plus shipping. Thanks!

Due to a humidity problem 2 of my chicks that have pipped are shrink wrapped. They are not ready to come out of the shell yet but they were unable to get their beaks through the membrane. They both pipped externally without internally pipping. I didn't even know that could happen. I chipped away...

So I use a dry method in my incubator for the first 18 days and did that as usual. This time I have different breeds with some large eggs like EE's and Austrolorps and small eggs like Ayam Cemani. All the big eggs have nice big air cells but the small eggs seem to have REALLY small air cells...

So these chicks have stumped people in my FB chicken group so I am calling in the experts. I have no idea what breed they are as they came from "mystery" eggs. The 2 black ones came from chocolate colored eggs so I am thinking marran maybe? The 3 light ones are the ones giving us more trouble...

Okay so I hatched 5 chicks from "mystery" eggs and am dying to know what they are. There is the one with the dark stripes on the back and green legs, a very pale yellow/pink one with blue above the eyes, a darker yellow one with blue above the eyes and then the 2 black ones. they have some...

I am setting 22 eggs tonight and figured I would see if we have any other August hatchers yet! I am setting 4 BCM, 4 Ayam Cemani, 4 Black Austrolorp, 4 Easter eggers and 6 Isa/RIR production crosses from my own flock! If everything goes well I will have my breeding stock for spring chicks this...

So my Isa Browns have had enough time to start laying regularly and my RIR rooster is mating them. (yolks have bullseye) I am planning on setting some with my next batch of eggs but my girls lay double yolks quite often. I don't think a day goes by where I don't get at least 1. So my question is...

Okay, to make all of this make sense I have to tell you about my hatch. It was rough. First the power was out around day 10 and my eggs got cold. Then on day 17 my cat crashed into my bator and 2 eggs cracked prompting me to go into early lockdown. THEN after moving the bator to where I thought...

last night while I slept apparently my cat attacked the incubator and unplugged it. Now I have newborn chicks in my bra trying to revive them while the incubator warms up. I will be lucky to save 3. I am so upset. It's the middle of the hatch for god sake. I just hope I can save a few

Okay, has anyone else seen this?! This is my first hatch and I have never heard of this. The 2 hatched chicks are tapping, chirping encouragement and even cuddling the next to hatch egg! These 2 have been out for about 6 hours and about an hour ago another egg started to rock and pip. Up until...

So, I have a chick that has gotten about a quarter of the way unzipped but hasn't made progress in 3 hours and the chirps are getting less and less. Do I help? Is this normal or is my chick in distress!

So this is my first time hatching eggs and I thought I understood what lockdown meant but now I am really confused and it's kinda important because I am in lockdown! So I am seeing all these posts about internal pips and candling air sacks and it's all after day 18. Soooo I thought lockdown...

So I have 3 cats...I bet we can see what happened here! Yup, they were racing around and even though I keep my incubator well out of the way and tucked back they still managed to hit it. 2 eggs knocked into each other and cracked. It is half way through day 17 and even though I tried to repair...

It's day 18 and my incubator got knocked and 2 eggs smacked into each other! They both cracked but are intact. Is there still a chance they could survive? Should I take them out or leave them in?!

So it's now day 16 of my first incubated eggs and I am so excited. I got these from another chicken lady in town and out of 12, 9 were fertile...of course it was the blue ones that weren't :barnie but she is putting her roo up with the right girls to help guarantee some blue ones are fertile for...