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Unfortunetly I do not, It was my first time hatching eggs so it was a learning experience I now know to mark and log eggs etc. odds are out of 9 hens they are not from the same mother. Hopefully it will be ok and I wont have egg viability or chick health issues. Thank you for your response,

I hatched out 9 chicks from my hens and rooster sadly 6 hens and that rooster got taken by predators during our move so I now have 3 of the original hens (well 2 really as one has cancer and is just a pet at this point) and I have their 9 babies well ofcourse I hatched 6 cockriels and 3 pullets...

I had three hatch this way it is usually caused by struggling to get out of the egg, here is what I did and my results first one I gently pulled it straight after reading in my book on the issue, didnt seam to help so I went back to read some more (before any more hatched) and found out it MUST...

She will be fine I used lysol wipes to clean the butts of my chicks figured it kills 99.9% of germs so I used it as a wipe it is almost impossible to get the poop off without taking a bit of fuzz. I would say you are better off using a damp rag and taking some fuzz then getting your chicks hind...

If your power ever goes out again here is what I did it could save your hatch and live chicks it did mine! I had power go out and what I did was I filled a doubled ziplock bag with really hot tap water and laid it in the incubator to keep the temperature up. I was in the middle of chicks...

Oh Good! No I did not see the snake, but with the amount of rattle snakes in our area (neighbor just killed 5) and we found a baby one when we first moved in. the only other snake I have ever seen was a garden snake that I took away from the hens. We also have scorpions and apparently tarantulas...

My hen was bitten by a rattle snake, she seams to be better today thye swelling is going down and the color is less purple. My question is if she makes it will her eggs be okay to eat as well as her meat when that time comes? Thank you for your help.

If you live in an area with orchards the old picker boxes make great permanent nesting boxes! and are either free or less than a buck each. What did you recycle to make the siding? Very thrifty! I like that!

I wonder if I could use oak limbs and trees instead as my property is 20 acres of oaks! Central California.