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...
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...
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...