We had one smelly egg that we removed and candles the remaining eggs more than a week ago. Today is hatch day and we haven't even had a pip yet. So worried.
A whole month of turning eggs and fretting over temp and humidity...
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One of my hen hatched 3chicks from the 5eggs. She seems to be not a good mother, she eats everything but not letting her chicks eat. Sometimes she pecks at them. Is this normal? What can i do? She is of a Texas breed which seems to show the aggressive behaviour. I am having hard time...
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So about 2 months ago, had a guy who needed to re home 70 hens asap. We gladly took them in, and needless to say, the poor hens didn't have a ton of space in their last home, which resulted in feather pickers.
So today I want to focus on how to go about getting these hens feathers back...
I just hatched some chicks this past Saturday and today I realized that one of my chicks eye doesn't look normal...
Sorry that the picture isn't very clear. He seems to be able to see okay but this eye also looks a little bit watery.
Thoughts?
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I am doing lots of incubation this year, and the incubator I am using is the Chinese 48 egg incubator. (Unfortunately I did not do enough research on this bator, but it hasnt been terrible.)
So far, I had one round of eggs incubated and hatch. It was about 23 Eggs and I had 14 hatch...
My hen was attacked by the other chickens. I didn't notice until it was too late. She is separated from them now but really injured. They pecked a deep cut in her neck and tried to peck her eyeball out. It looks really infected and was sealed shut with yellow goop. She is cut in a bunch of...