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by zoroastrid
Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:20 pm
Forum: Breeding IRNs
Topic: Chicks not getting out of eggs
Replies: 6
Views: 1523

She's doing more than that. When I see her set her eggs, I start counting, and wait at least 10 days+ over when the eggs should have hatched. She'd stay on them forever, I think. I have mused that she'd make a super "incubator" for other eggs since she loves to set. I think she'd try to ha...
by zoroastrid
Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:01 am
Forum: Breeding IRNs
Topic: Chicks not getting out of eggs
Replies: 6
Views: 1523

I am in Michigan. The birds are set up in a sunroom, where there are large aqauriums (We have exotic long fin koi) and a fountain, so it isn't that dry, even when heaters are on. Also, there are a lot of plants and my orchidcollection out there, and they like humidity. The birds are very calm, and i...
by zoroastrid
Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:50 am
Forum: Breeding IRNs
Topic: Chicks not getting out of eggs
Replies: 6
Views: 1523

No, nothing changed. The hen was super on her eggs. I give them pine chips in the box, but she gets most of them out. She had 3 eggs last time, two this time. She may be older than I was told? The pair certainly do everything right, just the babes don't get out of shell. They are breeding again righ...
by zoroastrid
Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:05 pm
Forum: Breeding IRNs
Topic: Chicks not getting out of eggs
Replies: 6
Views: 1523

Chicks not getting out of eggs

Hello ya'all! I have a young breeding pair of IRN's, a green cock and lutino female. They breed well, and hen sits on eggs. All looks perfect, but at last set, eggs didn't hatch. After I was certain they were way past due, I opened them, and there were little chicks, the full size of egg, little fea...