Posts by onewithquail

Cool, and good luck on the hatch, Ya I think the plastic container works great for a brooder, and it cleans real easy, spray it out and dry then use 5%bleech water mixture to steralize, wait till dry and it's ready to use again...Works...

Nothing fancy, costs less then $7.00 because Wall Mart had a sale on the bins. We already had a heat lamp, and wire screen, so the cost was nothing compared to a store bought brooder. Same as our incubator, which we made...

Yes the eggs that didn't hatch were all empty except one that died with in the egg. Still I think it wasn't a bad adverage, we had 5 live out of 12 eggs. This was our first time incubating and now we know we can do it, the next hatch...

There are 4 girls and 1 male per cage, each cage is 2-1/2 ft by 2ft by 2ft high, there is lots of room and these birds are doing fine, also they will be killed for meat with in the first 6 months of there lives..no probs with health,...

Last night we had one more hatch so now we're 6 hatched out of 12, with 5 living. Not bad for first time incubation me thinks...The reason we had low hatch rate 50%, I believe was because we have 4 females with one male per cage,...

We had 5 out of 12 hatch, one died, the 4 left are doing well and seem very strong and healthy. May still get more out of remaining eggs..will see, but not bad for first hatch eh...smiles.

Me and my son built a crude incubator and have been waiting patiently for signs of life for 17 days now, and there was actually eggs moving today, we held one in our hand and we could feel the little bird inside scratching on the...

The only thing else maybe I can think of is that thye were housed inside and the outdoors is unfamiliar to them, also to sex them it's really easy besides the rusty breast...take the bird in hand and gently press either side of...

Not sad at all, in fact they do their little happy dance all day long...lol, wire doesn't hurt their feet, they also get to run around in the summer out doors in a netted area. Never had any problems with them being unhappy except when...