Posts by kellim

I know I have written on this board before but I am going to again! I am about 2 hours away from Greenville, SC. I live a few miles out of Westminster, SC.

My duck eggs that I have hatched successfully have had a humidity of around 50%. I have had great luck with this humidity level. Ducks are so cute when they come out of the egg! I have taken to hatching more duck eggs than chicken eggs...

If it is forced air it will have a fan, if it is still air you don't have a fan.

Blue eggs are usually very hard to candle. My suggestion would be to get the room absolutely dark and get a 100 watt bulb, put it on a lamp with no shade and cover it with a box with a small hole in the bottom and make sure the only...

Okay. All I have to say about that is YUCK!

I have used Tylan 50 before for a sick roo and hen. The rule of thumb I go by is not to eat the eggs for at least 4 weeks. If you eat an egg while a chicken is being treated with Tylan 50, I really don't know what would happen. Maybe...

I started giving my Silkie's laying pellets at around 18 weeks and they started laying around a week later. 20 weeks is fine.

I love my Golden Sebright and Silver Sebright. Currently I am breeding the two because my little SS hen died so the hen I have now is a  golden with a Silver Roo. I absolutely adore them. I set one egg only so far and it hatched out...

My 2 year old rooster decided a few days ago that he doesn't care for me. He flew at me and tried spur me and my DH called the livestock store we got him from and the man there who I trust completely told us we could take his spurs off...

My little game hen just started laying again after raising her guinea keet she hatched out for me. She has now started laying HUGE eggs, they are even bigger than my Buff Orps eggs and has even layed two a day. I actually had a duck lay...