Posts by sticks22

Tigerlilly, try adding alittle water to the pellets to soften them up. Your chickens may to small and they may be picking through them to find the smaller pieces. try watchin them to see what size of food they are searchin for, they may...

Is there a way to tell before a problem happens? Where is the crop located?

Try finding a cheap mobile home window. Depending on the size you want, the smaller bathroom windows would be great for my coop.

Update: Day 0!I have 2 chicks hatching 2day and 5 more trying to break free!

WOW! Donna your rich! I dont have a dime to my name! HA! HA!

How long does it take to hatch once you see veins pulsing and chick starting to move around? The incubator says 7 or 8 days left but Im just wondering if they will be late or early hatching since they were in the fridge for about 1 to 2...

Have you tried to find a good neighbor to leave them with? Like babysitting only for chicks, chicksitting! HA! HA!

Update: 9 days left! I have 16 refrigerated eggs in the bator' and 4 fresh eggs. I candled the eggs 2nite. I saw veining in all the eggs and even some movement in the embryo's! Not sure yet if they all will make it. Ill keep you all posted.

I am currently try to hatch about 16 eggs that were refrigerated for about 1 to 2 weeks. They are all developing as far as I know so Im not sure yet of the hatch rate. Ive read that the hatch rate will suffer, but I dont know for sure!...

I realize that there are definite problems with this idea, but I was just curious if the idea was probable. Im sure that someone has done this too. I like the idea and was intrested to see the embryo developing at a glance.My thought was...