Posts by SteeleFaithFarm

Cornish giants? Is that a Cornish Jersey giant cross or just a large Cornish? I have a couple dark Cornish roosters and hens as well as white Jersey giants. I'm just looking to try crossing a couple different breeds to see if I can get...

What breed is WLR and BLR?

I'm keeping the incubator at 101 because it is still air. I put too much water in the reservoir so the humidity is a little high at 70 percent. I'm going to let it dry out a bit. I will candle them less often if that is better.

She only sat on the eggs for 2 hours. I think to lay an egg. I tried moving her and her clutch once before and she just trampled the eggs. So I marked all the eggs and put them in the incubator. I candles them and some showed signs of...

I'm going to try to fence her in. We just found the nest on accident yesterday. I have not candles them yet. I didn't want to move them until I knew what to do.

I just found a nest my female duck has made with 14 eggs. I ran out and bought an incubator to see if I can hatch them. Can anyone tell me what I should do before I move them? She had a nest in the spring but wouldn't brood them. This...

Thank you for that wonderful information. How many birds can you do comfortably at a time and how long does it take? It seems plucking takes the longest. I am not very mechanical so I won't be building an automatic plucker like I have...

Next year I am going to raise my first meat birds. I want to create a portable processing station that is convenient to setup and to use. I'm only going to raise 2 batches of meat birds of 25 each. It will just be me and my wife so we...

Can you take some close up shots of the shackles? I want to make a set to hold 2 birds for plucking. I don't know how well yours will work for killing and bleeding. I have not processed birds before. But this winter I am going to start...

You seem to want that perfect bird that doesn't exist. No one bird does everything well. I like Delawares a lot. They are about a dual purpose so have found. They are listed as critical and they are nice and calm. If you want more eggs...