Posts by PatS

Is black in the tail considered a fault?  

Experienced hatchers:  When should we hear peeping or notice movement?

Good luck!  (I'm on day 19 now and hoping mine are alive.)

Does it matter to the embryo how the egg or the light is positioned during candling so long as you are able to see what you need to see?  Air sac up, down, sideways?  Thanks.

Thank you.  The turner works by moving a small grate (pie-slice shaped), and the eggs sit between (inside) the sections of the grate.  So sometimes when the turner stops, the grate "props up" the egg so the small section is...

I have a domed Lyon tx6 incubator with automatic turning every hour.  I'm on Day 4 with chicken eggs.   Placement of the eggs is on their side, small end toward the center of the round incubator, but after several hours...

I'm new to this, so hopefully someone else will chime in with the logistics of how to handle two or more hatches in the same incubator.  But my understanding is that the egg turning stops during lockdown.

Last Sunday my beautiful (and he was!) Lemon Cuckoo cock was killed by a bobcat.  He died protecting his hens, and none of them were hurt.     I pulled an incubator out of the shed, a Marsh/Lyon TX6, that I had...

Quote: I think the big type issues are that our birds are undersized, and that the egg production is sub standard.   I hope several folks will elaborate.  I've been reading about these birds for a year now,...

I just read a short recommendation on another forum for the Muscovy duck.  It claimed they would kill and eat mice and rats.  True?   While rodents have never made their way into our chicken coop (which rivals Fort...