Posts by skunknchatter

That is a good trade! Glad it worked out.

I got 2 BO chicks a few years ago. One grew a lot faster than the other. In my case the faster growing one that feathered out first turned out to be my rooster.

I would feed it. Chickens will eat just about anything. Heck they'll even eat chicken. You're chicks will need another feed but you've got a while till the chicks come home.   Here is a link to a very good article on selenium...

True about momma hen having to get up and eat and drink. That's why I wasn't worried about having to open my bator to add water/ turn eggs. But I didn't even think of it this morning when I saw my temps had dropped. Heh heh.. oops....

Depends on what you want overall. If you just want a small backyard flock of hobby laying hens then I would just by chicks. You can buy 10 of the same breed or 1 each of 10 different breeds if you want. However, if you want to breed...

Arahhhhh! Someone turned of my thermostat in my living room so my house was 64F this morning instead of 70F. My bator couldn't keep up so it dropped to 97F. Not sure how long it's been there. Water wiggler dropped to 96F but the eggs...

No way at all to know which eggs have M or F dna. And like stated above, even from hatcheries it's not 100%. My BO rooster was supposed to be a hen. I figured it out when he started trying to crow... not to mention he was bigger than...

I have to open my bator to add water and rotate eggs. However I only have 2 eggs so it doesn't take very long. Less time that it would take momma hen to go get some food and water I figure. I wish I had a way to add water without...

My runner won't go near my pond. He does, however, love the plastic kiddie pool I put out in the summer. in the winter I only have a heated dog bowl for water (he lives with chickens) so on sunny days I fill up a rubber "horse dish"...

Stinkin' hens! Today I got an egg from my EE. I was trying to wait for one from her before I set my eggs but she is laying so randomly that I gave up. Figures that the last two days in  a row I've gotten eggs and one from my EE....