Posts by angidee

Oh, thank goodness! Thank you so much!!

My incubators has been perfectly set until last night. Actually, I just figured out it was the thermometer and my error of putting it on a papertowel which was absorbing water and giving it a false read. Anyways, I have been slightly...

Yep. It's plain old kitchen cayenne pepper. I buy it by the pound in the bulk foods department at the grocery store. I add it to the turkey's food daily and they do just fine. I have week old turkey chicks and have started adding a small...

Awesome! Thanks so much!

It's a brinsea eco20. The eggs are actually turkey eggs, so bigger than chicken. The two that are out appear to be healthy and normal (thankfully!!!) And 2 more have started pipping. The first two are almost dry, so should I attempt to...

Help! 2 questions. My chicks are hatching a day earlier than I expected. Should I be worried? Also, I forgot to take out the rail dividers in the incubator (I could just smack myself). One row has the dividers right up on the eggs (less...

I have 3 different thermometers in my incubator and they all read a different temp. 1 hygrometer reading 98.8, one home digital hermometer read 99 (doesn't do decimals) and a glass old style one reading just over 100. Last year I used...

Does anyone know how to ferment alfalfa pellets?

I would love to be self sufficient with regard to my animals feed. This book is an EXCELLENT source for such ideas. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1603582908/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1360062442&sr=8-1&pi=SL75 Based on ideas here and lots of...

Thankful that is what they are...we thought we had some crazy disease going on!!!