Posts by Egghead_Jr

Quote: Originally Posted by acemario  Anyone? I woke to only 50% humidity and 96 degrees. Do I open and adjust or leave closed until hatch day on Saturday? Adjust your temp up. I'd not have worried about...

It may be they are eating less of the feed during their adjustment to it. It also could be they are simply getting out of their pullet stage of incredible laying which happened to coincide with the feed change.   Organic aside...

With care, free ranging and limiting feed, you can get the Cornish X to adulthood. The line of meat chicken was not bred for egg laying, they'll lay eggs but it wouldn't be worth the effort to keeping them that long. For meat purpose...

Quote: Originally Posted by myfivegirls  Yes, I should have done that before lockdown. It's stablized at 46% on the Genesis hydrometer and 65% on the dig hydrometer, and I don't really want to open up the incubator...

  From fall to spring I feed pellets as all my birds are grown and believe it's less waste. In spring each year we hatch out more chicks so buy a crumble starter/grower. My entire flock goes on it simply because it's easy to...

Quote: Originally Posted by myfivegirls  I took out the sponge in the glass jar, and the other dig hydrometer dropped to 65%. I also have the Brinsea Spot Check, which I thought included a hydrometer, but realized it...

I'm hoping the Princess Di clematis vines we ordered for this spring are not a 'special treat' in the chickens' mind.

I'm looking for a thread of monstrous double yolk eggs. Purely for posting a pic of an egg I collected yesterday. I've had a plethora of double yolks in the past but this one must have really hurt. Topped out my largest egg scale at...

Yes it is lock down for most of us. Day is breaking here so took the opportunity to candle my suspected late quitter. Yup, it's tossed. Checked another egg for air cell size. Really not bad at all but would like to see it bigger....

It's 100% accurate with sex links hence the name.They are sexed by color at birth. The problem arises with TSC's staff having no idea what is what in their deliveries. They'll put Cornish cross in a red pullet bin and what not. If you...