Recent content by Aroha

Hmm well, if it's a rooster, there's not much chance of green eggs! It sounds like it is an araucana, or at least part - there is someone in town who breeds lavendar araucanas so it makes sense that there would be a few of those birds around. I'm quite disappointed that it's a boy though. It...

Oo, they lay green eggs, don't they? I might not be giving them to my friend if that's the case! Do you think it's a girl? Photos of araucanas came up when I googled Easter Eggers - some of them they look quite similar too. Thanks heaps

A couple of 'extras' have moved in with my chickens - I haven't found their owner, so I'm thinking of giving them to a friend. Before I do, I wondered if anyone can identify the breed, and reassure me that they are girls. I've only got a decent photo of one of them - this is the more...

Thank you so much for your reply. I wonder if the hygrometer isn't working properly. It dropped to 44 over night. We have no heating on at the moment. The incubator is in the garage (behaved the same in the house yesterday), day temperature is about 20 oC and night temperature about 10 oC...

I've just bought an incubator and have set it up to make sure all is working correctly. The temperature seems stable between 37.5 and 38 but I can't get the humidity higher than 48%. The instructions aren't very clear - they imply that by filling all the water troughs the humidity should rise...

Well, broody chook was off the nest again yesterday morning and the eggs were cold. She then went back in but later we discovered an extra egg - bizarre, either my counting was wrong or she laid it. I left her that day and she was in and out of the nest all day. Today she has been out most of...

Thanks so much. That's good to hear about the 48 hours thing - I'm disappointed that I may have screwed it up for her, but pleased that there could be an obvious reason, otherwise I would feel reluctant to try again. I'm still hoping that these eggs can still hatch, just another 15 days to...

One of our chickens went broody last year and successfully sat on 6 eggs, hatched 4 chicks and we now have 3 beautiful 15 week old Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets and one stunning SLW roo. She went broody again a couple of weeks ago so I bought her 12 fertile eggs this time as she did such a...

I've been reading BYC forums for a while now and have decided now is the time to join. I've kept chickens for about 10 years and have recently progressed to buying fertile eggs for my broody chook which has been a lot of fun and a lot of learning! I currently have 7 grown ups (2 light sussex...