Recent content by bantychick

I just had to say we just tried the microwave potato method too - AMAZING! It definitely worked. We have bantys and silkies - didn't hurt the rooster, and it came out with my fingers just wiggling it for a few seconds. Highly recommend! Thanks for sharing the tip!!! sandra

This was our first year in letting a clutch hatch with the hen. No problems hatching, but one by one we seem to lose our baby chicks and not sure why. They all seem to lose their feathers around their bottoms before dying. We watching for clogging and made sure they were clean, but it didn't...

yes, please add me to your waiting list!!! I'd love a dozen but would take 6 if you don't get enough supply for the deman!

Keep me posted on your results....I think its a fascinating theory...but I found it hard to believe myself...

I have a friend that has raised bantys for years, so I wouldn't have the nerve to question her, but she told me that the more pointed eggs produce roosters, the more round produce hens... anyone ever heard of this, or been able to track that with their hatchings?

Okay, first egg in batch in incubator was hatching great yesterday, made its way 2/3rds around the egg in pecking and now this morning it seems to have stopped. I can see the tip of his beak sticking out, but no movement. Did something go wrong? Anything I can do?

Thanks! I went out and put a smaller cardboard box in the coop and I put them inside. They seem to like that. I put the food and water inbetween them and where the mama seems to be nesting. I hope this helps. I suppose if the mama kept being mean I could bring her an baby inside.

Just got three teenager banties (5-6 week olds) and one mama with a 5 day old chick. They had all been living together in a HUGE coop/pen/run, and now moved to my smaller one at home. I kept them all enclosed in the coop from about 4:00pm yesterday til this morning so they would know this was...