Recent content by gnatboy911

Please check out the pictures of my rooster. Free to a good home, preferably not a stew pot. very gentle. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/729763/buff-orpington-roo-needs-a-new-home-silt-co

I ordered two pullets from McMurray's hatchery earlier this summer. They arrived to me the last week of July. Well, it turns out one of them is a rooster. He's a really gentle bird. Pretty big, and very pretty. I'd like him to go to a good home somewhere, not just into a stew pot...

A few years ago my parents had a skunk with a bunch of little ones take up residence under their shed. They got some fox urine and put it around and they never saw the skunk again. I tried it around my place and it didn't work. I'd say give it a shot! you can get fox urine from any...

just an update....got the skunk in the trap this morning and was able to dispatch it without it spraying everywhere. Chickens will be safer now.

Well no skunk last night. No trail cam pics of anything. It rained last night off and on most the night, which hasn't happened in a long time, so I think maybe that kept the skunk in its den. I've done some research on ways to get rid of them once they're in the trap. They say you can...

So a few days ago I began to notice there were lots of dig marks and some of the large rocks were moved around the edge of my run. I borrowed my dad's trail cam to see what I was up against in regards to trapping. Here are some of the pictures I got. This was the first night, I got really...

I'm going to try the weighing method next time also. I didn't this time and I only got 12 out of 32 that went into lock down. I candled them before lockdown and they all looked good. I'm kinda bummed. What is the water test to check for viable eggs? can you explain what to look for and...

I think this could have been what happened to me... I didn't move the eggs around, Monday morning when I came into my classroom there were 7 new babies climbing all over the place bumping and rolling the other eggs around. Could they have caused the other eggs not to hatch? I had 32 eggs...

good question, i'm in the same boat. Sadly though i've got 18 that are sitting that way. started with 42, 32 went into lockdown, 2 didn't make it out, 12 hatched successfully. The last 18 are still just sitting. Tuesday was supposed to be day 21, I had three hatch early on sunday, more on...

I wanted to put my bator in lockdown yesterday, but I didn't get the chance to. So, I went into my classroom early this morning to do it. When i was taking the eggs out of the turner i heard some tapping, looked closely and one of the eggs had pipped already! had a little beak sticking out...

oy.....i don't know either. I've asked this question several times in the past day or so on here but no answers yet!! Did you count the day they went into the incubator (tuesday) as day 1? I just read that some people count that as day 0 and they consider the day after day 1. I thought...

shoot thats a great percentage....good luck with your hatching. I'm in the middle of my first incubation and i'm beginning to worry that this is turning quickly into an addiction. It doesn't help that I really like to build and putter with things....I'm not quite sure where this road will...

Hey guys, I started 42 eggs in my 3rd grade classroom on April 3rd also! The kids are super stoked. I'm using a HovaBator 1583 with an automatic turner. We candled them on Tuesday and 33 of the 42 were still looking really good. Got to see some movement in the shadows of several of them...

I've done quite a bit of research on here but haven't found the answer yet. I currently have 33 of 42 eggs looking good in an incubator in my 3rd grade classroom. The kids are VERY interested and excited. We have done lots of lessons the past couple weeks in regards to the eggs, life...

Just an update....candled all the eggs today. Had a large number that were pretty dark throughout with lots of veins. Did have some that definitely didn't have much going on; they were fairly clear and you could see the yolk (darker area floating around) I decided to leave them in for a few...