Recent content by JackVinehopper

Bummer. Thanks anyway.

Where are you located? I am looking for a Welsumer roo to replace my existing roo to change up the gene pool of my flock. I'm in Idaho.

If this is true then the FDA illegally created a new law, something only Congress is allowed to do. They are a regulatory agency to execute laws passed by Congress, not their own whims. But we all know there are no rules anymore under our proto-Soviet America.

I have offered oyster shell to my free range hens many times and they don't touch it. I tried mixing it in their regular feed but the cherry pick it out and leave it scattered on the ground. No interest, even when they occasionally drop thin shelled eggs. Anyone know what else works for a...

Here is an update on my just finished hatch using the dry hatch method. I used no water at all for first 18 days with ambient humidity in the room between 21% and 26%. Then went into lock down keeping humidity at 60 to 70%. I got 10 out of 22 to hatch which is my best success so far although...

12 to 18 months is the typical age they turn into rebellious horny teenagers. What I do is watch his body language at all times. Your walking legs trigger his attack mode by the motion. I stop instantly if hackles start to rise, face him and look him in the eye but completely still, unless he...

It sounds like he was a walking time bomb for a heart attack. If it wasn't you it would have been something else soon. You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time providing the perfect storm for him that day. Sorry for your loss. I had a rooster die of fear and stress when the irrigation...

You might try a little canned cat food for protein in small amounts as quick fix to get you by.

People criticized you for free in-depth information? No gratitude, I guess.

I have had the same results with the Nurture Right 360. I have been lucky to get 5 out of 22 eggs to hatch healthy with one hatched with deformity or incomplete and die. I've tried calibrating for all of the temp/humidity variables and finally just left it at factory default with no better...

I only name the ones I plan on culling that year. This year I culled Cluck Schumer and Nancy Pecklosi.

This just happened to me. My broody Barred Rock was broody all summer so I tried taking out of the nest box , taking her eggs away, etc. Then I no longer saw her in there for three weeks thinking she was broke of broodiness. She stealth nested in our hay bales and hatched 5 chicks out of two...

I do have a grow out coop I used in the spring for this years batch I hatched earlier. I'll leave them in the hay bales with food/water for few days and then move them there. Although I wouldn't say that coop is winter worthy, just private with nest boxes. There is no way they will be able to...

Thank you for a quick and very helpful reply.

I just discovered one of my hens has been hiding in my hay bales and hatched some chicks! She was broody over summer and I could not break her of it. I guess she got her wish. Anyway, we are into late September and how do I care for momma hen and her chicks? Let her do her thing or take chicks...