Recent content by jofanx

Thanks for the tip!

Located in Long Island, NY. Coturnix quail chicks, a few days old. $5 each. Thanks for looking!

No problem!!! Glad you like it!

Just hatched a batch of ducklings—wild type and black and white pied, poss het for lavender or blue. $20 each. Straight run. $25 sexed but must take m/f pairs

Oh dear. I had a duckling like that from a batch of eggs I hatched, which eventually turned into an aggressive duck hen no matter what I tried as far as correcting the behavior went. We called it crotch duck because she would take a flying leap at us to bite us and hang off the front of our...

Hey all, thought you might appreciate the list I put together of edible temperate climate plants. I was/am VERY bored during lockdown so compiled 200+, most from my own food forest. It’s a spreadsheet sortable by zone, shade tolerance, name, etc...

Okay I'll do that! Thank you!

The eggshell is pretty much falling apart and I don't know if it will survive--it hasn't absorbed anything yet. It started breathing in the incubator when it warmed up though. I'm worried all the gunk on it will cause an infection (they pushed it into poop).

They are first time mommas but have been really good up to this point. Out of 12 eggs, 8 made it (4 went moldy last week). I'll leave the eggs with them but if they do this again, do you think it would be better to no longer allow them to brood?

I know it's like everything that can go wrong has gone wrong.

Two broody muscovies are sitting on one nest that are due to hatch any day. I walked into the coop this morning to collect eggs from the non-broodies and saw what looked like a crushed egg in the furthest corner from their nests. It had a duckling inside, already cold, wasn't moving. Thought it...

Thank you! You have no idea how relieved I was when I came back to live peeping ducklings in the incubator! Almost cried. I had been fully expecting to lose all except 1.

In the past I've been having horrible, horrible luck with hatching muscovy eggs artificially in the incubator (yet having had no issues with chickens and quail--god, they're so easy). 37.6 degrees C, dry incubation (humidity fluctuates between 35% and 75% where I am), lockdown day 26 (they start...

The one that I cooled came out this morning. The other one is still cooking in its shell but it's alive and peeping. Took a look at it and most of the vessels have receded and will probably just need another half day or so. Can't say a sample size of 1 means anything but a live duckling is...