Mornin!
We've been looking into the idea of switching our pine shavings up to sand in our coop. We're from central MN, and it gets pretty cold here during winter. The thought being that sand would eliminate some of the moisture in our coop, perhaps better than the shavings would during the...
Decision may have been made... The bottom bird (#2) jumped at and knocked over our 18 month old over the weekend! Not sure we can put up with that.
Anyone have any advice/experience with birds that are aggressive toward kids???
My wife and I hatched these roosters in march, and we think its time to sell one of them as they have began to have a power struggle of sorts...
So, our question is which one??? They're both beautiful birds, what do you think???
Congrats on the 7! They look great!
We were very successful! Hatched 14 out of 15! Just took the 15th egg out of the bator... It was fertile, made it till day 18-19... This is one of our best hatches ever % wise!!!
We sexed them tonight. 8 boys, 6 girls! We used the wing feather...
We're up to 14!!!!!
With one solo egg left in the bator.... Think we'll let it sit until tomorrow, then decide if its a dud or not.
Whats the longest anyone has had an egg in the incubator before it hatched?
So far, we've got 7 little fuzzballs all fluffed out in the brooder! And another still drying out a bit. With 4 more piping as we type!!! The other 3 eggs still waiting a bit longer, but we're super happy with the results we've got so far!
Anybody else have anything yet???
Nice!!! We're past our half way point! Candled all of our eggs again tonight, and every one showed development! Fingers crossed that they all make it to hatch day...
Also shot some video of them moving around in there, but the quality was pretty poor. Difficult to see much from this...
Usually we start candling around day 5... You can usually start to see the development by then! I've seen pictures of embryos in the first few days on this site, but we usually wait till day 5 or so to candle. It's really cool to see the progression from the beginning!
I think after like...
Good luck on your first hatch!!!! We had great success our first time, and have been addicted to it ever since!
Good luck chickenman0806! Our first hatch were rocks, awesome birds! Thanks for joining.
Anyone else close to setting?