Recent content by tikilyn

I think we are just going to use construction fence and make a small temporary chicken yard to keep them away from the house for two months and pray they don't get sick! Unless someone else has gone through this and had a good outcome. For the mites I put DE in an empty seasoning bottles and...

I live in South Texas and we have termites in our house. I had Terminix come out and inspect our place and they offer two systems to get rid of the termites. One is trenching around the house with Termidor Sc and the other is baiting stations. My husband wants to use the trenching method with...

They were all suppose to be pullets. I stayed away from the straight run pens. Oh well if it starts crowing I'll have to regime him. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I got the chicken early feb to mid feb. God I hope its not a rooster. I have 10 total and so far three of them are roosters. This one will make four. Ughhhhh....

I think its a hen but want to double check. The cone is really red.

Ughhhh now im sad. I don't want to get rid of him. We'll enjoy him until he starts crowing.thanks

I picked up three easter eggers at tractor supply in mid February. She is starting to look like a he. Can y'all confirm for me. I really hate for him to a rooster as I'll have to regime him. Thanks

I'm not sure what I am suppose to be doing for her. We brought her inside washed the wounds. I sprayed her down in iodine and put neosporin on her wounds. It's been almost a week now. We put her inside our half bathroom inside a cat carrier with a warming light. She's eating well and drinking...

Thanks! We're excited for the easter eggers!!! We snatched up the little white one, as she was the only white one in a sea of chickmonk chicks!

Chick 1. Not sure what she is. chick 2. Chick#3 is a rhode island red chick #4 cute little white fluff ball! #5 Maybe a Barred Rock Chick #6 cute little chickmonk.

Ya'll have been so helpful. My first batch I tried to hatch went very wrong and they didn't make it. With your help and encouragement I tried dry incubation and had a small sucess! We're very excited we were able to hatch two eggs out of 6! Thats a big improvement! LOL 3 of the 6 eggs ended up...

our first baby hatch tonight on day 19!!! It's so cute and my daughter named her daisy (I hope shes a hen). Should I remove her tomorrow or just leave her in there until the others hatch. We candle them this morning and they were moving inside the eggs, just haven't pip yet.

After my last/first batch fail, I just had to try again! I started with 6 eggs (2 polish, 4 wyandottes/polish cross). At day 10 the two polish and 1 wyandotte eggs weren't fertile. That left me with three wyandottes/polish crosses. I ran the humidity to high last time (bad digital...

you need to get an analog hydrometer. I made the same kind of incubator (kids project) and the first batch didn't hatch. All the chicks drowned in their shells. I'm on my second batch and I went out and bought one from petsmart. The difference from my digital and analog is anywhere from 15% to...

yesterday I ran out to petsmart and picked up a reptile hydrometer. I put it inside my dry incubator along with my digital one and they are reading almost the same. The digital meter is reading 16% and the reptile one is reading 20%. Is that too low or should I be ok without adding water? Will...