Three days ago +/- I was getting ready to shut down the electric hen, I had seven or eight eggs that did not hatch so I candled them for confirmation.
There also was one egg that may have been the first to pip (maybe second) but never unzipped .
I expected that egg to be totally dead, I...
But a friend from my church had two Guineas and one died, does the other "need" a Guinea friend or will the chickens be company enough for it to carry on OK?
The survivor is still quite young I think maybe 4-5 weeks.
Thanks in advance!
A couple of the posters here have asked me to show them how to make a tipover carton.
I cannot take credit for it, I saw it somewhere, but this is how I do it.
Instead of making one I had one I just finished with, so I'm going to start with the finished product and disassemble it.
Its very...
I keep seeing a need for this so here it is.
I buy a lot of 97 cent plastic thermo's from wally world.
they cannot be reset but I just write the correction on them
for example this one here has -1 degree F written on it. So if it says 101 its really 100.
Hope this helps!
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Fill a glass...
Just in case anyone is interested I have one dozen Cot eggs in an incubator.
These eggs are all firsts and maybe a couple seconds (first laid by a particular hen)
I've always skipped the new eggs, but lets find out how it goes.
They've been cooking for just over 48 hours and I candled a...