Hello fellow fowl lovers! I went into my feed store several weeks ago and they had just received whole variety of Bantam chicks. A couple weeks later I went in and they still had a lot of them. They asked me if I wanted them for free because they weren't selling. SO.... I came home with 14 2...
Right after Easter, I bought 4 2 day old baby chicks from my feed store. All were doing very well. (2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 EE, and 1 unknown). 3 days later I bought a 3 day old Crested Cream Legbar. Then I read that a local breeder had Blue Copper Marans, so I put hazed 4 of them for $15.00 a...
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She came with 3 EE's that I adopted last night. Owner did not know breed. He said she layed her first egg yesterday...tan in color. Very friendly as are the EE's.
Good morning fellow chicken lovers! I feel like I'm a father pacing in the waiting room waiting for this birth! One month ago...I made two homemade incubators (Styrofoam cooler and light bulb with sponges for humidity) I placed 9 of my friends chicken eggs into bator #1. I had ordered 10...
This is my first attempt at hatching eggs in my home made incubator. I've kept the temp between 99 and 102. Humidity has been between 45% and 50%. If I only see for sure two embryonic movements...how long should I wait to discard the eggs I'm not seeing any movement? This is my first time...
I can't stay away of "eggs", "fertilization" and new babies....so when my neighbor needed to have someone care for her chickens due to illness, I jumped on the band wagon. It only made sense and I didn't realize how much I love taking this on. Now I've made two home made incubators (I have...