I am selling a Bielefelder flock consisting of 6 hens and 3 Cocks also included will be 4 Bielefelder chicks 3 are pullets 1 is a cockerel. You will have birds at all stages. Older hens past their prime but still laying, a young pullet almost at the point of laying, and chicks $150 for the...
My incubator settings were set at 99.5 temp and 45 humidity at setting and then 65 humidity for hatch at day 18. On day 18 I candled them and my air sacs appeared to be small. The chicks never piped and never hatched. so at day 23 I cracked them open and they were all fully developed wet chicks...
I am selling a small flock of 6 golden sex link pullets. They are very healthy, around 1 year old and laying well. I am in middle Tennessee and could possibly meet part of the way. $120 for all 6.
I had one of my Bielefelders hens not eating good and molting at the same time so thought I would try fermenting some feed. The chicks dig it!!! My sex links in the picture and my Bielefelders went crazy over it. I am going to start using it along with the dry feed and see how they do. I...
I just got a laying flock of Golden sex links. Next month they will be 6 months old and are already laying extremely well. I am not sure if I will put a breeding rooster with them as of yet because they will lose the sex linked gene in the chicks. But I have been playing around with the idea of...
I went to our county 4H poultry show and auction last night. Our county chose to let the 4H classes raise golden sex links this year. The state vet was there and all birds received a clean bill of health and the State Judge was there and judged each group of 6 pullets per 4H member. Out of the...
my last hatch was a flop and I have been trying to adjust the things I can. Part of the problem was a power outage but the other major factor was a humidity change. Right now without any water inside my incubator the humidity is running in the around 55. I checked the humidity outside the...
i have had two successful hatches with my 1588. After thiis last hatch I cleaned it dried out and set it back up and have let it run. I have not put any water in the tray and it has been reading 68-70 for humidity normally I have to fill my first tray to get it around 45 so why would it read...
I put a 2 year old rooster in with my 1yr old girls 6 days ago. My question is how many days should I wait before I start collecting eggs to incubate? They stay in a run together most of the day while I'm working and then they free range 3 or 4 hours in the afternoon till around dark. How many...