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Great pen! Love the construction. Can you post a closer picture of the feeding area? It looks awesome.

Simulated Natural Nest etc., aka the Hootie Hatcher sorry if double-post

I'm not sure about this (novice here), but if humidity isn't an issue, I don't think candling air cells is necessary. One less thing to worry about. :-)

Hey Pete, I think this one has what people on the Plymouth Rock breeder's thread would call a "freak big head" (which is a compliment over there). All your chicks are gorgeous!

Just a heads-up: even when sealed inside a plastic bag, the stench of these eggs can be horrific . . .

They're autosexing, meaning sexable as day-olds -- and this trait is passed down through the generations; they lay pretty blue-green to blue eggs at a decent layer-bird rate; they have a small crest which I find amusing; and I like their coloration. Mine are sensible birds, neither flighty nor...

Beekissed, I have the exact same flashlight as yours. Today I stuck it inside a toilet paper tube and WOW, the difference is amazing. Previously I tried putting it in a small canning jar with a washcloth holding it upright, and replaced the lid insert with cardboard and some black felt, with a...

Ha! Love it! :-) I have 11 in a standard styrofoam incubator, day 12. Candling them today, they all look about the same: mostly dark with some possible veining, plus the air cell. Last week I saw embryos with heartbeats in three of them, a still embryo in the fourth, and not at all sure of the...

Absolutely agree with this. You made the best choices you could make at the time, and that's all anybody can do. For what it's worth, the only two peeping eggs I ever helped to hatch died a few days later of neurological disorders. Did I harm them in the process? Or did they have problems...

Agree -- and when I wait in the dark for 10 or 15 minutes, my vision is even better for candling. Plus it's meditative.

I am finally learning to let go of the stuff that is drowning me. For so long I haven't been able to let stuff go because there's a remote chance it could be useful some day. Now, I've stopped asking myself that and instead ask, Do I want to be the curator of this piece of stuff? Do I want to be...

What to Expect When You're Expecting, but for chickens. :-)