Recent content by adylina

Thanks for the information! I'm about an hour north of Springfield.

I have two hens, a BR and a Standard Bronze. Both lovely ladies were laying for a little over a month, and as of the past couple weeks stopped with no apparent signs of laying anymore. Do first year hens tend to lay for a shorter period of time their first spring? I was hoping to incubate some...

Awesome, and I bet if you did have an egg leak it'd go through the metal bars and be easy to clean up too.

I bet you have lots of eggs for a two gallon bucket! That basket is beautiful, I may go that route for aesthetics.

i love it! Do you ever have issues with the metal cracking the eggs?

Yeah I hope people jump in and contribute! I have seem some photos of really cool things before and am trying to come up with ideas for my own.

I have been carrying my eggs from the coop to the house in multiple trips, wrapped in the edge of my shirt, or in a feed scoop, and now that my turkeys are laying I have decided to upgrade to a real egg basket. Hopefully one that looks nice and can sit on my counter with my colorful variety of...

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the answer and am excited at the prospect of having turkey poults running around :)

I have had four hens but no tom, and today I finally located and brought home a male and another hen of the same breed. They are all adults of breeding age and when placed in the pen together the tom got right to work. How long after mating should I wait before it can be assumed the eggs are...

New breeding pair I brought home today :)

The biggest difference between the two breeds is one will grow out over 28+ weeks to full sized, and the other is a rapid grower, so much so that sometimes their bones and organs can't keep up, which is why they are oftentimes butchered young. Otherwise, the standard bronze and BB Bronze...

That sounds like splayed/spraddle leg. A photo would be helpful to know for sure, but you may be able to fix it for the poult if that's what's going on. http://www.poultryhelp.com/spraddle.html

Hey guys! I had so much fun with my water cooler hatching experiment that I decided to invest in a larger one. (My little cooler could only fit five to six large eggs) I am thinking of getting the Genesis Hovabator since I am on a budget, and the first things I will be hatching is turkey eggs...

Here is the homemade cooler incubator sitting in my bathroom. This shows the heating pad under the two layers of towels. Here's the little fuzzbutt that hatched!!

Sorry for any formatting issues guys, on a phone typing this out. Just wanted to share my experience with you all. I was looking at incubators with the intent to buy, and while many are high tech and really cool, I was hesitant to spend hundreds of dollars on one. Instead, I opted to try...