Recent content by afj6710

We don't eat meat at all anymore. :( thus the reason for wanting sex links. We just wanted good layers that the kids could have as pets.

Oh no. I'm so frustrated - I was specifically looking for black sex link pullets. That's . . . really aggravating.

One of the others: These were the best pics I could get today and I'm hoping there's something in them that someone could use to identify them.

3 chicks, bought from TSC around 13 weeks ago, sold as Black Sex Links. Matured crazy fast and at least one is crowing.

The Sussex we have, we got around 5 weeks old. They've gone through a 25 lb bag of chick starter a week! At around 3.5 months old, they are bigger than any other bird we have! They are eating machines (not very smart though )

sorry, I know this has probably been covered many times, but I'm very short on time right now! Thank you!

I have/had 2 broody hens sitting on eggs. One of the hens is having a staggered hatch (actually both probably will). Her first 4 chicks hatched out and she lost interest in sitting on the others. I moved a couple underneath my other broody hen, then moved the rest to my incubator. I had 4 that...

You guys have been so helpful - thank you! I've candled them several times and never could come up with anything definitive. A couple of days ago, I realized that something was stinking and discovered it was 2 of my "floater" eggs so I got rid of all 3. I finally saw a tiny bit of movement in...

With the "floaty" ones, if there was a developing baby in there, it probably wouldn't float in the top of the egg, right? Hubby thinks it's a sign that they are not going to make it. With the other ones, it seriously looks like a boiled egg with just the air bubble - it's just that solid...

I've looked at a lot of candled pics now and still don't have a clue. I just recandled two of mine - one has that noticeable air bubble at the top but the rest is just solid dark. No shape, no movement, just solid other than the air pocket. I have two others the same way. The other one I just...

I just put them in the bator. but, i'm pretty sure they aren't all viable. I wiped them down with a warm, slightly damp cloth b/c they were *nasty* so I hope that didn't affect the bloom too much. I attempted to candle them but . . .yeah, I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to look for. I'm...

Any suggestions for humidity? (still air, no turner, staggered hatch, no clue how many days gestation so far or to go)

A few weeks ago, one of our hens was persistently brooder, so I thought, "Why not? I'll just let her sit on a couple of eggs." About a week later, hubby checked under her and saw that the "couple of eggs' were now 6 eggs, only 1 of which belonging to her (she is a Marans). A few days later...

Out in the run earlier, I noticed that one of the hens has a swollen, purple and red mass just below her ear. Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Some sort of gland that is abscessed?

Right now, we do have too many roos. 2 of them, our mutt roos, are heading to freezer camp this weekend. Until recently they were staying away from the girls b/c the BO roo was running them off but we added a couple of hens to our flock and the BO isn't really claiming them as "his girls" yet...