Recent content by boomdiddyah

Another egg pipped a hole, but I'm seeing blood. Is that ok? :(

It's been 8 hours I think.

I'm concerned about this two eggs. Not much progress. Do they look ok?

Slaughtered and processed my first 5 chickens today, and I would definitely like a plucker for the next time! Has anyone heard of one that is manual? Not battery or electricity powered.

That's great advice, thanks for sharing! :) I will have to try tilting ;)

First time hatching, so excited and nervous! My 24 red ranger eggs should arrive today. My homemade incubator fits a 24- egg carton perfectly, but the eggs would be sitting vertically, not horizontally. Is this a problem? A lot of pictures show eggs laying on their side. Sadly my incubator...

Hi! Wanting to start a mealworm colony for my hens. Has anybody else done this? I've watched some youtube videos on various method, but most involve physically separating the pupae one by one. I think the idea is to remove them before they're cannibalized by the worms.. Has anybody else come...

Thanks again everyone, for the first time in months, the flock roosted! I blocked off their beloved nesting boxes, and everywhere else but under their roosting poles it was raining, so they sought cover by roosting. Success! Hoping this is permanant!

Thanks for the replies everyone. I did some work on the coop today by making the nesting boxes as unappealing as possible, and their roosting area warm and cozy. I removed the roofing from the nesting area, so as to allow drafts and rain and what may be, and added a wall to their roosting area...

Yes, the roost is outside in the run. There is a roof that covers the top half of the open area. As you can see from the picture, there's no space to add a roost in the cozy coop area

Hello all! We have a portable, A-frame style coop. It's a very simple design that looks much like this one: http://www.homedit.com/do-it-yourself-chicken-coop/ Our issue is that our chickens are sleeping huddled in and on the nesting boxes. We have several laying, so blocking off the boxes...