I keep a bag of golf balls on hand for such problems, never failed me yet. Helps with hens eating eggs also, as they cant eat the golf balls they give up in time.
Ok, I've got some just opened chick starter and I have noticed what appears to be some type of small black bug's in the feed itself. I am wanting to know what might the ant size bugs be and are they harming the feed. Thanks
Well I have a home built incubator that I have had success with four different hatches, I keep my humidity at around 65-70 during incubation and raise up to near 80% during hatch day. Ive read into this and it seems to me low humidity would be worse than say a little to high, so good luck and...
Stuck to egg sounds a lot like low humidity to me. During incubation i keep my humidity at 65-70 then bump up to 80 the last hatch day and so far have not lost a chick as of yet.
Lets see winter grain, Rye Wheat Barley all good grains. Wheat has about 12% protein the most of the three. You could consider planting something like Pumpkins as chickens love the seeds and they can be planted late summer.
Yes its quite fine oats have between 14-16% protein and is healthy regularly or not. They do sell bags of oat or any other grain at most local feed stores, that would be a lot cheaper than grocery store oats maybe 7-12 bucks depending on how much say 25lb-50lb bag respectfuly.