I get a lot of my eggs on Ebay with excellent results, but I've had a terrible time trying to get blue eggs for my friend's and my big 2013 hatch. I have purchased both Ameraucana and rumpless Araucana eggs. Most of the sellers I have bought from quote the breeds' standard of blue eggs, but what...
You might also find a quail waterer at the feed store. They have teeny pans barely any wider than the water jars. I love mine, and so of course it is missing now that I have new chicks. As DraigAthar said, chick grit works, as would rocks or any other clean, inedible objects you can put in...
Grats on all the pips and babies so far!! Mine aren't due until tomorrow. Howeverrrr, I did manage to hatch a few cuties last weekend!
Kryten, Lister, Cat, and itty bitty little Rimmer. He's a bantam Cochin and less than half the size of the others!
It really is upsetting when you open dud eggs for the first time, especially if you don't know for sure. I don't have a very strong stomach, but I've done a lot of what I consider extremely gross things for my chickens and hatching eggs and found I could be a lot braver than I thought. It's...
I am also using a second incubator as a hatcher, but this is my first time doing a staggered hatch. Seems to be working well!
Just a friendly heads-up -- if you leave bad eggs in the incubator, you run the risk of bacteria contaminating your good eggs. The bad eggs can even explode if they...