Recent content by Euphillia

Hanging in until day 70 for good measure. I am absolutely going to be doing eggtopsy on all 7 to see what went down. Nothing smells. No leaking. But also no movement or peeps either. Thanks for checking. You are in the big FB group as well! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge and checking in!

Whats the longest you have let emu eggs go for? Im on day 57 from my own pair of emus. So no shipping or trauma involved for the eggs. They have all done the forward tilt thing. Tapping is still a nice dull thud. No china ping. No leaking. No bad smells. Cool air cell end, warm on the other end...

Thank you everyone. Answers are perfect and helpful!!

My friend sent me these photos tonite. 30 weeks. Not laying. Not crowing much bigger than the other three hens. We can’t decide. They were supposed to be Copper Marans. The three other hens def are. bird 1bird 2 thanks for your imput. Body says hen. But those pointy feathers and size make her...

Oh sorry. Forgot to add they were all collected inside of 5 days with no freezing temps not left out overnite. I've calibrated twice now.

Hey Everyone. I hope I can get some help. I just chunked batch 2 of duck eggs (Rouens) for never developing. On spot checks at least half my eggs have been fertile. This batch was of 20 eggs. I cracked every single one and 11/20 were fertile with zero development on day 9. Forced air incubator...

NorthFlChick, We only had 3 birds(lost the 4th in early spring to a bound egg). Wont be replacing them right now, new baby due in Feb and husband will be retiring in less than two years, so a big move back to the East Coast is in order. Just going to repair the coop and find it a new home...

Had the unfortunate experience of needing to process my birds this morning as my dog decided after 3 years of harmonious living he wanted to kill them all. In any case meat was ruined for human consumption, but since the dog is on a raw diet I got to work processing my first birds. My...

I have 3, 2 year old hens(two BR and an EE). I lost a hen early this spring to egg binding so decided to replace her with 2 new chicks. Those chicks are now 15 weeks old(buff orphingtons). They have been housed in a large dog kennel in the yard and free ranging with the other hens for a number...

Ya I'm all for keeping the little boogers away from hands that could harm and unless you are buying you don't need to be handling. I just cannot believe they feel so inclined to say federal law prohibits it instead of just simply standing up and saying no touching.

Curious to know if anyone has come across this situation. I lost a hen last week and went to my local somewhat big box local farm store and they have all the chics in lockdown with a sign that says the USDA says the chicks cannot be handled until time of purchase. Fair enough, probably better...

Given your history with her, I would worry that it would go from simple bird seed into something different and possible dangerous? Maybe just have a chat and find out whats up.

Awesome. I feel lucky then cause they were both perfect.

I have 4 chickens, 2 are EEs. One lays large blue eggs and the other med/large green eggs. Well, I have 2 very warm green eggs with the rest of the eggs today. Is that even possible!? She laid an egg yesterday too and I did have a blue egg so I know it's not my other EE.

We got our first real snow with very cold temps here in southern Colorado yesterday. I only have one lady laying as of now. I went out yesterday around the time she usually lays and saw no egg, but had noticed that since there was 2 inches of snow on the ground they had ZERO interest in...