So I got a humidaire cabinet incubator thinking it would be better than my old hovabator and I wanted to start hatching more from my breeding Phoenix's. Well I have had two hatches this year and both times I think I had major humidity issues...need some advice. First use in Jan I just put some...
I don't think it was worms, I didn't see any signs on necropsy. All of my birds free range and I wormed everyone a few months a go. She was a feisty hen she used to challenge my silkie roo all the time (who IMO is my best roo, oldest and takes the best care of his hens). Since these were my...
Ok so here's the situation, I have always had chickens and guineas....last summer we bought our first turkeys poults.....they are close to a year old I would guess. I was very excited to start getting eggs in a few months. I had never seem them mate, but Tommy Boy sure does put on a show for...
Has any one seen this before all the research I can find looks like one of my hens expelled her uterus. I found this on the coop floor beneath the perch. I have 25 layers in this coop and none are looking ill. Of course I didn't get home until after they had put themselves away for the night...
I feel the same way, if these last 4 don't hatch under my silkie by this weekend, I am tossing another 5 or 6 silkie eggs back under her, she wants to be a momma again soooo badly and this would be her 3rd brood as well. She is so determined she has been sitting now for 30 days, patient as they...
I had not thought of putting a box on the ground in the corner, I will try that. I have also placed hard boiled "dummy" eggs and lured them for a couple of days then, my German shepherd comes and eats them, she some how knows which ones are hard boiled, she sometimes grabs a fresh one, but the...
I have 24 rescued ex batt hens in one coop with plenty of room and 6 nesting boxes...tell me why do they all lay in the same box? The top right box. Every now and then they will lay in a second one, the bottom left one. Now starting last week they have started laying in the corner of the coop...
I know, and I am pretty sure none are rotten, cause she kicked one out that was at about day 15. She really is a good broody, I just keep second guessing mother nature, no matter how hard I try not too