Recent content by janelle18

Hi I have an older wooden sportsman incubator. The temperature at the top of the incubator reads 100.2 but my thermometer at the bottom is only 97. Is this normal, should I increase a bit more in hopes the middle of the incubator stays at 99.5 ?

Yes, single comb. They were hatched out mid-august.

I have this chicken in with my young roosters right now but he has only a little comb and it is more yellow than any of the others. I am sending my roosters from processing this week so I need to know! The breed is Basque ( eo).

Thanks! It would be funny if she went broody , she would only be able to sit on 1 or 2 eggs!

She looks very similar to the one in your picture! Do OEG lay very many eggs/often? I don't know what to expect from this girl!

Just got this hen dropped off. I wasn't around when she got dropped off and I said to just leave her in the barn. I couldn't find her for forever and finally it occurred to me to look up! Any idea what breed she is! I put her in a pen with my 9 week old chicks and she is much smaller than all...

Thanks for all your help.. I watched her a bit yesterday and when any of the other hens came near she got defensive and they chose the easier option of laying in the other nesting box. I think I am going to leave her were she is and move the other birds out of the pen and into a different one. I...

So i have a broody hen. She is currently in a 8ftx8ftx10ft pen with 5 other hens and a roo. The nest boxes in the pen are raised about 2.5ft off the ground. Therefore i need to move her lower. I have another nesting box that i can move her to on the ground in the same pen.. my questions are ...

I have new chicks that I want to move to my brooder that previously held other chicks and some grown birds when space was needed. The brooder has a wire bottom, which means that it is difficult to clean since some of the poop doesnt fall all the way through and sticks etc. I cleaned it out the...

I find bully hens are really hard to re-introduce. The other birds sense the weakness and are mean to them. The bully birds usually don't 'fight back' which means they just get hurt. I had one hen and this was the case with her, she got beat up and lost a bunch of feathers, when they grew back I...

yes, they should have a heat lamp so that the temp is approx 90-95, it can decrease by 5 degrees each week as they feather out

Blue Kote is really handy for these kind of injuries. I had it for my horses, but use it for my chickens all the time now. I spray it on my barred rocks who feather pic of their naked area's and it seems to make it less attractive ( plus hides that bare pink flesh :(). But if I have a hen that...

I had a batch of chicks before and some were very violent with others pecking at the eyes so much that they would be swollen shut. The best way that we dealt with them was by tossing the "bully" chicks into a pen with chicks that were a week or so older, who easily put that naughty chicks in...

this works!? I want to do this ASAP!

Yes, i agree about taking the job seriously. I just don't know where/how to keep him away from the hens without having him locked up in a cage. I just hate having naked backs!! The pen isnt too large probably 8ft by 8ft, they will be rotated out into an outside pen once the weather warms up