Recent content by JoshJudge

I know this may be a shot in the dark but does anyone have any POL hens for sale. I'm just looking for 4-5. I'm in Iowa but am willing to travel

So today I went downstairs to check my incubator and realized the turner wasn't plugged in. It's only been 5 days since I started them. So my question is, will this cause problems at all with the eggs not being turned for 5 days? Thanks

I have a hen quail that I noticed today that could walk without falling forward. When I caught her I noticed she has what I think is vent gleet. Also her breast meat feels non existent, all I feel is bones and no meat :(. I wish I would of caught her sooner to help her out more. So far I have...

I'm starting to build another flight pen and was curious if anyone has used that green privacy screen that 3T products sells? I'm going to get the 44" wide one and run that along the bottom instead of using steel siding. Would this be a bad idea? I'm going to run electric fencing along the...

Very nice! I love the spots! I will def send her an email tonight then. I appreciate all the help!

What's Ruth's username? Thanks!

Hey guys! While I was deployed last year I had a friend watch my flock of Welsummers till I got back. Well long story short I now only have one rooster and one hen left out of my flock of 42 :( I'm needing to buy some eggs and would like someone who breeds for that dark egg with lots of spots...

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Yeah she was laying pretty big eggs for the size of her. Im glad I know now that protein can make the eggs to big, I heard it darkens eggs. Ill stop letting them eat from the dog bowl. It sucks I lost her she is the only chicken that I've had that has every shown a sense of intelligence and had...

Yesterday when I was collecting eggs from the hen house I noticed blood sprinkled in their normal walk path, I thought it was just minor. This morning I went out and a lot more blood everywhere. So I started scanning for any of my birds to have an injury, then I spotted my Penedesenca hen with...

I have a question for you Sportsman users, how do you control the humidity for the eggs you put in the hatching tray during lockdown? Do you just keep the bator at one humidity setting during the entire incubation period or just raise it for the couple days the eggs are hatching? Thanks!

Thank you all. I did notice today the are starting to fill out alittle more in the feather area. Haha yeah they are pretty ugly without there feathers. The pullets look a lot prettier.

I have 15 broilers that I got toward the end of September. I kept them in one of those GQF brooder cages for two and a half weeks before I put them outside. I also had 15 pullets in with them. Now all of the pullets have their feathers but the broilers I think plucked all of theirs out around...

I have a question about different ways to handle eggs during the lockdown. I thought I read some where that you can place the eggs in an egg carton to keep them solid so they don't roll around when the others hatch. I've always just placed the eggs on their sides since I was a little kid but I'm...

Man it feels like they are taking forever! They are chirping a lot more and the vast majority of chips in the eggs. One egg the chick has a hole pecked about 3/4 the size of a dime, it seems like he isn't cutting the egg in a circle is that bad?