Recent content by jwcarlson

This particular study is in quail, but there's some (older) research in chickens. And apparently it's pretty common in turkeys. Reptilian hold over, no doubt, as there are populations of reptiles that exist without males at all. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276421

I've considered that. The incubator. But I'm not *that* worried about it at the moment. At SOME point I'll have one crowing... or witness mating if there is infact, a rooster amongst my tiny flock. Regarding them mating. I don't think the cockerels were even 8 weeks old when I got rid of...

Ok, so I've done some searching and can't seem to turn much up. I hatched a couple sets of buff orpington eggs this spring (from a friend who's kept chickens for about 30 years or so), had incubator issues for the first batch, but successfully hatched 10 of 12 in the second set. One from the...

Couple of real pretty roosters posted, thanks! :) I cannot keep roosters here, my daughter will be sad she can't keep this one, but have had her prepared since day one. It's a week older than the other 10, but he and one of the others are pretty frequently chest bumping and yesterday when they...

But figured I'd ask since I have never done this before. Hatched May 3rd, so just a bit short of four weeks.

Anyone? Planning on picking up some Corid or medicated feed depending on what the local farm store has here in about a half hour.

I have a total of 11 chicks right now. One hatched out of eight eggs two weeks ago (major incubator failures). And the other ten hatched out of a dozen that I put in a week after the first set. Mostly, they seem to be "normal", but I have never done this before. They started in a 28 gallon...

Very cool. I'm incubating for the first time and "lockdown" on Monday after work. My first set I put in 8 eggs. Five remain, two stopped along the way and one wasn't fertile. I had gobs of issues. I'm a beekeeper and I rear queen bees so I have an incubator for my queen cells. That...