Recent content by LisabethBrooke

Mine has two plugs on the top of the lid. I will try to vent it with those this time around. Hopefully my hatch rate will be significantly higher. And I will make sure to buy an extra thermometer and hygrometer. Thank You!

Oh my goodness look at those incubators! I would love that. They're so expensive. How do I decrease humidity? I didn't put any water in the trough this time because our outside humidity has been between 40-60%. Do I crack the incubator so some moisture can escape?

I have a Little Giant still air Styrofoam incubator. I have it set up in an old camper - where I also have my brooding pens. I put my own eggs in it. They should all be fertile because I have too many roosters - my poor hens. I gather and clean the eggs. I fill the incubator full of eggs on a...

I wasn't sure where to put this, but this figured like the most suitable place. I'm looking for recommendations on Poultry books. What are your favorite and why? Thank You! P.S. All books welcome from simple quick reads, like magazines to Ph.D level reading and studies that have been done. All...

@lazy gardener - I can't remember the snow amount. It was deep in the yard and deeper out in the fields where it was more open. There were snow drifts on the roads that the maintainer had to work from one side and my dad had to open the other side with the tractor. @azygous - I want a chicken...

aw poop. I was hoping they would have a sturdier roof than that - since they're supposed to keep your car safe from storms. Would it work if I put some fencing under the tarp as well?

@KikisGirls - If it's coccidosis isn't that what the medicated feed is for? Also how do I collect runny chicken poop? With a Q-tip? (totally being serious here, not sarcastic and snarky at all.) @WhiteWyan - I shall do this later. Hoping that when I go outside after a bit I will notice regular...

@lazy gardener - I've been thinking about building my chickens a different - bigger - chicken yard. I've been toying with the idea of a car port, just a cheap one, so it has a good roof on it. And then covering the sides with fencing so it's predictor proof year round and putting plastic around...

@misslady - the chickens don't burn themselves on it? I was afraid of that happening. Or tipping it over into the betting and then woosh up in flames would go my coop and then the creek... @RonP - I love the 5 gallon waterer. Super easy! If put on a base to keep it from freezing does that...

This morning when I let my chickens out of the coop to free - range, one or more (its hard to tell all the brown ones apart) had some very watery poop. This could have just been some cecal poop, but I'm not sure. Their caged yard didn't have any poop in it like it normally does, other than what...

@PirateGirl Thank You!

With Fall bringing colder temperatures and our first frost happening last night, I've started getting my preparations for winter going. One of the problems I had last year was keeping the chicken water from freezing. The only solution I could find for it was to get a heated dog dish and plug it...

Will they eat the shells too? or just the slimy bug inside?

The ones I've eaten have had evidence of them being fertile - with the red spot in the yolk. But with the eggs that didn't even start the veins in the incubation I assume those ones weren't fertile eggs. I wish there was a way to tell fertility before incubation or cracking it open...

I free range my chickens. So they're out eating bugs and what ever they find all day. We have a hay field just on the other side of our yard that they love - its full of hay that they dig in, and seeds and I'm sure a helping of mice to catch and eat. Then at night I put them back into their...