Recent content by Omani

So this is my update. I bought 12 and got 18. Of those,6 weren't fertile. I had 8 hatch. Unfortunately, we lost power when they were a week old. I lost another 3. I have incubated everything from gouldians to geese,and raised them successfully, but these guys are giving me a run for the money. I...

I ordered red golden,but there were a few extras,so I'll find out what I got.Hopefully,some will be the ones I wanted.

They arrived today,in good condition and very well wrapped. I hope I can get at least some to hatch.

While I've never bought eggs of any kind before, I will do my due diligence. I got beaten out of every bid at the auction yesterday, so i've already started looking into online sellers. I do know people who had ordered chicken eggs online and gotten mixed results. I am hopeful that I can find...

Has any one bought pheasant hatching eggs from ebay? What kind of success have you had? I have hatched several batches of chicken eggs successfully and thought I would like to try my hand at pheasants. I'm planning on going to the Bath,NY auction tomorrow to find some more red goldens or...

Besides the game feed, I give mine fresh fruit(1/2 frozen watermelon is a big hit in the summer), fresh veggies from the garden, bird seed/scratch mix, and rice/pasta mix. Most are just treats so that they get used to interacting with me. If they get a good balanced feed and can forage a bit...

No change so far. The patch isn't doing as good a job retaining moisture as I had hoped. The humidity is up to 80%, but the membrane is still drying out. I set up a drip system that releases one drop every minute or so. It rolls down the egg and spreads across the membrane. I'm hoping that will...

I've been checking it every two hours. It's still alive. I think the patch has slowed the evaporation but not stopped it. I increased the humidity to 80%. I'll check again in a couple of hours to see if that helped. I'm willing to entertain any ideas, no matter how crazy, that anybody has to...

I always do "egg-topsies" before I toss eggs that didn't hatch, just to see what went wrong. Today is day 24 so I thought I'd be safe. I turned the incubator off, cleaned out the shells and took the remaining eggs outside. I opened six to find that most died about half way through. Number seven...

You're about an hour south of me. Welcome to BYC. The best part of joining is that all those questions rattling around in your head that you thought were dumb, have probably already been asked and answered. Makes you feel kinda normal, not kinda dumb.

I let mine out into the side yard when they have about half their feathers (on sunny days). When they don't need the lamp any more, they go out to the big boy pen. I would say that yours are ready to go.

Asking around is a good idea. I just found out that there's someone 5 minutes from me that will do it. All this time we've been driving over an hour to Attica. You could also try putting an add up at your local feed store. Or just ask the employees. I'll bet they know somebody. That's how I...

I had the same problem a couple of years ago. Called about six or seven butcher shops. A couple of them gave me the name and number of a guy in Attica. Did a good job. If he still does it, he only processes through September and you have to make an appointment. I can PM you the info if you...

This is an interesting disscussion. But I would like to make an observation. I don't think this case is about the merits of owning backyard chickens. I thought it was about whether or not it is legal to do so in a specific area/community. In this case, it clearly was not. Citing other cases to...