Recent content by reynolds73

One hatched so far!!! So excited! Hope the other two hatch soon as well :D

He stopped nursing a few months ago (not sure when exactly). He tries to every once in a while but she kicks him off. Do I need to do anything about this? She is housed with the buck right now, but we are in the process of building her a pen to separate them. Thank you for the info. Puts my mind...

My goat had a kid at the beginning of February. He only nursed one side, so the other side stayed full. I'm not positive, but I thought she got pregnant soon after the first kid, which would mean that the next kidding would be soon. Her one udder stayed full until yesterday, when I looked at it...

The egg was dark, but I'll try again. I think the eggs have been set for at least 20 days before we put them in the incubator. And yes I'm using a little giant still air incubator. We have the bottom full of water and the two vents open

I tried candling, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I couldn't see anything inside, but when I turned the egg to put it over the light, I felt something slide inside the egg. I'm assuming it's a keet. So far all the other eggs hatched under their mothers. We have all the other keets in a...

We have 2 guinea hens that were sharing a nest in the edge of our woods. We ended up with approximately 36 eggs, but they're hatching at different intervals because the first hen went broody before the second finished laying. Long story short, we allowed them to hatch out their babies and the...