Thanks I turned the heat down to 99.5 and the humidity has been lietarlly leveling from 60s to mid 40s.Some peeping from the other two chciks but neither have came out, and haven’t seen nor hear much action from one of the cracked eggs in awhile and it is the MOST cracked.I’m gunna wait to see...
Question, first year hatching chicks and they currently are on day 19 it’ll be 21 Friday. The heat has been a consistent 102 and humidity has stayed in the low fifty’s UNTIL recent, I had what seen to be a leaking egg/ rotten and I guess it exploded so I took the lid off and took about 5 minutes...
So this spring will be the first time spring we have EVER incubated eggs.We got an incubator for Christmas and have been highly anticipating this for awhile, whilst doing a little research on google I have found that incubating yourself is apparently harder and longer then naturally hatching...
Found her laying like this , and supposedly she had been acting weird,well here we are today and she can stand but just sits lop sided with her spread out.Not sure what’s going on, I assumed worms, I noticed a bloody stool a couple times but not major in all the birds,gave her a small amount of...
Yeah it’s popular, and I’ve had many friendly birds, but a bachelor flock is not necessary, escpecially if the owner doesn’t want a relationship with the roosters.On top of that the extra money to feed them.
Because the pullets are so young and there is so few of them, 2-3 is too many, escpecially with them being so hormonal.I would just keep one if you seriously want one, but honestly, you don’t need any.I would get rid of (sell/cull) any unwanted, a bachelor flock is waste of time and more mouths...
I often am able to spot out males at and early age but watching them attempt to mount the other birds, he probably doesn’t pay attention him being so young