Recent content by steelersfan43

We use diluted bleach with our incubators between each hatch. Just make sure you rinse very well and you will be fine. We've never had any trouble with any of our hatches from this and lately we have been having to bleach our "lockdown" incubator at least once a week for our staggered hatches.

Just a suggestion...hens that no longer lay work very well as canned chicken if you have a pressure canner.

So sorry to hear about your poor baby chick. Your other chicks are very lucky to have someone taking care of them that cares so much. Good luck with the rest of your birds.

I love the look of the blue and splash orpingtons and we really enjoy breeding these birds.

I love this!

Hercules Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Two year old Rooster

I agree. When they are piled up, this means they are cold. They do like to sleep in groups sometimes, but a tight group is not a good thing.

So so sorry you had to go through all that. I hope you can enjoy the chicks you have now, and can get everything handled with the hatchery. Is there a different town that you can pick them up from the post office at? Just asking because we have the main post office in the larger town near us...

We definitely have! We have 4 incubators now that we have going all the time. One is used for our lock down bator. I told my husband I think we need to get a sportsman next spring. I am running out of room and have eggs "waiting for their turn" to go in. I've even been shipping fertile...

We've been hatching too. I have about 60 chicks in a brooder pen in the barn and two full incubators going. We've been hatching EE's, Olive Eggers, Silkies, Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, Blue and Splash Orpingtons, and a few ducks. Have 6 goose eggs also that I'm trying for a friend. Going to...

Where are yours coming from? How many and what kind did you order?? We're expecting ours this week. We ordered Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, White Laced Red Cornish, Barred Rock, & Road Island Red From Murray McMurray. Sixty chicks all together.

Shredded newspaper works great for us. We ship lots of eggs and don't ever have problems :)

any ideas with the new photo?

We sell baby chicks here at our farm and at swap meets. We sell them from 1-3 dollars a piece for day olds depending on breed but they are all purebred whatever breed they are.