Recent content by vidpro23

Buckeye here too :-) Columbus. Go bucks!!!

We are getting a shipment today of 100 meat chicks. Temps at night are 55-75 here in FL. I have chicken tractors with heat lamps in them. could I put them out right away or do need to wait a couple weeks? I usually start them in barn, but wondered if anyone has put them out on grass right away...

We would like to sell our process chickens to friends. Shrink bags are expensive! what do you buy to package your chickens for other people/market in? thank you!

hi, just learning about the RLBW - we had 12 hatching eggs. 10 survived - I think we have 5 and 5 hens/roos. So correct is a rose comb? we should cull these other roos with a straight comb? I think the last one is correct?

I have one 7th month old Muscovy that just successfully sat and hatched baby ducklings. She picked a nest box in the coop and sat from the time she laid her first egg til they hatched. I have 2 other girls the same age - haven't gotten eggs from either for a bit. The other day found a stash...

thank guys :-)

im in Pensacola, - wish I was closer!

thank you for responding :-)

This is my first set of babies - wondering if there is any chance of chocolate if parents are not? Are they like rabbits that something can pop up from past generations?

Had a Muscovy sitting on 13 eggs - 8 hatched they other day and I had to move mom and babies outside because she had them in a bad place inside the coop. I moved the remaining 4 eggs with her but she didn't seem to want to sit on them and finish the job and has been taking good care of the 8...

thanks, yes they are the same size as the whites so I figured. we have lost 2 of the whites last weekend for no apparent reason and one to a broken leg that we put down. I heard they were difficult to raise as new poults but then got hardier. We lost 2 out of 3 in the first batch at...

how about now?

I started out with 6 muscovy ducklings - turned out 3 girls, 3 boys,.... couple months ago the males started fighting a bit and we decided to process 2 of them. Whatever made me decide to keep the male with the most "personality" is now beyond me. A week or 2 after the other males were gone ...

any thoughts? this morning she had moved over to the box right beside and is sitting and pipping with no eggs under her - and the eggs were cold in the next box. So im not sure what is going on in her little duck head. I stuck them back under her, but if she moves again I guess Ill just take...