Hello, students. I know you're all probably stunned with amazement and asking yourselves, "Are we really so deeply and profoundly lucky as to have Gilderoy Lockheart as our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?" And I would have to tell you that the answer is an unqualified...
All interesting stuff. If the 3 digit code is the packaging date, which it seems to be, then we'd want it to be really low, then. However, I can't imagine they'd take more than a day or two to package...or could they? I guess they could, depending on factors.
Don't forget, there's a 3-digit code on most fertile egg cartons. It's the lay-date in however many days into the Julian or old calendar, so get an app or Google how to calculate how to convert the code to a current date.
We had two hatched by SERAMAS who went broody (one hen per egg/chick) - our Leghorn (or Cal White) was only fooling and wasn't really broody.
So we only got three of the eggs to hatch indoors for five chicks (moving from cold outside to incubator too late, probably, to get a decent hatch...
Yes, welcome. I'm sorry the RiR got one - that happens. At least you saved the other 3. That's good!
Hatching 4 out of 12 w/out candling the eggs in the store was about our rate - we roughly doubled that hatch rate by candling in store. Maybe I can get my wife to explain how that's done...
After Thxgiving this year, someone decided turkey meat to a chicken wasn't strictly cannibalism. Our girls picked the bony carcass clean of all little bits of meat and cartilage.
Agreed about Chicken TV! It's the best channel on!
And yes, they go for muddy water - with w/e else in it -...
Also, with the brooder, make sure the chicks have room and can be under the lamp - or not under it. They can die from being too cold or too hot - and a breeze can mess them up. Make sure no AC or heater vents hit them. Make sure they can't drown in their water, etc (we put marbles in the...
Hi, cute chicks - no way I can tell what they are, though. You'll need to wait a number of weeks for that. Congrats on the pair.
In response to some earlier emails, hatching difficulty is normal. It's sad, but it happens. I guess that's why chickens lay so many eggs. But with that said...