yay! i hope so! (s)he looks so pretty beside the yellow ones, i got 2 yellow/black ones, 2 yellow, one black w/white, one white w/black and one thats mostly black.
pretty good assortment.
I got 7 little chicks from the eggs I got from you. I will be back for more! They are soooo cute. One hatched white & black. Will it stay white & black? Do you know? I've never hatched a white chick :)
I had a really hard time hatching button quail at first. I was using 55% humidity, then 45% humidity, I found that 25-35% (lockdown at 55%) humidity works best for them. That also depends on your climate too. They hatch in 16 days, Ive had a few hatch on the 17th day, but thats very few & far...
I think you are fine. Its just the same as any electrical device. People ship phones, computers, etc through the mail in the winter with no problems. I would think it would have to get really cold..like in the -'s to hurt anything like that.
I have never free ranged my turkeys, so I dont know if you can do it with them. But I did "accidently" get turkeys when the guy that I was getting my chicks had them. I fell in love with them. They are so much more docile than the chickens. They will let you walk right over to them and pet...
we use gamebird starter crumbles for our quail
for young chicks we put in a zip lock baggy and smash with a hammer
you can use a coffee grinder too.
for older ones they just eat it as it comes
you want about 28% protein
I understand what you are going through.
I had about 50 ducks, and didnt realize how bad they were over winter. I couldnt keep up. They stank up a whole barn in one day.
Listed most on craigslist, Im down to about 25, not as bad to manage..but definitely much harder than chickens.
I wouldnt. When I first started hatching eggs, i would get really impatient and check them after lockdown. It got really old helping most of the eggs hatch because they got stuck.
Once I stopped doing that, I didnt have to help any hatch, they were able to do it on their own. Sometimes the...
you shouldnt open the incubator after lockdown.
if the egg is pipped & you open the incubator, it will cause it to shrink wrap because of humidity loss.
I have turkeys, pheasants, ducks and chickens all in the same pen right now. I dont know if breeds determine temperament or anything but the ducks are blue swedish, the chickens are crevecoeur, pheasants are red golden and turkeys are royal palm & one white midget. There is only a couple of...
Oh. Ive been to the PA grand canyon before.. It was a long time ago, but I was there. Its really pretty.
I wish I had someone that lived that close for eggs! lol..well I kinda do, but I just bought one of his cabinet incubators, I think hes getting out of chickens.
Yeah, Ive gotten rid of my...
ok, just let me know. I have been searching for local SLW adults.. but no luck yet. Im trying to decrease the waterfowl in my flock and add more chickens. I am working on it and have room for more chickens now :) Thats the first breed I want more of. They are so pretty. Yeah, shipping...
I may be able to do 6 silver laced wyandottes when it gets a lil warmer..Im getting about 2-3 per day from them when its not freezing cold, like it is now. not sure if I can guarantee any more than that. I dont like to ship them when they are older than 48 hours, but I can if you dont mind. I...
sounds like its probably a rooster. We have had a few like that, I was really iffy about the idea of killing them at first, but I got used to it. Id rather that than be attacked every time I try to feed them. There probably isnt much you can do to stop attacks. Holding them upside will calm...