I live 2 miles from my school and I’m in Florida with the highest humidity, possible! Roads would be smooth as they are city roads. However, humidity in this bator is hard to keep steady….temp is fine. With those variables, any rec’s?
One like this one:
https://www.google.com/search?q=incubator+12+eggs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#piu=ps:70&oshopproduct=pid:10991516005548799870,oid:10991516005548799870,iid:12021332542917678058,pvt:hg,pvo:19&oshop=apv&pvs=0
Incubator will be on lockdown over a 3 day weekend. I can have an administrator let me in on Saturday but will the humidity stay high enough for Sunday and Monday without being checked? Or should I take them home on day 16 or 17? Opinions??
Need hive mind advice. Sadly, one of my older girls got to a chick the day after it hatched (never had this happen to me with the broody mom present). It caused bad head trauma and has yet to open its eyes. However, it seems happy and eats when hand fed (feeding it egg yolk and green tea...
Hi there! Just trying to figure this out. I have had 1 chicken die per month for the last 3 months. I only have 2 left. I’ve been raising chickens for over a decade and this is an enigma. They are fine one day and then die the next. Any ideas?
I have had 2 walk in coops and loved them. However, I had neighbor problems. Thankfully, my county adopted a backyard chicken ordinance and I was able to keep my girls but had to go with a much much smaller coop. It’s been an adjustment but it’s all I’m allowed. With that, I’ve made it work...
I have the inside of my coop painted and really like it. I think it helps with smells and tiny critters being able to lodge in the coop. The chickens never peck at it so I can't see how it would be harmful.
I bought fertilized eggs from a friend. She has a bantam roo who obviously fertilized these eggs. I just thought that because they were hatched from a full sized egg, that meant they would be full sized chickens.
That makes sense. So the full sized mother laid a regular egg which was holding a bantam-fertilized embryo.
The roo was a bantam. I'm not exactly sure who the mom was.
I'm asking if a bantam can come from a full sized egg. I know what I put under my broody hen. They were full-sized eggs. But the chicks that hatched are bantams. I'm asking how that can be.
So that’s normal? I’ve kept chickens for several years now and this is new for me. It’s starting to happen with a broody who hatch chicks last weekend. She hasn’t been with the flock for them to do this to her.
Hello. I realize this is an old thread I’m wondering if there is anyone who had experienced this. If I took a picture of 2 of my hens it would be the same as the ones posted in this thread. Now a third is losing them. I live in Florida so it can’t be frostbite. Thanks!