Is it possible to encourage them you might ask?? Well let me share what happen. My neighbor and I both happen to go to our local chick day at the same time. He got 30 and I got 30, same breed, same box---Rhode Island Red. We got 2 dozen female chicks and 6 straight run chicks. I had 27 pullets...
I have several that are easy to move. I prefer to use treated 2x2 and skid on pvc because pvc gets brittle and will break over time. They can be made wider.
To much reading for me this morning---LOL. Sure the eggs need to be properly gathered, stored, good hens, roosters, etc, etc to have great hatches as far as positioned---a certain way under the hen or incubator---that's not important. I have incubated about 11,000 eggs in just 3 seasons and with...
I am not sure what you mean by particular orientation? Yea the temp and humidity needs to be in range for a great hatch.
I agree, the ideal hatch should be in the 12 hour or so range from start to finish. I do not bother my hens at all while they are hatching but I do know that all the chicks...
Opinions, Opinions you will get. They are Kids----they are scared----they are being picked on, putting them in the coop with the others will just cause them to be picked on worse----even Hurt. You tried to introduce them----it did not work-----some hens/chickens just do not like Newbies. Some...
Leave the new in the main pen----put "grumpy" in a private pen/cage for a few days----maybe a week. When you put her back in the main pen she will probably feel like the Newbie and act different. Good Luck
Your silkie is a pullet. Young roosters are that way---like to strut their stuff---they think they are Tough----learning to be a "man" LOL, wanting to spread their oats. More than one time I have put the rooster in a pen by himself for a few weeks to give the girls piece--that works better than...
My simple set-up---I have a pump in the bottom "tote" pumps the water to the top trap and it free flows through the trays back to the bottom. I have to change the water every 2/3 days or atleast part of it. In the second pic I had cut a section out where the pepsi can is to feed the rabbits. The...
I have a local feed mill that makes their own chicken feed---right not $14 for a 50lb bag of layer. I friended the guy that has been working there for years and he told me how they make the feed-----well I did not pay it a lot of attention. Then my Mother re-Married to a man that worked for the...
My first still little air giant I bought way back in the 1980's still works and still looks good. I have always carefully cleaned it---let it dry and store it in the original box. I only used it like once or twice a year---might have not used it a year or two. About 5 years ago I was hatching...
Maybe its not sour crop----put her in a private cage with no feed for a day---see if it goes way down? I have Glutters---with big crops---until in the Mornings----then its down a lot and they are ready to eat some more.
You read it wrong---I have 15 Styrofoam "cheap" incubators and still use some of them when needed. I have been hatching since the early 1980's with bad luck on all the hatches until I started keeping it closed. Of Course as I stated above---I never got in there and tried to help them hatch...
Most of the time----Now--- Home Builders Do not Have to Cut Rafters----they install prebuilt trusses and have Very little experience if any in stick building rafters.