Well I got a incubator given to me a few days ago cause it was missing parts well my old one had just died so i took parts from the old one and put on the new one and i told the person that i had fixed it and they gave me a duck egg to test it with. so i just set the egg about 10 mins ago and i...
My friends have a rooster that has just died and we worked out that it sounds like Coccidiosis and they asked me to find out what the best treatment for their other chickens to prevent them from contracting it and also they wanna know best way to sterilize their hen house
Hello everyone that lives in ontario if you are looking to expand your breed lists or cut a few breeds out then i have a meet for you. Saturday May 11th 2013 The Fenelon Falls Feather and Fur Club are holding their annual Spring Poultry auction. It is in Fenelon Falls Ontario in the heart of the...
Hey everyone so i have a 15 year old hovabator and it died and im going into show bird breeding and i have been looking at getting the new 1588 with the electronic thermostat and i just had a few questions.
1) I have heard some people talking about trouble getting humidity up during lock down...
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Well like the title says my 15 year old hovabator died today thermostat and heater died and im on the hunt for a new one. I have a spending limit of 150$ and i want a forced air. and Suggestions?!?!?!?
Hey everyone so i have been keeping chickens for the last 8 years but that was for selling eggs. i'm getting out of that due to the lose of my chickens. so I am deciding to get into showing and breeding i was looking for suggestions of good breeds to start off with that will be easier on...
Ok so the reason i am asking so many questions this hatch is cause they arnt cheep chicks. So i have 2 hatch last night and one today. the one today has a giant lump where the umbiliocal cord was attached. one of the two from last night didnt make it..... and the other one from last nights lump...
Hi so its day 19 and i have 3 eggs starting to hatch one is just piped the other have borken the shell quite a bit but not in a normal zip..... and one of the eggs that have broken off a bit of the shell i see blood and i know they can bleed out is there anything i can do to try and have that...
Hey everyone so i accidentally went into lock down on day 17 oppss..... and today is day 19 and i hear peeping from the eggs. just wondering when i should start watching for the chicks and i had to add more water. cause the one trough was almost dry so i know its a no no but i opened it quickly...
Ok so it is day 4 today and i looked at all these sights for candleing pictures and i candled a few eggs today and they look nothing like the pictures. In an unincubated egg i see right through but in these eggs these is a giant mass in the eggs. Like half the eggs are filled with this mass. the...
So set on the 17th so today is day 2 and due to unstabale temps i have moved my incubator to a better room. Do you guys think it will hurt if the bator runs between 99.2 and 100.0????? most of the time it is 99.5 or .7 but sometimes goes as low as .2 ot as high as 100.0.....
Ok I set my eggs around 5:30 today. And then th water in the bottom got spilled and the humidity jumped to 68%. I quickly tried to dry out the bottom and then reset the eggs and the temp is right now 96.4 and still 68% humidity....... Please i need to know if this is going to hurt the eggs at...
Well i just set my eggs and my humidity jumped to 54%. thats 4 % above what my incubator usually runs at will that cause any problems???? and anyone else set today?
hey everyone so i am picking my eggs up in approximatly 3 hours. Setting them tonight so hatching around 8th of Feb. They are just back yard mutt breeds have a whole numch of haratige in the same coop so lets see what we get maybe creat a new breed of its own who knows.
So for those who are just starting off with incubating and have a hovabator incubator I have run my incubator with the one trough filled that the instructions say to fill for the firls 18 days and i get a humidity of approxmitly 50 % and when in lockdown and supposed to fill both troughs i get a...