Ever since my 4 year old decided to help me feed them and filled one of the nestboxes with feed they throw all the straw out by scratching. I have cleaned them out real good and put fresh straw in and everytime they just throw it back out. They also started eating there eggs, I have no idea how...
Right now I have 6 chickens in the coop that are about 4 months, I have 10 chicks that are feathered out now so about 3 weeks. Will they all be ok in the coop? I also have eggs in the incubator when those hatch and are done in the brooder the chicks I have now will be a month and a half and the...
I gave them eggs from the bator so they haven't been sitting to long but if they will be leaving to take the other chicks out into the world I will wait, thanks.
So I set up to get some light Sussex eggs on Monday, I also set up to get some guniea eggs but I just looked it up and guniea eggs have a 28 day incubation period. I have two broody hens that have 2 Chicks going pback and forth from one to the other and laying on non fertile eggs, if I put...
Well all the. Cornish cross are in the freezer and I am doing some duel purpuse birds, what is the fastest growing breed that I can raise myself? Is it possible to create Cornish cross mix at home and incubate?
Another hen has decided she wants to be a mommy also, they lay on the couple eggs in there together and the Chicks climb on and under both hens, also they both seem very protective of the chicks.
Mostly mixed, there are a dozen white Sussex in there though. Being my first time incubating I just went cheap. I am still deciding what duel purpuse breed I want to keep and collect eggs to incubate from.
Well my first hatch is done and if I counted right there are 41 chicks. That's out of 60 I put inane it includes the 2 that I gave to my broody hen a week before hatch. They where set to hatch yesterday so more might have hatched but when I got up both incubators where off and it stinks in there...
Well I have got 2 little chicks popping in and out of her feathers and she ruffles up at anyone who comes near her. They are super cute and I just decided today that I will give her some more to sit on later on when these are bigger.
One of my incubators has so much condensation on the windows I can't see into it and the other does not, there are chicks in both though, should I pull a plug in the one with condensation or maybe add some water through the hole of the one with dry windows?
I just got home from work and had 6 baby chicks, in the half hour since then I now have 8. Hope they are all hatched when I wake up. (Third shift work schedule)
Today at 6pm will be the end of the 20th day I just got home from work and have 6 fully hatched eggs, looks like alot of the others are starting. My question is how long should I wait after the first chicks hatched before opening the incubator? I don't want to kill any unhatched chicks by...
A few of the eggs are brown and couldn't be candled very well so I don't know if they will hatch, how long can the hatched chicks stay in the incubator? I don't want to open early and kill the other eggs if they are not hatching but end up just taking a little longer? I don't know if this is...
I have been watching cregslist for a deal and saving up, this is my first time incubating and I am already planning to upgrade and build a second coop. I didn't realize I was a chicken person when I first started with them for eggs and meat but I love watching them out in the yard and listening...
A couple hovabators one is forced air and one is still air, I am saving my money up for a cabinet model though. I will probably instal a small fan in the still air model and use those for the rest of this year.