Been a while since i logged in, thanks so much for the replies. The thing that is puzzling me is we have used this same multi-purpose cleaner on everything. Even other polished aluminum stuff. This horse trailer is the first thing we had to tarnish with it. Makes me think it might have been a...
welp. all the rest of my sebright babies died. the last ones were about 2 weeks old. no clue on why they died. there was no ruptured spots or pasty butt build up. i continued feeding them chick starter and sugar water. these are the first chicks i have gotten that just seemed to all die. could...
i have always liked king snakes, but never thought they would bother my chickens. i guess any snake around my chickens is going to be a dead snake. dont want to risk my babies getting hurt or ate.
Thanks so much! I have dealt with pasty butt an never really had issues with it other than it bein an inconvenience wry neck was completely new to me though and freaked me and the wife out. Hoping the rest of my babies make it all right
Picked up 7baby buff sebrights from a local guy that hatched them off and i am not sure what is happening to them. The day after we got them i had to leave them with my inlaws that have raised chicks before, because i had to go have surgery.they put a light on them, sugar water and chick starter...
Any one have an issue with king snakes eating biddies? Wife came in screaming that we had a snake watching my hen that was setting on some eggs she had one biddie and one egg left under her. She started with 13 eggs. I genarally dont like killing king snakes but i feel like we caught him red handed
yea. the pet store people told me to vacuum my tank out like every 1-2 weeks, and every time i did i lost fish. stopped to just vacuuming about once every 2-3 months and now i hardly ever lose a fish.
i have never had any luck with cory cats :( its a shame because i love them. i have probably spent upwards of 150$ on all diff. varieties of cory cats, pandas leopards etc. and could never get ANY of them to live. brought water samples to the pet store and everything checked out, they could not...
Was helping my dad clean his horse trailer today and we sprayed an all purpose soap/degreaser on the top of it and on the AC shrouds to take off the mildew. everywhere on the sides of the horse trailer where the soap/mildew touched the aluminum panels, looks like acid or something ran down the...
The last dry incubation paper i read suggested at running between 15-20% humidity for the first 17 days. not sure how anyone would get it that low, atleast in an area like i live in.
I was considering just unplugging my turner and leaving it in for hatching, had read that removing the turner would drop the egg further fromthe element and change the internal temp of the eggs. but now thinking about it, i dont think that would be an issue since i installed a fan... back on the...
:o i just started reading on dry incubation via another link here on the forum, after thinking about it i think my humidity has been way too high in past hatchings, in the books i was reading they wanted it ~50% for the first 17-18 days, and then ~60-75 for the last. i use an egg turner, what...
My incubator is the fully styrofoam rig they sell at tractor supply, i have had 3 hatchings so far in it, and no real complaints, just added a fan to it. Other than that, adding water in its built in tray is extremely hard to do, i end up having to leave 4 middle egg slots empty so i can pour...
great! worked like a charm, used some short screws + gorilla glue to secure it to to top, is there any time that i need to unplug the fan? or just leave it running 24/7 until they hatch
i took the cpu fan off of an old computer that has been sitting in a closet after seeing a few videos. hooked it up to a power converter and have it running, the old fan is too big to put inside the incubator, was debating cutting a small square hole in the top of my styrofoam incubator and just...
Thanks for the information! My first time to be owning some D'uccles and these chicks i got are only around 2 weeks old and their little wings are already so well defined and they are trying to fly around my brooder lol.
thanks!