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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    peroxide simply kills most external bacteria that might creep in once the eggs are warmed up and the eggs start pulling in more moisture. The less bacteria the lass contamination to the embryo trying to develope.
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    I've got an electronic and GQF hygrometer, and theyer both reading 40% at the moment. :\ what kind of thing will stop a chick from hatching or attempting to pip!?
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    its pretty consistantly at 40% and then I bring it up to about 50 for hatch. Id bring it up more but the air cells say otherwise.
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    could be... The ones with curled toes are the ones that had trouble unzipping.
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    Air cells looked good. During hatch I left humidity at 50% becauee the air cells were a little small but with it at 50% this time I got a better result than when I did 60-70 humidity. For the first 4 hatches i used a sperate incubator (genesis) for hatches and was having trouble then... I did my...
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    This is my first year back into poultry, from a breeding standpoint, after picking up some birds in the fall. I have young birds that are all within a year old. One pen is giving GREAT fertility and the other is just getting it back. I have 2 pens with a male covering 5 and 6 hens. The male...
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    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    Hi, I'm in desperate need of some help!!!... I've been hatching consistently every weekend for the past 6 weekends and I cannot for the life of me figure out why I'm getting such poor hatches!!! I usually set about 2 dozen to hatch every weekend and I usually only get 1/3 of those eggs to...
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    Faverolles Thread

    Woah... Just spent an hour catching up on this thread it's been a month or two since I've been on here! Hope everyone is doing well! I have about 24 white and salmon faverolle eggs in the incubator (7 days in!) Gonna candle them in a little while! Last two lock downs nothing hatched! :( Is...
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    Faverolles Thread

    The rooster I have as my avatar is from Cackle hatchery and he has done very well at the shows! Great type and decent color just lacking in beard and eye color! Those are my only complaints! My hens were a little iffy but one has superior type but is really dark with lots of black in her beard...
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    Faverolles Thread

    Yeah, I am so excited about the bunnies! My sister just had a litter of 7 English Angoras on the 25th and my two Jerseys are due tomorrow! I've been trying to breed them all winter! And I was plannig on showing Dork! I feel so bad he legitimately has no tail or foot feathers now! but I know it...
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    Faverolles Thread

    I did a speech on the "Faverolle Breed" at a 4-H poultry workshop the other day and I have a feeling I hooked a couple more people on the breed!... Up and coming Faverolle exhibitors! Yay!!!... High hopes!
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    Faverolles Thread

    I shall keep you posted! I am planning on puting some in next week once I collect a couple and I'm also gonna put some from my pen with my roo that I brought to Congress and the hen from you, cindy and two others of mine in hopes I get a couple good roos!!! I can't wait to hatch some and right...
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    Comment by 'fancychickenlover' in media ''

    WOW!!! Gorgeous bird Robert!
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    Faverolles Thread

    I'm gald to hear every things well! My Faverolle hens that I want to hatch eggs from wont lay either! But, I began keeping eggs from the white roo and hen now that they've been together a week! And they are inseparable now! I love having a white roo for my hen! He compliment her! The white roo...
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    Faverolles Thread

    Whats the difference between treating lice and mites? My chickens had lice last spring before one of the shows and all I did was dust them a couple days before the show with poultry/garden dust and then bathed them like you would for a show and they were spotless. But to my dismay the Polish...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    I actually did something similar last summer! I bred a Brown Red/Goldenlaced roo who appeared birchen and bred him to a lemon blue splash hen and a goldenlaced hen. Out of the 30 chicks I hatched I got 4 lemon blue, 5 goldenlaced, 2 buff, 3 silverlaced/columbian, 3 black, 6 birchen and about 7...
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    Faverolles Thread

    It's probably common respiratory disease (CRD)! Give her antibiotics like duramycin or tyramycin in their water and she should be good! I had the same issue!
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    Faverolles Thread

    Thanks for visiting my website! ...Yes, I have a pair of white LF Faverolles as of yesterday. I've had a lonesome white hen for the longest time and then at the last show I went too (where my white hen won best LF) Sandra Provost offered me a white roo that she bred out of a Salmon roo and a...
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    New England Faverolles

    Awesome. I would love it if you came. The hen I got from you began laying. And I'm gonna set some of her eggs and my other Faverolles a week or two from now!
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