FREE welsummer 2 to 3-week old cockerels. Pickup only. Incubated at home. Handled daily. They are hatched from mcspin's stock. See http://insideyolk.com/images/WelRoo.jpg on how they may/will look as adults. You may end up with show quality and show them at Topsfield Fair in the future (like...
I had my first experience hatching eggs.
14 eggs set on 5/29/2010 at 6pm made it to day 21. On day 21, some eggs had pips.
5 hatched on day 22. 3 hatched on early day 23. 1 hatched late day 23.
So far - 9 hatched. 5 are leftover in the bator.
Temp and humidity have been stable. At lockdown...
I have surmised that some of you (long-standings BYCers, and chicken experts who have experienced and raised different breeds) have decided not to pursue raising white feathered chickens such as delawares, light brahmas, white wyandottes, etcetc.
May I inquire why?
Do the white feathers turn...
I used a heated nipple waterer bucket in my previous wooden coop, and am doing the same with the eglu coop.
Bungee cords, and a dowel are utilized to hang the bucket. The bucket is filled to less than a quarter full (Maybe 1/5 or 1/6 full, and that is good enough). Water is heavy, so must be...
I have been feeding laying pellets starting 11/2009, when the chickens started laying. These are layena pellets. They have been in my basement since 5/2009. They were meant for a batch of chickens (my second batch of 5) that would have been laying in 6/2009 but they were all killed by raccoons...
I applied vaseline on my chickens' combs and wattle 2 weeks ago when temps were dropping to the 20s. They have been doing very well, without problems.
This weekend temps will be dropping down to the teens. Should I re-vaseline? How frequently does one need to apply vaseline anyway? I can't...
After having personally having invested time, money and labor to build a chicken coop (with help of husband), and having gotten attached to AND lost 2 small batches of chickens to predators over 2 years; I decided to take the giant leap and did what I never thought I would do - which is to buy...
Hello chicken experts!
I hope that this mystery can be solved. I bought 5 sex-linked, one-day old chicks (pullets) from Meyers Hatchery born on June 22, 2009. Three are red stars and 2 black stars. I think one of the black star pullets is actually a Roo. It is possible to make mistakes on...