Hi, I put 24 duck eggs into the incubator last week and today I candled them and only 3 are actually fertile and developing. Should I take out the rest of the eggs or would it be better to leave in until lockdown?
The humidity in my rcom 20 incy was about 60%. I knew it was high but figured after a day or two it would go down but it didnt so i took away the water 'thing' and gave it a week and it went down to 55%,still too high. So i started up my homemade incubator, still a working progress but the...
I am trying to remodel my homemade incubator. The trays i built are open top and, after an egg falling over the side, i realised i must remake. Dont forget photos!!
I have a group of 12 pekins, 8 hens and 4 roosters. There are 4 trios: lemon cuckoo,lavender, buff and black. They were all bought at different times in summer this year. The lemon hens laid for about a month then went broody in July and havent laid since. The black laid a few very small eggs...
I have recently just gotten a few pekins. After i brought them home i noticed that they were a little on the thin side. I have looked it up and it says grower is good but it contains alot of protein. Will this not cause them to grow? Pekins are known for being small.
I have 2 lemon cuckoo pekins sitting together on 11 eggs. When i was buying a trio of lavender pekins today, she said that lemon cuckoos are horrible mothers and ignore their chicks once they hatch (her expeirience). Is that true?
Yesterday, one of my silkie hens wandered into the house. As i quickly shooed her out, we pasted the bator which had a newly hatched chick in it. I knew that a hen had to be broody to care for chicks but i decided to give it a try. I put the chick under her legs as she was standing. She looked...
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I would like to make a homemade incubator but need help connecting the thermostat to the light bulb. On the website it says it can be used as a normal thermostat on a heating device
Theyre pecking at him and hes not trying to mate them. Also I bought a silkie hen a few days ago and he said shes a year old. You can fit 3 fingers between her pelvic bones, why isnt she laying?