Searching for bantam wyandotte hatching eggs for a friend of mine. Prefer buff, black or white if possible, but if you have another variety send a picture my way and they might like those as well.
The past 5 hatches from my own fertile eggs have all resulted in around a 33 percent or worse hatch rate. In one case (incubator)I had 75 percent hatch, then quite a few died on me with no warning on the first night. The next round of eggs from the incubator a week later, only 15 of 42 eggs...
So I came in today to remove the automatic turner from my hovabator as it was about 2.5 days to expected babies. I was shocked to find that about 5 of the eggs already had little beaks starting to poke through. I pulled out the turner and returned the eggs to the bator as quickly and carefully...
I got my first chickens about a month ago and am already well on the way to addiction.
BYC provided me with lots of information when I was considering what breeds to get started with, in the end I went with some Buff Orphingtons, Rhode Island Reds, and a few crosses of those two with a...