I recently received 4 homer pigeons from a fellow who took them off the nest at about 10-15 days old and brought them to my house and have them in a pen to get acquainted with the surroundings so once I turned them loose they will stay around. My question is how long should I keep them caged up...
Put the heat to the incubator about 2hrs ago, trying to get the temperature to 99 degrees and cook supper. When I looked at the thermometer a few minutes ago temperature was at 104. In my opinion it should not make a difference, but what do y'all thin, start feeding the eggs to the pigs?
This is what my wife found in the quail brooder this afternoon. When she went to grab the waterer it moved and she freaked out. She jumped backwards andkknocked over my 9yr old boy. He went for his bb gun but didn't have any bb's to shoot with. Wife took it out with a hoe. That's the 8-9th...
Last November my wife bought one ringneck dove and one pure white dove for the kids. I built a 8x8x8 pen and enclosed with hardware cloth wire. Since Spring they have hatched 5 eggs successfully, had 2 duds and are currently sitting on 2 more that should hatch any day now. I took two small...
I bought 30 cornish x at the end of February and another 10 at the end of March. Lost 10 from the first batch due to an owl getting in the pen and butchered the rest of the 20 at the end of April. Still have 9 to butcher from the second batch (one died) I will do in the next week or two. All...
My daughter has a Nubian Goat buck that has won grand champion and other titles for 4H and other shows. A woman from the same show circuit wants to breed our buck with one of her does and pay us a stud fee. Any ideas on a stud fee price? Don't want to just give it away, but also don't want...
I placed my one heritage barred rock rooster with my 7 production barred rock hens on 1/21/13. The hens have been with two RIR roosters for the past year and have gave me a few black sexlinked chicks in the last two hatching cycles using my incubator. I already have about 10-15 straight bred...
A lot of old folks from around my area still call the plymoth barred rocks "Shanghi". Anyone else use this name? Not sure if its a old cajun name or not after watching The outlaw Josey Wales when the senator told captain Terraill "You beat the brush and root out everything disloyal from a...
I have about 40-50 chickens in the yard. I have two mature RIR roosters and about 12 RIR hens. The roosters are also crossing with BR, Leghorn and Americana hens which makes up the rest of the flock. So far in our incubator we have had what seems to be 2 RIR chicks come out yellow in color...
Guy's I live in SW Louisiana and according to the farmers almanac the best time for setting eggs in the incubator or under hens in December is the 26, 27 and 28th of this month. Started picking eggs from the hens on the 20th and everyday after and placed them in the incubator with the roller on...