So I hatched, raised, and butchered some American Bresse. Afterwards, I then let their parents - pure bred Mom and Dad Bresse co-mingle with my brown layer flock.
I can put Mom (the hen) up for a month by herself and then reintroduce Dad (the rooster) and make some more pure bred Bresse...
Here's my jersey Giant in better days:
Another rooster started harassing him and I let them work it out then I discovered this today:
Don't know if he lost the eye or not. It looks like an infection.
Looking for solutions.... I have him isolated and away from the other chickens...
I know I googled here a lot when I started hatching guinea's - so hopefully this thread will be indexed, too. And, help someone out.
I started with 36 eBay shipped pearl gray guinea eggs. Shipped from Oklahoma to Indiana.
I paid a little over a dollar an egg shipped. Let them sit a day...
Bought a new incubator from Incubator Warehouse. They say they ship FedEx so I assumed I would get it in 3 days or so. Might as well Order some eggs, right?
So I ordered some eggs thinking that the incubator would be here several days before the eggs and I could get the incubator cleaned...