Question and not sure where to post so I'll start a thread I am hatching eggs for a friend who breed his male Muscovy to his female Peking I know it will make a mule and I wanted him about it but he just wants the ducklings for pets to live on pond anyway here's my question when incubating which...
Okay had a old man tell me today he used to stack 80 plus eggs in his forced air little giant incubator he claimed it was only supposed to hold 48 to 50 eggs and he had great hatches with it anyone else ever tried this or done this ????
Okay so I set up my brooder today for the 45 eggs I have in incubator due to start hatching my question is I set up a 5ft by 8 ft area in a heated shop with 4ft high walls and two heat lamps inside the brooder temps in various spots are 75 to 98 degrees my question is if I have fewer chicks...
Okay so I have decided I am going to try a experiment one of my pairs of cockatirls is laying eggs had a few times where they just lay and lay but never nest I am wondering if I can artificially oncubate a couple of eggs then foster the babies out to a foster hen which I have once they hatch may...
Here's my question I have a local woman wanting to sale me barn yard mix ee eggs she said they all lay light green eggs she want to charge me $10 a dozen is this to high of a price for run of the mill EEs
Okay so I'm a first timer as far as incubating chicken eggs so I filled my incubator a lg still air that I installed a PC fan in and I'm hand turning just candled eggs for day 7 with my daughter and wow everyone of the 47 eggs are growing have embryos with little black eyes and move around like...
I have a lg still air incubator I have had 11 eggs in it for 2 days tmrw I plan on picking up 3 dozen eggs to put in incubator my question is how should I introduce the new eggs to incubator should I attempt to warm them up in my hatcher then add them to incubator after eggs temp has increased...
. So normally i breed cockatiels and use a 10 gallon aquarium as a brooder when im hand feeding them anyway for some ungodly reason feel the need to hatch chickens (I know not a parrot but its still a bird) so I built a incubator out of a 10 gallon aquarium with a towel wraped around for...
. Okay people I for some ungodly reason feel the need to hatch chicken so I built a incubator out of a 10 gallon aquarium with a towel wraped around for insulation a porcelain light fixture with 100 wt bulb PC fan dimmer switch a egg carton a criter keeper container with a sponge in it for...