I just had to share -
I was sitting down at the creek enjoying the afternoon sunshine. The girls like to scratch around along the mud and get drinks from the water. Suddenly- one of our white Leghorns ran up from the creek with a little tiny 3" fish in her mouth...it was still wiggling. She...
I am having trouble keeping my turkey poults alive.....
I have all the heating and food requirements correct.
I have a chick in with them to help them learn to eat and drink
I've changed the bedding type from pine shavings to sand so they wouldn't eat the bedding.
Why do they keep dying...
I think I purchased some turkey poults with Pollorum - after I lost 80% of the poults, I thought it was something I had done wrong and purchased more turkey poults from a different source.
Within 48 hours my new turkey poults started coming down with the same symptoms....
What can I do to...
My famous last words: We raise chickens, how hard can turkeys be?
We received our very first batch of turkey poults from a local breeder - and within 48 hours we had ONE survivor.
We thought we did something wrong (i.e. - didn't dip their beaks and didn't put marbles in the water or...
These are my 12 year old son's results for his 6th grade Science Project.
We took 36 eggs and cleaned them with different substances to determine how to treat the eggs before incubation:
Washing the eggs with hydrogen peroxide or boiling water resulted in more hatched chicks than any other...
We ordered the All-heavy roosters to raise as meat birds. Of course they threw in the free exotic chick for us too -
All the cockerels arrived in 2's and 3's except for these two.
#1 - I think this one is a Spotted Sussex.
#2 - I suspect Dark Cornish but I could be wrong.
During incubation, the temp was 100°F at the top of the eggs. When I removed the egg-turner in my still-air incubator, the temperature was lower on the screen than at the top of the egg-turner. (95°F)
Should I raise the temperature of the incubator to adjust for this or leave it be.?
We started lockdown on Wednesday.
They were all moving around inside their eggs before we did this.
However, I'm not hearing any peeping nor seeing any pips.
This is our 2nd try at incubating. The first time we didn't have any hatch - (they were all 1/2 dead in their eggs). I really...
This is Charlotte - when she was a chick, we thought we were purchasing a Blue Andalusian.
She is small in stature - almost bantam sized. However - she lays a small WHITE egg - so we have to count Barred Rock out. What do you think she is?