I was thinking of using some fake eggs in my bantam hen nesting boxes. Does anyone have experience with this and/or know how to make some bantam sized fake eggs?
I have several Silver phoenix bantam hens and a rooster and two weeks ago they stopped laying for some reason. They are a little over 1 year old and have a light on them that gets turned off late at night and then turned back on in the morning. I have seen a couple of the hens go into the...
I had two guineas that were killed last night and one that was injured from last night as well and today my goose went missing without any feathers blood or anything at all! I spent two hours with a flash light outside searching for any signs such as blood, feathers, body parts, etc. but I can't...
Is anyone selling straight run white laced red cornish bantam chicks this time of year? I would like to buy some, raise them over the winter, and show them in the summer.
Does anyone know if a cross between either a rhode island red or silver laced wyandotte hen crossed with an easter egger rooster will create sex links?
Has anyone raised meat guinea fowl? How long before they are ready for butchering? What are the best meat breeds? What are the space requirements? and How much do they go for usually?
Does anyone know of a way to make a "no waste keet feeder"? For the three years I have raised and sold white guinea fowl, the one main problem I have is that the keets dig out 3lbs. of the 5lbs. of feed I stick in their feeder and poop on it and refuse to eat it anymore. My chicks have never...
I finally finished my incubator I was building and I ran into a problem. The thermostat I used was hard to set to the right temperature and when I got it to the right it started going from a 2 degree fluctuation to a 7 degree fluctuation.
Any ideas on how I can set it to keep the right...
Okay, there was a lot of chickens this year. When I checked in my bids I was not able to bring my black langshan rooster, buff orpington rooster or my muscovy ducks. But with my White guinea fowl male, black australorp hen, rhode red hen, and silver laced wyandotte hen I brought home some really...
For my new incubator I was thinking of putting a coupe of heat sinks such as two pint sized mason jars in the bottom and two in the top.
Should I do this or something else to get the best results?
I am showing 2 muscovy fowl (1 male and 1 female), 1 black australorp hen, 1 rhode isand red hen, 1 silver laced wyandotte hen, 1 white male guinea fowl, 1 black langshan rooster, and 1 buff orpington rooster. I am doing showmanship with the rhode island red hen, but I am wanting to now what...
I am showing 2 muscovy fowl (1 male and 1 female), 1 black australorp hen, 1 rhode isand red hen, 1 silver laced wyandotte hen, 1 white male guinea fowl, 1 black langshan rooster, and 1 buff orpington rooster. I am doing showmanship with the rhode island red hen, but I am wanting to now what...
Hi, I am new to BYC and would like to ask an incubator question. My usual homemade incubator is to small for the amount of chicks I need to hatch with it plus it is very prone to major temperature change and loses way to much humidity when I open it. I started building a new incubator that is...
My usual homemade incubator is a little small for hatching out the amount of chicks and keets I need and is very prone to major temperature change. I am in the the process of building one that is larger and less prone to temperature change, however I need some advice on the heating control of...
Okay, So my incubator is a homemade, forced air incubator. There is only one cold spot in the incubator but I don't set eggs there. I have had a chick and guinea fowl hatching in there. It is now down to 5 guinea fowl eggs and 2 chickens eggs. One of the keets started piping a hole in it two...