I have a homemade incubator and am on day 20. 1 chick has hatched and is doing well. I have 35 eggs total and 9 others have zipped. ( I believe thats what it is called) The first egg that zipped done it 23 hours ago. It was the size of an pencil eraser and is a lot larger now. I can see him...
I have a RIR roo that is around 9 weeks old (maybe a little younger) and he doesn't seem to like my 3 week old RIR chicks. I have 15 and decided to let a couple of them run with the larger one to see how they got along, but the roo flogged one of them. The other three larger hens didn't seem...
I guess the name says it all. LOL
I live in central Oklahoma. I'm 40, married for 21 years of it and have two children with one still at home.
In the last couple of years I have gotten the farming bug. A 70X50 garden and 4 nine week RIRs, 15 three week RIRs and 35 eggs in the incubator that I...