Just wanting to know what issues I may have breeding a hen and rooster from the same parents ? I would just like to see if they will be like the parents or a wild card mix. The two are from Spithauben roo over a second generation white EE hen. She lays nice blue eggs and I wonder if that egg...
Need some info . We are having very ,very poor hatches from our incubator. Yes I went cheap Styrofoam do have circulated air and a turner. Seems like they are good when we candle but very few hatch. My question is about cleaning the eggs. Most info says no and some are very dirty.
I watched a...
What is the difference in a heat bulb and an infrared bulb or are they the same thing? All the red bulbs I look at say infrared and we wanted to use red this year.
This may be one of those silly questions but can anyone tell me how to keep eggs in viable condition to be able to collect more than one or two for incubation?
I want to keep eggs from a certain hen but she only lays every other day. How long will they remain good?
Hey all ! We have been raising a mixed flock for about a year now and I still don't know what makes an Easter egger. I assume somewhere in there is Americana, but how is this type created ? What crosses with what and what happens if you breed a favorite EE what roo do I need to keep the look...
This is sounding really ignorant and I guess that's my case. What exactly do they mean by turn the eggs? The first thought I have is rolling them completely over but I have been looking at automatic turners and what I see is a devise that basically rocks the egg . What is required?
Thinking about a purchase. I want to know which incubator is best value and reliable? Gotta have a turner but don't need huge production. Any opinions?
We got this one in a mixed group at about 4 months old . It looked like a barred rock (hen) at that time. I have looked at barred rock rooster photos and he doesn't match them. Any ideas?
We lost our little hen . Some animal took her right through the chain link fence. She was our first to start laying and was a sweet little girl.
Shure makes it hard to keep going knowing we may lose more.
It's been a mixed up day. One of our barred rock pullets had an accident, hurt badly I had too put her down. On the good side our easter egger gave us our first blue green egg today. Her first . we weren't looking for it till the end of the month at the soonest. Need to get the second coop...
Finally our first egg yesterday! I think it was from our bantam cochin because of the size.
The granddaughter has named them all but I call these two Jack and Jill.
At what age can I look for egg laying to start? What is this singing I have seen in other posts? How long will I be able to leave my two rosters together safely?