I will say right now my knowledge of genetics is very little I have been looking forward to these eggs hatching out as I’m hoping for some cool coloured birds. Parents are:
Rooster:
Silver Spangled Hamburg (pictured)
Hens:
1x Buff Brahma
2x Silver Laced Cochins
1x blue, bearded unknown hen...
I have my place set up well right now for ducks & geese on one side, chickens on the other. Each has their own coop, and when I grow meat birds they have a completely separate area. My question is, where if anywhere could I house turkeys and peafowl? I'd like to keep a pair of each, but I'm kind...
There is something off with my ancona duckling. I have two of them from the same place and the other one is normal. This one baby seems to always look wet. Duckies have access to a pool for cleaning, nobody is picking on it, has dedicated duck and goose starter feed, etc etc and nothing else is...
I started to upload some of my egg candling and miscellaneous videos about incubating on youtube. I'm still fairly new to it and so far have only done ducks and geese, but I have had really good results and everything is homemade. Here's a link, feedback is welcome...
So I bought this nice little cooler (doesn't work) with the intention of taking the guts out and making a nice cabinet incubator out of it:
Has anyone else altered a cooler like this who could throw out some advice on good ways to alter it? I'm hoping I can use some of the wiring etc inside...
Hi guys,
So this is my first official post since my introduction post several weeks ago. I've found this forum to be really helpful to me and my egg adventures so I wanted to post info and pics on my first ever QUITTER goose egg. Out of all my goose eggs so far, all that have sparked a vein...
I admit I've been using this forum for information for a while, and finally decided to join it :) I'm located in BC Canada and I have a small farm with ducks, geese and chickens. I recently started incubating and did fairly well, I had a 100% hatch of 4 ducks and 4 geese in a homemade incubator...