Do any of you pasteurize your eggs? When making mayo in one recipe it was suggested. Have you ever used Hydrogen Peroxide to pasteurize them? If so what percentage and for how long?
Hi everyone! I have fifty - 3 month old pullets. I would like to keep my chickens out of the nests at night so I am searching for any ideas or plans for flip doors on hinges or lattice on a lever or anything that I can create to help me close up the nests at night.
Any ideas or pictures or...
Is anyone having any success hatching eggs in an incubator? I finally stopped trying... 4 times I set 42 eggs and 1 or 2 hatched. In 12 weeks I had 6 chicks all who turned out to be roosters. A friend of mine down south has had the same experience. We have both been hatching 70 % before...
Please tell me what to do. I have lots of chickens but my new chicks that are about 6 weeks old are all dying one after the other.... they are paralyzed in their legs and then the wings and then they die. My research shows that it is probably Marek's disease. What can I do. Is the entire...
I have WA . Three hens and one Roo. I have set several eggs in the incubator with little success. All the other breeds are hatching just fine, but the WA eggs are not. First batch 0 hatched... then the next three batches only ONE hatched ... so now I have three little chickens 2 weeks old...
I am going to have to buy an incubator. I have not had much luck with the styrofoam style incubators. Please tell me what is the best incubator and why. This may be my one and only incubator purchase and I want to get the best for my money. I would like to be able to hatch 48 or more at a...
I have a clutch of Ancona chicks and I have noticed that some of them look different on the face than the others.... Can they be sexed by the way they look on their heads. Anyone out there an Ancona expert?
I understand chickens on a farm but what are the benifets to DUCKS? Do you eat their eggs? Do you sell their eggs? Do they lay every day?
What do they contribute to the average backyard FARM??
6 week old welsummer chick is eating but has the fluffy look of a chick with cocci
He has had this look for a few days but has been on medicated chick start and grow from hatch
the rest of the cluctch seem fine
white chaulky residue left on wing tips and his beak
no bleeding or other injury...
Denagard is known to help with CRD but what if I give it to birds who have Coryza? What is the difference between Coryza and CRD? Anyone have any ideas?
I am brand new to goats and I am trying to decide whether to bottle feed or not when my Goat Honey kids. What are the pros and cons to bottle feeding? What are the pros and cons to leaving them with their mama? THANKS for anything you can tell me about your own experiences.
How much do I put in a gallon of water for the chickens and newly hatched chicks and how often? Will Tiamulin (Denagard) keep the chicks from getting CRD???
we are getting a pregnant Nubian goat April 2nd. any and all advice welcome. We want to get our own milk for drinking and for making cheese. She is already pregnant and will be delivering soon. we know to have a shelter built and a pen..... Anything else??
I know not to open the incubator or turn the eggs for the last three days of incubating and during hatching. I do not want to mess up the humidity or jeopardize the hatch. One chick hatched on day 20 and two have hatched on day 21 so far....
I can see lots of cracks on other eggs so I know...