Today my pasture is much quieter.
This morning is the first morning with our my favorite Icelandic Cockerel, "Dirty Bird". Dirty was the very first egg that I ever hatched. He was hours ahead of the rest and so that "bond" that baby birds get when they imprint happened between us.
Dirty, was...
I'm a first year chicken owner. I've read many books, websites, forums and facebook pages. I've asked for help more times than I care to admit. Largely I have a happy flock. But I made some errors along the way, one of them quite recently.
Everyone knows (even me) that when you remove a bird...
Hi there, first let me apologize if this isn't an "Emergency" -- I don't know if it is or isn't so I'm being cautious.
I've just brought home 3 new week old Welsummer chicks. They are eating and moving about but I have just witnessed the male poop and it looked odd. Photos below of the male's...
I bought The Brinsea Ovation Advance 28 incubator as a replacement to our first incubator. The first time I used it I checked it's calibration before setting and it was 0.1 degree off, which is not bad at all. I had set 15 Icelandic eggs and 5 Marans. We had a 100% hatch rate.
The second time I...
This is my third attempt to hatch turkey eggs. The first two times I was using an old incubator and unbeknownst to me, it spiked during incubation killing the embryos both times. This time, with a 100% hatch of Icelandic and Marans under my belt I am using my Brinsea Advance 28. It's less than 3...
Hello! I've finally stopped lurking as a guest and joined you group and I'm excited. I wanted to say thank you to all of you. The boards have been SO helpful to me in my quest for information. It seems every worry i have has been had by someone here first - and you all have been able to guide...