I have been raising a few meat birds and the first two have been rather tough. The birds are still pretty small maybe 2 pounds I think they are about 4 months old. I have tried 2 birds. A buff and a RR. Bought pretty tough. The birds live in a coup and run setup they do not get much exersice...
So I use to raise chickens in the city and never had a issue. Now I live in the country and I can't grow a bird for the life of me.
I first tried qual. Everything went good the first 2 hatches. After that my birds started dropping dead like crazy. I would put a new Batch of 100 quail out and...
For the fast 4 days I have woke up to dead quail. The first day there was a single quail dead. The second I had 4 dead and 1 dead on each following day. There have been deaths in 3 different cages. When I go to them in the morning they are already cold and stiff. There is no visible sign of...
So I made a homemade incubator and it's working out pretty well. I just hatched 23 out of 25 eggs. So I decided to buy an egg turner for it off of eBay. Link below. It says the motor takes 110v and rotates once per hour. I hooked it up and it was rotating 3x a minute and the motor was getting...