I posted here several months ago asking for breed help when this guy (pretty sure he's a roo, now, anyway!) was a little chick. I try to post a link to that thread below if I can find it. Anyway, I got a lot of suggestions, and felt fairly confident he was a barnevelder. That's what he looked...
I will try to post a pic tomorrow when it come out of the incubator, but I hatched an egg from an adult hen I purchased from someone. She was still fertilized from the previous owner's rooster. The mama hen is an Easter Egger and the rooster is a mix- his mom was half Blue Copper Marans (don't...
A month ago we bought 7 year old hens, and have been keeping them in a chicken tractor in quarantine. Now we are ready to move them into our coop with our head rooster and his 3 hens. Problem is, one of the 3 hens turned broody and just hatched out 8 chicks over the weekend and is in the same...
I bought 4 bantam cochins 3 weeks ago, and they should be about 4 weeks old now. One of them, whom I call Tiny, just isn't growing at he same rate as the others. Her sisters are twice as big as she is, and much more developed in general. She eats, drinks, and poops, and I've cleaned her vent...
A breeder I bought some hatching eggs and chicks from gave me this chick as a freebie. She wasn't sure what it is (she either got it in a rare breeds hatchery deal or hatched it from eggs she got from someone else, I can't remember which). She thought it might be a speckled Sussex, but she...
Some back story- I had 29 2 week old chicks all together, and a few nights ago decided to separate them by putting 20 in a larger enclosure. The bigger space seemed to set something off in them- they started chest bumping and flying around. They did finally settle down though and go to sleep...
I just got it in the mail today, and set it up to test. Planning to incubate next weekend.
It been running about 7 hours, and so far temp and humidity levels have been good. It didn't take long to reach 99.5 (less than 30 min), and once I figured out how much water to add, the humidity was...