Ok so after lack luster hatches out of my 3 styrofoam incubators. My last one not included. I decided to make my own. I had a 2ft x 2ft x 6ft snake enclosure i never finised made out of melamine. So i added a door made out of 3/4 treated plywood. To attach the door i used Piano hinge. For...
After a horrible winter where predators wiped out almost all of my flock i decided to rebuild. I had 2 hens a pullet and a Roo. Hen number one is a BO, hen number two is a Hatch, and the roo is a Rir. Long story short the 2 girls had a real busy week one week so i decided to incubate the eggs...
I had some chicks that had cocci like sypmtoms and was told by a friend to give them sulmet. I have several brooders in the same room so i just put a little in each waterer just to be safe. It seems like minutes later i had chicks that were perfectly fine start acting weird. One chick had...
My local feed store gives free straight run chicks from ideal with every 25lbs of feed you buy. So my wife goes with me one day and i walk out with 10 mystery chicks, at first i think they are easter eggers but now im not sure. Here are some pics.
My humidity is around %99 and there is moisture forming on the eggs. its also keeping my temps from reaching 100! Is there an easy way to lower it, i think that i added too much water. The last few chicks in my last hatch dried out in the shell so i may have over did the water a bit.