Is it safe to assume that if pullets are laying and roosters have access to them, the eggs will be fertile? Also, if there are older hens in the mix who are currently not laying due to the winter break, are the roosters leaving them alone or hitting them up regardless if they are laying or not...
I hatched an order for someone who was unable to take them at this time. I'm offering them up at a week old for $10 per chick, straight run and actual shipping costs plus $5 for the box.
The Welsummer lines are from and the Wheatens are from Bev Davis lines. There are 11 Wels and 7 Wheatens...
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I have the 1588 Hovabators and was wondering about double stacking eggs for week until one of the other bators frees up.
I've put some eggs in to double stack and put a thermometer on the first stack and second and the temp reads the same.
Do you suppose it'll be okay to double stack just...
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Was wondering what folks who breed their own meat birds use for birds. I'm looking for a hearty meat bird that can be bred, hatched and raised in my backyard. Thanks for your insight.
I need to find the post for some red colored meat birds someone posted last fall I believe. If I can't find hte post for the name of these birds, does anyone know what those meat birds might have been?
Thanks,
Kathy
This boy is 10 months old. He came to me last October and has never had a decent poop. He has never crowed nor mated. The 2 hens he came with are thriving. He tested negative for parasites at the vets. I'm currently giving him B shots every other day. He has had Ivomec, Valbazen and vitamins and...
My turkey hen has weaned her baby roosters I gave her to get her off the nest the first time. Now, she's been missing since October and I found her up in the woods sitting on 11 of her eggs. It's possible these are fertile (by the tom that was Thanksgiving dinner) but doubtful. How can I get her...
I have birds in 2 locations (6 miles apart) and have found this to recently have happened in both places. 2 month old chicks (some a month old) were killed and their feathers on their backs were eaten off. Two, had their necks eaten off as well (weasel trait I know), but never just the body...
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Who can recommend a good leg banding system for identifying birds? I think I'm good with a number system and just keeping a log of each # and their info in a ledger or something so I guess I'm looking for just the brand or type of leg bands. Also, do you keep changing the band as they grow...
I have the opportunity to get A blue orp roo from a friend here who got them from Sandhill. She has a white roo and a blue splash? hen she is willing to part with. If I take the blue roo and the blue splash hen, will i get blues and splashes? What will I get? Will the white roo play any part?
I turned around while baking cookies tonight and this is what I found on the counter. We're staying in an old trailer while the house is being built and it's quite the rooster refuge there. This is one of the Ameracaunas that came down from my house and he's low man on the totem pole here. He...
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I have one turkey hen and she's been sitting on an empty nest for almost 4 months now. She had 2 of her own eggs and 4 chicken eggs she was brooding over. She is so heavy and clumsly, she broke all of them. I removed them way way back and she refuses to leave her nest. I have wrecked her...
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Dealing with town here regarding my chickens and living in Residential A where "livestock" is permitted with a Conditional Use Permit. However, under the current town bylaws, "livestock" is listed as Cows, Horses, Sheep, etc. (etc. is actually there, just liked i typed it, that is what they...
I'm thinking the dark feathered ones are roos, the brownish ones are boys. Then, the only hatching B/C marans I'll bet is a roo too as I only can seem to hatch them in roos. Thanks again....can they be color sexed even?
....I was shipped cuckoo marans day olds in mid March. Turns out 8 were roos. 5 have pinkish/gray legs and 3 have dark dark yellow legs. Other than that, they look the same. Why would this be, all from the same place. Which would be the real cuckoos or why would the leg color be different?
I thought this was an ameracauna. I hatched it from something, now I'm not sure what it is. Think it's a boy though? He insists on getting out of the pen each day (flying out) and then spending all day trying to get back in, not knowing he has to jump up and fly back in the same way he got out...