I have 8 straight run cornish rock chicks. My Plan is to harvest them around 8-10 weeks. Is this right? But is it possible to save a pair maybe for incubation? Im not really excited about having a seperate feeding plan for just 2 chickens. From what I've read, They can only get so big before...
Thank you. The rest seem to be doing perfectly. Yes I did notify the hatchery yesterday, when I noticed she wasnt doing so hot. It was just odd. Well as far as the wether here, yes it is cold but my last shipment a year ago it was cold here also. I look forward to raising these chicks, thanks.
I got a shipment yesterday am. of 20 chicks and all but 1 were doing doing great. While I took them one by one out of the box into the brooder, I found 1 in the corner limp. I picked her up and she was still alive. I gave her water and put her in the warmth of the brooder light. I left to...
Well I know this is so 2 weeks ago, but I thought I would just stop by and say thank you for all the advice from ya'll during my "egg hatching in my junky homemade incubator" panic. So for those of you that wrote to me telling me to leave it alone, THANK YOU. My lil chicky poo is doing fine one...
How long will it usually take a chick to learn how to walk. This lil one is very wobbley. Hatched completly around 3 am. It's now 9:17am. Dry but some feathers matted on back area. One b.m. so far Dark green and white poop, is that normal? My hopes are not too too high. So tiny. any advice is...
Ok when my daughter is grown and i'm about to be a grandparent I will definatly need some PROZAC! I'm a nervous wreck! What is a safe humidity level? I'm scared of it being to dry and getting stuck, can it drown even if his beak is out, I mean through the umbilicle cord. Hehehehehooohooo...
Ok went to pick dh from school and came back to end of shell off but chick still in sack, beak poking out, breathing peep peeping. Will it come out of the sack or is it stuck?
Ok Inside my homemade incubator is an egg (20 days now) I thought for sure was a bum egg. Last night before bed I went to it to check the levels agian and it was at 107. I was for sure, it was a gonner! I turned one of the bulbs off and picked up the egg to go and candle it, I held the egg up...
Well I'm such horible chicken owner, I had made an incubator a few weeks back, but it took me a good week to get the temp to pan out, Well I thought what the heck I'll try it out and see what hapens, well it's been really hard to keep the temp and humidity right and I'm always waking up to a too...
I have a hen who will be a year old at easter, she's been on her nest for about a week, I counted today and she's sitting on 15 eggs. I've made sure she has food and water right in front of her, I'm not sure what to do. Now that's she's been on the nest, egg production has gone way down. I...
No wet tail, I called his pre-k teacher from last year and she said he had to be over a few years old, so I'm hoping it was old age. Life goes on. Thanks.
I was too late posting, I just came on here to check the replies to the hampster post and read about that wet tail thing. So I got up and went in there to see if his but was wet and he has died. ugh. Thanks any way ya'll.
my son has had this hampster Biscuit is his name and his pre-k teacher gave it to him the last day of school last year. Biscuit was the class pet. I don't know how old he is but he's been doin fine as ar as eating drinking poopin all that but today, I moved his house inorder to move the desk...
Ok big nasty warm red thing on base of roos tail. I mushed at the base of it and bood and dark yellow liquid came out. Is it a ingrown feather or this oil gland I keep reading about?
Well I was in the back yard "multi tasking" with a shovel in one hand I was turning off the water hose, and going to put away the shovel and take the quilt off the line. All in the mist of these duties my 30 week old RIR roo came up to me and Flogged me in the leg. My only reaction was to knock...
I'd like to get some insight from any women that are in the reserves, I'd like to find out exactly how it'll affect my homelife as a wife and mother. I've talked to dh who was in the Marines and Army reserves but he's hesitant, and he's very comfortable with having me right here at home every...
Hey if anyone works or knows someone who works over around the DOE site in TN (blueridge)or SC (savannah river) we'er curious about moving elsewhere. Thanks. TX is too windy for us. I'd just really like to see some opionions about these areas. The land, the populations, the weather. I know...