At the moment have 10 adults and 18 babies. I have one hen that seems to be a "setter only"? she set one clutch and hatched out 10 babies but after they hatched out, she don't want anything to do with them and two of my other hens took over being mom and the babies stay with the adopted mom(s)...
Can anyone help identify or give suggestions on what's going on with my hen's eyes? She was fine a few hours ago and went out a few minutes ago and noticed she is walking around with both eyes closed. They are the only two birds in the pen. Wonder if she's being picked on by him due to being the...
Hi, we moved to another state and i am starting over on birds and so I am looking for any type of cheap or reasonably-priced fertilized eggs to be shipped to try out our new home-made incubator! Can be anything basically, pure or mixed chickens, ducks, geese, turkey, guinea, quail or pretty much...
This place sure has changed! We had to move so i had to get rid of all my animals for the last 3 years so haven't been on this site in a few years and just moved back to Louisiana back to our farm. We don't have any birds at the moment :( we have always had animals (15 years here) and it feels...
I have a BO setting on 5 turkey eggs I gave her and she has been setting for about two weeks now but she is crapping on her eggs, will it hurt anything? How do I stop it?
I was wanting a few more roosters and found a guy not too far from me that said he had 5 extra that I could buy so I went over there to see them... one he called a white rooster was a white EE hen - this one he called a Silver Marans rooster... What do all of you think? All pictures are of the...
I have had a few hens in my standard flock act like they wanted to set so I would give them some egg and then after 3-4 days or so they would decide that they didnt want to do it anymore and leave the nest.... Now I have a BO that started acting like she wanted to start sitting on the 2nd...
32 EE eggs due 5/23
20 Turkey eggs due 5/26
41 guinea eggs due 5/26
15 Duck eggs due 5/28
6 guinea eggs due 5/28
8 turkey eggs due 5/30
14 Duck eggs due 6/6
I have records of EVERYTHING i have hatched in the last 2 years. I keep track of how many eggs i put in the incubator, date hatched, date set, kind, where i got them, who i got them from, when the hatch started and ended, how many were unfertil, how many died while hatching, hatch %...
One of the greatest miracles of nature is the transformation of the egg into the chick. A chick emerges after a brief three weeks of incubation. The complexity of the development cannot be understood without training in embryology.
When the egg is laid, some embryonic development has occurred...
Hi, I have 10 pure royal palm eggs for sell. they are $45 shipping included. I have hatched a lot of these eggs so i know that they are fertile. if you are interested, please let me know... Thanks!
~Sam~
I have one pair of Saints and one pair of Fantails...The Saints laid one egg in the nest and then about 2 days later laid another but it was laid on the wire and broke. so they started setting and done a great job for about a week but it got too cold and the egg froze, so i took it away..... it...
Mine are always playing in the water... I know this is natural for them and i dont mind it as much when it is warmer, but is there a special waterer or something that can be used to help keep the water messes to a Minimum?