So my kids and I purchased an incubator and we are on our 3rd hatch! Hatching has been so fun! The first two sets to hatch went to a friend wanting chicks, which was what gave us the idea to hatch as well as doing it for a homeschool project. So we started out only hatching the barred rock eggs...
Lol well I will tell you there are no trees here in West Texas! At least I don't call them trees haha. I am from FAR Northern California so short mesquite trees don't look like trees to me. But what you see is an area that used to be a really popular lake just a few years ago, but is now dried up :/
I would like to share my coop. I built it last year and this site was most helpful!!! Thank you to everyone who shares through this site. I think my toughest challenge was to figure out where to put the roost in a small coop! I came up with the design you see with an extension to attach the...
Love your coop! We had same experience last spring... Wanted to get chicks, almost bought a prefab from sams club, but the size was tiny and poor quality compared to what lumber I could get. We have 4 hens and a rooster and got a brooder and are now hatching out chicks for friends. Already...
Wow thanks for all the suggestions. Eggcessive thank you, the roost is too high! And too close to vents. I will definitely lower the roost or block off the vents above it for now. I am glad I posted pics and feel so bad for not realizing this :( I really wasn't sure if I had too much or not...
Can anyone make a suggestion on my ventilation? Was against putting a heat lamp in coop, because chickens have survived for a long time even before electricity. But my rooster appears to be frost bite on his comb :/
It appears my rooster has frost bite on his comb :(. I tried to catch him to put some Vaseline on it which is info I found on here and failed catch him, grrr. So now I am sitting here trying to figure out how to prevent this. I live in West Texas, the overnight low last night was low 20's. This...
Yes it's a brinsea. It really has held well on temp and humidity. The chick pipped last night, one tiny hole. This morning before I left for the chick was really struggling to poke through membrane more. So when I came home this evening and saw chick still struggling to really get through...
Ok so this is my first hatch, and I am beginning to get paranoid about chicks dying while hatching. We just had our first hatch a couple hours ago! Very exciting. I have been worried about the first that pipped the membrane is getting so dry looking. I really do not want to open the bator for...