Hey everyone! I just installed a package of Russians into my beautiful topbar hive. My boyfriend built the hive from scratch as a Christmas present. I installed a hive last year and they absconded after 3 days. This package has made it to day 3 and they still look happy inside. I have even...
She chose an eggs in the middle of the nest and pecked at it in its place. There was only a little shell left. She had shell and yolk on her face. There was yolk all over the other eggs. I am wondering if she crushed it by accident and then ate it. Today was the first day i kept her locked...
I have marked her eggs. I just have to pick out the new egg every day. I put her in a new location because her previous location was one of my main nests where she would be bothered by all of the other hens. Also if the chicks hatched there they would not be safe. I moved her to her own private...
My dumb chicken keeps forgetting where her nest is when she gets up to do her daily stretch. She keeps going back to her favorite nest with only one or two freshly laid eggs instead of to her nest of 16 fertilized eggs. I have started locking her into her area and only letting her out when i am...
The eggs from my leghorns are my only white eggs i put in the clutch and they are about half the size of the other eggs. And i numbered all of the eggs. I am not sure how i can going to tell who came out of what egg once they hatch... if they hatch.
So i put my fertilized eggs under my broody hen yesterday. Today i just got a brilliant idea or maybe a terrible idea. I have 3 leghorn's who just came into laying. Their eggs are very small but they have been fertilized by my over zealous bantam buff cochin. I took two of the fertilized mixed...
I tapped trees this year for the first time. It has to be done when the days are just above freezing (low 40s) and the nights are below freezing. Usually there is still snow on the ground. That is the time of year when the trees sap runs. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of...
So i put my fertilized eggs under my broody hen yesterday. Today i just got a brilliant idea or maybe a terrible idea. I have 3 leghorn's who just came into laying. Their eggs are very small but they have been fertilized by my over zealous bantam buff cochin. I took two of the fertilized mixed...
Hey Everybody! I am new to this thread. I have a little backyard city operation going on. I have a lavender orpington, a black australorp, an easter egger, 3 white leghorns, and a fuzzy footed buff bantam cochin. I just acquired 14 eggs picked for their beautiful egg coloring. My black...
I just put 14 fertilized eggs under my broody hen. She wasnt too happy I moved her off of her golf balls and onto the pile of eggs but quickly took to them. Tonight she sat diligently and hopefully she will keep going until everybody hatches.
Can you pop another ventilation hole in the container? I was told to keep eggs at 99.5-100.5 to avoid deformities such as spraddle leg, curled toes, hip problems, or angel wing. It is okay for them to cool off for a minute while you get in there to check on them or turn them but it is not okay...
I have 3 white leghorns that i hatched with my kindergarten class. They will be 17 weeks old tomorrow. Their combs are large and bright red but no squatting yet. Considering that it is the middle of summer, i am expecting eggs any day. My other chickens (easter egger, black australorp, and...
I was told by the feed store expert that you should give the chick high protein food to help regrow feathers. Tuna and kitten food where her two examples. I haven't tried it yet but I have noticed my chick is naked in places that her siblings are fully feathered. I am going to start off with...