Started with 27 eggs, 6 were infertile, 1 died when we had serious incubator issues (spiked to 107* one night and bulb went out next night dropping to 60*), but when all said and done the remaining 20 hatched!!!!!
Our Mama Muscovy, Sweetpea, here with her newly hatched babies. Took this picture a couple hours ago, 11 eggs hatched (most are hiding and staying warm under her) and 4 more working on hatching. Nothing like the cuteness of ducklings less then 12 hours old!
Our Muscovy mama started sitting on the 8th (Wed) so I think a couple days early for the Easter hatch. But you never know exactly when the little cuties will pop out, nature will decide.
We will be adding chicken eggs to our incubator for Easter. Can't wait!! Our Muscovy apparently got the word as well since she is sitting on 15 eggs. But I think they might hatch about 3 days early (BLAH).
Happy to let everyone know that all is now well in our chicken world.
Rook is all better and is now back with the other girls. It took a bit to get them back peacefully but we went slow over the last two days and they are now doing great. They were laying together this evening and are now all...
Great update today...
Rook is doing so much better and I would say today is the first day she is acting like a normal chicken again.
She is keeping her eye open almost all the time and this morning really fought with me to get the ointment in her eye. She pecked around at the ground for...
Everything is about the same here with our chicken Rook...she is eating well and getting her meds, vitamins and electrolytes. Going to wash out her eye again and continuing to hope that she is on the mend. No steps backwards so that is good.
Everyone, animals, plants, humans, is so glad it is...
threehorses - I should have specified that I am not actually reapplying the DE frequently I am just turning the straw around so as to get the poop off the surface. I only put a little DE in after I clean the whole coop out.
Mandy 1296 - Let me know if you think the Tylan works better for you...
Thanks for all the great information; I appreciate it!
To answer some of your other q's the chicken are about five months old. The have a coop with straw that I put DE in and mix around about every other day or sometimes more and change monthly and clean out. Their run it very large and grass...
Going to speak with my husband about this...we have been wanting goats for a while but haven't gotten around to it.
No guarantees here as we would have tons to get in order etc. and he is leaving for Alaska for work next week but I will mention it to him.
Would you be willing to post an...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=219113
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=220338
For more info on our girls we only have four pullets (meaning girls but not laying yet). We got four babies initially from a farm that were all suppose to be...