I was watching you tube videos on sexing new chicks and ran across this link from the Discovery channel, (below) It actually made me very sad the way the chicks are handled. Throwing them around, dropping in holes, rolling down belts falling into holes and the rough handling they receive...
Hi ya'all! I'm getting started on building a coop for the six chicks I just hatched. Below is a link of what I am doing. The question I have is for the size. The interior coop will be 5 x 10 inches.Realizing that as of right now, I don't know the sex of these chicks, I eventually would...
I have a hatch in progress and I have 4 healthy hatchlings (out of 8). This one has been pipped (see picture) since 8 o'clock this morning. He may have pipped during the night, but I know it has been at least 12 hours and there has been no progress. The membrane is so paper white and looks so...
Today was day 19 of my first attempt at incubating chicks. I so want my own flock, having been obsessed over my brothers birds forever!. I have been reading endlessly here on the forums to ready myself....but when it come to incubating.....I am confused what to do...so many opinions and...
I am a newbie at the chicken biz. I just purchased a little giant forced air incubator, have access to fertilized eggs, and am ready and prepped to start incubating.
I do not have an automatic turner. I am semi-retired, only working 10 days a month, but the days I am at work, would the...