Incubating is really much more involved than it seems. I set twenty four eggs (purchased from a hatchery/shipped via mail) into a forced air styro bator. I joined BYC the same day, thought I had read everything on the subject in books, magazines, online, etc and prepared as best as I could...
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That's not muck. Its the feet and tail from last years chocolate Easter bunny after living under the stove, being melted everytime the oven was turned on. And while I'm at it, here's a couple of jelly beans, and some peeps with the plastic grass still stuck in them...duck!!!
"Saying "I'm fine" merely distracts us and others, while pain and lonliness persist on the inside"
The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W James and Russel Friedman
Hello from up the road in Washington State. That's awesome your mom is letting you have chickens and also that you've already found the best chicken/poultry related site on the Web.
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Doctor told me when I returned to the U.S. from Afghanistan, I am a forty-five year old man in a eighty year old mans body. Thanks doc!! That was three years ago and on my next birthday, I will be seven years old (in dog years) I hang out here with all of you youngsters at BYC to make me feel...
Have you noticed where they are in the "pecking order"? They may be getting punked by the other chickens. A method I've used is when you put chicks/chickens into a new coop, you leave them closed in for three days so it sticks in their lil chicken sized brains where there home is. Finally, maybe...
Well aren't you the lucky lil southern bell That was an awesome thing for someone to do and there are so many benefits tho the GFM that I think you will enjoy. I hope to become one too, but am still new to the community. I attended a school outside of Norfolk, Virginia a few years ago and it...
Hello Rainstorm. I have an old school Little Giant Egg Turner. This was the one that looks like fingers holding the egg. My last order was an assortment of chicken breeds, so various sized eggs. They held all of them, but the largest ones were tighter. I'm not familiar with duck eggs, but my...