Hello all,
All my flock you has this issue, this one has the worst symptoms, their comb is full of dark patches, like wounds.
Their eyes also have developed swelling.
Please let me know what to do. Can this be due to extreme heat? We had a severe heat wave the last couple of weeks in Karachi...
Thanks for your reply, I'm glad you like the quality of these birds, feedback coming from someone experienced like you clears my mind of any doubts. Now I can be more confident when dealing with the seller.
I'll also post in the BA thread, thanks for sharing that.
Basically I'm asking because...
So how did it go? I'm curious because I'm making an incubator to hatch quail eggs. I'll be hatching around 500 eggs. Do let me know how it went, what was the hatch rate and chick survival rate. Thanks.
Wanted egg layers so got around 35 Black Austrolorp chicks in Dec, they are supposed to be good egg layers, 250+ a year, hoping for eggs to start in April - May.
Two+ months old now (luckily most of them are hens):
I thought so too until recently I saw on a Facebook poultry forum, a guy brought 12 eggs from Chicago to Pakistan got them x-rayed and all and hatched 8 out of 12. So that has given me the courage to order a few dozen for my self.
Hi guys,
Firstly I would like to thank you all as a community, I have learned so much from you guys here and you guys are always so helpful in every situation.
So around 2 months ago I bought around 50 australorp chicks, shipped to me by air, around 15 died and 35 survived. Now they're 2...
Is it a good idea to give a week old chicks these multi vitamins? I just got 3 dozen austrolorps chicks.
I've attached the images of the multi vitamin label.
So last month I finally got a thermostat and built an incubator(with alot of help from you guys here on BYC). I took 16 eggs from my own chickens and kept them in the bator. on day 9 or 10 there was a major electricity failure and the lights went out for about 14 hours. We do have a generator...
thanks, i'll use silica packets and see how it goes.
This may sound stupid but how do you caliberate a hygrometer? I just took mine out of the box and put a battery in it.
I switched on my incubator without eggs, and after a few hours the humidity inside is 66% ... I have a TIMEX digital hygrometer i bought from amazon.com .. I still dont understand how to get the humidity down to 55%. confused.
hello,
I just built my first incubator out of a cardboard box
The humidity here (Karachi, Pakistan) is about 70%.
I've read that you should have 55 to 60% humidity.
how do i bring it down. Help!
Thanks for the replys. I took her off the nest and marked the eggs with a permanent marker. She didnt have food or anything she just came back to the nest and sat back down. She started with 2 eggs and there are 10 now I dont know which ones are new and which ones are old so i'll just let her...