lady and her girls
Hi I am new and this is a great website. I've had chickens on and off since I was 12. I made an incubator out of a mini fridge had about 15 hatch out of 43. I am a newbie and need to learn the ways of the wise. Ill keep trying, gave away some and now I have a couple...
Some breeders use banties to hatch out eggs. they cage them and intice them with plactic eggs in the nest when they go broody they switch them out for the real thing. they are good moms
I love my pets they sure are not money makers. I would have to have a huge farm before I could break even. Pets yes. I had one trained to sit on my shoulder as I walked around... I could pat my head and he would fly up and sit. I was 12 and yes it looked funny.
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They are fast movers and a bit shy- flighty. Survival of the fittest I guess. If your able to work with them when they are chicks they will follow you like dogs.
I have 2 girls about 18 weeks old.
Does this breed tend to lay eggs at a later age?
I had one for almost 6 months and never got an egg one!
These are a mix, one is a dom x banty and the other is a red comet x banty.
To update everyone I tossed out 26 eggs... clear both the 21st batch and the 23rd batch. The 23rd batch is the one I drove to get and found that the lady had washed them and put them in the fridge. It looks like I have a few more that may not be anything but at 21 for now.
Notice the dark spot!
yeah this instagators around here intice you in to building a bator theeenn you have to try it out..... all the while they never tell you about the yucky stuff....
but those fuzzy butts are soooo cute!!!!!
I have a barrowed silkie and never gave them a second look until now.
1. Are they normally quite? I only hear her if their is something wrong like a cat too close
2. Do they take confinment well? She seems to be doing fine.
3. Do they weight very much? she doesn't
4. Are they all natural...
Some of them will not be fertile, some will quit and some won't hatch so you may end up with a few extra. out of 7 we had 2 and out of 36 we got 12 and 2 died later. After all of that we still don't know yet how many roosters their will be. you never know and own up to what you have done and I...
I bought some eggs to make deviled eggs and ended up putting them in the hatcher. I see a chick in every egg and wonder what it might be. I can hardly put new ones in the fridge without thinking" ummmm I wonder what this one is"? I love aracanas and can't stand to put colored eggs in the fridge...
I've been told never wash them. just lightly take any poo off with fine grit sand paper. I don't even do that. I just try to take what I can off with my figernails.
40 min drive washed and refridgarated! And now well I found my dozen in the hatcher at 110 this morning. I ran out of room in the incubator and thought I would give my hatcher a try. I needed it to hold these til I pulled out the bad ones in the incubator. They've been washed refridgarated and...