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If you have a broody hen, just leave them with her. She will do all the work. I use my incubator when I want to hatch 30-40 eggs at a time. But for just a few egg, up to about 10 or 12, I will use a broody hen it's easier and your right, cheaper.

Rabbit & Goat manure are both cool fertilizers and can be added straight to your garden. But just like anything "to much of a good thing", right. Apply what you need and throw the rest on the lawn, or any plants that can use a little boost . Here is a recipe for compost booster. Mix 1 can of...

I appreciate it. I thought I had read they could stay in there 24 hours but I wasn't sure. I've always been home at hatching in the past. It should be interesting, I'm going to attempt to raise these completely with a wool hen. No artificial heat source, no artificial light.

I will, I already have their brood box setup and waiting

Thank you

Well, I just have to hope for the best. I'm already at work and they're still in the incubator at home until I get there 12 hours from now.

I have 32 eggs in lockdown, that were not supposed to hatch until tomorrow. Well, two of them hatched this morning, they seem healthy. I didn't want to open the incubator and possibly harm the other 30 eggs, plus these two were still damp and hadn't fluffed out yet. I had to leave them in the...

Those look good. Nice bark

No, I am at work right now, so i don't even have the ability to take some pics. But the barrel smoker was the cheap Brinkman from one of the big box stores, I think it was like$50 back then, I think it's $100 now. If you learn to smoke on one of those, you can smoke on anything. The propane one...

This should be a great thread. I started smoking 20 years ago with a cheap barrel smoker, which I still have. I the received a propane smoker a few years later as a gift, which I still have. I fought the whole pellet smoker idea when my friends and cousin's all started buying them, and thinking...

That looks like it would do the job, depending on the number of chickens your going to have. It says it will house up to 14 chickens, it wont. If you look at the picture with the ad they only have 8 chickens in there, imagine what it would look like with 6 more in the run. I agree with others...

I think wool is superior to any other material in this situation. My first one I used a $20 wool blanket I found at our local military supply store. The other two I built, I used a new military wool blanket I found on Amazon for $22. I also read a post, where someone made one using a wool coat...

PS there was one time I caught one hen pecking eggs and based on experience with my previous flock, you are correct, others picked up the same habit. So she went they way of the crock pot.

Once it was it was a rodent. The funniest was this i suddenly went from collecting a dozen eggs a day to zero eggs over night. After the second day in a row, I placed the trail cam in the hen house. I watched my female lab wiggle herself through the chicken door. Then watched her eat 11 eggs in...

My thoughts, it only takes a 1 minute boil to sterilize water, I would say that would be sufficient. If in doubt go 2 minutes

Don't assume it is one of your flock until you witness it first hand. I had a similar problem, using my trail cam, i identified the culprit and it was not any of my chickens.

I'm not your brother and turn down that lousy music!

Welcome glad you're here. To answer your question; Build them a wool hen. I did a post last year that started out looking for suggestions, by the end of it, with the help of this forum, I had a solid design that proved successful. I just did a post a couple of hours ago, this year I am going to...

I did the wool hen approach last year, except the first week I did use a heat lamp. But here is my theory on temperature as it pertains to a wool hen. So last year I had a thermometer hanging in the wool hen. It was only reading about 55F. All the chicks were in the wool hen at that time. My...

I just put 32 eggs in lock down this morning. My goal this year is to raise them through the whole process using only my wool hens. No artificial light, no heat source, other than the wool hens. I started out with 41 eggs. I only candled at day 10 and day 18. At day 10: I disqualified 3 eggs as...