Feral cats are one of those wildlife management issues that are so interesting to me. They get a lot of attention from all sectors. As a die hard bird lover who has worked on conservation programs for some rare species of songbirds, my gut tells me they should be managed. I wish and thought that...
From the Wildlife Society website:
Feral and free-ranging domestic cats are exotic species to North America. Exotic species are recognized as one of the most widespread and serious threats to the integrity of native wildlife populations and natural ecosystems. Exotic species present special...
We have cats that live in the barn with the chickens. They are adults that people have driven to the country and dropped off, so I don't know their history. They do fine with our standard size chickens and the few banties we have, but have caught the chicks before.
You can go the the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Website and apply for a permit that allows you to shoot the hawk. The permit costs $50. I don't know how to link but the address is http://www.fws.gov/permits/applicationforms/ApplicationLM.html#MBTA. Or if you google USFWS and click on the...
I only had one hatch and it is definitely in need of friends. Too small to go in with my chicks. I am near Albany ny. I have already checked craigslist.
So I tried quail eggs from ebay, had terrible incubating temps and assumed all eggs bad. One hatched today. Seems to be the only one. But it is running around cheeping, won't eat and is exhausting itself looking for friends. I have had the iPod in their playing cheeping sound for 8 hours which...
I am right there with you. I put mine in on wed afternoon (6/15). But mine are turkey eggs (there are a few quail eggs I put in yesterday). My bator is home-built. I am really nervous to cuz I waited forever for some royal palm eggs. I already had one temp spike that may have wiped them out but...
I had run the incubator for 3 days with a solid 100 degree temp. Put the eggs in on wed night and checked them, still good. (I have a fan in a homebuilt bator. In the morning, temp still fine. Called and had my nanny check the temp, she says right at 100, that was about noon. Got home from work...
I am hatching chicks for the sole purpose of raising them with my poults. One of the oldtimers that lives near me swears by it. He says turkeys are way to dumb by themselves but throw a couple of chicks in with them and they are much better off. They will watch the chicks and copy everything...
I had a Blue Slate that lived in a coop with my hens for 2 years. Other than being mildly aggressive during the breeding season, he was really no problem. Some times he would bully the lower ranking chickens pretty bad, but he never killed one. He would try to mount them once in a while but my...
I raised to poults with some store bought chicks one died but the other lived. He was a Tom, from that day on he never left my chickens. He was very friendly except during May (breeding season). He would puff his chest out and carry on when I was working on the chicken coop and as soon as you...
One of my neighbors had eggs in the incubator and I had to babysit for them while he was away. I turned them twice a day (before work, after work) for a week and he had 80% hatch. He told me he usually only turned them twice also.
Here goes nothing! Home-built incubator, I put 10 Turkey eggs and 20 Quail eggs in the bator. They are separated so I can get the quail out when they hatch without pestering the turkey eggs. I can't wait for the turkeys, they are royal palms and it was so expensive to buy poults that I got eggs...
Tanyizzle,
Heritage Feed and Supply in Bullville, NY sells turkeys, it is about 3 hours from you though, and alas, that darn NYS law says you must buy 6. I have bought from there before and they mixed chicks and poults (4 EE and 2 blue slates) All lived happily together in my coop till this...
Yes, Those of you who have made a hot water heater thermostat stay at 100 degrees. You must be of a far superior race than I. I don't know how you've done it and you should apply your skills at finding the answers to the universe as your skills may be wasted on chickens! I have tried fans aimed...
Ah, hadn't thought of adding eggs! I did install a fan and put the water in. The temp still swung a bit, from 102 to 96. It is a very thick walled cooler so when the light does shut off, it holds the temp for a long time. Its a 40 watt light bulb and the cooler is 20" wide by 12" deep. I did...
My thermostat is wired to the lamp kit, with the back of the stat facing the light bulb but about 2 inches away. I do not have a fan but am considering installing one. Do you mean that more ventilation may help? I do have holes in top but can add more. Thanks for the help!
I have turkey eggs coming tomorrow and built a bator based on plans I found here. It's the styrofoam cooler model. The problem is once it reaches 100 degrees, and the bulb goes off, the temp falls to 92 before the hot water thermostat turns it on again. How do I fix this?
Just looking for some advice. I put 5 eggs I bought off ebay under a broody hen. Well one hatched two days ago and yesterday morning I noticed another one had pipped but at the wrong end and it hasn't made a hole through the white membrane. Last night, I helped chip off some pieces of shell and...