Anyone have any experience with comfrey killing their chickens? Seems as though my yard would be a chicken graveyard given as much of the stuff they have eaten over the years.
I've been wanting to go to a flock raiser feed for my mixed flock, but our feed place doesn't carry the Purina or Nutrena brands, and our other options to go are too far away. Does anyone know if the game bird feeds would be similar to flock raiser in content? Here is a link to the site that...
This goes against what you want, but in the long run would be a whole lot easier. Once you get some comfrey going outside, it will keep coming back and you won't have to mess with replanting stuff in your house. However, it will wilt down in the winter. I'm not sure if it will grow indoors...
My last unhatched egg in the incubator pipped on the end opposite air sac at 8:30 last night. Early this morning it increased the size of the hole to about half the size of a dime, but hasn't made any progress since. I can see it's beak sticking out, but it really isn't trying to unzip anymore...
So today is 20. It is has pipped(piped). The way I understand it, they are supposed to make the hole at the edge of the airsac. I marked where the airsacs were, and this one's hole is right in the center of the airsac. Is this abnormal as well?
I'm doing my first incubation using a Janoel 12 and currently on day 18. From what I understand, when you go into lockdown, you aren't supposed to open it up again. So my question is, how am I to adjust humidity if it starts getting out of whack?
I did not take a pic, I'm kind of shy of moving them again now. Eggs were not shipped. There were definitely veins and a dark area from the embryo I would guess.
I had recently got a rooster and had been hoping for a hen to go broody so I might get some chicks. I finally gave up and decided to get an incubator. It's now day 6 that my eggs have been in the bator and I candled them today and found out that all four are developing.
Lo' and behold, I go...
Four different hens. Orpington, Leghorn, Maran, and Star. Rooster is part RIR
I'm getting into the genetics side of this stuff, so it does matter to me. There are dividers for the incubator. I've never hatched my own, so I don't know how much chicks can move around inside the incubator...
I've now gotten my first incubator. It's a Janoel 12. I want to hatch eggs from different mothers in one batch. Being as I do not know a lot about what color different breeds are as chicks on top of some of the mothers being crosses anyways, is there a way I can keep track of which chick...