I'm also worried my flock was exposed. I just started selling chicks this year. Without the ability to sell chicks and earn a profit from them to even out costs I wont be able to keep chickens. I will have to send some out to be tested before I am sure but if it is will culling the whole flock...
I have several chicks hat hing with umbilical hernias. This whole hatch has been a mess. I tried doing a rotating hatch and o got myself all confused and then my electric went out for a few hours one day. Day 21 first batch was Sunday then tuesday and then thursday chicks have been hatching in...
I have a full ayum cemani roo that is i housed with 3 full ayam hens and 2
blue laying easter eggers. I had some problems with my incubator and only ended up with a 4 blue eggs hatching . The weirdest thing is 2 maybe 3 of the 4 have feathered feet. I am so very confused by this because none of...
I'm interested in this as well other than the food issue I havent found ny other problems. I currently house my brooder and rabbits in the same shed and now two bantam chickens are living there as well.
We got a new and amazing coop for breeding and it caused me to move some animals around. I have two bantam chickens, a roo and hen that a few months old that I dont now what to do with. They were previously housed in my smallest coop with my ayum cemani. I lived my rabbits to that coop but the...
Hello all. I'm joining in. I set eggs on june 4th and had 10 quail eggs and 20ish chicken eggs. I got the quail eggs from a random sign on the road and threw them in. Day 10 I candled and saw nothing so I tossed them all but kept one just in case. Well today is day 19 and I just remembered I...
I really want to get into breeding chickens and I an so theoughly confused when it comes to dominate traits and what chickens create sex links. I have a few heritage breeds and also have a few ayum cemani. I would like to keep some just heritage breeds but I love playing too and would like to...
Have you looked at the ayum cemani website? There is an article there that explains the gene that causes black skin and bones. My understanding is that a pure ayum can have one copy of the x gene or two. They suggest breeding your roo to other non ayum hens and and your hens to a regular room if...
I Found this chart but the numbers seem high to me 70%. I'm in Maine. I bought an accurite humidity reader but im not sure how accurate that is either. Its frustrating! It does say the humidity in my house is about 48 and the highest I have seen since getting it is 52. I have bought 2 or 3...
@The Kooky Kiwi what type of chicken did you say those were? Also can you tell me more about how you do successive hatching? I attempted to do that but I had two chicks hatch wrong and they had like prolapsed bowels. There was a lot of blood and eek and I was worried about contamination. None of...