I have two 8-month-old hens who are the oldest in my flock (i'm new to chicken raising and the rest are still only 3-4 months) but recentally they've been laying there eggs in different spots than their coop. I was able to find the spot they were laying in and locked them in the coop during...
I recently bought a new incubator and this is my first batch of chicks using it. This is day 18 for the eggs and I was simply wondering if the eggs needed to be able to roll around, or if keeping the turner piece in would be fine. (the turner automatically turns off 3 days prior to hatching)...
Hi, so I am a new chicken farmer and have a flock of about six chickens that were hatched in my incubator and are about 3 months old. (hens still too young to lay) I know that at least 2 of them are roosters due to the fact that I wake up every morning to a crow off, but I have just noticed some...
just updating, both are doing great, I think that I was just over-reacting about nothing, you can hardly tell the difference between them now! Thanks for being willing to help, and wish me luck!
Im very new at this incubating thing, and I just had two out of five eggs hatch, one chick seems fine (loud) but fine. The other i'm a little worried about, she doesn't seem to be using one of her legs very much, and it seems like something is almost coming out of her rear. I might just be over...
yes i am in the states, I live in the west, it was blood ring on two of them but the third one was a duck egg and it seemed to just stop developing, then it grew these wired black dots on the inside that just got bigger and bigger, than it stunk up the incubator so I just through it out and it...
yes they were still in the incubator, and it only droped two degrees by the time i pluged it in.
they were not shipped, i took them straight from my friends coop to the incubator, (yes they were freash)
the Christmas chicks are doing great! they started walking good straight after i put them...