I ended up with 4 pidgeons 😅
1 surrendered racer (owner didn't care)
Fantail (gifted)
And 2 fancy 'meat' girls.
I've been keeping them in a larger dog kennel , feeding them a mixed ration of seed, bugs, and pellet.
I'm currently redoing our chicken area and can upcycle a covered 10x10 for...
That actually may be a good thought to it. I know the humidity and temp seemed to stay stable with my outside hygrometer and temp. But it did seem weird we had alot more condensation this time around vs my quail hatch. I'm quitting hatching for the year and prob just gonna hang it up for now...
I got my marans, olive Eggers, turkeys from same breeder. ( she does maran x amercauna crosses to produce her olives, amercauna, maran , then blue slate and red bourbon. ) pretty much all the ones that did hatch where from her eggs minus a barnyard mix.
I got a few barnyard mixed eggs from a...
So out of 39 eggs our total live call? 8. Just 8.
I gave the chickens a extra week and half to hatch as I saw movement at the 29 day mark. Out of 39- 8 hatched / ( 25ish left in incubator after candling and no development.)
Eggtopsy results-
9 were fully developed , some with punctured to air...
It is.
To answer the questions
Skin- black
Toes- 3 toes , mostly black with a little yellow
Body is mostly black but theres a gray /blue tint.
Beaks are black.
The feathers that have come in, on one it has a small smidge white
I know.. they are still young but I was sold these 'ayam cemanis' and I'm sure their mixed. Maybe orphington? The person had a cage crammed full of goslings , ducks and a few chicks. Not many were doing well. She was sure these guys wouldnt make it ( they didnt have water , were day olds) odds...
Omg , dont get me started on this b@&$ on our block. They let their fluffy twat nugget of a dog roam the street for like... almost a solid 2 yrs till someone apperantly shot its tail off. I strongly disliked the dog mainly because its attempts to breed my girl.😑 2k later in fixing our yard and...
I actually had someone show up then hem and haw over the price.. like.. I'm selling um for $5 straight run, they wanted um all, so i gave them a small discount to 4$ each. They complained about the drive then offered me 30$ for all of them ... less then 1.50 per chick.. then wanted the set up...
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This is actually similar to what I want to do to the dog kennel. (Also same kennel) it's a bummer to learn they wont really use a 2nd level. I'm debating on getting this run from chewy. It seems plenty big, and would work with the layout I want😅. I'm taking everything everyone gives into...
I'm actually starting to lean toward the dog Kennel, put hardware cloth over the sides. If I take the pan out, I can move them around (albeit slowly) the yard to fresh grass. I'm thinking the kennel itself would reinforce the hardwire cloth. It's also heavy enough not to get blown around and if...
So we sold off some of our chicks . I think our final count put us at 28 out of 45 , so just over 50% hatch rate. I think I'd do some things a bit differently hatch wise but otherwise I was happy with our rate.
I'm now stuck on housing. We planned to sell off a good portion but that's not...
So today would be day uh... 23 /24. We've had 25 hatch, 23 survive and do extremely well. I dont think anymore will hatch. The chicken eggs have shown no sign of life. Which... is disappointing. =( the quail that made it are lil buggers though. Very healthy, about to be split into 2 diff...
So I panicked. I noticed this one and another had pipped, but making no progress. The last couple to hatch where very weak so I took it as a sign to watch these 2. (The last two pip) this one had made a hole and I watched it wriggle . Kept checking to see its little beak move. It stopped moving...
Uh.. temp gauge says 100f 68% humidity. Humidity is correct but temp is off , thermometer reads slightly over 99f. This is lockdown temp though
I was incubating at 100f with humidity kept between 55-57%
Well, so far, I left them be but we had 6 new additions, 2 full pips (eggs broken beaks out) so we are at 25 quail if these guy hatch fully!
I was seriously tempted to jump in and help one egg. poor thing was flipping out and spazzing before it got out its egg and just laid there. I thought...