Good advice.
After pipping for 48 hours the chick should have the yolk absorbed, I would definitely start helping.
Zip around the egg, if that’s already done, start removing the shell, slowly.
Growing up we didn’t know what a picker was, mama would tell me how many chickens she wanted butchered, when I got home from school I would do it, and be done before she got home from work, sometimes it would be 12-15 of them.
I didn’t mind doing it at all, it’s not the killing part, it’s the...
That’s a good deal.
I gave my sister a bunch of pullets and a few roosters, when the roosters got big enough I butchered them for her, but I let her have all of them.
I own 2 NR 360 and 1 maticoopx.
I have had great hatches with all of them, it’s a toss up for which one I like the most, the maticoopx holds 8 more eggs and it was cheaper.
I
have two NR 360 incubators, that hold 22 eggs each, I have great hatches when I have fertile eggs.
I do the 100% dry hatch method,
And I have had great harvest.
I just found this thread, I live in Burleson county, I hatch different eggs as a hobby, I give the pullets to whoever wants them, along with cockerels if they want them, but most of the time they don’t, so I end up butchering them.
I was raising quail but it got totally out of hand and I ended...