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thanks for the info! i'm on day 17 right now so only a few more days to go! hopefully most of the eggs will hatch:D

i just got the lg still air. this will be my first incubation with it. i did buy a digital thermometer that shows humidity and know about turning the eggs. the manual that came with it said 99.5 degrees for chicken eggs. Is that the best temp to use? Also what about humidity level? What...

The still air incubator at my local store, Rural King, is called a Air Hova Still Incubator and is the 9200 model. http://www.ruralking.com/agriculture/livestock/chicken-supplies/chicken-incubators-accessories/air-hova-still-incubator.html I also found a still air at ace hardware by...

THANKS everyone for all of the advice! I would love to buy the biggest and the best, but I just don't have that kinda money to sink into a bator right now. I'm glad to know that a lot of you have had success with the LG's. I know a lot of people prefer the Genesis 1588 but I don't want to...

I've never tried to incubate eggs before. I'm thinking about buying a bator, but I'm not sure what kind to get. I do not want to spend a lot of money....has to stay under $100. I found a GQF Hova Bator thermal air flow incubator for $48.99. Is this a good price? Is it best to get one with...

one of my hens finally laid an egg! found it yesterday afternoon...but it was nothing that i did since i have not yet changed the lighting or feed they get! hopefully they will continue to start laying!

Their vents don't seem to be large, so I don't guess they have started laying yet. Is there any tricks to speeding up the process or will we just have to let them take their time?

I will check their vents in the morning to see if any are laying. We usually give them crushed eggshells which I've heard works like the oyster shells do. We do mix the layer in with their food too some, but it's not their main diet. We do have a polish hen who is older than eveyone else in...

We have barred rock and buff orpington hens. We bought them as chicks last March, so we are expecting them to start laying at anytime. They are almost 8 mos. old now. At what age should they start laying, and what factors could prevent them from laying? They do free range for atleast half...

i had a chicken bring coryza into our flock and we are dealing with it right now. aureomycin is an inexpensive water soluble antibiotic that is supposed to be good with crd. from what i've heard chickens who recover from the severe symptoms of crd and/or coryza because carriers of the disease...

Yeah the antibiotics would def. affect the meat, but I hadn't seen anything on the coryza, so I just wondered. It might not be proven whether it infects the meat or not, and that may be why there seems to be nothing mentioned about it.

this really sucks because i love ALL my chickens. i went from 25 down to 17. Now we have 5 that have runny noses completely separated and as soon as the sulmet gets here I'm going to start them on that. The other 12 have not shown any symptoms whatsoever so I'm hoping they are not carriers...

i'm not ABSOLUTELY sure that it's coryza because i haven't had any luck finding a vet that we'll see our chickens around here. the ones wtih the runny noses have snot that smells like rotting meat though so that's what's made me really think it's the coryza.

I am almost positive we are dealing with coryza...I've come to recognize that rotten smell instantly after dealing with it for the last few days. I think we will probably keep the ones of our chickens who atleast stop showing symptoms and just keep them for layers and when they are wore out...

yeah i hate to cull but then again i hate to have sick, miserable chickens either. i think i will give the ones who haven't had any symptoms some time. we won't be able to get chicks from cackle til spring anyway. im just overwhelmed by all of the information i've found on coryza and i want...

Okay so I am thoroughly confused!!! I'm pretty sure coryza was introduced to my flock. We culled the birds that showed severe symptoms (the original carrier that brought it in died) and we have the remaining ones on antibiotics. Only a couple of them show any mild symptoms (just a runny nose)...

Okay so I, also, did the same dumb thing and bought a beautiful pair of buff brahmas for 20 bucks only to find the rooster had coryza!!! He didn't really show symptoms except for always stinking until the day he died when all of a sudden he acted fragile and couldn't hardly stand. So all of my...

I think we are dealing with coryza in our flock now too. We culled the bird that we know brought it into our flock and we culled a couple of others with severe symptoms. Are the other chickens I have, who have not shown any symptoms, also at risk of being carriers??? What do I do?!?!?! I'm so...

by the way i forgot to add that of the ones we culled 4 were from local breeders who had not vaccinated or treated them with aureomycin when they were chicks. only one of them was one that we had bought at our feed store and it only showed mild symptoms.

i was afraid of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thun thanks i will try to give him a call. okay here's my next question...do all chickens who come in contact with the disease contract it and will they all become carriers? only a select few of my chickens have shown any symptoms at all and we have...