Have 17 Bresse eggs in an NR360 that were due to hatch for Easter and I went to candle them today. The temp on the NR360 was showing 99.5, but the eggs were cold. The top of the incubator was warm, but the bottom where the eggs were was cold. I don't know when it happened, but the fan wasn't...
I ended up contacting the company and was told they had a batch that went out that had this issue and are sending out a replacement control to those having a defective incubator. It was an easy plug-and-play repair.
Mine bury their eggs. One day I noticed an egg partly buried in the corner of the barn. When I picked it up, I saw another egg in the dirt directly underneath it. Started digging and ended up uncovering nearly 2 dozen guinea eggs there! So I started watching them, and sure enough, they will lay...
Wisteria aka "Wistee" hung out with her two best friends. I was late getting home this evening and she and Manny (Ayam Cemani cockerel) were up in the walnut tree, and Turkey Baby was on the top rail of the fence below them. I've been training them to come when I whistle (I give a whistle and...
Last week I cleaned all my incubators, brooders and chick rearing equipment and doo-dads, putting them away until next Spring. Today I pulled them back out again.
The quail in the big walk-in pen didn't get fastened up properly last night and I woke up to every single one of the quail dead...
My Narragansett boy, "Turkey Baby" (that's his name, lol), will be 3 months old on July 26th and is already showing caruncles. He's a sweetheart, with not an aggressive bone in him...just like his dad (killed by a bear earlier this year). He occasionally struts, but so do hens.
Yeah, no. 🤣🥊 He's not aggressive, but he will knock and chase away the littles from feed, etc. He even chases away my 3 month old Narragansett "Turkey Baby" (yes, that's his name, lol) who is waaay bigger.