I'm doing the same thing. Mine's been off since June too and I decided to do two more hatches, let them grow out over the winter and have some pullets to add to my flock or sell in the spring. I've had more requests for pullets then chicks lately and my oldest layers are going into their third...
I need some advice on my humidity pump. I have the the Brinsea Octagon® 20 Advance EX. I've hatched about 5 hatches since I got it last February. It's been turned off for the last few months but wanted to do a couple more hatches to get some spring pullets. So when I brought the incubator back...
Nope, doesn't hurt my feelings.....it's really not any different then attitude I haven't met with those who deem themselves to be superior breeders of dogs and horses when I was breeding them..... and sorry but a basic understanding of genetics will help you in anything you breed no matter how...
Chiqita, I have bad news on the Marans front. The guy that works at the hay place was looking for roosters and he took all of them. If you weren't so far I would have kept one for you but couldn't pass up moving them all at the same time. I still have three in my Marans pen. I have someone who...
I keep them in the house for the first few days, then move them to a 100 gallon Rubbermaid horse trough for a week or two more, then I have a grow out pen that's made out of pallets. It shares a run with my laying flock who free range all day. The grow out coop is about 4'x16' with a light if...
OK, if anyone is interested in one of my Black Copper Marans cockerels (or two or three or all five) that I hatched from very dark eggs from a dark egg project I'm working on and some nice dark eggs from Deb, speak up now before we process them!!!
They are driving my layers crazy, chasing them...