I do it with shipped eggs from multiple sources and with my own flock. Whatever I'm doing though does the opposite for ducks, I hatched 4 boys and 1 girl. No idea what's causing it as I normally have a good hatch rate too, maybe all that's dying off are the boys?
The stucco-ing is actually on our list of things "to do" ... eventually. It's a triage list right now and the styrofoam just doesn't rate that high. The driveway's washed out and the roof's almost ready to go, we need trees down ASAP, the front yard beds are a mess... poison ivy needs to be...
I have styrofoam insulation around the bottom of my house. When I bought the house I had no idea it wasn't concrete because it was painted to look like concrete. I was blissfully ignorant until I got chickens.
I don't have any good pictures... but here's one where you can kinda see what I'm...
Congrats!
I can already see a few combs getting bigger and pink in the brooder, although not too many, unfortunately. It looks like I'll be keeping my status quo of 70% girls. It is still early though so
Ok, I'm not certain we're ever going to get a winner for the last contest, and since so many of you asked for the hatch results spreadsheet, here she is.
Enjoy.
Awesome! Too bad it's going to rain the next week. You might be able to swing it though with your covered run.
Gymnastics was one of the best things I ever did with my life. Fortunately and unfortunately I didn't have much of a childhood due to it, but I don't regret it. I was at the gym in...
I'm only 30. Most days I still mentally feel like I'm 12 and I'm waiting for my mom to come home and ask me why I'm wearing my pajamas at 6 PM and have a boy in the house.
Physically years of intense gymnastics have left my body creaking and cracking.
It all evens out I guess.
That is incredible! That's it... Utah's now on my list of places I have to visit. I can't imagine seeing that from my property. What heaven.
Just had our first daffodil open here yesterday, and the leaves are beginning to be noticeably budding... Spring's coming to Maine, too. It's been so...
As Mahonri said, the cutest chick is in the works.
We're still waiting on ChooksChick and Notinoz2007 to announce their winners, they've been PMed to speed this up.
I think that's all that's outstanding.
Awesome hatch rate, Spangled. I was impressed with my 76% but you blew the socks off that!
Hey Kathy... so I was watching Dirty Jobs last night with the BF and he turns on "Ostrich Farmer" - and I learned that ostriches vomit black stinky goo into their water. And all I could think about was...