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Mine was great with 5 Grandkids and son/wife who came up but now I'm sick. Maybe I should have eaten CHICKEN to keep me healthy!! LOL Chickens can't figure out why I am in and out quickly now instead of snapping photos and sitting and watching them. Fred wanted to hold some cockerels I hatched...

YES East Nashville Chick!! All except one which is white rock/ RIR mutt. I will be culling hard this fall!!! Most if not all males. My coop tops out at 40 fowl I am working on breeding the Nelson background line. But I did hatch some of the Kittle line RIR as well as I was making adjustments...

This years group outgrowing their brooding box and waiting for me to make a fort Knox grow pen (bear has been in area) : Freaked by first flash... Before first one (didn't come out) they were all over the big melon box. Starting to disperse a bit. Thought it was going to be male but at a...

Good news my tweeking of the incubator levels seems to have worked!!! Out of the 23 I moved over 3 pipped but quit, 14 pipped and hatched within 24 hours of first pip and 6 were unfertile with huge yokes!!!! So of 17 growing only 3 failed to exit the shell. 14 of 17 isn't bad I don't think for...

Well everyone here is what happened..... The new incubator quit working after I upped the humidity for hatching and stopped the turner. I had been mushrooming and didn't touch it for two days and found it had cooled!!!! I had just washed the other one to get ready for the last set..... so I...

Ok I did a change on the Old incubator and it looks like this batch is doing much better. So far 4 early ones and 2 more pipping I can see. Technically hatch should have started early in the morning so I will let it run full time to Monday night before I call any unpipped quitters. The new...

Thanks vPatt. I hope so too. As I am breeding the Nelson and Kittle line RIR. Will be going just to the Nelsons once I have enough to really make selections according to the standards for the breed. Then will either sell, cull, or move Kittles to selling eggs group.

Well Leah I came home to check for pips and.... I have one hatchling chick! :jumpy :weee Don't see any other pips but didn't see any when I left at 9:30 (3 hours ago!!) So just waiting now!! Wonderful vpatt!!

Not the Thermometer that came with it. Wasn't accurate and had problems with first use. Fred got me a digital one and told me not to open to candle or turn...etc. Just rotated whole incubator tilted by propping on a 4" item. That batch was better. But still have to watch the humidity and heat...

Well the eggs will go into lock down in the morning. Just did the last turning. :fl:drool:jumpy :caf except it is the Brinsea I am staring down... put tape on the lid to remind me NO TOUCHING the lid. :smack

I have been known, if I see or *hear* a hawk, to imitate a crow loudly. Within a few minutes usually the hawk leaves and/or a few crows answer the call and patrol the area. Many times they have come to the rescue to harass and chase off arial predators and even occasionally find themselves a...

I slit the stems and picked out the borers (in pan for chickens or squash them) then bury the slit stem and keep moist to retake and root. Later call chickens into garden when you pull plants and let them get them. Had them last year until I did that and showed the chickens where they were...

It is possible he injured his neck making an attempt to flog the predator through the fence by charging it? If he was frantic he could have hurt himself. Also the fall off the roost could have hurt him. Sometimes the stiffness doesn't show right away. I'm sorry he is as he is. I suspect though...

Kassaundra Is she a naked neck or is that home bare broodies pluck their chest?

:celebrate Hoping I have the luck you all have! Enjoying the hatching broody sharing!

Illness in coop outside so while treating them the 4 heritage chicks that came home yesterday from Fred are inside with a plug of grass in a melon box. The are not fully feathered and with the turn back to cold didn't want them sick. More eggs with Fred to incubate and 7 more I set on the 7th...

Well my poor girls have been penned with the rooster all day. I just got home and have to leave again in an hour. Though the 8 of them gave me 5 eggs and I'd like to reward them I can't let them out for just under an hour to free range. That would be more stressful (like giving a kid an ice...

Normally he does not get aggressive with the girls. He is my only cockerel and my breeder male. By discipline meant he just stood on top of her with his feet in the middle of her back. Normally he just steps on the wings/shoulder area and is off fast. He just stood until she stopped screaming...

Well I had posted a photo in the Heritage Rhode Island Red thread of a repurpose of crib sides to make an upper level for a grow out pen for the 4 chicks Fred hatched for me. I am getting them on the 14 or 15th this month. BUT today I had to use it for one of my Kittle RIR hens after the...

I think it was just common sense to do that. They will learn well from her. The best arrangement there is for nature to take care of and teach the little ones. No better sitter could you find for them. IMHO you did right.