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Quote: I haven't had a problem with it. I boil them and crunch them up shells and all. My chickens will peck any egg they find to see if they can eat it, but they don't try very hard. They only weed out the weak shelled ones.

Quote: The wildest of them I always had to catch while pregnant when the ywere too big to move very fast, but the others I caught in a live trap using canned cat food as bait. I let them have their litter in an enclosed shed and handled the babies a lot. Blind Willie was the wildest mama and...

Quote: I HAD it under control. When we moved to the acreage the lady who lived there had a bunch of cats. I asked if she would kindly take them with her, but there were 15 left that were "too wild to catch". Gradually I got the mtrapped and fixed and just had my last one spayed last summer...

Quote: X2 - I end up with "lost" cats all the time. The last one came with a belly full of 7 kittens that are now my problem too.

Arielle, I think one of my poults is a sweetgrass, the other looks to be white. I knew they might be mixed eggs but I thought you had B Reds and Sweet Grass? Do you have whites too?

I need a new incubator as well. Some how I blew my 2nd hatch in it. It's a forced air genesis with a turner, and ran mostly a dry hatch because ambient humidity was all over the place. I pulled 6 non developers, sent 30 to lock down and hatched 15. Most of the rest of them had quit several days...

Mine are the same. I thought it happened when they fought.They rake each others bellies and rip out the feathers. It's an unsightly characteristic on an otherwise beautifully conditioned bird. Now if you keep yours by themselves, I guess I'm not sure

Quote: You are welcome to them but they are just mixed birds this year. I have Naraganset and black slate toms over Slate, bronze and black slate females. I REALLY want to raise Sweetgrass so I did order some from Porters. You all have a good point about size. The CdM males I had last year...

My hatch finished up with 9 Iowa Blue tutors (4 Silver penciled/5 birchen) and 4 poults. 1 black and 1 slate out of my eggs and 1 brown mottled and 1 yellow out of Ariel's eggs, both marked sweet grass. The other 2 sweetgrass pipped and died over night on day 28, completely in the wrong...

Quote:Originally Posted by mrshaggie810 So QUICK...I have a question...I have a broody my first EVER...but she is being a BRAT and won't let me take the (definitely unfertile because we don't have any roosters) egg out from under her (which is not even hers I might add) even though I want to...

So far 3 chicks out, several more tutors and 1 turkey pipped.

I have early hatchers too The first of the Iowa Blues was hatched and fluffy when I got up this morning. So then I quickly added water to my dry incubator ( ) so the rest don't wrap themselves. No pips in the turkeys yet, but there are still 7 going I hope.

Awe, Congrats! She looks like she'd prefer to go back, though, better make her welcome! That sucks, Raz, I'm glad you had some survivors.

Quote: I use a tank heater in mine - keeps it open all winter long except for the coldest days. I use a floating one so it keeps the surface warm. It's a little bit in the way but they don't seem to mind.

Quote: I use a tank heater in mine - keeps it open all winter long except for the coldest days. I use a floating one so it keeps the surface warm. It's a little bit in the way but they don't seem to mind.

Quote: Yep, we have a nice layer of ice and snow all over my nece green lawn and flower beds. My fruit trees are trying to blossom - I hope they survive this year! Nothing bore fruit last year because of late freeze like this :(

Wow, I didn't set until Monday night, but all the early hatching is making me nervous. Guess I'll set up the hatcher when I get home tonight.

So I really tanked on the turkeys All but 2 of mine pulled last night, most just clear. I knew those boys were slacking. I blame it on the slow spring. One of the B Reds quit, but I have 1 left and the 4 Sweets left. So 7 out of 36 still in. They should be well tutored if they make it, still...

Quote: Last year I set tutors and turkeys at the same time so the chicks were a week old when the poults hatched. It worked out quite well.

Quote: Ah yes, the ever handy bra bator. You poor men folk don't know what you're missing :)