DD? Nn? 9 baby turkeys-how cool. Mine are midget whites-guess I'll have for wait for spring to get poults. But I'm pleased that my Yokohama hen has 4 chicks. The Phoenix hen has a nest started and will soon be broody; usually when she has 9-10 eggs in the nest. Two serama have nests started. A...
Thank you for your reply. I had guessed as much. Mine free range, but lighting is something to consider. There have been years where mine have started to lay in Nov. and hatched poults in Dec./Jan. even while free ranged, but not for the last two years.
Sounds like many new babies all around-or will be. There was one new serama chick for me this morning; hopefully three more will hatch-then two more in 4 days-then another six or seven a week after that-and then...
A happy day-my golden phoenix hen laid today. A couple weeks ago I almost lost...
I've always considered any hatch from shipped eggs a bit of a miracle. I'm planning on getting some eggs from show stock serama in the spring. But I'll be using broody hens instead of an incubator. I have not had any luck hatching serama in an incubator; but with broody hens I always get...
Two of my serama hens have gone broody; one hatches Dec. 28 and the other Jan. 4. My Yokohama hen hatched 4 a week ago. Apparently they are cold hardy. The hen had them out and about with temps in the upper 30s low 40s and the chicks were scurrying around like it was a warm spring day. Serama...