first cull

Sadly we had to cull one of our girls this morning. She was a 10 week Bard Rock bantam and was showing signs of Mareks (paralyzed legs and wings, drooping/weak head/neck). She has been noticeably smaller than the rest of the girls (same age) for the last 3 weeks or so, and especially in the last...

I just culled a baby chick for the first time and am feeling very sad about it. We had a baby with a difficult hatch. It was our last hatching egg at 25 days. It took a long time after pip to start any progress (a little more than 24 hours) and was moved in the incubator because we were worried...

So I did it. My self, my hubs helped with prep and making sure to be extra hands etc......but I did it! And this was a hybrid roo from our first Batch of our own babies from our first Cochin and all his four ladies We mail ordered last Sept, anyways, I incubated 22 eggs after our surprise roo...