I did, paid way too much for them too. lol Just had a question for the person.
On another note, I am struggling with a chicken dilemma. I hatched a batch of eggs the past few days of which half of them were eggs I purchased from someone I sort of know and some of them I was hatching for a friend. Granted I am not an experienced hatcher but the eggs I hatched for a friend of the ones we locked down, 9 out of 11 hatched. We started with 15 eggs but culled 4 that weren't developing. I don't think that was bad at all. Of the ones I purchased, I started with 24, culled 13 around day 14 all with blood rings. Of the 11 I locked down 3 hatched. It leads me to believe maybe the eggs weren't fresh, but again, not an expert by any means. I was very careful with everything on the incubation, kept records of temps and humidity, only opened that incubator three times including when we took them out of the turner at lock down. I'm just frustrated and want some closure but don't want to be a b**** about it!
I am right there with you guys on the vacuum, never can remember if it's u's or c's, I say we just get rid of them!
My neighbor told me she has seen the neighborhood fox in our yard around 10:30 in the morning a couple times recently. They are way too brave these days! I am trying to find someone to come and trap them and have contacted wildlife and parks and they gave me some names but so far no one wants to do it. They told me I might be able to borrow a trap from one of the local offices but I haven't called about that yet. Some of my young SFH hens were over in the corner where the brome and corn fields meet and I had to go shoo them back towards the rest of the chickens. The coyote's will be picking them off if they don't stay away from that corn field!
So much to worry about! It's like have small kids again!
